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. It involves what is called a “mark” on the hand or forehead. It is most commonly referred to as “the Mark of the Beast,” referring to the antichrist.

Imagine how ridiculous that sounded through the many centuries following John’s vision of it in the Revelation.

Now hear how possible it is – right now.

I was sent an article from the San Diego Tribune titled, Bluetooth stickers on your clothing? San Diego startup Wiliot gets $20M for tracking tech.

Excerpts:

Giants in technology and consumer products are funneling more cash into a small tech startup in Rancho Bernardo that’s developing tiny Bluetooth stickers that can transform everyday items – like clothing, wallets, or Amazon packages – to trackable “connected” devices.

The startup, called Wiliot, just raised $20 million from PepsiCo and Verizon’s venture capital arm, among several other investors. Last year, the company attracted the attention of tech giants Amazon and Samsung, which have also backed Wiliot.

With the new cash, the startup’s executives say they’re ramping up to mass produce their tiny Bluetooth stickers, and they have customers lining up at the door. The company already has orders for hundreds of thousands of units.

Since its inception in 2017, the startup has been designing a Bluetooth chip that would be small enough to stick on anything – and cheap enough to treat as a disposable product. Their chip is the size of a postage stamp. It has no batteries, powered instead by leftover radio signals cascading through the air.

“If you analyze the airwaves around you, we’re surrounded by radio waves,” said Steve Statler, Wiliot’s senior vice president of marketing and business development, in an interview last year. “We’re recycling the radio signals wasted from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular signals.”

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-19/bluetooth-stickers-on-your-clothing-san-diego-startup-wiliot-gets-20m-for-tracking-tech

For now, it’s a tracking device. It wouldn’t take much to expand it to be something more like a wearable “mark” on everyone who swears allegiance to the Beast.

No one is suggesting this is “the Mark of the Beast.” We’re only suggesting that it is exactly the kind of trend you’d expect from a literal, futurist reading of 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!