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For Book One, we chose a twenty dollar bill falling out of the sky - key word falling, but not to neglect the thin air, and threatening storm in the sky. This is a kind of first fruit or harbinger of more falling dollars to come.

A twenty dollar bill seemed appropriate for present purposes because, on it is a picture of Andrew Jackson, an early and very strong opponent of central banking.

The sky in the background is from a painting by the authors mother, Katherine N. Ferris, and we are confident has the approval of heaven where she now resides.

For Book Two, we have chosen another background, similar to Book One, only more in keeping with the deluge of falling paper that has come upon us since our journey into the subject of money in the Bible began, in 1973.

Our title, "Are You Worried Yet," remains, and we trust serves as a contemporary wake up call, in the distress of the days immediately following the credit collapse of 2007-08.

We had hoped to get this to you sooner, and remain somewhat perplexed in the face of all the obstacles which have prevented our doing so. In any case, we are hopeful that, by now, the reader is getting a clearer picture of the rest of our title: "Where Is Money Taking Us?"

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Out of paradise, the Garden of Eden, our illustration setting off Book One, we have now come to Book Two. For the Book Two illustration we have chosen another engraving by Gustave Dore, (1832-1883) "Babylon Fallen." This is where we are headed in Book Two.

"Babylon Fallen" is a particularly suitable illustration for Book Two.

By Chapter sixteen of Book Two, which has it's focus on the fall of Babylon, we are ready to look at the Babylonian problem on a number of levels. One way of looking at it is, that Babylon is the default mode of man's fallenness. By the end of the Bible we find truth personified in two women, one is Babylon, "the great Whore." Her truth is false. The other is the New Jerusalem, "the bride of Christ." Her truth is true.

The kings of the earth try to have their way with both of them. In the end, they succeed in having their way with the prostitute, Babylon. They burn her! What the kings of the earth don't seem to have discovered yet is Jesus beat them to it. Babylonian thinking was already set on fire on His cross. We trust that this will all come clear as we approach the end of the book.