The Final Countdown

A man in France was detained for 24 hours and strip searched, all because he received a text message, sent by a friend as a joke:

An innocent man was strip-searched and held in a cell for 24 hours after receiving a joke text message from a friend about sabotaging a train.

The 29-year-old was arrested after his mobile phone provider passed on details of the message to police – who accused him of not reporting a crime.

The case, which happened in France, provoked widespread outrage about the ‘sinister’ march of the Big Brother state there.

The man, referred to only by his first name of Stephane, received a message saying ‘Do you know how to de-rail a train?’ last month in Abbeville, in the Somme region.

The woodworker thought nothing of the text but hours later he was arrested.

Europe is taking monitoring its citizens seriously. In Britain, the plan is to not only monitor text messages, but email, instant messages, Facebook messages, and web browsing history as well. Currently, Welsh parents are running a test program where they monitor their children via GPS; microchips are being used to track Alzheimer’s patients; and a program is in development to use microchips to monitor medicine intake.

The Antichrist will use microchips to track every human on the planet (Revelation 13:16-18). Humans will likely be monitored by the Belgian Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal, an EU supercomputer with an acronym (BEAST) that is the same as one of the names used for the Antichrist (Revelation 13:1). Europe is not alone. America is already compiling a vast database on its citizens, including DNA tracking from birth in many states. The US also has the stunningly powerful SBX Radar system, which can be used to track a baseball from 3,000 miles away.

The next step is to have “smart” computers, with near human abilities thanks to artificial intelligence. Such technology is being developed at an incredible pace. The Japanese have developed a robot that learns and grows, mimicking an infant. Meanwhile, Harvard is set to launch a new search engine that is able to “understand like a human does.” All of this will come together to make smart microchips, such as the GPS system being developed in the UK that “senses” you can’t find what you are looking for in the cabinet or grocery store, and points you in the right direction.

This is the technology of the False Prophet, a man who comes from a Christian background but is actually controlled by demons (Revelation 13:11). This apostate sets up “images” of the resurrected Antichrist (Revelation 13:14) that are likely robots with high levels of artificial intelligence, and forces humanity to worship them (Revelation 13:15). He is also the one responsible for implementing the mark of the beast (Revelation 13:16-17).

Friends, this is very important stuff. Israel and the EU are at odds over a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict, which has been going on for 4,000 some odd years. An EU commissioner criticized Israel’s stance, and the Israeli’s didn’t take it very well. The EU is stepping up its role in the peace process and looking for a leader to bring it all together.

Israel warned the European Union on Thursday to tone down its criticism of the new Israeli government or risk forfeiting the bloc’s role as broker in Mideast peace efforts.

The warning came after EU’s commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, this week criticized Israel’s refusal to endorse a Palestinian state. She said an upgrade in Israeli-EU relations would depend on Israel’s commitment to the “two-state solution.”

It also came ahead of a planned trip to Europe next week by Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman — his first official trip abroad. The ultranationalist Lieberman’s comments about Arabs and Mideast peace have raised international concerns about the new Israeli Cabinet’s intentions.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor on Thursday called Ferrero-Waldner’s comments “very militant” and contrary to understandings with other EU officials.

He said her remarks threatened to undermine understandings with the EU to maintain a “quiet dialogue” until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu completes the formulation of his foreign policy.

“If there is no coherence in the European position … this will not be useful and will not help the EU in playing a role here,” Palmor said.

There will be a seemingly “coherent position” from an expanded European Union, and it will come from the Antichrist (who is not necessarily European). This allows him to be the one who finally forges a peace contract in the Middle East (Daniel 9:27), and it will include a Palestinian state (Joel 3:2; Zechariah 14:2). But this will be a false peace, because Israel will have signed a contract with “death and hell” (Isaiah 28:15), allowing the Israeli’s to think they are at peace when they are not (Jeremiah 6:14, 8:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3).  Israel will then let her guard down, opening the door for the Russia led confederation of Psalm 83:4-5 to go against the “land of unwalled villages; a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates” (Ezekiel 38:11).

The peace contract is signed for seven years (Daniel 9:27) and marks the beginning of the Tribulation. Exactly at the halfway mark, the Russian/Arab conglomerate attacks Israel (Daniel 9:27), using the Oriental nations as backup (Revelation 16:12). The Antichrist doesn’t like his contract broken, so he moves in to stop the attack (Daniel 11:44). Russia is defeated (Joel 2:20) just as China and its hordes move in (Revelation 9:14), bringing along the largest army in the history of the world (Revelation 9:16).

At this point the Antichrist is killed and is resurrected by Satan, who incarnates him (Revelation 12:12-13, 13:12, 17:8), meaning hell has literally come to earth (Revelation 12:7-13). It is then, during the last half of the Tribulation (Revelation 13:5-6) that the Antichrist claims to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36). This blasphemy is promoted by the False Prophet (Revelation 13:12-17), a man who claims to be a Christian but is actually controlled by demons (Revelation 13:11). It is VERY likely that the next pope will be the False Prophet, and this would fulfill the St. Malachy (Archbishop of Armagh) prophesies as well as predictions made by Pope John Paul II before his death.

Fittingly, the Parliament of World Religions will take place this December in Melbourne, Australia. The purpose of this meeting is to smooth out strife between different religions while setting the stage for a one world religion. This is what the False Prophet resides over.

***The Turkish-Iranian Business Forum, currently taking place in Ankara, has yielded a new trade agreement between the two countries. Ties will continue to strengthen between Iran (Ezekiel 38:5), Turkey (Ezekiel 38:6), and other nations as they form a confederation with Russia (Psalm 83:4-5) that eventually attacks Israel (Ezekiel 38:15; Luke 21:20).

***The swine flu has gone global, with the World Health Organization raising the pandemic alert to level 5. Diseases from animals, such as the avian flu and AIDS, may play a significant role during the Tribulation (Revelation 6:8).

***Even the Japanese are seeing a surge in communist and socialist philosophies among the citizenry. This is another example of how the free-world is opening its arms to collectivism, a philosophy used by the Antichrist to gain influence over the globe (Daniel 11:24).

***Albania applied for EU membership today. The EU continues to expand and will be the catalyst for a global government (Daniel 7:23).

***The United States has become a nation of no core beliefs whose citizens define their values based on opinion polls, according to Joseph Farah. This backs up a New York times story detailing the shift in the Republican stance on gay marriage, for no reason other than to get votes. As US Representative and proud Christian John Fleming says, the country is marching towards socialism and secularism. The constant degradation of American society (Isaiah 18:2, 7), and the attempt to remove God from all walks of life (Jeremiah 50:29) will lead to America’s judgment (Jeremiah 50:28).

The United Kingdom has already made sex-education mandatory for five year-olds, and now they have announced that homosexuality must be taught (including sexual aspects of it) beginning with eleven year-olds. America’s mother is truly ashamed and confounded (Jeremiah 50:12).

***Astronomers have taken a picture of an object in space 13 billion light years away. That is 76,254,048,000,000,000,000,000 miles from your computer screen. Incredible. (Luke 21:11, 25; Mark 13:24-25.)

World financial leaders are meeting in Washington this weekend to begin working out the details of a new, more powerful International Monetary Fund. President Obama fully backs the plan.

Inside a cavernous assembly hall in downtown Washington, dignitaries gather twice a year for routine meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Before long, though, the room could take center stage in the IMF’s transformation into a veritable United Nations for the global economy.

Surrounded by blond wood paneling and a digital screen the size of a cinema’s, central bankers and finance ministers would meet to convene a financial security council of sorts. Serving almost as ambassadors to the IMF, they would debate ways to put out the world’s economic fires and stifle reckless policies before they ignite new ones.

Bowing to a new economic world order, the IMF would grant fresh powers to the likes of China, India and Brazil. It would have vastly expanded authority to act as a global banker to governments rich and poor. And with more flexibility to effectively print its own money, it would have the ability to inject liquidity into global markets in a way once limited to major central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve.

That image of a radically transformed IMF — whose role in the global economy had turned largely advisory in recent years — is now coming together through internal IMF documents, interviews and think-tank reports. Finance ministers from major nations will begin grappling with the formidable details of the IMF’s makeover this weekend when they converge in Washington for the fund’s biannual assembly.

The changes, broadly outlined by President Obama and other leaders of the Group of 20 nations in London earlier this month, could take months, even years to take shape. But the IMF is all but certain to take a central role in managing the world economy. As a result, Washington is poised to become the power center for global financial policy, much as the United Nations has long made New York the world center for diplomacy.

The IMF’s mission is expanding so broadly that its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said in an interview that the organization — which underwent deep cuts last year before the financial crisis swept the globe — may boost staffing in coming months, potentially creating dozens of high-paying jobs in the District.

“The IMF is changing, and with it, there will be a sea change in the way the world economy is run,” said C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Their role will dramatically shift. You’re talking about monitoring fiscal stimulus, moving toward tighter regulations for financial institutions. You’re talking about global economic management in a way we have never seen.”

In recent years, the use of microchips to monitor everything from your pet’s location to the whereabouts of suspected Alzheimer patients has increased. Now under development are microchips that can be implanted into medication, allowing a doctor in his office–or a central computer on the other side of the world–to know if and when you took your pills.

Microchips in pills could soon allow doctors to find out whether a patient has taken their medication.

The digestible sensors, just 1mm wide, would mean GPs and surgeons could monitor patients outside the hospital or surgery.

Developers say the technology could be particularly useful for psychiatric or elderly patients who rely on a complicated regime of drugs – and are at risk if they miss a dose or take it at the wrong time.

It could also be used for the chronically ill, such as people with heart disease, to establish whether costly drugs are working or whether they are causing potentially dangerous side effects.

The sensors could even remind women to take the Pill if they forget.

Perhaps this tracking device will be monitored by the Brussels Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal, a supercomputer found at EU headquarters in Belgium?