666
666–The Mark of the Beast. It’s the
most famous prophecy in the Bible. Its
message is crystal clear. A time is coming very soon when every person on
earth will be required to have a mark
or a number, without which he or she
will not be permitted to buy or sell. In
practical application, a national ID card
or number will be required to hold a
job. Of course, with no job, a person
will have no money with which to buy
and sell.
One more condition of the
prophecy is what makes it so ominous.
Each person will have to “worship” the
Antichrist and his world government
in order to have his national ID card
or number validated. Worshiping the
Antichrist probably refers to some
form of pledging allegiance. Without
“pledging allegiance” to the Antichrist
and his one-world government, the
individual will be frozen out of the
global economy. However, if any
person does pledge allegiance to the
Antichrist, the prophecy states the
punishment will be eternal damnation.
Revelation 14:9-11 says it this way:
And the third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice, If any
man worship the beast and his
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image, and receive his mark in
his forehead, or in his hand, The
same shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup
of his indignation; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the Lamb:
And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up for ever and ever:
and they have no rest day nor
night, who worship the beast and
his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
The alarming thing is that almost
every nation on earth either already
has a national ID system set up or is
in the process of setting one up right
now. Many nations took significant
steps toward establishing or enhancing
their national ID systems during 2012.
INDIA
In 2010, India ordered 1.2 billion
ID cards, one for each of its 1.2 billion
citizens. The goal was to implement a
nationwide program to register and
assign a one-of-a-kind ID number to
every Indian resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020 and to meet an
interim goal of issuing 600 million IDs
by 2014. By April 2012 India had enrolled 200 million people in its Unique
ID program.
Once the system is in place, people
in India will be able to provide their
12-digit number, show fingerprints
and iris scans, and immediately a
central database will be able to authenticate that they are who they say they
are. It is also projected that the national ID system will be used for opening
bank accounts and then eventually for
purchasing things electronically.
SWEDEN
In March of 2012, it was
reported that more and more businesses in Sweden were moving away
from accepting cash. There are towns
where even banks no longer accept
or dispense cash. Everything is being
done electronically. Bills and coins now
represent only 3 percent of Sweden’s
economy. Sweden is almost a cashless
society already.
RUSSIA
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced in the spring of 2011
that Russia would launch a Universal
Electronic Card (UEC) in 2012. This