In the year 2016 an essay was written by Ida Auken, a Danish Member of Parliament entitled, "Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better". This article was published on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website on November 10th of that year.

Shortly thereafter, the WEF also released a video entitled “8 Predictions for the World in 2030" which asserted, “You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy”, as the first of these eight predictions. The article presented a sharing economy, which included housing, transportation, and goods, as having replaced private ownership of the same. Since then, this phrase has become well-known as a reason to reject the agenda of the WEF/UN vision for “sustainable development goals”.

I would like to share with you why you already don't own anything, but have reason to be happy anyway. The Bible gives us two very fundamental, concise statements of fact in a single verse: “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender.” Proverbs 22:7.

Did you know that 1835-7 was the first and only time period when the U.S. government operated free of indebtedness? President Andrew Jackson implemented certain policies that brought this about.

Did you know that the US government now has the highest national debt in the world in actual dollar amount, - a staggering $38+ trillion dollars? How did such a drastic change come about?

The year 1933 will forever be infamous in the history of America. The Federal Reserve system of fractional reserve banking, having been installed twenty years earlier, gave the US Government/Federal Reserve collective power to inflate/deflate, and contract/expand the circulating currency supply at will.

It was this activity which led to a major stock market crash, and consequently “The Great Depression” of 1929-1939. At its lowest ebb in 1933, President Roosevelt issued Emergency Order 6102, which outlawed private ownership of gold, with few exceptions. This meant that the money of the individual citizen could no longer be redeemed for gold. This began the process of detaching the US dollar and the majority of world currencies from gold backing to fiat currencies (fiat is latin for “it shall be”; they are called fiat because their value is determined by the government). Just prior to this change, the House of Representatives made the following pronouncement:

“The money will be worth 100 cents on the dollar, because it is backed by the credit of the Nation. It will represent a mortgage on all the homes and other property of all the people in the Nation. The money so issued will not have one penny of gold coverage behind it, because it is really not needed.” (House of Representatives Congressional Record- March 9, 1933, Volume 77, Part 1, p. 67)

As the national debt has continually increased since that time, and as all gold and silver backing for currency was removed — effectively by 1971 and formally recognised internationally in 1976 — it becomes easier to understand why modern transactions no longer represent payment through tangible monetary value in the traditional sense of actual ownership. The “mortgage on all the homes and other property” has never been paid off with anything of intrinsic value like precious metals. The Federal Reserve Notes we utilize are mere evidences of public and private indebtedness, and it is impossible to truly purchase anything with promissory notes.

In April 1933, the US Senate made the following statement:

“The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called “ownership” is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user; and use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.” Senate Document No. 43; Senate Resolution No. 62, April 17, 1933.

This situation applies to the entire world economies that are also operating on purely fiat currency. 

Who gains from this disguised socialist agenda? The whore of Revelation 17:1-6 and the rich and powerful that waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies (Revelation 18:3). And who is that whore? It's the Papal mother church, which has spawned daughters who embrace her doctrines (Revelation 17:5). They ruled the European world during the time of the Holy Roman Empire and seek to return to world dominion. This is why we read of such bold statements being made as “You'll own nothing...” It entirely fits within the Catholic Social Teaching elucidated in the Papal Encyclical, Rerum Novarum.

This ordering of world power and resources is the very scenario experienced by Egypt and the land of Canaan in Genesis 47:13-26. This conquest is also delineated in Daniel 11:42-43: “He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt:...”

Now let me tell you why, in spite of such dark world prospects, you can be happy: The Savior of the world (1 John 4:14) has given Himself as a ransom for you and I. He has pledged Himself to come to the deliverance of all who call upon Him (John 6:37; Romans 10:13).

When we permit the Savior to become the Lord of our lives, He saves us from our independent lives of sin and selfishness, from the world, and from Satan's power, and we become “free indeed” (see John 8:31-36).

We also become immensely wealthy as the rightful heirs of all the things the wicked of this world are now greedily grabbing for themselves. The Bible says: “For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].” Psalm 37:10

“...the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.” Proverbs 13:22 Hallelujah! Knowing Christ as our very best Friend, living according to His will as revealed in His Word, and the voice of His Representative – the Holy Ghost – liberates us from the anxieties of this perishing world. It empowers us to be willing to suffer, if need be, the loss of all earthly things to retain our priceless union with Him. Make sure of your union with Him now, and begin experiencing true happiness which lasts forever!