World economic down turn should not happen as internal economic structure needs to be stronger even for australia .The world's stock markets do not revolve around American markets and should not as a problem in the American market causes world problems this should not happen.Australian business needs greater influence in its own Australian markets and as an example the importation of old American oranges in my opinion where a bad choice as Age and taste as i would not purchase this product.Import laws affects australia stock markets in a great way .People's Wage concern through the unbalance of book economics and product placement is upsetting the market in Australia and to this if internal stock in australia and internal trade is stronger any world economic down turn would not affect Australia .There is enough work and product placement in australia as it is just understanding it and working it .Australia is strong in the market place and no other country is about to ruin it.

Mattermotor.
I think it all has something to do with One World Government wanting every country manufacturing and growing what they decide we ought to. The whole world is broken up into sectors and we must tow the One World Government line and make our personal desires a second place rather than manufacture or grow what WE want.
To put it into Holy Bible terms, a little and very simply, the One World Government people are building a big department store (colloquially speaking) and there will be a single leader in that great big store (the CEO) and the Holy Bible calls him the Beast (click on 666, The Number of the Beast) and he will tell the world what to do because the world money systems will sell their souls to this man. He is the worlds last great dictator ...the great antichrist (Revelation 13:16-18) and his mark or micro chip for the right hand or forehead is out there now being trail runned on certain people and the whole world looks like being subject to it (having to accept it) yet the Holy Bible says NO! we are not to take it (Revelation 14:9-11) because we will be siding with the greatest murderer in all history. And that is the whole crux of why we cant grow or manufacture what we want. We take oranges and lemons and avocados from the USA because the dark powers that control the economies and the big department store say we got too. Some of Pastor Barry Smith (NZ) books are good reading...WARNING, SECOND WARNING, FINAL NOTICE and PS. Stan Deyos 1970's book THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY is also good.

Repatiation of US profits or disclosure of US Assets on non-US multinational consolidated balance sheets [head office currency] is problematic.

Gibo,

"666" or Taw, Resh, Samekh - Waw refers to grades in the ancient Jewist monastic styem: "... when the eastern monastic sysyem, with its oppressive displine and military purpose, was rejected by the Christians, they spoke of it contemptuously as 'the 666' ". [Thiering]

Oliver.
Barbara Thiering is in huge trouble with God as I understand. She has altered what The Word said and twisted heaps to suit her craving for glory-in-writing. Who knows what will happen to her after death if she hasnt confessed her sin. Committed christians dont take her seriously:(
Revelation 22:19 says dont alter anything in the Book...that not just Revelation its the whole Book!

Gibo,

BT also mentions Simon Magus [Median/Gnostic Priest] as an anti-Pope and leader of the Eastern party referred to above. Paul's "son perdition": 2 Thessalonians?

Gibo,

I have translations of the Dead Scrolls. There is not much there on the Beast or 666. These documents would suggest the quram/Wssence communities saw Jerusalem playing a bigger role in The End Days. Redemption according to some sect beleieces did apply to the Gentiles. It is hard to put together a date, so many times, peoples' predictions have been wrong. Personally, I think that the apocalypse was to -and obviously didn't- occur in the latter first to early second century. Four hundred and millennia dates are were/also popular.

Dating is also difficult because the Hebrews/Jews used Lunar calendar and we are related events to the Julian/Gegorian calendar. Herod the Great, I understand, died in 4 BCE; herein, Jesus may have been born 7 BCE making forty at the time of his death. If Jesus has a son latter rather than sooner his [illegitate] claim on the House of David would become stronger again broether James, who was born after Joseph and Mary were married [legitimate].

I think it is interesting Jesus referred to Peter as the Rock, which means Peter was the Mountain of Zion. Peter died before he became the Rock foudation. Moreover, Zion was Hellenised (Paul) and Romanised (Constantine). Very early in church history and James would have been a stronger contender from the House of David to ready for The End Days?

The idea [and in fact at times the practice] of transnationals exploiting the World goes back to at least 1601, wherein Elizabeth I granted monopolies to traders.