LEVITICUS 25:10,18,23: "And you shall consecrate the FIFTIETH year, ........ It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. 18 ........ and you will dwell in the land in safety. 23 The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; ........" 27:24: "In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession." Leviticus 26:27-29: "........ if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, 28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury: and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters." The original Hebrew word for "eat" here is akal, Strong's number 398. Since this word is often used figuratively elsewhere in the Bible, it may not necessarily mean to literally eat children or commit actual cannibalism. In Ecclesiastes 4:5 the same akal word appears in which it refers to a wasting away of the body through apparently a lack of food intake, one of the potential results of refusing to work. Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of Ukrainians in the 1930's, though, a terrible decade of worldwide chastisement for apparently not returning rural land to the original owners, are evidence that akal can mean or ultimately lead to literal cannibalism. Like nontithing curses, if 100% of the population was cursed with being forced into periodically seeing their own children waste away from starvation or from being devoured in some other way, far more people would probably rapidly become Bible obeying Christians, which apparently is not a pre-millenial goal of the Lord. ................. The failure of the nations to obey the Biblical command to observe the Year of Jubilee (rural land is returned to the original inheritors) every fifty years has resulted in cycles of economic disasters worldwide such as depressions and major famines, the result of divine curses for disobedience. To my knowledge, no nation, not even ancient Israel, has ever observed this law. Failure to obey Leviticus 25:10 has caused tremendous, incalculable suffering in the form of homelessness, hunger, and actual starvation for thousands of years even excluding supernatural curses for disobedience. The Apostles singled out and specifically mentioned that sacrifices and circumcision have been done away with, but they never said that this Biblical command to observe the Year of Jubilee was abolished, so it is still very much in force, and according to Zechariah 14:16-19 which refers to the Feast of Tabernacles, by implication the Year of Jubilee and other Mosaic laws will be enforced during the coming millenial reign of Jesus Christ. In this age, the majority of governmental rulers would need to be convinced that this law is still valid for it to be implemented by passing new, appropriate legislation, which, of course, is currently a 100% impossibility. All or most of the original inheritors of land could probably never be accurately determined in this premillenial age, but some success could be achieved in identifying many or some of their descendants. If Leviticus 25:10 was enforced in a nation, the Lord would probably remove or greatly lessen the severity of famines and economic depressions previously used to chastise that nation, even though most original land owners were never identified. According to Leviticus 25 land owners during the 50 years interval between each Year of Jubilee, could rent or temporarily sell their land to others who could in turn sublease or temporarily resell it to others, but the original owners would receive their land back at no financial cost on the fiftieth year. However, houses separated by "walls" or fences within cities could be permanently sold with no right to reclaim it later. Homes not separated by walls or fences in rural towns or villages, though, could not be permanently sold and would need to return to the original owners every fifty years. This excellent law was designed to enable everyone, including you and your family, to permanently own free land to live on and grow food on, giving each generation the opportunity to have a fresh start at least once in a lifetime. This very good law also implies that local governments should place a very small tax, maybe 1.5 to 2.5%, on income, not non-producing paid for assets such as land or homes, and/or use sales taxes to pay for government operations. The amount of income taxed by local governments should be limited or capped so that people with high incomes do not have to pay an unfair, burdensome amount. School taxes, by far the largest component of property taxes, can be substantially reduced by eliminating teacher pensions, which are too generous to begin with, and using the federal social security system, just like almost everyone else, which is adequate. School superintendent salaries of more than $100,000 annually are ludicrously wasteful and should be chopped down substantially. New school construction costs can probably be reduced by 10-20% with more austere, simple buildings. .............. Obeying this fiftieth year land law would finally put an end to 5 evil factors contributing to homelessness, poverty, and starvation: 1) the permanent accumulation or "hogging" of vast tracts of land by rich individuals, families, corporations, or governments 2) the permanent loss of land confiscated by the government for unpaid federal estate (death) taxes, which has been as high as 46-50% 3) the permanent loss of land confiscated by local or state governments for unpaid property taxes or other taxes, such governments should mercifully exempt from property taxes property owners who have very low incomes, and for unpaid taxes on primary residences resort only to liens, equipment, vehicle, or financial account seizures or wage garnishment and should never, never take the drastic step of land seizure, 4) the permanent loss of land due to foreclosure because of unpaid land or home equity mortgage loans 5) the permanent loss of land due to bad advice, gambling, extortion, foolishness, or other reasons. The Mosaic laws of ancient Israel were meant not only for Israel but as an example for all nations to follow. Otherwise the curse of economic depressions would not be worldwide. ................... The minds of many governmental rulers and business leaders can be temporarily possessed so subtly by our Creator to make economic conditions bad, that these leaders thought they made the decisions, and that the decisions were good ones. Their minds can be repeatedly manipulated to later make a bad economy eventually even worse. ............... A Russian economist, Dr. Nikolai Dmytriyevich Kondratieff, was appointed by Lenin to analyze economic cycles in capitalistic countries in an attempt to determine when their economies would fail. Kondratieff published the results of his extensive research in 1922 (even before the 1930's depression), and he came to the conclusion that the capitalistic system is inherently self regenerating. Joseph Stalin was not pleased with such a conclusion, so he later sentenced Kondratieff to a labor camp in Suzdal, Russia, where he was eventually executed by firing squad at the age of 46 in 1938. Kondratieff's work eventually became famous for showing that economic downturns seemed to come in cycles of 40 years followed by 60 years, which average about 50 years in America and in other western countries. Do the math with the dates below, and you will see a rough type of 40/60 year cycle appear. America, the most righteous large nation in the world, seems to have suffered less than the other nations during these cyclic booms and busts. My own initial, brief research seems to show that most of the worst famines are clustered around the 30's, 40's, 70's, 80's, and to a lesser extent the 90's of each century at about the same or close to the same time economic depressions occur. In the 1590's a terrible famine occurred in most of Europe. A serious famine was recorded in Italy in the 1640's and 1670's .Depressions, primarily agricultural, occurred in the 1680's and 1740's (famine across Europe produced a major spike in mortality in the 1740's). The economic depression of the 1780's (about 10 million people, nearly one third of the population, also starved to death in a famine caused by drought in India from 1769 to 1770), comparable in severity to the 1930's depression, was followed by a depression in the 1840's, described as "great." Approximately one million, close to one eighth of the population, starved to death in the "Great Irish Famine" in the 1840's in Ireland. The depression of the 1870's (another estimated 10 million people also starved to death in the 1877-1878 famine in China, and about 5 million died in the 1876-1878 famine in India) was followed by the financial disaster of the 1930's with the Great Depression in which unemployment reached 25% in America and some people actually starved to death even in our country. Texas currently in 2011 is experiencing the worst drought (and it may go on for several more years) since 1956, a span of 55 years, and the worst drought before that was in 1917-18, a span of 38 or 39 years, approximating God's 40/60 year cycle using droughts in Texas to punish rural Texans for refusing to obey the Year of Jubilee. As to the timing of these Texas droughts compared to when global depressions occur, perhaps the Lord has special times for specific regions. About FIVE to NINE MILLION mostly white, Caucasian, not dark skin people starved to death in the Soviet Union's Ukraine, which is about the size of Texas, during the 1930's famine caused primarily by Stalin's Soviet genocidal dictatorship which took crops and all other food away from farmers who generally resisted collective farming, leaving them basically only their pet dogs and cats, wild birds, mice, old horse manure, tree bark, grass, the boiled remains of the dead dug up from their graves, and each other to eat. Later Soviet police returned to the farms searching for food that had been hidden or buried. If food was found, the farmer and his entire family were shot and killed (the general population was forbidden to have their own guns for self defense). Soviet authorities also executed food vendors in the local towns who sold food to the farmers or their families, so it was basically impossible to buy food in town. The famine was so severe that CANNIBALISM became widespread, and the Soviet regime at the time, in an attempt to stop it, printed many posters declaring "To eat your own children is a barbarian act." Children were eaten by their starving parents, fulfilling literally the prophetic warning of Leviticus 26:29 for failing to return land to the original inheritors, quoted above in red. It has only been in recent years, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that information has been released about how really bad the famine was in the Ukraine. To this very day major Russian politicians still refuse to make public all the details of that catastrophic famine, especially specific governmental actions in the region during the 1930's. The most significant aspect about the Ukrainian cannibalism is not that it happened, but when it happened. The Holodomor (Ukrainian for "murder by starvation"), Stalin's equivalent of Hitler's Holocaust, occurred during the 1930's, a decade of global economic punishment in accordance with Leviticus 26:29. .............. About 5 million starved to death during the 1936 famine in China. Between 1.5 to 3 million starved to death in India during the 1940's. The 1982-83 recession in America, right on schedule plus or minus 10 years, was the worst downturn since the 1930's, and it was characterized by massive deregulation (described by some as the "dismantling of America") of major industries, perhaps paving the way for another 10 year depression later, long overdue. Unemployment hit double digits in the 1982-83 recession. Previously regulated industries had minimal, government enforced profit margins for public safety and continued viability of major businesses. Deregulation of the trucking, airline, railroad, financial markets, and other industries has created continuous financial problems and a slowly eroding living standard for the middle class. Due to cutthroat competition many if not most airline companies are now always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and many other businesses such as trucking companies have been going out of business at a record pace for many years, and now the deregulated banking industry has slowed the entire world economy with greatly reduced credit. The financial events of September and October, 2008 are now being called the PANIC of 2008. Deregulation of the financial industries during the 1980's has led to risky, highly leveraged exotic trading practices. To try to allow everybody to have their own home, which seemed like a nice idea, legislation was passed to force many financial institutions to give mortgage loans even to people that could not afford them which resulted in inevitable foreclosures on a massive scale. These financial institutions were threatened with measures that would almost force them out of business if they did not make these bad loans. Colossal losses to major lending institutions later started "snowballing" from the mounting number of foreclosures, which for a while resulted in nearly frozen interbank lending among the largest banks, a major component of today's economy. The losses from these "toxic" loans, traded worldwide using deregulated, highly risky trading practices, have now produced a multitrillion dollar (about 10 trillion according to some people) hole in the world economy. The thoughts of congressmen produced evil deregulation and evil legislation. Were their bad, illogical thoughts really their own, or were they divinely manipulated to manufacture a recession described by some as "ferocious" and "feeding on itself" that could grow into another grinding 10 year depression? The following verses show that our Lord can easily control and manipulate human minds: Isaiah 45:13, Proverbs 3:6, Exodus 14:4, 16-17, 23, and 28. Stock market losses in 2008 and 2009 have damaged retirement accounts. Already about half or more of the 700+ billion dollar "TARP Money" has been wasted because the banks receiving the money spent it on dividends, acquisitions, and employee bonuses. No "strings" or compliance requirements were attached to the money given to the banks, only trust. A recent study revealed that Congress men voted in favor of the TARP Money primarily if they held stock in the banks that were to receive bailout money. Otherwise, they tended to vote against TARP money. The 12 Federal Reserve banks in America, organized in 1913 supposedly to try to avert panics and economic depressions, are in an unprecedented situation because their lowering of interest rates to almost zero has still failed to revive the U. S. economy and create substantial job growth. The great majority of Americans live in or very close to large cities and are incapable of growing enough of their own food to survive if an economic disaster decimated the purchasing power of the dollar, whereas during the 1930's a much higher percentage of Americans were rural and were agriculturally self sufficient. I recommend that you stay informed about the latest monthly research published by a reputable European think tank whose internet address is leap2020.eu/ which has an English version. They seem to have an above average history of accurate predictions, according to what I have read. They usually provide a more accurate, objective analysis of national and world economic conditions than those provided by the media and government. ............. Third world, nonChristian nations seem to almost always be experiencing famines somewhere to some extent, but it is noteworthy to realize that their severest famines recently have occurred during the 70's, 80's, and the 90's, typical times for depressions in more advanced countries. The 50's and 60's have seemed to generally be more prosperous. In Bangladesh 1.5 million starved to death in their 1974-75 famine. About 1 million starved to death in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984-85. In the African nation of Sudan at least hundreds of thousands of people starved to death in the mid 1980's. In North Korea about 1 million died during their famine of 1995-99. Hopefully Ukrainian style starvation and cannibalism will not happen here in America. The well respected, non profit, international Foundation for the Study of Cycles, which originated from research initiated by the United States Department of Commerce to determine the causes of the 1930's depression, has documented a 54 year cycle in international trade, cotton production, oat production, agricultural workers' incomes, pig iron production, ship construction, lead production, growth and contraction of tree rings due to rainfall levels, and other natural phenomena. This 54 year cycle is a mirror of economic expansions and curse induced, severe contractions which approximately corresponds to the 50 year intervals of the Year of Jubilee. This 54 year cycle would probably be adjusted closer to 50 or even 50 years if more accurate data could be analyzed extending all the way back to the time when the Mosaic laws were given to Israel. We are overdue another major depression according to the Kondratieff Cycle, a divine cyclic curse that will again produce incalculable misery, suffering, and perhaps even cannibalism in some regions for rejecting the Lord's Year of Jubilee. As of January, 2012, many of Europe's biggest banks are teetering on the brink of collapse, threatening to plunge almost overnight the rest of the world, including America, back into a severe recession, which could lead to another depression. Recession is already starting to again settle into Europe. Leap2020.eu/ is an excellent source of news concerning national economies. Although most U.S. banks are insured by the F.D.I.C., the F.D.I.C. in a worst case situation chain reaction financial collapse, only has enough money to immediately pay off about 5% or less of all depositors. So try to keep some cash "under your pillow" to pay for several month's worth of living expenses. The righteous, though, do not need to be overly concerned about going hungry because of many comforting verses in the Bible, such as Proverbs 10:3: "The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to famish (starve to death) ........." The home page of this website is LITTLE PUBLICIZED ANOMIA.