1. Poise
Patience is a sentinel.
The lone wolf on the ridge. The stag who scents the wind but will not yet stamp. The flock that grazes, half at rest, half at alert. I have held this posture for years: neither charging nor collapsing, but refusing to commit until the signal is undeniable.
That is not indecision—it is trust in the Covenant.
The Bible calls us: watch for the Day.
The prophets cry “stand on the walls"!”
Christ claims, “I chose you.”
2. Two Possible Futures
Collapse Quickly – the bonds snap, the inflation catches fire, the idols topple suddenly, and what was propped up falls in a season.
Endure a Good Time – the machine limps on, debt and coinage tighten but do not break, and we walk a long middle age, with room for gardens, sons, and schools.
These are the two possible herd-movements. Either stampede and scatter, or graze and multiply. Which one shall the Shepherd signal?
3. How to Know?
The Lord has not given us a date-stamp. He has given us signs of the times. If you can read a sunset, you can read the Bible.
The herd doesn’t move until a sensory cue breaks the stillness. The history of economic collapse as the hard resent of the debt-renewal cycle is well documented:
If Collapse: sudden, undeniable breach of trust in the money appears. “Inflation creeping” becomes loss of coin’s meaning itself. Markets gap, shelves fail, debt slaves default. Pack-wide panic sets in. No whisper. A trumpet.
If Endure: stabilization—debt-slavery terms codified, yoke normalized, structurally supported. Prices rise but plateau, rulers keep power, common men adapt. Herd goes back to chewing cud under the heavy harness that feels fair and is surely better than collapse for the majority.
Thus, my eyes are on coinage, term inflation, and currencies of every type, because that’s the biblical lever for honest men and good times: sound weights and measures.
Unjust scales collapse because of what they are.
4. Redemption Buys It Back
Thy Will Be Done. Waiting in such times is not cowardice. It is obedience. We shall not pause before the strike forever. The death throws of modern abstraction are the performance of a perpetually falling curtain. Watch not just the signs of coin and collapse, but the signs of Christianity:
Light the lamp? Sow a Seed.
Caught in fear? Leave the tare.
Can’t find the feeling? Trust the leaven.
5. Syndication is not Confession
Paralysis disguised as vigilance helps no one.
The mark of Christ-led waiting is readiness: when He says “move,” you move. “Let us go! Look! My accuser is at hand.”
Since 2020 I have considered myself fatigued. Entrenched and embattered as in a 5G global war for control of the narrative as we are, that is understandable. Pack-watch is high tension. It is the crouch, ready to spring.
Scanning for the sign that reveals whether we break or endure, the moment when the money stops being money, or the surety that new normal, however hard, will also be solid, reliable and true.
Until then, my task is to keep the us alert but not panicked. Lamps trimmed and oil purchased. Eyes up and bread breaking.
Sin named as debt. Christ setting us free.
