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reveal the fact that this verse even predicts ecommerce with its speedy delivery services using drones or vehicles where people across the whole world could instantly purchase gifts with a one or two days priority delivery service. Remember that all this partying and sending of gifts (The word ‘send’ is used by most translation instead of ‘give’) had to happen within three and a half days while these men were dead and lying in the streets. Predictions of the modern stock market, digital money, global audio/video streaming networks and global trade “The merchants will say, ‘The pleasure you longed for has left you. All your riches and glory have disappeared forever.’ … In just one hour your great wealth has been destroyed!’ “Every sea captain and all who travel by ship will stand far away. So will the sailors and all who earn their living from the sea.” Revelations 18:14-17 (NIRV) In verse 9 the kings of the earth was able to see Babylon burning as were all those who manned maritime vessels (see verse 18). This could only be possible by way of the digital technology we have today. On the infamous Black Tuesday of October 29, 1929, the US stock market lost $14 billion in a single day. Back then there weren’t any digital trading with digital money in a world where the finances of all nations were tightly intertwined as they are today. According to Revelations 18 Babylon was the financial hub of the world but the wealth and riches of that great city vanished without a trace within one hour. Without a doubt this must be a stock market event where stocks were digitally traded using digital money. If you, like myself, have lost valuable information from the corrupted hard drive of a computer you will know that virtual data can easily be lost beyond any hope of recovery. There are others like the 666 system where the whole world will use a single, centralised, biometric currency. these bodies were buried. Is this a hint that these bodies were contaminated by the weapon that was used to kill them in the war? A few other verses that could be pointing to modern day technology are found in Jeremiah 39:6-16. Although these could be a little more speculative I believe they are still worth mentioning. As we consider these kindly remember that futuristic visions with modern technology could be a very difficult thing for ancient men to describe. 3. Verse 14 “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it… The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.” Here again we see an emphasis on burying everyone of the dead bodies as leaving them unburied would lead to some kind of contamination of the land. We get the impression that the searchers were only allowed to leave markers for the others, possibly specially equipped and trained personnel who would then take and bury them in the Valley of Hamon Gog which was the designated burial ground. Could this be another sign of some kind of residual radiation type contamination? The things to note are as follows: 1. Verse 9 says, “Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons;... and they will make fires with them for seven years.” Weapons that can fuel a city for seven years must be more than just stick type bow and arrows. Many great inventions in history was born out of military research and the quest to be superior in warfare. The atomic bomb was one such product and the t echnology that fuelled it is commonly used today in nuclear plants as one of the most efficient ways to provide energy for whole cities. Fires were used back then to provide light at nights. Today nuclear power is converted into electricity that then produces light and heat etc. 2. Verse 12 “For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.” In the days of heavy equipment it is not likely that it would take seven months for a country to bury its dead enemies who were killed within a specific location unless, of course, specific precautions had to be taken like those associated with residual radiation. Note the mention of cleansing the land and the fact that travellers had to circumvent the area where How about this one in Zechariah 14:12 “And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.” In the midst of battle something very gruesome will befall Jerusalem’s enemies. Their skin, eyes and tongue will dissolve. Note that this will not happen after a period of illness but while they stand. Back then there was nothing invented that could have done this. Today however we have a choice of arsenal that could accomplish this or something very similar. p October - December 2017 By Homer Slack author, preacher, Bible teacher, IT tutor, program- mer & graphic designer SHARE | MAGAZINE | 17