Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

One cannot be around Spirit-filled Christians long without realizing that Christianity is full of music and songs.  I know that in our house, it is not uncommon for B'Ann and the girls to burst out singing praises to the Lord.  In addition,  maybe because there's so much music in our family, the Spirit often speaks to us through music to help us in our intercessory prayers: i.e., we've learned that certain people that we know come to mind when certain songs come up in our spirit–letting us know that he or she needs our prayers.  HOWEVER, IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO, B'ANN AND MOIRE' HAVE BEEN GETTING A KINDERGARTEN SONG THAT PUZZLED US.

There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,

There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole.

Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it.

With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza?

With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, with what?

With some straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

With some straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, some straw.

The straw is too long, dear Liza, dear Liza,

The straw is too long, dear Liza, too long,

Then cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

Then cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, cut it.

With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, dear Liza? etc.

The song goes on and on with more of the same and we knew that the Lord was trying to teach us something with the song, BUT WHAT?  Finally, it came to B'Ann that the folk song was about King Henry and his squandering of the wealth of the Kingdom of England.  So, it was to the computer for research on King Henry; which I found to be something else.  The king Henry in the song was King Henry VIII, the second of the Tudor monarchs (the Tudor's ruled from 1485 through 1603), and apparently the Liza was Queen Elizabeth–the last of the Tudor's monarchs and King Henry VIII's daughter who had adopted her father's ways.  King Henry VIII was the son of King Henry VII. Henry VII was known for frugality and wise rule; and as a consequence, he was able to leave his son a huge fortune.  However, Henry VIII was anything but frugal and wise.  In fact, he was a wicked despot and the history of England is smeared by his perverted doings.  To him, life was cheap and he ruled with fear.  (He even beheaded two of his six wives–just two of the many unfortunate souls who lost their heads during the reign of the Tudors.)  It didn't take him long to squander the fortune of the crown; so, he helped himself to the wealth of the churches, confiscating their land and buildings as well–even making himself the head of the church.  (Anyone who frustrated the king stood in jeopardy of being labeled as an heretic and executed as such.)  It didn't take him long to go through all he confiscated from the churches, leaving him to look for more revenue.  The only source of revenue left was the people; so, taxation of the masses was his next move.  However, to keep the masses from total rebellion at his exorbitant  taxation, Henry VIII made deals with parliament–which up to this time had been little but a rag-tag assembly with no political clout.  To make a long story short, with the help of parliament exercising it's new-given powers, Henry got his taxes and continued bankrupting England. (All this eventually led to a change in England's form of government–parliament becoming the ruling power of England and the monarchy becoming little but a ceremonial figure head.)

I say all this not as a history lesson but to make a point!  The Church is aware of many end-time signs being fulfilled–they're all over the Internet–but King Henry VIII should awaken us to an important sign that is being overlooked: i.e. the economical holes in Europe being opened by today's "shadow banks"!  These shadow banks are anonymous, but they are there, they are powerful, and they are draining the wealth of the world into somebody's coffers.  (It would seem that  Barack Hussein Obama, who stood before the world and said we were NOT a Christian nation,  has been pouring America's trillions into these black holes at an alarming rate–right in front of God and everybody!)  How does all this serve as an end-time sign?  Go to the falling of Babylon the Great (the world's monetary system} in the Book of Revelation.   This event will not happen until after the Church is raptured, but the events that will set it in motion are already taking place.  (The demise of Babylon the Great will be a grievous time for the people of that day for we're told that the whole world will grieve as they watch their wealth disappear with the fall!)  Add this to all the signs already being fulfilled, and Church, it is time for us to be awake, alert, and about our Father's business of saving souls.

Scripturally, saving souls is done either by the preaching of those who are called to the ministry or by personal witnessing (one-on-one preferably) through the sharing of the simple message of John 3:16.  Scripturally, it is not done by the mega-ministries that spend millions to appeal to our flesh, whether it be lavish set, musical productions, stage make-up and the like.  Rather, it is done by the sowing of the seed in John 3:16; and the most amazing part of this seed sowing is that it only takes the love of Christ and faith the size of a grain of mustard seed.

The following concerning the fall of Babylon the Great is taken from our on-line study of the Book of Revelation.