Since we are living in what the Bible calls the last days, we believe we should be able to identify trends in the world that you’d expect from a literal, futurist reading of unfulfilled prophecy.

That is why we focus on Bible prophecy each week for about five-minutes, calling it a “Prophecy Update.”

We try very hard to not be sensational. We don’t see prophecy in every earthquake or moon phase. We reference our comments with trustworthy sources.

We also try to be careful to point out that we are not claiming these trends to be the fulfillment of prophecy. They are things that seem to resonate with the Bible’s yet to be fulfilled last days prophecies. Things you’d expect to be happening.

In the yet future Great Tribulation, there comes a point at which the governments of the world, and the antichrist in particular, are able to control all buying and selling by consumers. Students of Bible prophecy have long argued that there will be a global, cashless economy. It once seemed farfetched; it doesn’t anymore.

I was sent an article titled, Central banks are contemplating a world without cash.

Excerpts:

… as apps and payment cards become more popular, officials at central banks are considering how and whether to create a digital form of cash.

The way we pay for things is changing quickly… tech companies like Apple, China’s Ant Financial, Sweden’s Swish, and Kenya’s M-pesa are rapidly changing the game for mobile phone payments.

As money gets swept up by tech innovation, government authorities are taking a closer look at old fashioned notes and coins.
More than a dozen countries are either researching, piloting, or, like China, have ongoing work in place for central bank digital currencies… Physical cash, meanwhile, offers the highest degree of anonymity. If governments issue digital currencies with tracking features, the public loses the protection and freedom that comes with anonymous transactions.

https://qz.com/1810727/central-banks-are-researching-digital-currencies-to-replace-cash/

This move towards cashless, global commerce is exactly what we expect from reading the Bible.

Jesus promised He’d return to rapture His church – which entails the resurrection of the dead in Christ of the Church Age, then the translation from earth to Heaven of all living believers.

It is presented in the Bible as an imminent (any-moment) event.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!