We are now in our eighth year of presenting a Prophecy Update. This is #395 in that series.
If you’re wondering why we talk a lot about prophecy, it’s because one quarter of the Bible is devoted to it. One in every four verses is either a fulfilled prophecy, or a future one awaiting its fulfillment.
Eighty-percent have already come true. Since those that have not come true are all concerned with the end of the world, all that could have taken place has already done so, with 100% accuracy, giving us ample proof that the remaining prophecies will be literally fulfilled.
Knowing the end times prophecies, it is our belief that we can therefore identify trends in the world, and news, that would be expected in light of them.
We’re not saying that the things we report are the fulfillment of prophecies – only that they are what you’d expect to be happening in the light of what we know about the future.
When the apostle John was exiled to the Island of Patmos, and he wrote about what we call “the Mark of the Beast,” wearable technology wasn’t remotely in anyone’s imagination.
It’s here today.
A May 25th article on ScientificComputing.com was titled,
Age of Wearable Computing Delivers BioStamp Electronic Skin.
Excerpts:
MC10, a startup in Cambridge, MA, is developing a technology that will allow digital circuits to be embedded in bendable, stretchable materials, which allows exploration of entirely new form factors for electronics — including a form of “electronic skin.”
The company states on its Web site: “We take conventional high-performance electronics and turn them into body-integrated form factors that stretch, bend and twist seamlessly with our bodies and the natural world… Our devices incorporate silicon devices thinned to a fraction of the width of a human hair. These chips, combined with stretchable metallic interconnects, are further combined with elastic rubberlike polymers to form complete powered systems that sense, measure, analyze and communicate information.”
Flexible electronic circuits, aka “epidermal electronics,” containing a collection of sensors can be applied directly to the skin like a thin Band-Aid or a temporary tattoo. The latest MC10 prototype is applied directly to the skin using a rubber stamp and can be covered with spray-on bandage to make it more durable and waterproof enough to withstand sweating or washing with soapy water.
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/05/age-wearable-computing-delivers-biostamp-electronic-skin
Another writer remarked,
You might be shy of the term ‘wearable tech’ but you would’ve at least seen or heard of a fitbit or jawbone.
The Fitbit Flex released in 2013 is worn on the wrist, tracks movements, sleep patterns, and tracks the number of steps you take.
The Jawbone UP launched in 2011, does much of the same, tracking your eating habits and calories burnt, as well as connecting you with social media platforms to motivate goal making.
What I want you to [know] is that there’s more to the eye in 2015 with wearable technology now connecting with the unseen; and I mean wi-fi. Clothing and accessories that make up your daily attire can talk to other devices, taken they are connected via the internet.
Is this the “Mark of the Beast?” No. But something like wearable tech could certainly pave the way for the kind of mark in hands and foreheads that John predicted.
This technology is exactly the kind of thing you’d expect from your reading about the last days. You can also see how this kind of thing can be forced upon you, whether you want to participate or not.
We don’t need to see anything happen, or to be fulfilled, before Jesus can resurrect and rapture the church. It is presented in the Bible as imminent.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!