The Money Failed

Bryan  Matthew Dockens

Currency in the Weimar Republic of the 1920’s was so hyperinflated that banknotes were more useful for kindling fires than for their purchasing power.  There is little point to printed money whose value does not exceed that of sticks on the ground, a fact which modern gold enthusiasts are eager to bring attention to.

Economies are known to falter and collapse.  They have done so throughout history.  While Joseph governed Egypt, a seven-year famine severely afflicted the land.  So impoverished were the people that they traded first their money, then their livestock, and finally their lands and their very bodies in exchange for grain, saying, “The money has failed” (Genesis 47:13-19).

All earthly wealth fails eventually.  It fails in that it remains in this world when its late owner is deceased.  “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out” (1st Timothy 6:7).  It fails insomuch as all the world’s elements, gold and silver among them, will one day dissolve in the fire of God’s judgment.  “The elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up” (2nd Peter 3:10).

The Lord Jesus taught, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21).