This is one area I'm so thankful for Trump's leadership with RFK! I would like to see the predators put away for life. This scourge is a horrific example of how evil things are.
Sorry to derail the thread a tiny bit but this was interesting and
@TCC makes an interesting rabbit trail off the main topic
I think it is a good thing, in this present age as well as such things as Elon Musks' Neuralink, or the Real ID. I have been thinking for some time (following some stuff that Britt Gillette has said, along with Patrick Wood, JB Hixson, Mondo Gonzales and others) that the future Central Bank Digital Currency or Bitcoin or whatever digital currency is introduced to "fix" the financial crisis we are just starting in on now, will be backed by gold.
As you point out and I agree, that good thing that helps people now before the Rapture, before the Tribulation, will be used to enslave them after the Rapture and definitely at some point during the Tribulation.
The concept of gold rising is not so much (in my opinion here) a "golden" age (that means different things- To the new ager or the Masonic lodge types a golden age refers way back to a Roman era prophecy from the Sybils- a pagan golden age that is actually referenced in the poem about the Statue of Liberty. That prophecy calls to Saturn to return to create the final golden -satanic- age. It's big in Masonic Lodge stuff AND the occult/New Age. To English and History majors the idea of a "golden age" is a mythical concept that civilizations have at the height of their power),
Gold by itself though remains the same in real value while the dollar value of gold skyrockets. All that means is that the actual value of that paper thing we call a dollar that the govt prints (and devalues) is decreasing, meaning that inflation has decreased the value of the dollar and gold is the indicator that the govt has been busy printing more money than it should.
I think the church does "go there"- at least those ministries that track that sort of thing- because gold is useful like a thermometer is with a child's fever. It tells you accurately the degree of fever the child experiences. The price of gold has always been a useful "thermometer" to spot the devaluation of currency as govts print too much. It is also something people buy when they feel like war is imminent or the paper currency is unsafe.
The fact that we are nearing a time when digital currency must replace the dollar reflects how close the financial system is tracking towards the Tribulation. It is neither good nor bad at this point before the Rapture. After the Rapture it will eventually (mid point of the Trib) become a system that the AC can use to force all to his will or suffer death.
Britt and others I've listened to over the years bring up the idea that probably at the start of any new currency system it will have to be tied to gold to make it work. Like Bretton Woods after WW2 when the world reserve currency became the US dollar.
By the midpoint of the Tribulation there will be tracking and tracing for all who take the mark, and they won't have access to the financial system which says that system needs to be trackable and traceable much like the Digital Euro will be this fall- where cash is no longer allowed, and every transaction is recorded and open to view by the govt. That is also why Real ID is interesting to see appearing, not because it is the Mark, but it's showing a trend to track and trace every person using their biometric data. That's also why those silver globes that Rose brought up in another thread are interesting.
Which is why spotting when digital currencies (the one the BRICS propose is gold backed by the way) start arriving, we are at a stage that is preparing for the Tribulation money system. We know we are even closer when the current financial system begins to fall apart, and various voices keep suggesting going to a digital currency as a fix.
Gold is simply useful as a measurement for any currency. Like the thermometer. If a currency is backed by gold it holds it's own value against all other currencies but when it goes off the gold standard (the USA went off Bretton Woods and no longer had enough gold in Fort Knox to back each paper dollar which was worth exactly so much gold on hand in Fort Know) then the currency value changes. If the govt prints too much (all debt based systems do that) then the value of the dollar falls and we call it inflation. If it gets as bad as it did in Weimar Germany between the wars, then the currency has to be dissolved and replaced.
We aren't there yet, but the market "corrections" and the value of US debt - in bonds show that the system is fragile and teetering on the brink. Pressure on the system like Tariffs, especially when they are seen as unstable makes business people and ordinary people who invest their retirement savings in the market, very very nervous. Markets and US treasury debt (bonds) are only valuable when people trust them.
Sorry about the rabbit trail, back to the child trafficking topic. truly horrifying, so thankful Trump is backing RFK jr's attempts to end this horror.