Gerah

Changing The World With The Gerah

This is not going to be easy.  So listen up. 

God gave Moses the Gerah

The Gerah is a simple "covenant" instrument that is legal in all countries, including the US, because it is not currency.

The reason it is not easy to understand is because we are not starting from scratch like Moses did.

The wealthy never did like God's idea of the gerah because it did not serve their purpose.  The gerah was entrusted to Moses by God because the gerah, combined with jubilee would keep the wealth evenly distributed among all people.  The gerah is backed by man's ability to perform, (a days labor).  The gerah is not backed by trust in the good faith of Government to redeem (like we have today).  The gerah is not backed by the gold in Fort Knox.  The gerah is backed by a days labor.  It is a trust instrument that is a simple I-O-U the value of one days labor.  Once the trust instrument is earned by working a days labor, the trust instrument can be traded for food or other value. 

Backing a currency with gold strengthens the currency at first and that is what occurred in our U.S.  The only problem with backing a currency with gold, is the countries that do not back their currencies with Gold are able to have more liquidity.  They are able to print as much money as they wish, as long as the other countries are willing to accept it.  This constant supply of money allows their inhabitants to have a distinct advantage in trade.  That is why the U.S. has been so strong for the last 35 years.  We printed many dollars.  We sent them all over the world and the world accepted our dollar and loved our dollar.  History had proved to them that the dollar was King.  But of course it was King because it was originally backed by gold.  So, we just kept printing more and more money and the money supply never became low within our country because we purchased foreign products in the U.S. and the money went over seas. 

The U.S. got off the gold standard in 1973.   The world accepted the change with out incident but bit by bit the World became less interested in accepting the US dollar.  Liquidity slowed in the U.S. and our government patched the problem by printing more and more dollars.  We in the U.S. had plenty of new fresh dollars to purchase more and more foreign products.  Think about how much money went to China. 

Now from December 2000 through 2008, the world figured it all out.  They know what we did to them.  They are wanting to rid themselves of the US dollar and it is dropping like a rock.  Each day they hold onto a dollar, it becomes worth less.  That is why you find many wealthy investors from all over the world purchasing the USA with our own dollars.  Our stock market and soon our real-estate.  They have no need to bring in ships and guns for a war.  Just the dollars we gave them.

Our youth have no chance.  We trained them all wrong.  They have no idea what to do and someone needs to tell them.  The funny thing is that our youth know it.  God has given them understandings and they are ready to act but consider how much they have to work through.  Our laws are so thick. 

Now. 

 We need the gerah.

Let us allow our children to start this and allow them to work out the details as they grow into the future.  I expect our youth to be the heroes who bring the gerah into the mainstream economy.  Our youth have not set up barriers in their minds that stop them from taking action.  Today, it is the 18 to 32 who will save us. 

Please do not add anything more to it than what God made of it.  Do not put strings around it.  Let it be.

One gerah is worth a days labor.

One Half gerah is worth a 1/2 days labor.

20 gerah make a Shekel and the Shekel was 1/2 oz of real silver at the time.

But who had silver?

A few people did have silver Shekels and they weighed just under 1/2 oz (.49) of silver.

1/2 Shekel was the tax set aside for Yahweh.

1/2 Shekel was about 1/4 oz of silver.

Old Testament:  "Yahweh then spoke to Moses and said,  When you count the Israelites by census, each one of them must pay Yahweh a ransom for his life, to avoid any incidence of plague among them while you are holding the census.  Everyone subject to the census will pay half a shekel, reckoning by the sanctuary shekel:  twenty gerah to the shekel.  This half a shekel, will be set aside for Yahweh.  The Poll Tax Exodus 30: 13 through15

New Testament:  " When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel came to Peter and said, Does your master not pay the half-shekel?.  Yes, he replied, and went into the house.  But before he could speak, Jesus said, Simon, what is your opinion?  From who do earthly kings take toll or tribute?  From their sons r from foreigners?  And when he replied, from foreigners, Jesus said, Well the sons are exempt.  However, so that we shall not be the downfall of others, go to the lake and cast a hook; take the first fish that rises, open its mouth and there you ill find a shekel; take it and give it to them for me and for yourself."  Matthew17: 24 - 27

If you wish to know how much a gerah is today, the answer is this.  It is up to you. 

Time will even it out.   Have faith.

God did not tell Moses what a gerah is worth in comparison to other currency.  So forget about defining it's worth. 

The following is my feeble attempt to value it based on U.S. economic terms.                   

 Before Darius I:  Coinage fist appeared in the 7th century BC in Anatolia and then in Greece.  Before this date the value of metal was gauged only by its weight. 

The gold drachma of NE 7:76 = Ezr 2:69, was determined to be 1/2 of the gold attic stater .3 oz or 8.5 gram gold

The silver drachma was determined to be .12 oz of silver ( = to the Israel 1/4 shekel).

Darius about 515 BC issued a gold daric  .29 oz of gold.  The same weight as a Babylonian shekel (Ezr 8:27)

Also in 515 BC from Darius was a silver shekel 1/20th the weight of the gold coin .20oz/ 5.67 gr 

That means that in 515 BC gold was considered worth 13 to 14 times silver.   (Ne 5: 15) 

Note:  They did not have knowledge of how much gold and silver had been mined in the world.  They simple held to tradition  (to a point)

Alexander the Great extended the empire standardized the ratio 10 to 1 gold to silver,  50 to one silver to copper.  

The Attic system from 126 BC to 195 AD had a number of changes but in the time of Paul and Acts we find this:

Israel Shekel .49oz/ 14gr  Silver

Israel half Shekel .25 oz / 7 gr   Silver

Israel quarter shekel .12 oz /  3.4 gr   Silver

Results are this. 

The gerah was not a government coin or currency during the time of Moses.

It was an instrument of "covenant" between one person and another, created by God.

God told Moses that it was valued at 20 gerah to a shekel. 

Governments up to the time of Jesus, coined the currency in gold and silver.  They held to the same denomination.  So what was a days labor worth.   If a Shekel is .49oz or 1/2 oz of silver then a days labor is worth 1/20th of that.  Not much.  Not much at all.  If a Shekel is worth (1/2oz silver) then a days labor is worth cents in 2008.  1/40 th of an oz of silver.  Not much. 

So, what is the disconnect between God's shekel and the shekel of the worldly system? 

The difference should be obvious. 

The world uses precious metal to back currency and precious metal is for the vain.

God used a days labor = to a gerah and 20 gerah = one shekel and a yearly tax (when the census is taken) of 1/2 shekel or 10 gerah.  

Tax was ten days of labor per year. 

The shekel was called the sanctuary shekel.  That is not silver. 

So what happened between Moses and today?    You will not believe it.  The dollar is crashing (2008) back to where it will balance with God's law.  You will see the U.S. dollar valued at

3.7 cents.  $0.037.   That is not much.

The government will step in and do something like the devaluation of the dollar.

This will let us believe they have a handle on it.  

So if the dollar devalues then all the numbers above will have to adjust.  But you can not force nature to bend your way forever.  Sooner or later, nature will overcome and a balance will develop.  It is time to have some faith.  If you want to eat and feed your family, do not worry how far the dollar will fall.  The dollar is controlled by the wrong force.  Worry about how much the gerah rises in relation to the dollar.  Silver will rise and the dollar will fall.  The gerah is worth 1/40 of a oz of silver.  As silver goes up, the gerah also goes up.  Just use it now as if you trusted it will go up.  I know that is hard but it is true. 

Keep an eye on the US Silver Eagle and Price it from time to time.  Get a few if you can. 

The gerah is not backed by Gold and Silver.

God valued it as worth Gold and Silver. 

The gerah was ordered to Moses to be worth 1/40th of a oz of silver when God told Moses it was 20 gerah to a shekel.  It is not backed by anything but faith in God and faith in a persons willingness to trade with another person.  Many will attempt to place a value on it.  Many value a days labor different than others.  That is fine.  It will all even out in time.  

Do not value a gerah on the value based on history as I proved above.  You simply value the gerah as God told you to value the Gerah.  A days labor; and it was equal to and will be equal to 1/20 of a silver Shekel or 1/40 of an oz of silver, when the balance to nature comes back to normal.  The values above are just given so you do not attempt to value the gerah based on the value of the falling dollar.  Just value it on a days labor and know it is a "covenant" instrument of trust that you are trading. Not a currency.  Also remember that in time, silver will rise real high.  High enough to bring the gerah up to a true value.  Hard to understand, I know.  But the next page will teach you the secret that all of your youth need to believe in.  The secret that will get them through all of this. 

Let us pray together:

Lord, please grant the grace for our country to survive the coming times,

trusting in your gerah and we ask this in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holly Spirit;

Amen.  

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