Bible In The News

Welcome to the September 25, 2008 edtion of Bible in the News, this is David Billington with you. I'm not an economist and I don't know much about Wall Street. However, I do know that Wall Street is a symbol of the powerful US financial system and a center of trade for the western powers. This relates to the biblical Tarshish which was a merchant power, consider Ezekiel 27:12: "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs." If you look closely at the history book map of Celtic and Roman Britain pictured in the print edition of this week's Bible in the News, you will notice I have highlighted in yellow all the mining sites flourishing in Britain at that time. You will see many lead mines - which also included silver, iron mines and tin mines, as well as a copper and a gold mine. I am told that Britain is the only place where you could go one-stop-shopping for these metals which Tarshish traded as mentioned by Ezekiel. It