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# Loosed for a Time: Finance, Revelation, and the End of Innocence

There is a pattern embedded in Scripture that modern readers too often reduce to futurism or spectacle: *evil must be loosed for a time*. Not forever. Not without bounds. But long enough to be seen, understood, and—critically—**chosen against**.

The point of loosing is not destruction.
It is **disclosure**.

## The Nature of the Loosing

When restraint is lifted, evil does not arrive as caricature. It arrives as *normalcy*.

It presents itself as:
- efficiency,
- stability,
- sophistication,
- inevitability.

It speaks in the language of expertise and stewardship. It assures us that the world is complex and that only trained hands can manage it. It asks us to trade understanding for convenience, sovereignty for coordination, conscience for compliance.

And, crucially, it does not impose itself at first.
It is **entered into voluntarily**.

## The Voluntary Chains

Modern nations did not stumble blindly into centralized finance, permanent debt, income taxation, or abstracted money. These systems were adopted under conditions of necessity—war, crisis, emergency. We agreed to them *for a season*.

We told ourselves:
- it was temporary,
- it was pragmatic,
- it was for the greater good.

And for a time, many prospered.

We built wealth.
We stabilized markets.
We expanded consumption.

We enjoyed the fruits of a system that quietly detached money from labor, risk from accountability, and power from visibility.

This is the uncomfortable truth: **both the righteous and the wicked profited**.

## Revelation Through Exposure, Not Shock

Recent disclosures surrounding Epstein—*not primarily his sexual crimes, but his financial posture, his language, his associations*—function as a form of revelation in the biblical sense.

Not new evil.
**Exposed evil.**

What emerges is not merely criminality, but *contempt*:
- contempt for “people who must live in the real world,”
- contempt for labor,
- contempt for moral symmetry,
- contempt for accountability.

This is the voice of a financial priesthood that no longer even pretends solidarity with the societies it feeds upon.

Epstein was not the system.
He was a **symptom**—and an unusually candid one.

## The Parasitic Pattern

A parasitic system always follows the same arc:

1. It begins as a service.
2. It becomes indispensable.
3. It detaches from reality.
4. It feeds on the host while claiming to manage it.
5. It develops internal solidarity and external disdain.
6. It cannot reform itself.
7. It must be confronted or it will consume its host.

At no point does it voluntarily relinquish power.

This is why evil must be loosed *twice*—“time, times”:
- once to be accepted,
- again to be unmistakable.

By the second time, innocence is gone.

## The End of Plausible Ignorance

We can no longer say:
- “We didn’t know.”
- “It’s too complicated.”
- “There was no alternative.”

The system has shown itself.

We now understand that:
- money is not neutral,
- finance is not merely technical,
- abstraction is not harmless,
- and ignorance is not innocence.

The chains were imposed, yes—but they were also **embraced**.

## The Choice That Cannot Be Deferred

This is where Revelation becomes present tense.

After loosing comes **judgment**, and judgment is not first about punishment. It is about **alignment**.

Do we:
- continue to outsource moral agency to institutions,
- accept managed narratives in place of truth,
- tolerate systems that reward parasitism over production,
- prefer comfort over authorship?

Or do we:
- accept the cost of understanding,
- reclaim responsibility,
- endure loss rather than live by lies,
- and choose systems that bind power to reality, risk, and accountability?

This choice cannot be automated.
It cannot be delegated.
It cannot be deferred.

## Good Does Not Rise Automatically

Good does not counter evil by inertia.

It rises only when:
- neutrality collapses,
- refusal becomes costly,
- and continuing on requires conscious self-betrayal.

We are at that threshold.

The loosing has occurred.
The second time has run.
The exposure is complete.

What remains is not prophecy, but **volition**.

And this time, there will be no claim of ignorance.