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

We are considered futurists. We interpret the unfulfilled prophetic portions of the Book of the Revelation and the Book of Daniel, and all other unfulfilled prophecies, as yet future events in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.

There are many reasons for being futurists, but I like to point out the most important one: Jesus was a futurist. When He gave His great discourse on prophecy in Matthew 24 & 25, He quoted from Daniel as if the events prophesied were yet future and literal.

In fact, whenever someone in the Bible read unfulfilled prophecies, they understood them to be future and literal.

We talk a lot about the dreaded “Mark of the Beast” that almost everyone has at least heard about.

It is described in the Revelation as something involving hands or the head by which people will transact all their business. In the middle of the future seven-year Great Tribulation that is coming upon the whole earth, the world leader we commonly refer to as the antichrist will use this to take total control over people. Those who swear allegiance to him will be said to have his “Mark.”

It sounds like the system will involve biometrics. Thus from reading the Bible, we expect advances in biometrics that might be the precursors of this Mark.

Someone sent me an article titled, Amazon hand-recognition system lets customers pay just by waving. The tag line explained, “Next-generation biometric technology could be introduced to Whole Foods stores in the US later this year.”

Excerpts:

The online retail giant is testing scanners that use biometric technology to identify people by the shape and size of their hands, with the hope of rolling them out in its Whole Foods stores later this year.

Sensors are already being tested by Amazon workers on vending machines in the firm’s New York offices, according to the New York Post.

Using computer vision, Amazon’s technology is able to recognize a hand without users having to physically touch the scanner.  It is currently able to do this with an accuracy of one ten-thousandth of 1 per cent, though Amazon hopes to improve this to one-millionth of one per cent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/amazon-deals-shop-whole-foods-new-payment-hand-wave-a9091441.html

Just what you’d expect.

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!