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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 201
The U.S. comprises approximately 5 percent of the world’s population, yet they account
for over 31 percent of the total world’s production of goods and services. The per capita income
of the U.S. was #3 in the year 2000 at $34,100; this was 460 percent higher than the average per
capita income of the world, which was $7,410 (measured in international dollars).
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The average income of the world does not give an accurate picture of America’s wealth
because there is such a enormous disparity between the rich and poor nations of the world. In
2000, a majority of the world (56.1%) lived in extreme poverty; they lived on less than $730 per
year or $2 per day. Half of these people who live in extreme poverty (over 1.17 billion), live on a
$1 or less per day.
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In comparison the average American earns from 46 to 92 times more than
these poverty stricken people of the world.
According to Peter Jones in his book Capturing The Pagan Mind: “Fifty-one of the one
hundred largest world economies in the world are trans national corporations.”
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“Most of the
fifty-one transnational corporations that make up the hundred largest world economies are in fact
American.” California alone “has the fifth largest economy in the world.” The richest of the rich
in the world are billionaires and most “of the billionaires are American and the poorest American
is fabulously rich relative to most of the world’s population.”
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“According to a 1991 report by the U.N. Population Fund, developed countries, which
contain only 25 percent of the world population, account for 75 percent of the world energy use
and consume 85 percent of all forest products and 72 percent of all steel production.” “At
present, the per capita energy consumption of the United States is 250 times as great as that of
many poor countries.”
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Babylon Consumes The World’s Jewelry, Precious Metals and Stones
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and
precious stones, and of pearls…
Revelation 18:11-12
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Americans spent $51.4 billion on
jewelry and watches in the year 2000; this includes gold, silver, precious stones and pearls. The
United States also is the second largest producer of Gold in the world, which accounts for over
13 percent of the world’s production, and it also produces 10 percent of the world’s silver.
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According to Rick Coombes, more gold and silver is traded on the New York Commodities
Exchange each day than the rest of the world combined.
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Babylon Consumes The World’s Clothing
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of… fine linen, and purple,
and silk, and scarlet…
Revelation 18:11-12
Fine linen, silk and scarlet are used most widely in clothing. Americans spent $313.7
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