NEW WEALTH ORDER CONTENTS
Chapter Title Page
1 An overview in the new millennium 1-4
2. What is Man ? 5-6
3. Revenue and taxation systems 7-9
4. All systems of the world 10-11
5. Power and wealth 12
6. Here is wisdom 13
7. Six, six, six - the real meaning 14-15
8. One world government 16
9. United Nations 17-18
10. New wine in new wine skin 19-20
11. Acceptance and implementation 21-22
12. Benefits from the New Wealth Order 23-26
13. Spiritual challenges- healing for the dying world 27-28
14. The good fruits 29
AN OVERVIEW IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
We are on the threshold of the new millennium with a great deal of apprehension of diverse dimensions amongst the nations of the world with the bulk of the people not knowing what is in store for them in the near future.
I believe how many will know the full implementation of the process of a new world order known as globalization and how would this affect their lives and their livelihoods in the respective countries.
All the leaders of the nations one way or another have been made known of this process through numerous meetings and the gradual liberalisation so as to lead to uniformity of systems so that the world is expected to share the new world order by participating in the global affairs that will unfold over the next few years.
The concept of globalization will not stop there just by the high sounding word “Globalisation” as oneness in one sphere of worldly activities namely the much talked about global trading to benefit the world as a unit. There are other “oneness” activities that are also been talked about such as one world Government, one world religion.
Would we have one global policemen, one world currency, one banking system, one political system, one identification systems etc. All these are grandiose schemes enticing quite a lot of people around the world to be connected and to be part of such networkings.
Underlining all these development, there is a desire by some quarter to control the world in all sphere of activities. By exercising control, the bulk of the world will be subject to regulatory directions from some powers whether the subordinate countries mainly small and weak like it or not.
The consequences of such development can be predicted. In the present situation, we already have many defacto situations such the most used language English as the likely global language as the most popular written international language, although the most spoken language is Chinese.
The United States have already the inclination to be Policemen of the World in many difficult scenarios. The demand for a certain currency is also giving an indication as the currency of the world although the country is operating a debt system. With the collapse of many banking institutions in several major countries, some banks are getting bigger by mergers etc.
With the collapse of The Soviet Union and fall of the communism, democracies as we witness elsewhere are giving a pointer that one political system may be achievable in the next decade provided existing democracies can prove to the world of their real values to others. With the availability of IT every where running efficiently, all the billions of inhabitants of the world can be identified by a common series of numbering systems so that this system can bring real benefits to mankind.
We do not need to guess or estimate the number of inhabitants on earth. How prepared are the inhabitants of this world in current scenarios of great extremes to get on this globalised ship of the new world order we hear so often lately.
However, it appears that this concept was coined some fifty years ago when the United Nations was first mooted. So this ideas may be out of date as United Nations was installed at the end of great conflicts as in the Second World of great destructions when we witnessed for the first time the use of nuclear weapons on foreign soils. The untold misery linger on till today.
One of the noble objectives of the UN was to unite the world for the better tomorrow then formulated fifty years ago. That tomorrow has really arrived after fifty years. Without doubt, the United Nations have achieved some thing in world dimensions but certainly there are lots of yawning gaps in the world today that are far from satisfaction. The worst have actually unfolded in our living rooms in the Television boxes of the latest series of destruction in an area away from the comforts of the advanced countries. Negotiations by UN could not achieved the desired pattern of power play and bombings costing billions of dollars had to deployed to enforce compliance. Yet, the outcome have been far from satisfaction because the destruction be it right or wrong have left scars in many lives both in the action away from homes or the silent spectators at homes every where. What an ending to the twentieth century. Is this pattern of power play that has been set for the near future in the millennium ? Lets search our conscience. Do we want this kind of power plays to be carried over to the new millennium ? Can we avoid them ? Who would be the offensive or offended parties ? We really do not know , do we ? Do we really know, why such things have taken place as they had unfolded in modern history ? After the latest episodes of concluded bombings, do you sincerely believe we will have a peaceful time every where ? We really live in a complex world and many would not believe the activities and the causes of such things. What we know wars and bombings are costly no matter who wins. Who would spend such money ? Who would make such money ? Is it a coincidence that the Dow Jones has so quickly reached record highs so soon after the concluded bombings in the Balkans ? The depleted stock of ammunitions would need to be replenished so the business opportunities are enhanced. No body is for sure, that another war may break out somewhere so as to trigger the defacto Policemen to act again. Have the UN played it role well to keep the world in peace ? The UN has also gone into areas like poverty relief every where, health control, human rights regulation, refugees relief, environment watch etc. Have the UN been successful in these areas ? Lately, the UN has been urged to regulate the speculation in currency transactions worldwide which have unfortunately destroyed quite a few economies of developing countries. Despite fifty years of endless effort by UN and other powerful nations, the problems of the world cannot be eliminated and in fact some have become worst. The drugs scourge still threaten the increasing populace including those in the third world countries and the rich countries alike; corruption be it in the under developed, developing, and advanced countries are not getting lesser and on the contrary, we regularly hear of corruption involving leaders of all shades and lately in the last few decades of sums of not millions but billions. The health scenarios are no different despite new advancement in medical researches as new health threats in new diseases or viruses have surfaced begging for treatments or cures yet to be found. With the many new development of opportunities, the accompanying threat of problems have surfaced too like proper disposal of toxic byproducts of industries and the persistent exposure to harmful fallout of nuclear energy generation. Our basic food and water supplies are contaminated by all the exposure to greater industrialisation and pesticides as the world endeavour to produce the food at the right price in the right ... quantities to meet the growing population needs. Human attitudes to all the ways to earn enough money in the shortest time have also become spoilers in many processes to secure supplies. I may be making many generalisation here but many people may be taking their individual responsibilities seriously. In any mass production, a spoiler in a chain of the food production for example, may create a situation of uncertainty. The dioxin scare in Belgium have shaken the world food system. As we are at the advanced stage of globalization, I believe it will be failure unless some basic change in the systems is introduced to path the way for the proper implementation of the new world order. As we know, every thing in the worldly system is founded on the wealth system. Money is supposed to be every thing that we do, but for most people this has become a soul by itself. There is a famous saying that the Love of money is the root of all evil. Money is a necessity. Once it become a soul in money itself, you can imagine the bondage any one can be obsessed. So the pursuit is on and nothing can stop it unless someone drops dead. The world have been under a system of what people call it a “Rat Race” and how many casualties have fallen on the way of that wealth chase. Now, the rich are not only after the millions but the billions. So the fall on the Billions syndrome is certainly greater with greater injuries and hurts. The billions syndrome leads to blaming others whenever something gets wrong. In actual fact, the adverse impacts of the billion syndrome is self inflicted. Some may not be aware that in the process of pursuing the billion syndrome, others are being oppressed in some ways. Even in the United States it is no different as people do experience similar oppression as in an e-mail I received on Independence day - 4th July, 1999 as I have just commenced writing this book on the same day. “Happy Independence Day Wealthgram Readers! I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy 4th of July. We recognize and celebrate our national Independence today here in the USA. May this day also be a reminder to us of our quest for personal independence. The freedom and opportunity to choose the lives we want to live. Lives filled with abundance and freedom. Freedom from financial strain, freedom from oppression, the freedom to live our lives as God intended, in peace, harmony and brotherly love. May you all find the freedom you personally seek. Thank you for your readership and friendship.” Can we avoid such an attitude that “ what is mine is mine, and what is yours is also mine” when things get out of hand that many can only watch and wait in helplessness. Such a statement with such an arrogant attitude was actually made without knowing the actual impact when such dominating person made a public statement as “ so and so contracts from region A is mine, so and so contracts from region B is mine and so and so contracts from region C is also mine.” So other people may not have a chance in the whole country. Such attitude can be applied to the global scenario when certain people or companies become so powerful by virtue of their overwhelming control of resources and wealth so much so that that can easily outplay others to opportunities available. The earth have come a long ways for thousands of years and many have journeyed the same ways without knowing that we have come to this time that a new approach be implemented so that the Spirit of Man can be given a chance to be set free from chasing after wealth only to realise at old age that such accumulated wealth is left to others. Chasing after the wealth is not necessarily a bad thing but not many can do it in righteous means. Even, it is known or accepted that politics is dirty so much so that many try to avoid it as a negative assurance that one may be untouched in any unforeseen circumstances. So many decide to leave it to others politics which actual affect our daily life. Many would moan and be spectators forever. Every one has a role to play and many can become the light and salt of the world or we become meaningless in a journey to nowhere. ..
WHAT IS MAN ? This question has served as the inspiration to this book after pondering of what the future hold for the inhabitants in this time and age. The doomsday article in the Times originating from Japan about the likely scenario the world may face in the near future is nagging me. This kind of articles is not new as this doomsday or end times scenario has been there for thousands of year as the people in the Old Testament times faced it in the Great Floods of Noah times and in the New Testament times, the people asked Jesus Christ when the end would come. Since time memorial, we have gone through trying times whenever the end times scenarios were repeatedly brought up as history books have much records of these. Of late, there have been more intense talks of the doomsday or end times as we enter a new millennium. Shaking of the world as God told me has inspired me in this way that leads to this book of a new wealth order to bless all. So suddenly at midnight, on 4th July, 1999 this question “What is Man?”, just was prompted in my mind as I said it aloud. As I kneeled in pray in front of Jesus Christ, I was given the strange strings of answers to my strange question. The centre of the worldly affairs is partly in the hands of Man and Man can shape their destiny only if they know how with the divine help in the right context. It is known Man is a created being of God and yet Man cannot manage their own affairs in orderly manners that they had been created in the first place. Man are capable to do so many things by the characteristic that they are bestowed by the Almighty Creator. Yet Man are cornered in many ways so much so that they are incapable to deal a multitude of mounting problems. Many such problems are self inflicted despite repeated lessons every where. There may be many achievements unknowingly inspired by the Source. Do we give Him the credit for those blessedness ? How do we intend to that ? Is there an appropriate system voluntary and involuntary now to do that except in individual approaches ? Such approaches may just touch the surface. What is peculiar with Man is that we are gifted in all things and given free. Yet when we do anything or every thing, there is always a price and such prices are not easily met in most situations. Some however are more gifted that they command a better value whilst those less gifted are left to mediocre or even perish in ignorance in the world of Rat race. How would this free gift of varying degrees be allocated a scale of values that is in turn used to humiliate others less fortunate because in this world, every thing has a price tag. There are of course, the few who have given much sacrifice in different ways. Can we avoid the issue of those in gifted situations not also in a better position to accumulate wealth as a measure of success in what they do ? It is also known that many had accumulated wealth only to lose it again in subsequent generations with untold offenses that had cause others. Wealth may bring blessings and curses. Who want those curses ? Don’t you want those blessings ? The common saying that “what you sow is what you will reap” is relevant. .. Another common saying that the Love of money is the root of all evil is also relevant in today’s Man world. Such love may be so dominating that some will lose sight of the existence of fellow Mankind. The over emphasis in this Love can attach value to every thing one touches. There is also a common saying that nothing is free. But in the Internet, many items are free, surprisingly so . Why is this so ? Some scientists have given the theory that Man had evolved from the animal Kingdoms especially the ape family. I believe all creatures of God had some familiarities and that’s all. Even, the ants are communicating in ways as man are communicating. Animals are fed like Man. If Man does evolve from the ape family, how is it after all these years, there are still such ape family in the jungle every where. They should have become extinct long ago. Man is Man and a special creation because we are created in God’s image and we should return to God at least in the Spirit in the eternity . Furthermore, as I progressed with this book I was encouraged by some close events like the Love Singapore’s web site of 40 days Pray Fast started on 1st July, 1999 only known to me on 6th July, 1999, then the e-mail address of President Clinton in a Lamb campaign by the Australian farmers as printed in Daily Express on 10th July, 1999 , the Coin of Jesus in Israel published on 11th July, 1999 and the e-mail of UK No. 10 web site as reminded on 16th July, 1999. ...
REVENUE AND TAXATION SYSTEMS We know in the world systems, every country or nation need finance to manage their affairs so that the country or nation can progress by the provision of public facilities as part of the national development in line with global development. How would this revenue be derived ? Since time immemorial, the Government of each nation or system would either be involved directly in revenue generating activities or collect from the people who live within certain boundary from the income of such active people. There are basically two types of revenues direct and indirect. Some call such direct revenue as personal income taxes from individual activity based incomes from either individual person or company. For the indirect, it is commonly known as goods and services that we as individual require or consumed at taxed at source or as they come into the country. Such major revenue is in the form of Customs Duties levied at the ports either for incoming or outgoing commodities. Many developed countries have extended such indirect taxes as Value Added Taxes where the taxes are collected at the consumption points by the business organisations and paid over to the Government regularly. It is not easy to collect such taxes as every Government has the experience of always using the laws to the full because most systems are imperfect. There is always the reports of tax avoidance and tax evasions be it direct or indirect. For every revenue law that the Government may introduce, the consuming public has always attempted to explore the various possibilities to find ways to pay as low as possible. So penalties are regularly imposed for violators through failures deliberate and / or ignorant. So the costs of collecting such revenue and taxes may be costs inhibiting because some tax avoidance or evasions that have got out of the net are normally the big ones. Can we blame the attitudes of Man for part of this system ? Do you think Man like to pay the taxes if they can avoid it ? This question is not new. This question was raised in the Biblical time especially at Caesar’s time. If you think that Man like to pay taxes voluntarily, then why we today hear of so many tax havens consisting little nations or countries whose other economic activities would not be adequate to bring in the revenue for survival. So Man has devised such tax havens so that global money invested there will be expected to provide the businesses for such small countries ? Are these havens spelt slightly different from heaven, really capable to give those type of comfort as we are given to understand of the Heaven where treasures will never rot ? Do you think such tax havens really give the depositors the type of assurances that all is well ? We have heard of such tax havens with secret numbered accounts and nominees accounts can encounter accountability problems because of the imperfection inbuilt in the systems. What would happen if such wealthy users for some reasons do not disclose such account particulars to other people and leave this world prematurely ? We have read accounts of the wealth of certain community in the second World War locked up in such countries for over fifty years ? This is the real world as everything that is perceived as good for some may also have parallel disadvantages for themselves. Such experiences may arise for those users ... themselves only at the much later time frame. Don’t you think that this system has self inflicted setbacks ? Such tax havens do have a very sizeable portions of world wealth stashed away there and largely remain dormant and could really serve real purpose for the benefit of Mankind. Public opinions have over time raise some justifying questioning that some such countries have decided to be transparent in cases when the public interest demand them to be so. Such tax havens have justified their existence as part of the tax planning in globalized business competitions where the taxation of every country range from near zeros to something like over 50 percent. So with the tax havens, money can move in and out quickly without the need to worry about the taxation elements. Legitimate it may sound, there are bound to be some who are less transparent as that. Because of these tax havens implications, more and more nations are also offering all sort of tax packages coupled with incentives to induce others to invest in their respective countries. Also taxes have apparently being raised so high in some countries that the rich had to find “shelter” in tax havens. Is this development in the applied taxation appropriate ? Our taxation systems created over times have apparently become counter productive for their complexities and their excessive rates in some countries. Simplicity is the best policy.>> jk1 Elsewhere in the Words of God, we are regularly told that we have to worship God, the only God and there is none other. As tithing is a paramount way of worshipping God in giving back what we are blessed by our free gift from God, how can we reconcile with the fact that we pay to another authority if there is such an authority on earth any amount in excess of ten percent. Of course, everything we receive is an entrustment of stewardship for us as people of God to manage as best as to bless the Kingdom of God on earth. So in this concept, if we pay ten percent in today’s term to the Church as the best representative in the Spiritual context, and the rest should be expended to bless God in other ways of living. It really means we cannot squandered the rest of the income in things that are abhorrent to God. ... We are told that the worldly Governments are authorities established by the consent of God to manage the public affairs of Man. So such authorities are entitled to revenue so that they too can perform their public interest in the best possible ways to glorify God. So it does not mean that such authorities can be obsessed with things that will be abominable to things of God. So it is godly example that we should not be expected to pay more than ten percent to any earthly authorities and certainly an added blessing of faith to give another ten percent to the spiritual representative such as a church for those who practise it. We may have to recognise that our secular practice thus far have so far violated Godly worship as giving is a divine practice. We have not really practised the storing of wealth in the place where our hearts should be in heavenly abode. Furthermore, if we practise a uniform taxation structure globally, in a globalized system, all the tax havens we are familiar with so far will have no useful purpose and also people of means will not move from place to place to seek for better pasture as in tax havens. In a border less world, taxation in discriminating scales can influence attitude towards various earthly authorities. Lets return to the principle that simplicity is the best policy so that with a low and fair rate, people are so willing to give their share even after much effort in securing income without any grudge and in actual practice, it has worked in practical terms in collecting more taxes at lower costs as complexities are done away with and legal methods normally resorted to are reduced to the minimal. So, in the process people and the relevant authorities are blest with divine compliance.
We are on the threshold of the new millennium with a great deal of apprehension of diverse dimensions amongst the nations of the world with the bulk of the people not knowing what is in store for them in the near future.
I believe how many will know the full implementation of the process of a new world order known as globalization and how would this affect their lives and their livelihoods in the respective countries.
All the leaders of the nations one way or another have been made known of this process through numerous meetings and the gradual liberalisation so as to lead to uniformity of systems so that the world is expected to share the new world order by participating in the global affairs that will unfold over the next few years.
The concept of globalization will not stop there just by the high sounding word “Globalisation” as oneness in one sphere of worldly activities namely the much talked about global trading to benefit the world as a unit. There are other “oneness” activities that are also been talked about such as one world Government, one world religion.
Would we have one global policemen, one world currency, one banking system, one political system, one identification systems etc. All these are grandiose schemes enticing quite a lot of people around the world to be connected and to be part of such networkings.
Underlining all these development, there is a desire by some quarter to control the world in all sphere of activities. By exercising control, the bulk of the world will be subject to regulatory directions from some powers whether the subordinate countries mainly small and weak like it or not.
The consequences of such development can be predicted. In the present situation, we already have many defacto situations such the most used language English as the likely global language as the most popular written international language, although the most spoken language is Chinese.
The United States have already the inclination to be Policemen of the World in many difficult scenarios. The demand for a certain currency is also giving an indication as the currency of the world although the country is operating a debt system. With the collapse of many banking institutions in several major countries, some banks are getting bigger by mergers etc.
With the collapse of The Soviet Union and fall of the communism, democracies as we witness elsewhere are giving a pointer that one political system may be achievable in the next decade provided existing democracies can prove to the world of their real values to others. With the availability of IT every where running efficiently, all the billions of inhabitants of the world can be identified by a common series of numbering systems so that this system can bring real benefits to mankind.
We do not need to guess or estimate the number of inhabitants on earth. How prepared are the inhabitants of this world in current scenarios of great extremes to get on this globalised ship of the new world order we hear so often lately.
However, it appears that this concept was coined some fifty years ago when the United Nations was first mooted. So this ideas may be out of date as United Nations was installed at the end of great conflicts as in the Second World of great destructions when we witnessed for the first time the use of nuclear weapons on foreign soils. The untold misery linger on till today.
One of the noble objectives of the UN was to unite the world for the better tomorrow then formulated fifty years ago. That tomorrow has really arrived after fifty years. Without doubt, the United Nations have achieved some thing in world dimensions but certainly there are lots of yawning gaps in the world today that are far from satisfaction. The worst have actually unfolded in our living rooms in the Television boxes of the latest series of destruction in an area away from the comforts of the advanced countries. Negotiations by UN could not achieved the desired pattern of power play and bombings costing billions of dollars had to deployed to enforce compliance. Yet, the outcome have been far from satisfaction because the destruction be it right or wrong have left scars in many lives both in the action away from homes or the silent spectators at homes every where. What an ending to the twentieth century. Is this pattern of power play that has been set for the near future in the millennium ? Lets search our conscience. Do we want this kind of power plays to be carried over to the new millennium ? Can we avoid them ? Who would be the offensive or offended parties ? We really do not know , do we ? Do we really know, why such things have taken place as they had unfolded in modern history ? After the latest episodes of concluded bombings, do you sincerely believe we will have a peaceful time every where ? We really live in a complex world and many would not believe the activities and the causes of such things. What we know wars and bombings are costly no matter who wins. Who would spend such money ? Who would make such money ? Is it a coincidence that the Dow Jones has so quickly reached record highs so soon after the concluded bombings in the Balkans ? The depleted stock of ammunitions would need to be replenished so the business opportunities are enhanced. No body is for sure, that another war may break out somewhere so as to trigger the defacto Policemen to act again. Have the UN played it role well to keep the world in peace ? The UN has also gone into areas like poverty relief every where, health control, human rights regulation, refugees relief, environment watch etc. Have the UN been successful in these areas ? Lately, the UN has been urged to regulate the speculation in currency transactions worldwide which have unfortunately destroyed quite a few economies of developing countries. Despite fifty years of endless effort by UN and other powerful nations, the problems of the world cannot be eliminated and in fact some have become worst. The drugs scourge still threaten the increasing populace including those in the third world countries and the rich countries alike; corruption be it in the under developed, developing, and advanced countries are not getting lesser and on the contrary, we regularly hear of corruption involving leaders of all shades and lately in the last few decades of sums of not millions but billions. The health scenarios are no different despite new advancement in medical researches as new health threats in new diseases or viruses have surfaced begging for treatments or cures yet to be found. With the many new development of opportunities, the accompanying threat of problems have surfaced too like proper disposal of toxic byproducts of industries and the persistent exposure to harmful fallout of nuclear energy generation. Our basic food and water supplies are contaminated by all the exposure to greater industrialisation and pesticides as the world endeavour to produce the food at the right price in the right ... quantities to meet the growing population needs. Human attitudes to all the ways to earn enough money in the shortest time have also become spoilers in many processes to secure supplies. I may be making many generalisation here but many people may be taking their individual responsibilities seriously. In any mass production, a spoiler in a chain of the food production for example, may create a situation of uncertainty. The dioxin scare in Belgium have shaken the world food system. As we are at the advanced stage of globalization, I believe it will be failure unless some basic change in the systems is introduced to path the way for the proper implementation of the new world order. As we know, every thing in the worldly system is founded on the wealth system. Money is supposed to be every thing that we do, but for most people this has become a soul by itself. There is a famous saying that the Love of money is the root of all evil. Money is a necessity. Once it become a soul in money itself, you can imagine the bondage any one can be obsessed. So the pursuit is on and nothing can stop it unless someone drops dead. The world have been under a system of what people call it a “Rat Race” and how many casualties have fallen on the way of that wealth chase. Now, the rich are not only after the millions but the billions. So the fall on the Billions syndrome is certainly greater with greater injuries and hurts. The billions syndrome leads to blaming others whenever something gets wrong. In actual fact, the adverse impacts of the billion syndrome is self inflicted. Some may not be aware that in the process of pursuing the billion syndrome, others are being oppressed in some ways. Even in the United States it is no different as people do experience similar oppression as in an e-mail I received on Independence day - 4th July, 1999 as I have just commenced writing this book on the same day. “Happy Independence Day Wealthgram Readers! I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy 4th of July. We recognize and celebrate our national Independence today here in the USA. May this day also be a reminder to us of our quest for personal independence. The freedom and opportunity to choose the lives we want to live. Lives filled with abundance and freedom. Freedom from financial strain, freedom from oppression, the freedom to live our lives as God intended, in peace, harmony and brotherly love. May you all find the freedom you personally seek. Thank you for your readership and friendship.” Can we avoid such an attitude that “ what is mine is mine, and what is yours is also mine” when things get out of hand that many can only watch and wait in helplessness. Such a statement with such an arrogant attitude was actually made without knowing the actual impact when such dominating person made a public statement as “ so and so contracts from region A is mine, so and so contracts from region B is mine and so and so contracts from region C is also mine.” So other people may not have a chance in the whole country. Such attitude can be applied to the global scenario when certain people or companies become so powerful by virtue of their overwhelming control of resources and wealth so much so that that can easily outplay others to opportunities available. The earth have come a long ways for thousands of years and many have journeyed the same ways without knowing that we have come to this time that a new approach be implemented so that the Spirit of Man can be given a chance to be set free from chasing after wealth only to realise at old age that such accumulated wealth is left to others. Chasing after the wealth is not necessarily a bad thing but not many can do it in righteous means. Even, it is known or accepted that politics is dirty so much so that many try to avoid it as a negative assurance that one may be untouched in any unforeseen circumstances. So many decide to leave it to others politics which actual affect our daily life. Many would moan and be spectators forever. Every one has a role to play and many can become the light and salt of the world or we become meaningless in a journey to nowhere. ..
WHAT IS MAN ? This question has served as the inspiration to this book after pondering of what the future hold for the inhabitants in this time and age. The doomsday article in the Times originating from Japan about the likely scenario the world may face in the near future is nagging me. This kind of articles is not new as this doomsday or end times scenario has been there for thousands of year as the people in the Old Testament times faced it in the Great Floods of Noah times and in the New Testament times, the people asked Jesus Christ when the end would come. Since time memorial, we have gone through trying times whenever the end times scenarios were repeatedly brought up as history books have much records of these. Of late, there have been more intense talks of the doomsday or end times as we enter a new millennium. Shaking of the world as God told me has inspired me in this way that leads to this book of a new wealth order to bless all. So suddenly at midnight, on 4th July, 1999 this question “What is Man?”, just was prompted in my mind as I said it aloud. As I kneeled in pray in front of Jesus Christ, I was given the strange strings of answers to my strange question. The centre of the worldly affairs is partly in the hands of Man and Man can shape their destiny only if they know how with the divine help in the right context. It is known Man is a created being of God and yet Man cannot manage their own affairs in orderly manners that they had been created in the first place. Man are capable to do so many things by the characteristic that they are bestowed by the Almighty Creator. Yet Man are cornered in many ways so much so that they are incapable to deal a multitude of mounting problems. Many such problems are self inflicted despite repeated lessons every where. There may be many achievements unknowingly inspired by the Source. Do we give Him the credit for those blessedness ? How do we intend to that ? Is there an appropriate system voluntary and involuntary now to do that except in individual approaches ? Such approaches may just touch the surface. What is peculiar with Man is that we are gifted in all things and given free. Yet when we do anything or every thing, there is always a price and such prices are not easily met in most situations. Some however are more gifted that they command a better value whilst those less gifted are left to mediocre or even perish in ignorance in the world of Rat race. How would this free gift of varying degrees be allocated a scale of values that is in turn used to humiliate others less fortunate because in this world, every thing has a price tag. There are of course, the few who have given much sacrifice in different ways. Can we avoid the issue of those in gifted situations not also in a better position to accumulate wealth as a measure of success in what they do ? It is also known that many had accumulated wealth only to lose it again in subsequent generations with untold offenses that had cause others. Wealth may bring blessings and curses. Who want those curses ? Don’t you want those blessings ? The common saying that “what you sow is what you will reap” is relevant. .. Another common saying that the Love of money is the root of all evil is also relevant in today’s Man world. Such love may be so dominating that some will lose sight of the existence of fellow Mankind. The over emphasis in this Love can attach value to every thing one touches. There is also a common saying that nothing is free. But in the Internet, many items are free, surprisingly so . Why is this so ? Some scientists have given the theory that Man had evolved from the animal Kingdoms especially the ape family. I believe all creatures of God had some familiarities and that’s all. Even, the ants are communicating in ways as man are communicating. Animals are fed like Man. If Man does evolve from the ape family, how is it after all these years, there are still such ape family in the jungle every where. They should have become extinct long ago. Man is Man and a special creation because we are created in God’s image and we should return to God at least in the Spirit in the eternity . Furthermore, as I progressed with this book I was encouraged by some close events like the Love Singapore’s web site of 40 days Pray Fast started on 1st July, 1999 only known to me on 6th July, 1999, then the e-mail address of President Clinton in a Lamb campaign by the Australian farmers as printed in Daily Express on 10th July, 1999 , the Coin of Jesus in Israel published on 11th July, 1999 and the e-mail of UK No. 10 web site as reminded on 16th July, 1999. ...
REVENUE AND TAXATION SYSTEMS We know in the world systems, every country or nation need finance to manage their affairs so that the country or nation can progress by the provision of public facilities as part of the national development in line with global development. How would this revenue be derived ? Since time immemorial, the Government of each nation or system would either be involved directly in revenue generating activities or collect from the people who live within certain boundary from the income of such active people. There are basically two types of revenues direct and indirect. Some call such direct revenue as personal income taxes from individual activity based incomes from either individual person or company. For the indirect, it is commonly known as goods and services that we as individual require or consumed at taxed at source or as they come into the country. Such major revenue is in the form of Customs Duties levied at the ports either for incoming or outgoing commodities. Many developed countries have extended such indirect taxes as Value Added Taxes where the taxes are collected at the consumption points by the business organisations and paid over to the Government regularly. It is not easy to collect such taxes as every Government has the experience of always using the laws to the full because most systems are imperfect. There is always the reports of tax avoidance and tax evasions be it direct or indirect. For every revenue law that the Government may introduce, the consuming public has always attempted to explore the various possibilities to find ways to pay as low as possible. So penalties are regularly imposed for violators through failures deliberate and / or ignorant. So the costs of collecting such revenue and taxes may be costs inhibiting because some tax avoidance or evasions that have got out of the net are normally the big ones. Can we blame the attitudes of Man for part of this system ? Do you think Man like to pay the taxes if they can avoid it ? This question is not new. This question was raised in the Biblical time especially at Caesar’s time. If you think that Man like to pay taxes voluntarily, then why we today hear of so many tax havens consisting little nations or countries whose other economic activities would not be adequate to bring in the revenue for survival. So Man has devised such tax havens so that global money invested there will be expected to provide the businesses for such small countries ? Are these havens spelt slightly different from heaven, really capable to give those type of comfort as we are given to understand of the Heaven where treasures will never rot ? Do you think such tax havens really give the depositors the type of assurances that all is well ? We have heard of such tax havens with secret numbered accounts and nominees accounts can encounter accountability problems because of the imperfection inbuilt in the systems. What would happen if such wealthy users for some reasons do not disclose such account particulars to other people and leave this world prematurely ? We have read accounts of the wealth of certain community in the second World War locked up in such countries for over fifty years ? This is the real world as everything that is perceived as good for some may also have parallel disadvantages for themselves. Such experiences may arise for those users ... themselves only at the much later time frame. Don’t you think that this system has self inflicted setbacks ? Such tax havens do have a very sizeable portions of world wealth stashed away there and largely remain dormant and could really serve real purpose for the benefit of Mankind. Public opinions have over time raise some justifying questioning that some such countries have decided to be transparent in cases when the public interest demand them to be so. Such tax havens have justified their existence as part of the tax planning in globalized business competitions where the taxation of every country range from near zeros to something like over 50 percent. So with the tax havens, money can move in and out quickly without the need to worry about the taxation elements. Legitimate it may sound, there are bound to be some who are less transparent as that. Because of these tax havens implications, more and more nations are also offering all sort of tax packages coupled with incentives to induce others to invest in their respective countries. Also taxes have apparently being raised so high in some countries that the rich had to find “shelter” in tax havens. Is this development in the applied taxation appropriate ? Our taxation systems created over times have apparently become counter productive for their complexities and their excessive rates in some countries. Simplicity is the best policy.>> jk1 Elsewhere in the Words of God, we are regularly told that we have to worship God, the only God and there is none other. As tithing is a paramount way of worshipping God in giving back what we are blessed by our free gift from God, how can we reconcile with the fact that we pay to another authority if there is such an authority on earth any amount in excess of ten percent. Of course, everything we receive is an entrustment of stewardship for us as people of God to manage as best as to bless the Kingdom of God on earth. So in this concept, if we pay ten percent in today’s term to the Church as the best representative in the Spiritual context, and the rest should be expended to bless God in other ways of living. It really means we cannot squandered the rest of the income in things that are abhorrent to God. ... We are told that the worldly Governments are authorities established by the consent of God to manage the public affairs of Man. So such authorities are entitled to revenue so that they too can perform their public interest in the best possible ways to glorify God. So it does not mean that such authorities can be obsessed with things that will be abominable to things of God. So it is godly example that we should not be expected to pay more than ten percent to any earthly authorities and certainly an added blessing of faith to give another ten percent to the spiritual representative such as a church for those who practise it. We may have to recognise that our secular practice thus far have so far violated Godly worship as giving is a divine practice. We have not really practised the storing of wealth in the place where our hearts should be in heavenly abode. Furthermore, if we practise a uniform taxation structure globally, in a globalized system, all the tax havens we are familiar with so far will have no useful purpose and also people of means will not move from place to place to seek for better pasture as in tax havens. In a border less world, taxation in discriminating scales can influence attitude towards various earthly authorities. Lets return to the principle that simplicity is the best policy so that with a low and fair rate, people are so willing to give their share even after much effort in securing income without any grudge and in actual practice, it has worked in practical terms in collecting more taxes at lower costs as complexities are done away with and legal methods normally resorted to are reduced to the minimal. So, in the process people and the relevant authorities are blest with divine compliance.
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