Prophecy Update #666 – No App, No Access

We reserve a few minutes each Sunday to discuss current world trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.

We are futurists. We interpret the unfulfilled prophetic portions of the Book of Daniel and the Book of the Revelation, and all other unfulfilled Bible prophecies, as future events occurring in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.

Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, the exponential growth of human knowledge, and the rebirth of Israel as a nation are all areas we see corroborating the End Times prophecies of the Bible.

Our update last Sunday highlighted the push for COVID19 vaccine passports. As is our habit, we gave no medical advice. Nevertheless we joined the list of those who have had postings removed by YouTube for violating its “medical misinformation policy.” When I posted a screenshot of the YouTube notice on Instagram and Facebook, both of those sites added a link to the “COVID19 Information Center for Vaccine Resources.”

Things have gotten weird.

During the future Great Tribulation, “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, [must] receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17).

In other words, citizens will be mandated to participate in a system by which they must show proof of compliance in order to be allowed to work or shop or dine or attend entertainment. Without proof, their livelihood and lifestyles will be restricted.

Citizens are – today – being mandated to participate in a system by which they must show proof of compliance in order to be allowed to work or shop or dine or attend entertainment. Without proof, their livelihood and lifestyles are being restricted.

Across the pond, in the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister encouraged nightclubs and other large venues to insist on vaccine certification “as a matter of social responsibility.”   

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/12/boris-johnson-urges-use-covid-vaccine-passports/

Ross Clark writes for The Telegraph in the UK. Here are excerpts from two articles he recently posted:

Like COVID19 itself, the idea of vaccine passports just won’t seem to go away.  It subsides for a while, suppressed by the realization of what it would mean: that a small proportion of the population, concentrated in some ethnic groups, would be constantly discriminated against. But then it creeps back. 

Ministers have been discussing making vaccine passports a legal requirement at certain venues.  And once they have become established at nightclubs and concert halls, just wait until they become legally required at all hospitality venues: pubs, restaurants, hotels – just as it seems they will such establishments in France and Ireland.      

Vaccine passports are only a temporary measure, we will be told – just to protect us during the pandemic. But you can bet that they will soon morph into a smartphone-based ID card which we are expected to carry wherever we go – at least if we want access to any commercial premises or public building.  There are too many vested interests to allow the idea to die a death with the pandemic. There are huge fortunes to be made for the tech industry if it can persuade governments and commercial organizations to force on us electronic ID cards which can then be used to collect, store and access our personal data. 

There is a model for what will be coming our way:  China’s social credit system, which blacklists people for numerous antisocial offenses, from crossing the street on a red light to failing to sort their recycling, and uses the information to deny them the right, for example, to buy rail and airline tickets. 

It was reported that the government is planning to introduce a health app in January which will monitor our shopping, our exercise levels, or intake of fruit and vegetables – and reward us with virtue points which we can exchange for discounts, free tickets, and other goodies.

There will be no end to this kind of thing if we agree to use this app.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/13/anyone-thinks-covid-certification-would-temporary-measure-fooling/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we-need-to-act-now-to-block-britain-s-social-credit-system

The COVID19 mandates, whether necessary or not, have accelerated global acceptance of invasive social credit by which governments can control all behavior.

It sounds very Revelation 13ish.

We believe the resurrection and rapture of the church is imminent. It could happen any moment; nothing needs to happen before it. It will happen before the Great Tribulation.

Jesus will return in the clouds.
He will raise the dead in Christ.
He will transform the bodies of living believers to glorified, resurrection bodies.
We will all join Him in Heaven while the earth endures one final seven-year campaign of severe evangelism.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.

Ready or not, Jesus is coming!