Discover the Key to Revenue Production without Cash or Debt

Michael, I think the process you decribe of producing without cash or debt was in operation in the early church where people who had excess wealth sold houses and lands and distributed the proceeds at the apostle' s feet so they could redistribute these proceeds to those who had a shortage of wealth. When the wealth was redistributed in this way there may have been money involved as with the \"proceeds\" for the sale of houses and lands but there was no indication that those who received the redistributed wealth were burdened with debt such as with credit card debt and 30-year mortgages. Very possibly those who had excess wealth in the form or houses and lands could have just given their excess houses and lands to those who needed a house or a plot of land suitable for raising crops for food. They might have required some sort of payback agreement that did not involvr usury and the pay back period may not have been longer than 7 years to comply with God' s kingdom jubilee laws of debt releif every 7 and 50 years. I think our modern day bankruptcy laws reflect these jubilee laws of God. Many things the early church did demonstrated the kingdom principle of sharing that John the Baptist set forth when he spoke of a person having two coats giving one coat to a person who needs one. In this kingdom act of sharing no money or debt is needed. I know of a community near Ocala called Ft. McCoy, where many people operate on the barter system. A barber might trade a haircut for a chicken. And those who own large properties subdivide their properities into small 1- 5 acre parcels suitable for a homestead on which a person might plant a garden and keep livestock to raise food for his family. These plots of land are sold for money but some may be traded for services and other things. In Amish communities homes, barns and other needed farm buildings are built though community effort where people share their quality time and their building talents and abilitites and also share their excess building materials such that building construction is less costly for the individual Amish family. In the Amish community of Berlin, Ohio, there is an Amish-run brick factory and many Amish people make quality furniture, clothing, baskets other items that they often barter and trade for items they need but do not have the time to make. In this way people' s time is bartered. This is the way early America developed. But it seems to me we got away from this kingdom system that did not really need cash and debt, when people began to develop and live in bigger and bigger towns and cities. As communities got larger there was mass production of goods and services. The expansion of business production gave rise to arms-length business transactions where the iniquity of mismanagement, dishonestry, deception, lying, distrust, cheating and the misuse use of money and slavery to debt were allowed to flourish. This iniquity in the marketplace has become so huge and pervasive that even governments of men that were established by God were overwhelmed and unable to perform their God-given function to be a terror to these evil works. And, the world (of Satan) has become to much with us getting and spending as Wordsworth wrote in his famous poem. This iniquity of Babylon has now reached its fullness. It has now reached to the throne of God in heaven. And God is now at work with his Son Jesus and his elect saints to destroy these works of the devil in order that God' s kingdom will be restored on earth. But since we have all developed from agrarian roots where our ancestors lived on farms in small town communities and practiced the kingdom principles of sharing, beneovolence, honesty and mutual interdependence and respect for one another, we know that these principles work to produce harmonious communities. I think most of us all have a God-given nostaglia to return to the land in a small town community. Somehow we know that the kingdom attributes of righteousness, peace and joy prevailed in these small town communities. But actually all we need do is return to the small town mentality which is a kingdom of God mentality. Some older people who remember how hard farm life was do not want to return those times. But I think we can return and we can still have our modern conveniences such as cars and electricity that make our lives easier if we learn to use these modern conveniences properly with thanksgiving and to not abuse the privelidge of having them. I think it is interesting that the Amish have rejected using some of these modern conveniences such as cars but it does not seem to affect the quality of their lives. I think they, of all people, understand that the kingdom of God is not in meat and drink and material things but in the spiritual qualities righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. I hope and pray that our new president understands these things and that he will govern accordingly as God leads him. Kingdom blessings, David Thompson

We have here in Panama also a quite a lot of rainforest, property and reforestation investments. its a good ecologically correct and long term investment.