Last I looked oil was cheap.
Oil is currently cheap because Saudi Arabia wants to bankrupt the US oil companies while they still have the “cap and trade POTUS” on board to kneecap US companies while the Islamist-controlled oil doesn’t have to worry about EPA regulations.
It’s always been said that our dependence on foreign oil is a national security issue, and the fact is that the rise in oil prices in 2007-2008 gave the Islamist enemies of the US a LOT of money to control in the stock market. Enough to collapse the world economy.
Christians should look at Revelation and realize what is said about BAbylon falling and the whole world being aghast at the loss of the luxuries she gave them - and realize that the mark of the beast is about banking, the ability to buy and sell being dependent on acceptance of the mark of the beast. Sharia-compliant finance is Islam’s method to conquer the world; their plan is right in line with what was foretold in Scripture.
Dr. Mark Christian gave a series of lectures here that was very enlightening, regarding the role of colonialism in defeating the latest caliphate. Britain and other European nations divided the loyalties of Muslim nations by making them their own country/colony, which broke up the Islamic caliphate. Islam is not about individual countries; it’s about Islam ruling the whole world. The Muslim Brotherhood was started after the latest caliphate fell to colonialism before WWI; the founders of the MB said that Muslims needed to get back on track with the Quran’s command to take the entire globe under sharia. And that command is universal to Islam - regardless of sunni and shia. The individual nations that are considered Sunni (Saudi Arabia) and Shia (Iran) are themselves considered by Islam and the Quran to be an OBSTACLE to the whole world uniting in a worldwide caliphate. Our analysts think that Sunnis and Shiites won’t work together, but everything changes when they have someone who has called for the rise of the caliphate.
Obama’s use of the word “Levant” (ISIL - Islamic State of Iraq and the LEVANT rather than ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is a huge tell. Syria is a nation, not a caliphate. REferring to the Levant is erasing the national borders, which is what the MB is all about, and which both Sunni and Shia have united behind. (Obama’s hatred of Winston Churchill because of his support for British colonization in Kenya is another huge “tell”. The Muslim world was conquered by dividing the Islamist loyalties through geopolitical boundaries. The whole “no borders” thing is an Islamist ideal also. Everything about Obama and his allies points to the allegiances that Dr. Christian talked about).
Our analysts are drawing distinctions that no longer matter, when the caliphate is being formed. And that is a very, very dangerous thing. Our enemies are dead serious. They do not get sidetracked like we do, with internal bickering, when everything they live for is on the line. We are going to lose this battle because they are more earnest than we are.