We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.
We are futurists. We interpret all unfulfilled prophetic passages as future events that will occur in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.
Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, instantaneous global communication, and the exponential growth of human knowledge, and the movement to rebuild a Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. These are predicted in the Bible and unfolding as never before.
Technological advances interest us because the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ predicts global government whose economy and services will be accessed by a personal identifier. This identifier, on the forehead or hand, will be necessary for a citizen to purchase anything, and to participate in society.
Once considered fanciful – that system could be implemented right now.
Just when I thought we had covered everything biometric, I discovered something called UID. It stands for Unique Identity Number and is utilized in India.
It is a 12-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India, based on their biometrics (10 finger prints, 2 iris prints and photo of face) and demographic data. The data is collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
It is the world’s largest biometric ID system. World Bank Chief Economist Paul Romer described it as “the most sophisticated ID program in the world.”
If you receive Social Security and have recently tried to log-in to the website, you’ve discovered that they are requiring you to get either ID.Me or LogIn.gov.
I’m not saying UID or ID.Me or LogIn.gov is the Mark of the Beast. It is amazing that the Bible predicted a forehead/hand system of global commerce, and we have the tech to do it.
We live in the Church Age. It began on the day of Pentecost fifty days after Jesus Christ rose from the dead. It precedes the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, more commonly known as the seven-year Great Tribulation.
The Tribulation will not begin until something fantastic happens. The Lord said He would return for us, the Church, raising the dead in Christ, then catching up (rapturing) believers who are alive when He comes. He promised His Church Age believers, “I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 3:10).
The resurrection and rapture of the church is always imminent. It could happen any moment; nothing needs to happen before it.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.
Ready or not, Jesus is coming!