The Final Countdown

USA Today reports that Pope Benedict XVI is using his third encyclical to call for a God-centered global economy.  This one statement alone is fascinating on so many levels.

First, the Bible teaches that there will be a global economy (Revelation 13:16-18), and it will indeed be god-centered. That is ‘god’, with a lowercase ‘g.’ This world economy will be under the control of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:16), who claims to be God (2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:5-6) and is worshiped as God by billions of people around the globe (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12). All of this will be facilitated by the False Prophet (Revelation 13:12-17), predicted for centuries to be the final pope–and the next one after Benedict XVI–by men such as St. Malachy and Pope John Paul II.

News from the last week shows the world is continuing to move towards globalization at a rapid pace:

• Obama to establish new financial agency with broad powers
• Obama plan to call for supervision of global financial firms
• China calls for new global currency
• Obama plans to divide oceans into ‘zones’
• Treaty to strengthen EU gets another chance

These five headlines are closely connected. The coming global government will begin in the EU and will include dividing the world into 10 ‘zones’ (Daniel 2:44; 7:7, 20, 23; 11:39; Revelation 12:3; 13:1; 17:3, 7, 12, 16). Once worldwide, this government will give its leadership over to the Antichrist (Daniel 7:8, 20, 24; 9:26; Revelation 13:1), who will attempt to use a global currency system to keep tabs on every human being (Revelation 13:16-18), plotting to kill those who refuse to use it (Revelation 20:4).

The Obama administration, in a cost cutting measure, is moving to scale back some of the database creating measures of the Real ID Act.

The new plan keeps elements of Real ID, such as requiring a digital photograph, signature and machine-readable features such as a bar code. States also will still need to verify applicants’ identities and legal status by checking federal immigration, Social Security and State Department databases.

But it eliminates demands for new databases — linked through a national data hub — that would allow all states to store and cross-check such information, and a requirement that motor vehicle departments verify birth certificates with originating agencies, a bid to fight identity theft.

The monitoring of citizens on a worldwide scale is key to the creation of a global government and to the ability of the Antichrist to track humans across the globe (see Revelation 13 & 14). While the proposed changes to the Real ID Act seem to take a step back from building a global watchdog database that includes Americans, the newly planned Pentagon cybercommand does the opposite. When created, the cyberdefense initiative will have the ability to monitor and log e-mails, instant message conversations, and web browsing history. While presumably the privacy of American’s will be safe unless they are talking to suspected terrorists (even though earlier this week the NSA admitted to intercepting more calls and e-mails of Americans than previously thought), the infrastructure will be in place to monitor and log all Internet and telephone communications with the flip of a switch.

Lest you doubt the goals, they are already implementing these plans in Britain, where everything from e-mails to Facebook messages are to be cataloged. Further, a system that is able to monitor all forms of communication worldwide (including cell phone and satellite usage) is already in existence (do a search on ECHELON after reading this post).

Meanwhile, the US State Department is sponsoring a conference on globalization. It is coming, and it is coming soon.

Here is a sampling of stories from the last two weeks showing human tracking technology in action.

In Britain, a mom is using GPS to keep her eye on her son’s gap year trip to Australia.  At any time she can sit down at a computer and know her son’s location within 15 feet.

At Aoyama Gakuin Univeristy in Japan, the GPS units in iPhones are being used to track attendance of students. The school passed out iPhones with a special attendance application on them to all pupils. When students enter a classroom they activate the application, which registers the GPS location with the university.

Last week, the Oakland city council approved a proposal that would issue ID cards to all residents, becoming the third city in the United States to do so. Oakland’s close neighbor, San Francisco, began an ID program in January. The Federal Real ID ACT mandates that all driver’s license’s and ID cards contain chips holding personal information (and potentially be track-able by satellites) no later than May 11, 2011–the same date as the policy goes into effect in Europe.

In London, Alzheimer’s patients are now being issued shoes with GPS chips in them, so they can be tracked in real time.

For many other examples of this technology at work, check out the mark-of-beast tag section. The Antichrist and False Prophet will desire to use this technology to track every human being on the planet (Revelation 13:16-18), perhaps even using poison filled chips to kill those who do not follow the Antichrist completely.

This story from Jay Baggett of WorldNetDaily is amazing. Go read the whole thing and bookmark the article.

You can run, but you cannot hide … and if you try, one push of a button will cause a lethal poison to immediately begin flowing through your body.

That’s the Orwellian future a Saudi inventor was seeking to bring to Germany until that nation’s patent office announced last week it was rejecting his request to patent what has been dubbed the “Killer Chip.”

The tiny semiconductor device is intended to be surgically implanted or injected into the body, according to the patent application, for the purpose of tracking visitors from other nations by global-positioning satellites and preventing them from overstaying their visas.

…The device would emit encrypted radio waves that would be picked up by satellites and “used to track fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don’t return home from pilgrimages,” Sweden’s The Local reported.

The application included a request to patent a model B of the device that could release poison to “eliminate” the individual if he or she became a security risk.

I emphasized the portion about monitoring Saudi’s “who don’t return home from pilgrimages,” to highlight that this device was not intended to be used just on criminals or visiting tourists. In order to track Saudi’s who make a pilgrimage, they would have to be tagged to begin with.

The German Patent Office, where this device was to be marketed, rejected the idea, as you can imagine. But the Antichrist will not reject it.  This exact type of device will be injected by the forces of the Antichrist into the right hand or forehead of humans around the globe (Revelation 13:16; 14:9; 20:4). Like the chip mentioned in this story, the mark of the beast will be used to track humans where ever they go (Revelation 13:16-18). The False Prophet, who comes from a Christian background but is actually controlled by demons (Revelation 13:11), uses this technology to force the world to worship the Antichrist as God (Revelation 13:12-17). Now that these chips are able to release poison, these evil doers of Satan’s bidding will be able to kill anyone who has a chip but turns against the notion of the Antichrist being God.  If a person doesn’t show up to bow at the image of the beast on time (as tracked by GPS), a computer could release this deadly toxin, no questions asked. This is in addition to those who are beheaded for being Christians and refusing the mark (Revelation 20:4).

This will be even easier now that technology has brought us cameras that “read” the actions of people to determine if they are up to no good. All of the technology is in place.

People who accept the mark of the beast and keep it will be eternally lost (Revelation 14:11)