We reserve a few minutes each Sunday to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.
We are futurists. We interpret the unfulfilled prophetic portions of the Book of Daniel and the Book of the Revelation, and all other unfulfilled Bible prophecies, as future events occurring in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.
Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, the exponential growth of human knowledge, and the rebirth of Israel as a nation are some of the trends we see corroborating the End Times prophecies of the Bible.
I’ve been spending a great deal of time suggesting that vaccine passports are a trend you’d expect. I’m not talking about the vaccines, or whether they should be mandatory or not. These updates are not medical or political.
I’m talking about how the mandates sound ominously like what the Bible predicts in the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation.
During the future seven year Great Tribulation, “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, [must] receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17).
Citizens will be mandated to participate in a system by which they must produce proof of compliance in order to be allowed to work or shop or dine or attend entertainment. Without proof, their livelihood and lifestyles will be restricted.
Citizens are – today – being mandated to participate in a system by which they must produce proof of compliance in order to be allowed to work or shop or dine or attend entertainment. Without proof, their livelihood and lifestyles are being restricted.
Let’s first see how serious government is regarding proof of vaccination.
The LA City Council voted 13-0 to create vaccine requirement for indoor public spaces. Councilman Mitch O’Farrell was quoted, “This is not a vaccine mandate… we’re not going to deny anyone the ability to access essentials, food, medicine, etc., regardless of vaccination… but what is immoral is choosing not to get vaccinated, choosing to listen to some delusional rant on Twitter.”
LA City Attorney Mike Feuer has already endorsed the idea he calls “No shots, no admission.” He said
“Those who reject that responsibility should temporarily lose some of society’s privileges until their reckless behavior no longer endangers the rest of us.”
https://deadline.com/2021/08/los-angeles-city-requires-vaccination-vaccine-indoors-1234813086/
Arthur L. Caplan, professor of bioethics and the founding head of New York University School of Medicine’s Division of Medical Ethics, and Dorit R. Reiss, a professor of law at UC Hastings College of Law, suggested, “Either the HHS secretary or the FDA commissioner should edit the emergency use authorizations to say that refusing the vaccine may lead to one or more of the following consequences: loss of employment, limits on access to education, or limits on access to businesses and private enterprises.”
https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/27/rewriting-eua-pave-way-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/
California Public Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón said,
“At first, people will have to bring their vaccination card with them. But we anticipate that in the future that the solution will be digital,” meaning people could potentially show proof of vaccination on their mobile phones. As of right now, US citizens only have a vaccination card that they either get stamped, or receive a sticker once they get their dose, or doses. But fraudulent copies of vaccination cards are popping up everywhere.
Ramesh Raskar, a professor at MIT Media Lab, has been leading an effort to develop a solution that includes both a paper certificate that anyone can easily carry as well as a free digital pass that works even without cell service. We are going to emerge from the pandemic with a new “currency for health,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/travel/vaccine-passport-cards-apps.html
Here are two random quotes:
In Oregon, Governor Kate Brown plans to start deploying up to 1,500 National Guard troops next week to hospitals across the state to support health care workers dealing with spiraling cases driven by the spread of the more transmissible delta variant.
President Joe Biden has urged cities to adopt proof-of-vaccination requirements for restaurants and other businesses.
A universal vaccine passport is not the Mark of the Beast. However, the way the leaders of the world are talking, they will establish a system like what the Revelation predicts will be in place in the Great Tribulation.
I think we can all see that once such a digital passport is in place for COVID19, its use could be expanded for all kinds of things.
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 Great Tribulation.
Jesus will return in the clouds.
He will raise the dead in Christ.
He will transform the bodies of living believers to glorified, resurrection bodies.
We will all 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!