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.

Because we are in an era of rapid technological advancement, we report quite a lot about biometric identification for humans. It’s because the dreaded Mark of the Beast, in the Book of the Revelation, sounds a great deal like biometrics. It is something in or on the hand or forehead by which the citizens of the Great Tribulation will be controlled. They will have no privacy, and will only be able to buy or sell if they swear their allegiance to the world-leader we commonly call the Antichrist.

NEC Corp announced a new biometric device. The article was titled, NEC to Deploy Body-Recognition System Next Year.

Excerpts:

NEC, one of the biggest companies in the facial-recognition market, plans to introduce a body-recognition system that will identify people by physical characteristics such as height or by their clothing and accessories.

The new system will augment the Japanese company’s facial-identification systems by allowing clients to detect individuals when their faces are partially or totally obscured. It uses the same underlying image-matching technology as facial recognition.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nec-to-deploy-body-recognition-system-next-year-11570102552

Another article was titled, JFK Airport’s Terminal 1 launches facial recognition boarding.

Excerpts:

A biometric self-boarding gate has officially been launched at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 1, officials said Tuesday.

Lufthansa has deployed the paperless, high-tech boarding process – which uses facial recognition technology to verify travelers with a photo capture – at its largest US gateway at the Queens airport.
Air France, Japan Airlines and Norwegian Airlines are expected to follow suit at the terminal, officials said.

A slew of US airports already offers biometric boarding.

https://nypost.com/2019/10/08/jfk-airports-terminal-1-launches-facial-recognition-boarding/

In Wisconsin, Workers [were] embedded with microchips.

Excerpts:

Sporting “I Got Chipped” T-shirts, some 40 workers at Three Square Market, a firm that makes cafeteria kiosks aimed at replacing vending machines, got tiny rice-sized microchips embedded in their hands.

Company officials said it was for convenience, a way for them to bypass using company badges and corporate log-ons to computers.
Now, they can just have their hands read by a reader, similar to using a smartphone to pay for goods. 

The company would like to see payments go cashless, as iPhone users do with Apple Pay. Except in this case, consumers use their hand instead of a smartphone to pay.  

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/08/01/wisconsin-employees-got-embedded-chips/529198001/?fbclid=IwAR3G6zW1oZq9d4NW8I3IJsgDwOEvl7EvRk9GQ9tV8gbZXRjp2JDdz5i93Os

Is this the Mark of the Beast? No; the Mark isn’t technology; it is swearing allegiance to him, worshipping him.

But reading the Bible as we should, as futurists, these advances and invasions of privacy are exactly what was predicted.

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!