We focus on Bible prophecy each week for about five-minutes, calling it a “Prophecy Update.”
We are 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.
The Mark of the Beast. Everyone has at least heard of it. It is something on or in the hand or forehead by which citizens in the future Great Tribulation will be identified, and by which they will transact all business.
For centuries, futurists were ridiculed for believing that the Mark could be literal. No line could conceive of such a technology. Today, everyone understands that there are multiple technologies involving biometrics that could fulfill the two-thousand year old prophecy.
Invasive technology, involving our bodies, is happening. One article I read this week was titled, Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes biology is the next frontier in computing.
Excerpts:
Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a part of a larger hope to advance artificial intelligence and computing efforts.
“Biology will undoubtedly fuel computing” in coming years, former Google CEO and current technical advisor Eric Schmidt said at a conference called SynBioBeta in San Francisco Monday. “Taking biology… and turning it into something that can be digitally manipulated, is an enormous accelerator.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this year announced he and his wife Priscilla Chan would donate $68 million to support the mapping of all the cells in the human body. Facebook also recently acquired a company called CTRL Labs that lets you control computers with your mind.
And Neuralink, a start-up once backed by Elon Musk, announced its brain-computer will start trials on humans next year.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/02/eric-schmidt-says-hes-eyeing-biology-for-the-next-computing-frontier.html
Another creepy article was titled, Brain chip created for US soldiers to take out enemies with their minds.
Excerpts:
A groundbreaking device has been created that could allow soldiers to control military equipment and vehicles with just their thoughts. Scientists from several universities in the US have created a new “brain-computer interface strip”.
The device is connected to the upper neck, picks up on brain signals and converts them to digital information.
These signals could be used to steer vehicle or control other computers.
Last year, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a new generation of warplanes which are flown by a pilot sitting hundreds of miles away with an implant in their brain.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/brain-chip-created-soldiers-take-20168985
The Mark of the Beast is child’s play in todays tech savvy world. There are a plethora of ways it could be fulfilled. The apostle John saw it coming two centuries ago.
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!