Every Sunday we present a prophecy update. We show how news and trends in the world corroborate centuries-old prophecies you read in the Bible.
Fully 80% of the Bible’s approximately 2500 prophecies have been fulfilled to the letter. The prime example I would give, in modern times, is the miraculous rebirth of Israel as a nation in her ancient homeland.
The remaining 20% of yet-to-be fulfilled prophecies have to do with the Last Days in which we are living. Some of them have to do with a system of commerce that requires every citizen to have some type of personal identifier on them or in them. Without this “mark,” a person will be unable to buy or sell anything.
We don’t know what the final form of this “mark” will be, but we find it more than interesting that the technology exits to implement a system like this right now.
In fact, there are several things in development, and in use, that seem like they could become this “mark.”
Whichever system is finally adopted, it’s clear that personal privacy will become a thing of the past. All these technologies are invasive.
Thus you’d expect to see a trend toward the erosion of privacy; and you do.
A recent article posted on a French website was titled, France to collect personal data of 60 million with controversial database.
Excerpts:
France’s government last week announced the creation of a highly controversial new database that will collect and store personal information on nearly everyone living in the country who holds a French identity card or passport.
The massive database, known as Secure Electronic Documents (Titres électroniques sécurisés or TES), was decreed by the government on October 30 in an effort to crack down on identity theft.
The database will include all the same information included on a French identity card or passport, depending on which a person holds: The first and last names, address, eye color, weight, marital status, a photograph and the fingerprints of nearly everyone in France (with the exception of children under the age of 12) will be compiled into a single centralized system.
The TES will affect 60 million people and marks the first time the country has collected population data on such a scale since the start of the Nazi Occupation in 1940.
http://m.france24.com/en/20161104-france-collect-personal-information-60-million-controversial-new-database-surveillance
Read the news and you see the trend towards technology that will fulfill the prophecies.
In the future seven-year Tribulation, that you read about in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, everyone participating in society will be forced to swear allegiance to the Antichrist or be cut-off from all commerce. The “mark” will be “the mark of the beast.”
We will not be on the earth for any portion of those seven years. Jesus promised to come and get us; to raise the dead in Christ, and to rapture living believers.
It is presented in the Bible as an imminent event.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!