We reserve a few minutes Sunday morning to suggest news, or trends, that seem to be predicted by a literal, futurist reading of the Bible. We anticipate that the remaining 500 or so end times prophecies will become history just as every previous prophecy.
We are careful to use recognized, reliable sources for news. There is a lot of sensationalism surrounding unfulfilled Bible prophecy, and we don’t want to add to it.
We’re not saying the things we report are the definite fulfillment of prophecy – only that they are the things you’d expect by holding a Bible in one hand, and a newspaper in the other.
Bible futurists have long understood that, in the Last Days and going into the Great Tribulation, there would be a global system, or systems, of personal identification by which everyone will conduct all their business. This system will be controlled by the world leader the Book of the Revelation calls “the Beast.” Three-and-one-half years in to the Tribulations, the Beast will demand everyone swear allegiance to him. Those who won’t worship him will be blocked from buying or selling anything.
Global ID is a thing. You may have heard of ID2020. According to the article on Wikipedia, “ID2020 is a nongovernmental organization which advocates for digital ID for the billion undocumented people worldwide and under-served groups like refugees…”
The United Nations website reported, “On Friday, 20 May 2016, ID2020 – a strategic, global initiative launched in response to… provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Partnerships, hosted the “ID2020 Summit – Harnessing Digital Identity for the Global Community” at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.”
A September 2019 article on BiometricUpdate.com was titled, ID2020 and partners launch program to provide digital ID with vaccines.
Excerpts:
ID2020 Alliance has launched a new digital identity program at its annual summit in New York, in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh, vaccine alliance Gavi, and new partners in government, academia, and humanitarian relief.
The program to leverage immunization as an opportunity to establish digital identity was unveiled by ID2020 in partnership with the Bangladesh Government’s Access to Information (a2i) Program, the Directorate General of Health Services, and Gavi, according to the announcement.
The City of Austin, ID2020, and several other partners are working together with homeless people and the service providers who engage with them to develop a digital identity platform called MyPass to empower homeless people with their own identity data.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines
At the end of the article was this: This post was updated at 4:58pm on March 26, 2020 to clarify that the program is intended to allow people to receive vaccination and prove they have received it, not to track individuals, as claimed by some conspiracy theorists.
Global, digital ID for everyone is possible. IF it were to be rolled out in conjunction with a health crisis like COVID-19, I think people would go for it.
For example: Let’s say we could never “flatten the curve.” That we keep going back to shelter at home and such. If the CDC said there was a vaccine that allowed you to go back to normal – no social distancing, no mask – the majority of people worldwide would do it. But they would also need a digital ID to track them. It could happen; just look at how crazy everything is.
I really don’t see how anyone reading the Bible wouldn’t see we are rushing towards the Great Tribulation. COVID-19 gives us a huge push in that direction.
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 Tribulation.
Jesus will come, in the clouds, and raise the dead believers of the Church Age. He will transform the bodies of living believers to glorified, resurrection bodies. We will 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!