For this title, we never got beyond a very rough cover rendering, which includes John Exeter's inverted liquidity pyramid. This debt pyramid is very well known to the sound money community. The inverted pyramid represents both the monetary history of the world, and the supply of money from the liquidity of gold at it's base to the illiquidity of debt at its top.

When there is an economic contraction debtors scramble down the inverted pyramid to a more liquid, less vulnerable economic position. Gold has historically been considered the most liquid asset, desired everywhere in the world in whatever form. Of course, it all began in Havilah, and that is the place where the corner stone of gold begins. The thought of this cover rendering was to represent that graphically with a landscape of Havilah as the background.

The 666 completes the monetary history of the world, so it is at the highest point of the inverted pyramid. The money of the beast, so far from containing anything of substance, becomes a hole in the numbers indicating the way and flames of hell - the end of man's desire to "be as God."

The eye, a popular symbol for those who are interested in "conspiracy theory," is on the one dollar bill, supposedly representing the all seeing eye of God. Perhaps this quote from the book that may help: "Those who conspire together have an evil eye. They invite our acquiescence and aid by offering us their bread. But Proverbs 23:6 warns, "Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye; neither desire thou his dainty meats."

GOLD: What's The Point?

The question is, "What's the point of the gold?" What was the point in the beginning, and what is the point in our own day? This book explores the way to that point through the monetary implications of The Bible.

Not to get the point is to be ultimately lost.