There is no making lemonade here.
Oh, I don't know. It kind of depends on whether you think Rob's professed religious faith is an elaborate ruse or a full-blown delusion - although to some extent there is no functional difference.
Look at Job. God and Satan made a bar bet, to screw with this guy and see what he would do. At the end, Job gets everything back and more... well... sort of... the dead kids weren't coming back, but he got new and different kids who were even better. Part of the bet between God and Satan was that Job couldn't be killed in the process, but, hey, the children were fair game, so... you end up at one of two places. Either, like Job, it's all a friendly game between God and Satan, who apparently talk to each other on the regular, or so the story goes, and he ends up with the triple-your-money-back guarantee, or things don't work out and he has to fall back on the Romans 8:28 game.
In the Romans 8:28 game, there are no bad consequences, because everything has to work out to his benefit anyway. That's how you get testimonies of folks who lost everything, but it was just God teaching them they didn't need any of that stuff anyway, or some great spiritual insight which was bestowed on some star pitcher in high school who lost his arm in a piece of farm machinery. It's always something like the kid who woke up on Christmas morning, found nothing but manure under the tree, and was thrilled because it meant there was a pony somewhere nearby.
The weird thing is that if my kid called me up and said he needed to borrow $200k and secure it with a cache of silver, I'm pretty sure I'd tell him to sell the silver, use the cash, and then buy $200k worth of silver back later on, and then just leave me out of the transaction. It would be like loaning himself the money.
He objected to seizure of the cash, because it was a loan, and he objected to seizure of the silver, because it was security for the loan.
And here again, we come to a basic misunderstanding of how one perfects a security interest in a physical asset like that. Pro-tip: If you loan someone money against their cache of silver,
take possession of the silver. That is how one perfects a security interest - and thus takes priority over other creditors - in tangible goods as opposed to, say, filing a financing statement against various forms of property subject to a title certificate or otherwise intangible property. You can even have an agent take possession of the silver on your behalf. But what you don't do with collateral like that is leave it in the possession of the debtor. You sure as heck don't leave the collateral in possession of a debtor who needs the loan because people are suing the bejeezus out of him for ripping them off.
On the other hand, if you were sitting around with your bag of 30 pieces of silver and were worried about future seizure of your assets, you just might concoct a scheme under which you borrow money against all your assets and then claim that the money isn't yours and the assets are encumbered by loans.
The real shocker is that there were allegedly people close to Rob who had $200k and whom he had not yet impoverished.
