Raul A. Gonzalez

Building for the Kingdom, not Babylon | Entrepreneur • Pastor • Author | Faith, Finance & Freedom | Exiting Babylon, one decision at a time

[Raul A. Gonzalez @Xitbabylon]

An 8 post thread:

1/ Most Christians were taught to be generous. Fewer were taught to understand money. That gap is where Babylon lives.

[Raul A. Gonzalez @Xitbabylon]

Noah didn’t just preserve material things. He moved in obedience before the world understood why.

That’s the deeper stewardship lesson.

Bitcoin can help preserve value, but value without wisdom can still be wasted. Assets without Kingdom order can still become bondage.

Preparing your house means leaving your family more than keys.

Leave them a pattern:
faith over fear,
stewardship over consumption,
freedom over Babylon,
Christ over every system.

[Raul A. Gonzalez @Xitbabylon]

Babylon has always offered substitutes.

Artificial wisdom.
Artificial intimacy.
Artificial authority.
Artificial peace.

AI is not the enemy. It is a tool.

But if we do not know the truth of the gospel, every tool can become a teacher, every feed can become a shepherd, and every system can become a master.

Use the tool.

Follow Christ.
#ExitBabylon #SovereignAI

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@TableforOneMin @PJ_Dunn @LifewayResearch AI can assist, but it cannot shepherd.

The danger isn’t only misinformation. It’s artificial formation.

If tools are already discipling young adults, churches can’t afford silence or panic. We need biblical wisdom, real relationships, and Christ over every tool.

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@simpleminingio This is the part of sovereignty that gets missed.

It’s not just owning an asset.

it’s removing levers that can force compromise.

Fewer dependencies means more room to obey your convictions.

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Exit Babylon, Day 4:

A Christian family with no margin is easier to control. Babylon loves households that cannot say no.
#ExitBabylon #kingdomfinance

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Pastors should be very careful when talking about money.

Not silent. Careful.

The Bible speaks constantly about debt, wages, fraud, generosity, inheritance, and stewardship.

But if we use those texts to manipulate rather than liberate, we are not exiting Babylon. We are baptizing it.

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Exit Babylon, Day 3:

Debt is not just a financial instrument. Debt can become a discipleship system. It teaches fear, delay, compromise, and dependence.
#ExitBabylon

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Amen to keeping Christ first. Bitcoin is not the Gospel, not salvation, and not the Kingdom.

My concern is narrower: Scripture does speak about dishonest weights, debt, oppression, stewardship, and the discipling power of money. So Christians should be willing to ask whether the systems shaping our money are forming us toward faithfulness or bondage.

Bitcoin can be a tool. Christ alone is Savior.

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Stewardship is not about obsessing over charts.

It's about refusing to be discipled by a system built on debt, urgency, and debasement.

Stack slowly.
Learn custody.
Kill consumer debt.
Give generously.
Keep Christ first.
Exit Babylon one obedient step at a time.
#ExitBabylon #KingdonFinance #Bitcoin

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Pastors do not need to become monetary theorists overnight.

But we do need to understand this:
if money becomes programmable, permissioned, and surveilled, then giving, ministry, and conscience become easier to control.

Financial privacy is not paranoia.

It is protection for faithful obedience.
#ExitBabylon #KingdomFinance

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Proverbs does not say dishonest weights are “unwise.” It says they are an abomination.

If money is the measuring stick for human labor, then debasing money after the work is done is not neutral policy.

It is a moral issue.
Bitcoin is not Christ.
But honest money matters to Christ-followers.
#ExitBabylon #Bitcoin

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Exit Babylon, Day 2:

“The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil” does not mean “stay ignorant about money.” Ignorance is not holiness.

#ExitBabylon #KingdomFinance

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@ajaydata @OfficialINDIAai @abhish18 @gdb @TVMohandasPai @vishalgondal @karpathy We’re working in this direction too.

Local AI becomes serious infrastructure when it connects to internal APIs, memory, workflows, documents, decisions, and approval gates.

Sovereignty is not just where the model runs — it’s what it can safely touch.

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@BtcMemePool Paper Bitcoin gives exposure. Self-custody gives exit.

Those are not the same thing.

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@TFTC21 Babylon always looks liquid until the gate appears.

Self-custody matters because “your money” should not require permission to leave.

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The important part is not just “they bought Bitcoin.”

It’s that more balance sheets are learning fiat reserves are not neutral.

Holding cash means trusting a measuring stick someone else can keep changing. Bitcoin makes the reserve question unavoidable.

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Inflation is not the cost of living. It's the cost of trusting Babylon’s scales

Exit Babylon, Day 1:

Stop calling inflation “the cost of living.” It is the cost of trusting a system that can change the weight of your money while you sleep.

#ExitBabylon

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This is why “number go up” is not enough.

If Bitcoin gets absorbed into the same custody, leverage, and paper-claim machinery as gold, people may gain exposure while losing sovereignty.

Exit Babylon means owning the asset, not just owning a claim inside Babylon’s rails.

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@isabellasg3 The subscription is not the real cost. Dependency is.

AI is useful, but sovereignty means not becoming helpless without the tool — or watched every time you use it.