Why 2025 Belongs to the Miners, Not the Machines
“That which is exalted among men is abomination in the sight of God.” — Luke 16:15
You’ve seen it a thousand times: breathless coverage of AI, ChatGPT, Nvidia, Bitcoin — “the next frontier.” It’s as if the media has declared 2025 The Year of Artificial Intelligence and handed out trophies accordingly.
But here’s the twist: another sector has quietly been trouncing AI — and getting almost no airtime.
In 2025, gold has surged approximately 50 percent. And gold miners have delivered jaw-dropping returns. The benchmark VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX) — the sector’s bellwether — has surged 126.7% year-to-date as of October 7, crushing the S&P 500’s modest 14% gain. That’s roughly nine times the broader market’s return — a stunning reversal for an industry investors had long written off.
To drive it home: the so-called hottest sector in tech is getting all the headlines, all the capital rotation, all the hype — and yet gold miners, the underdog sector nobody wanted to talk about, have quietly smoked the entire AI complex. The contrast is both hilarious and revealing — a mirror held up to media bias, market psychology, and perhaps something deeper about the human condition.
The Shift Beneath the Surface
Why is this happening? Beneath the ticker symbols and CNBC soundbites, the foundations of the global monetary order are shifting.
The BRICS nations — led by China, Russia, and India — are accelerating efforts toward a gold-backed trade system. Central banks worldwide are hoarding physical reserves at a record pace, signaling waning faith in the dollar’s paper promise.
Across the globe, the architecture around gold is transforming. China is building new gold hubs — vaults, clearing platforms, and offshore settlement centers — positioning itself not just as a buyer but as custodian and settlement authority for global bullion. Sovereigns are being invited to store their gold on Chinese soil under Chinese audit — an audacious bid to recast global gold linkage. Emerging-market central banks are quietly boosting gold allocations, stepping away from sole reliance on U.S. Treasuries.
But gold’s meteoric rise is the clearest signal of all: the old order is faltering, and markets are recalibrating. The global settlement grid is being rewired, and new centers of power are moving in for vault control.
Then there’s the rhetorical twist: Donald Trump, in his 2025 inaugural address, declared that a “Golden Age” was beginning. Was that just theater? Or was it something more — a signal, perhaps even a prophecy?
The Law of Reversal
There’s something eternal at work here — what Carl Jung called enantiodromia, what I call the Law of Reversal: the tendency of things to turn into their opposites.
History moves in circles, not lines. That which is mocked eventually becomes sacred again; that which is idolized collapses under its own excess.
Consider this parallel: Jesus and gold — two giants Western civilization seems most uncomfortable with.
Have you noticed how Western culture seems far more uneasy with Jesus than with other spiritual figures — Confucius, Buddha, Krishna, Nanak, Lao Tzu, or Muhammad?
Mention Jesus, and the room goes quiet. People shift in their seats. They associate the name with control, guilt, or judgment. Mention gold, and the reaction is similar: “barbarous relic,” “non-productive asset,” “for conspiracy theorists.”
Isn’t it strange? The civilization most profoundly shaped by Jesus’ teachings now finds His name the most controversial. The same nation that held the world’s largest gold reserves in 1944 — and built the dollar’s dominance on a gold peg — now dismisses gold as irrelevant.
Because both Jesus and gold reveal something we’d rather not confront: truth without compromise.
Incorrigible, Incorruptible
Jesus didn’t merely teach love or truth — He embodied them. His message was not one of gentle self-improvement but of transformation:
“Love your enemies.”
“Lay down your life.”
“Sell what you have and give to the poor.”
It is a love so complete it threatens every system built on pride, greed, and fear.
Likewise, gold doesn’t merely represent money — it is money, and it has been since the days of Genesis.
“The gold of that land is good.” — Genesis 2:12
“Solomon’s drinking vessels were all of gold.” — 1 Kings 10:21
“By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself, and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.” — Ezekiel 28:4
From Eden to empire, gold has been the universal measure of value — not because humans decreed it so, but because God and nature did.
And in the same way that Jesus threatens the modern social order, gold threatens the modern financial order. Fiat currencies — paper promises — rely on faith in human management. Gold relies on creation itself. It cannot be printed, censored, or inflated away.
In Revelation, heaven itself gleams with gold. It is the metal of incorruptibility — not the idol of greed, but the emblem of glory.
Little wonder both are despised by a culture that worships autonomy, comfort, and self-definition.
Scripture is filled with divine affection for gold — not as vanity, but as a reflection of purity and permanence.
“The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,” declares the Lord of hosts. — Haggai 2:8
Before freeing the Hebrews from Egypt, God commanded them to take gold and silver from their oppressors (Exodus 3:21–22; 11:2; 12:35–36). It was the only specific instruction before liberation — a symbolic act of reclaiming divine wealth from corrupt hands.
And today, that process may be repeating. Gold is flowing from the West to the East, as the BRICS — long subservient to the Western financial order — reclaim the world’s real store of value.
The Migration of Faith
This is particularly interesting because Christianity is migrating too.
The number of Christians in Africa grew from about 9 million in 1900 to over 700 million today — a staggering increase. Africa could have the largest Christian population of any continent by 2050.
Christianity is also expanding in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and parts of India. China could become one of the largest Christian nations within decades.
In contrast, European and North American Christian affiliation has declined steadily since the mid-20th century. Secularization, urbanization, and cultural pluralism have weakened institutional religion. Many Western Christians are now “nominal” or “cultural” believers.
The Real Story of 2025
Maybe this is the real story of 2025 — not the triumph of AI over human thought, but the reemergence of the true standard of value.
Not code, but creation.
Not artificial intelligence, but authentic incorruptibility.
It feels like America has a new god: AI.
But the real God is freeing the slaves again — and making sure they take the gold with them.
Because the dollar-based financial order is, in truth, the most sophisticated system of servitude ever built. It enslaves not through chains, but through debt and dependence.
Every dollar in existence is born from debt — a liability that must be repaid with interest. The result? A world that can never be free, because there is always more debt than money to pay it. Nations borrow in dollars they cannot print, trapped in perpetual subordination to the issuer.
Meanwhile, inflation erodes wages, punishes savers, and quietly transfers wealth from those who labor to those who control credit. It is a system that rewards speculation over production, manipulation over stewardship — a kind of financial Pharaohism, a pyramid built on promises only the powerful can create.
And like Pharaoh’s Egypt, it depends on a population too distracted or dependent to walk away.
Gold, by contrast, is a token of divine independence. It belongs to no empire, no government, no ideology. It simply is — incorruptible, self-evident, immune to decree.
So perhaps what we’re witnessing isn’t just a market shift — but a moral reversal. Beneath the noise, a deeper transformation is unfolding — one that even the most advanced algorithm cannot predict:
That which was despised will be exalted.
That which was mocked will endure.
The miners, the misfits, the believers — they might just have the last laugh.
Buckle up. The Law of Reversal is in motion. The false gods of paper and pride are falling, and the true King is reclaiming His gold.
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