From Gold to Global Control: How the World’s Money System Set the Stage for Revelation 13

Dave Robbins : Once the world
ran on real money, gold and
silver, and that kept
governments in check, but wars,
crisis, and quiet deals among
global elites, that really
replaced it with a system built
on fiat currency and
centralized control.
On today’s “Endtime Show,” I’m
going to reveal how institutions
like the Bank for International
Settlements, the International
Monetary Fund, and the World
Trade Organization have been
steering the planet toward a
single global economic order and
what it means for
America’s future.
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Dave: Good afternoon, everybody.
I’m Dave Robbins with Endtime
Ministries, and I do thank you
for joining me on this edition
of “The Endtime Show.”
You know, what we’re watching is
the rise of a global economic
framework that mirrors exactly
what Revelation chapter 13
warned us about.
It’s a system that could one day
be used as the mark of the
beast, not because a specific
technology is evil all on
its own.
But because the world is rapidly
building the kind of structure
that could enforce total
economic control.
Of course, John, all the way
back 2,000 years ago in the book
of Revelation, he warned of a
time when buying and selling
will be controlled by
a power that demands
absolute allegiance.
And for years people have
wondered how such a system could
ever take shape, but today we’re
witnessing the rise of digital
IDs, centralized banking tools,
and international pressures that
can exclude entire populations
with the flip of a switch.
The Bible tells us at a time–
there’s a time coming when
buying and selling will be
restricted to those who pledge
allegiance to a final world
authority and its leader,
the Antichrist.
Now, we’re not there yet.
But we are clearly watching the
infrastructure being assembled
right now.
Throughout, I mean, this is a
2,000-year-old prophecy, but
until my generation,
it wasn’t possible.
Think about that.
Well, our goal, though, my goal
for today’s program is not to
cause fear.
It’s to help you understand what
scripture describes and really
to recognize how today’s global
systems could be used to fulfill
those prophecies.
The pieces are coming together
and now is time to really,
really pay attention.
Now, it wasn’t far back in
history, it–really, barely
more than, what, maybe a single
lifetime ago, when everyday life
was powered by real physical
money, gold and silver,
something you could hold in your
hand, hard physical value.
England and France, they
measured wealth by the gold in
their vaults.
And nations like Mexico, the
Philippines, China, they
operated on silver.
And here in the United States,
Congress established a, even a
bimetallic standard, both gold
and silver, backing the dollar
at probably what,
a 15 to 1 ratio.
Now, paper money existed, yes.
We got to admit that, but it was
simply as kind of like a
receipt, a claim check.
At any moment, you could walk
into a bank and redeem those
notes for real currency.
And because of that, governments
were held on a very short leash.
They could only have as much
money in circulation as they had
gold and silver to
back it in the bank.
So it was a checks and balances
on the government.
They couldn’t just print money
out of thin air.
If leaders wanted to spend, then
they had to tax the population
or they had to borrow, and
eventually, they had to repay
money taken from the people.
Well, that restraint kept
ambition and greed in check.
And when money has
limits, so do politicians.
Well, back then, every national
currency was simply another
label for a fixed amount
of gold and silver.
Think about the old
Spanish doubloons.
Well, they were circulating in
early America, not because of
patriotism, but because the
metal was real physical metal.
The value was value, and
international trade, it thrived,
but no global regulator
was needed.
There wasn’t this big global
economic cabal that
ran everything.
There was no central authority
claiming to manage the world
economy, and nobody thought one
was necessary at that point.
Well, then comes World War I,
the industrial machinery of
modern warfare, tanks, aircraft,
battleships, heavy artillery,
they–think about running a war
and having to fund all of that.
Well, that devoured money faster
than any nation’s taxpayers
could provide it.
Banks loaned everything they
could, but it simply
wasn’t enough.
One by one, the great powers of
Europe, they abandoned the
gold standard.
Hmm, perhaps that
was by grand design.
And what they did, they started
printing money instead.
America had made that mistake
during the Revolutionary War
with the infamous Continentals.
But the founders learned from it
and returned to the precious
metals money.
The problem is Europe didn’t.
And by the 1930s, even the
United States was pressured away
from gold, and the age of
international fiat money
was born.
And this is where everything
goes very, very south
very quickly.
Once currencies were detached
from gold and silver,
governments gained a new kind of
power, the ability to manipulate
the money supply itself.
They didn’t need to go
back to gold and silver.
They just started
printing money.
Nations began competitively
devaluing their currencies in an
attempt to make their exports
cheaper and to undercut
their neighbors.
And it was economic warfare
by printing press.
And what economists call beggar
thy neighbor policies.
Well, this was chaos.
And the chaos created by
abandoning the gold and silver
standard, that became the
justification for building a new
global system because every
nation didn’t have their own,
you know, the yen or the dollar
or the shekel or the–all the
different currencies, or the
pesos throughout the world.
Now we start–they started
printing money like there’s
no tomorrow.
Well, who regulates that?
The physical currency was the
checks and balances on
the government.
Once they moved off
of that, now what?
Well, the Bank for International
Settlements emerged as the
central bank’s–the central
banker’s central bank.
And the GATT, this is G-A-T-T
agreements, eventually evolved
into the World Trade
Organization.
And what was
their shared vision?
It was a unified global economic
order: a one world currency, a
one world central bank, one
coordinated set of regulations
governing trade, tariffs, and
banking on a planetary scale.
This is very, very prophetic.
What’s my goal in doing this
program for you today?
It’s to let you know that the
infrastructure for the global
economic sanctioning system that
will be used for the mark of the
beast is already in place.
And until my generation, they
didn’t really have a way of
rolling it out and flipping
people’s ability to buy and sell
off with just a switch or the
click of a computer keyboard.
But now, that is
very, very possible.
And they just need
something to manage that.
Someone to pull the trigger and
then to manage the system.
That’s where artificial
intelligence will come in,
algorithms and
all this other stuff.
But I want to show you how the
infrastructure was laid over the
last many, many decades.
Because we’re approaching the
time when a fully functioning
world–after World War III,
after a fully functioning world
governing system is put in
place, and a world leader from
Europe usurps authority over
that world governing system,
the mark of the beast
will doled out.
The infrastructure for that is
already laid, folks.
So, this world’s central banks,
world currencies, and one
coordinated set of regulations
on, you know, trade, tariffs,
banking on a planetary scale.
In other words, the very system
we see rising today.
And so let’s take a moment and
look at how the modern global
financial system truly began,
because if you’re–you’ve never
heard about any of this in the
news, you’re not going to hear
about it in the news.
Much of this has been kept very,
very secretive, and it’s kind of
like almost a myth and a fairy
tale, and you can’t put your
fingers on it.
And I tried to do my best to be
able to get–to make it so you
could wrap your mind around it
today, because it’s going to
affect every single person on
the planet in one way
or another.
And it didn’t just
appear overnight.
There’s no way they could set up
global systems and global
institutions like this in
a weekend, okay?
That takes decades and decades,
but there are people that are
very, very interested in
controlling every single person
on the earth, and they realize
that if they can control the
economy, then they’ve got you.
If they can control your ability
to buy or sell, that’s where all
of this is headed, a global
economic sanctioning system
which is called the
mark of the beast.
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Dave: Okay, some history.
It really started with a single
institution created very quietly
in 1930 with–of course, there
was ambitions for bigger than–
far bigger than
the public realized.
And this was the Bank for
International Settlements, or
the BIS.
And it was founded by two very
powerful central bankers,
Montagu Norman of the Bank of
England, and there was a guy
named Hjalmar Schacht
from Germany.
For Norman, this was a dream
decades in the making.
A banker from an old
aristocratic family, and he
envisioned a central bank above
all the central banks.
The Federal Reserve here in the
United States was already our
central bank.
That happened with the Federal
Reserve Act back in 2013.
I’m sorry, 1913.
And yet here we are in 1930 is
when the Bank for International
Settlements was created.
So these–the creators of this,
they envisioned a central bank
above all central banks and an
international command center for
credit, for currency swaps, and
eventually global oversight of
money creation and
financial regulation.
Again, people were moving off,
they envisioned people moving
off of their physical currencies
and going to paper money, a
fiat currency.
Who’s going to govern all that?
Okay, well, Norman wasn’t alone,
and these two gentlemen, and
Schacht, they were not alone.
The Bank for International
Settlements has influential
cheerleaders, the Dulles
brothers, giants in
international politics, along
with a long list of insiders
from Washington and Wall Street.
And from day one, the Bank for
International Settlements was
designed to sit at the
pinnacle of world finance.
There are many people who are
global journalists.
I remember Tucker Carlson was in
an interview recently with
a lady named
Catherine Austin Fitts.
She mentioned the Bank for
International Settlements,
and he said, “Hold on a minute,
the Bank for International
Settlements, what’s that?”
And I was shocked, because I
thought Tucker Carlson, this
global journalist, I mean, he
would surely know what the–
the bank that sits at the
pinnacle of world finance,
but he had never heard of it.
But its early history was
anything but noble.
Almost immediately, the Bank for
International Settlements became
entangled with the Nazis.
Under pressure from Montagu
Norman himself, the bank
transferred 21 tons of Czech
gold to Berlin after the German
takeover of
Czechoslovakia, yikes.
And during the war, the Bank for
International Settlements became
a financial clearinghouse for
the Nazi regime, moving and
laundering wealth stolen from
Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Now, I know this is a big pill
for some to swallow.
I get it.
But I want you to understand
that this is not somebody who
has your interest–your
best interest at heart.
And this is, I’m telling you,
the infrastructure for the mark
of the beast,
it’s already in place.
The Bank for International
Settlements even helped Germany
and Italy continue their
international banking operations
while at war with the world.
And the respect the Axis powers
had for this institution
was astonishing.
In 1943, the Bank for
International Settlements’
American president, his name was
Thomas McKittrick, he traveled
from the United States to his
office in Switzerland by way of
Italy, a nation actively
at war with America.
Instead of being detained, he
was treated like a VIP.
He was warmly welcomed, lodged
in a luxury hotel, and he was
allowed to travel safely and
without interference to Basel,
Switzerland, where the Bank for
International Settlements
was located.
And despite the moral stain of
these wartime activities, the
Bank for International
Settlements survived and secured
its place at the top of the
central banking world.
But it couldn’t stop the global
economic turmoil of the ’30s and
’40s, and that failure set the
stage for something even bigger.
Global elites on both sides of
the Atlantic agreed that after
the war, the world would need
a new financial and economic
architecture, a counterpart to
the League of Nations.
After World War I the answer
to a world war ever happening
again–or I should say never
happening again, was the League
of Nations, the first effort
towards a world-governing body.
And of course, the League of
Nations, they wanted a
counterpart to that, which was
soon be–to be reborn as the
United Nations in 1945.
Well, a blueprint for managing
the economies of the entire
world is what they wanted.
Now, again, I’m talking about
the infrastructure being laid
for the mark of the beast.
Folks, this is coming.
As sure as I’m sitting here
talking to you today,
the mark of the
beast is on its way.
And they’re not gonna wait.
The Antichrist isn’t gonna wait
till he comes on the scene and
says, “You know what, to get
everybody to bow down to my
edicts, I probably ought to
start some kind of a global
economic sanctioning system,”
because right now they
sanction nations.
And they sanction some
individuals to get them to come
into compliance with
their edicts, right?
But there’s going to come a time
when the Antichrist will lord
over a world-governing body who
will sanction all the–every
individual on the planet or look
to do that, that does not comply
with his edicts, thereby bowing
down to him, a pledge of–
a feudal pledge of allegiance,
thereby worshiping him.
Anybody who won’t do that, he’s
going to try to give them a
mark, the Bible says, in their
right hand and their forehead,
without which you’re not going
to be able to buy or sell.
It’s going to be a global
economic sanctioning system.
Now, there will be nations that
he faces resistance from.
And I believe those will be the
nation of Jordan, the nation of
Israel, and at least the nation
of the United States as well.
But most of the other nations on
the planet, especially European
nations, will come right into
compliance with this.
So, a blueprint for managing the
economies of the world, that
vision came together
at Bretton Woods.
Many of you have heard
of the Bretton Woods.
Well, it was a wartime
conference held at a luxurious
Mount Washington Hotel
in New Hampshire.
Of course, behind closed doors,
representatives from dozens of
nations mapped out the future
of global money, trade,
and finance.
And listen, these plans still
shape the world that we live
in today.
This global economic system.
Not all of this, I mean, how
does the United States and China
and Europe and Southeast Asia
and the Middle East and South
America, and how do–how does
all this commerce happen?
And I can buy something from
China, and it arrives at my
doorstep in a couple of weeks,
maybe, sometimes less than that.
And how does all this work, even
though they have the yuan, and
we have–or the yen, and we
have the dollar, and then
there’s shekels in Israel,
and then the euro in the–
in Europe, and then
all around the world.
How–and the pesos down in
Mexico, but I can buy things
from Mexico.
How does all that work?
Who’s managing all of that?
Well, there’s a global financial
system that’s put in place for
all that to happen.
So let me go back to the Bank
for International Settlements
because so many people have no
clue what that even is.
When the world’s financial
architecture was being
redestined, or I should say–
redestined.
Redesigned, let’s say, at
Bretton Woods, two towering
figures were at
the center of it all.
America’s Harry Dexter White,
and Britain’s legendary
economist, his name was
John Maynard Keynes.
And these men didn’t just debate
policy, they shaped the entire
future of global finance.
The American delegation came
into the conference.
They acted deeply offended by
the Bank for International
Settlements and the–and its
wartime cooperation with Nazi
Germany, and they wanted the
Bank for International
Settlements shut down
permanently, and its power
transferred to a brand-new
institution, the World Bank.
But the British had other ideas.
Maynard Keynes and his
colleagues, they argued fiercely
to keep the Bank for
International Settlements alive.
And in the end, the British
carried the day.
The Bank for International
Settlements survived, and the
World Bank, which emerged from
the Bretton Woods conference and
all those negotiations, that
became, you know, kind of more
of a niche institution, focused
mainly on lending money to
governments that couldn’t get
credit anywhere else, usually
for big infrastructure projects.
But Bretton Woods gave birth to
another global powerhouse.
And that was the International
Monetary Fund, or the IMF.
The International Monetary
Fund’s job was to stabilize
failing currencies and bail out
governments collapsing under
inflation, debt,
or economic crisis.
And Keynes even wanted the
International Monetary Fund to
issue the world’s first true
global currency, a unit he
called the bancor, B-A-N-C-O-R,
bancor, but of course,
America refused.
Now, again, folks, this has been
happening for decades and
decades and decades.
We are at the culmination
of all of this.
They needed something
to manage it all.
How do you manage all the people
in the world and keep everything
right and okay this person to
enter into the system, this
person can’t?
Well, that’s where AI,
artificial intelligence, is
going to come in.
And it’s already managing much
of our financial infrastructure
with algorithms and, you know,
approving people for bank loans
and car loans and
different things.
And it’s already managing a lot
of social networking sites and
all of these.
Artificial intelligence, all of
this is connected together.
Well, the United States insisted
that the dollar, not the bancor,
become the world’s reserve
currency, and they guaranteed
that dollars held overseas could
still be redeemed for gold.
But here’s the catch.
There’s always a catch.
That promise applied
only to foreigners.
This gold window turned
the US dollar into the world’s
preferred unit for
international trade.
And President Trump is
still protecting that, right?
Doing the best he can.
The International Monetary Fund,
meanwhile, had to settle for
kind of like a pseudo currency
called the Special Drawing
Rights, the SDR.
You’ve heard of those.
Basically, it’s a basket of
major national currencies all
blended together.
And that arrangement, this
marriage of the dollar, the
International Monetary Fund,
the Bank for International
Settlements, became the famous
Bretton Woods system.
Parts of that system
still stand today.
But everything changed in 1971,
this is so critical, when
President Richard Nixon shut the
gold window completely.
Agh!
There went the checks and
balances on the American–
on our government
here in America.
That decision, one of the most
disastrous in American financial
history, amounted to a quiet
default on America’s obligations
to the world.
The stability of gold-backed
money vanished overnight and the
global economy entered a decade
of confusion and turbulence.
I mean, Nixon’s move reignited
calls for a single-world
currency and a
global central bank.
And that dream has
not been fulfilled.
Here’s a big word.
It’s not been fulfilled yet.
But the groundwork
has been steadily laid.
Behind the scenes, the Bank for
International Settlements has
spent decades pushing the
world’s central banks toward
uniform global standards,
reserve requirements,
capitalization rules,
transparency protocols,
coordinated monetary policy.
I mean, you know, the whole
package, to manage the finances
of the world.
And this sweeping harmonization
is known as the Basel Process.
Bank for International
Settlements is located in
Basel, Switzerland.
And it has been shaping global
banking for generations.
And so folks, you can see that
this, the infrastructure for the
mark of the beast
is already laid.
Now what they’re wanting to do
is move off of a physical fiat
currency like dollar bills and
things like that and to go
completely digital.
But I still–I wanna make–
I’ve got some more points I
wanna make to you for this
global economic system because
these are the people that will
run the infrastructure for the
mark of the beast
in the near future.
You’re gonna watch it happen.
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