Prophecy Update #814 – L.A. 2.0
We set aside a few minutes most Sunday mornings to identify connections between unfulfilled Bible prophecies and current news & events.
We have occasionally mentioned Smart Cities. One site I visited described it like this: “A SmartCity is an urban area that utilizes digital technology to collect data and operate services, aiming to improve the quality of life for citizens by efficiently managing infrastructure like transportation, energy, waste disposal, and public safety through data analysis and interconnected systems, often involving citizen engagement and smart governance.” One of its features is that residents would live within 15-20 minutes walking distance of any and all services they need.
It sounds utopian, but I have a feeling it is going to be dystopian.
Government would have total control over your movements, your purchases, your medical care, etc. If government decided you could only drive an EV a limited distance, for example, they could enforce it by turning off your vehicle. It’s really a complete elimination of personal freedoms.
It interests us because we read in the Bible about just this kind of complete control that will exist in the 3½ before Jesus returns in His Second Coming. The antichrist will be in power, and the people living in that time won’t be able to participate in anything unless they swear allegiance to him by taking his ‘Mark.’ We don’t know exactly what his ‘Mark’ will be. It sounds a lot like the modern tech we call biometrics.
You’ve undoubtedly been following the news regarding the devastating fires in LA. Gov. Newsom is talking about what he calls a Marshall Plan to rebuild LA 2.0 as a SmartCity.
The Marshall Plan was a post-WWII investment to rebuild European economies.
They’re not talking about rebuilding Pacific Palisades as it was.
It would be rebuilt as the government deems best. Theoretically it could mean no single-family zoning, public transit for ALL, and a host of other things that restrict personal freedom. Some refer to a SmartCity as an open-air prison.
Control over the total population is predicted for the Last Days. There has never been a time in human history in which the government had had so many tools and the technology to significantly control everything about you.
I’m not saying SmartCities is the final form of life in the Great Tribulation. I simply pointing out that this is the kind of thing to expect from our normal reading of the Bible’s unfulfilled prophecies.
Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church prior to His Second Coming, and before the Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.
We will not see the revealing of the Antichrist.
The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could
happen anytime. Right now, for example.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up.
Ready or not Jesus is coming!