How They’re Using Kids to Force Digital ID on Everyone

The mark of the beast doesn’t start with a mark. It starts with this…

Digital ID.

Digital ID is central to a system of digital currencies and tokenized assets.

It’s essential to any effort to take away a citizen’s anonymity so you can surveil every transaction they make.

And of course, surveillance is a prerequisite to controlling every buy and sell transaction they engage in.

So how do you convince a skeptical public to go along with digital ID?

Some governments engage in strong-arm tactics… If you want a bank account, submit to the biometric scan. If you want a job, comply with the digital ID requirement.

But other governments are taking a different approach.

A trojan horse approach.

Forcing Digital ID Through Manipulation

A trend has emerged in Western societies – one akin to a trojan horse to implement digital ID.

What are they doing? Well, first of all, they don’t call it “digital ID”; they call it “age verification.” And second, they don’t demand compliance. Instead, they appeal to human emotion.

It’s “for the safety of the children,” they say. “Don’t you care about the children?”

Here’s how it works…

In the interest of “protecting the children,” they require digital age verification for various online activities, whether it’s using social media, watching restricted videos, or downloading specific apps.

Verifying a person’s age has to go beyond easily bypassed gateways such as “enter your birth date,” which any child could simply lie about. Therefore, the age verification process must use biometric data to “protect the children.”

Facial recognition. Retinal scans. Fingerprints. And/or uploading of already biometric-compliant digital ID credentials.

When they sell it as “protecting the children,” most people go along with it. After all, who doesn’t want to protect children from online predators, bullies, or inappropriate content?

So most people say, “Yes. Protect the children!”

And that’s the trojan horse.

Because you can’t require age verification for minors only. By definition, in order to make sure a minor child is not engaging with restricted content, everyone must be age verified.

And that means EVERYONE must comply with the age verification process, creating a default digital ID in the process.

It means everyone must allow facial recognition, retinal scans, and/or their fingerprints to be uploaded in order to access the Internet.

As that happens, nations and corporations scoop up our biometric data and attach it to the profiles they’ve already built – profiles with mountains of information detailing every aspect of our lives.

Different Countries and Companies, Same Trojan Horse Approach

It’s no coincidence we’re seeing this same approach moving forward in different countries and with different companies all within the same short time period.

It’s not part of a public outcry for greater child protection. It’s part of a global scheme to trick the public into compliance with digital ID.

Don’t believe me? Just look at these examples:

Australia

As Reclaim the Net reports in “No ID, No Account: Australia’s Great Digital Purge“:

“Australia’s new digital ID requirement for social media users is already reshaping the country’s online environment.

Meta revealed in a Medium post that it has deleted nearly 550,000 accounts that may have belonged to users under 16.

The total includes about 330,000 Instagram profiles, 173,000 Facebook accounts, and 40,000 on Threads.

The law, which took effect on December 10, requires ten major online platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, X, and Twitch, to verify users’ ages using government-issued ID or face penalties of up to $49.5 million AUD ($33 million USD).

While presented as a measure to protect minors, the policy effectively establishes a digital ID system for social media participation. Users who refuse to provide identification or biometric data lose access, and their accounts, along with all photos, messages, and stored information.”

Under Australia’s digital ID requirement, if you don’t upload ID or biometric data as an adult, you can lose access to your online accounts.

New Zealand

In New Zealand, a bill to ban social media access for those under the age of 16 is on the cusp of passage. As The Guardian reported last year:

“New Zealand’s prime minister has proposed banning children under 16 years old from using social media, in an effort to protect young people from harms such as exposure to violent content and cyberbullying.

Christopher Luxon said on Tuesday the draft law would force social media companies to verify users were at least 16 before allowing them to create an account, or face fines of up to NZ$2m ($1.2m).

The proposed ban is closely modeled on that of Australia, which sits at the forefront of global efforts to regulate social media.

Australia passed landmark laws in November banning under-16s from social media – one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on popular sites such as Facebook, Instagram and X.”

Notice the language used here – “at the forefront of global efforts to regulate social media.” Are you in favor of global efforts to regulate social media?

The European Union

In the EU, they’re pushing for similar legislation. As the BBC reports in “EU Needs to Delay Social Media Access for Children“:

“European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a ‘social media delay’ for children in Europe and has said new legislation could be put forward in months.

She told an EU summit in Copenhagen that an expert panel was due to come up with steps on how to protect minors online by July.

Several countries in Europe and around the world have already introduced social media bans for minors, and von der Leyen did not rule that out.”

But the EU is going a step further, targeting virtual private networks (VPNs) as well. As ZeroHedge reports in “EU Going To War With VPNs In Bid To ‘Save The Children’“:

“Last week, European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen suggested that Brussels may need to address the use of VPNs to bypass the EU’s upcoming age-verification systems.  Speaking during a press conference on the EU’s new digital age-verification app, Virkkunen acknowledged that users could circumvent the system with VPNs and stated that preventing such circumvention would be among the ‘next steps’ policymakers need to examine.”

Government bureaucrats don’t want you doing anything without their permission, and the Internet is ground zero for the free speech they hope to eliminate.

Discord

As The Guam Daily Post reports, “Discord Adopts Facial Recognition in Child Safety Crackdown“:

“Messaging platform Discord announced Monday it will implement enhanced safety features for teenage users globally, including facial recognition, joining a wave of social media companies rolling out age verification systems.

The rollout, beginning in early March, will make teen-appropriate settings the default for all users, with adults needing to verify their age to loosen protections, including content filters and bans on direct messaging, the company said.”

Under Discord’s plan, adults need to verify their age. See why this is a trojan horse?

Facebook

Meta is in on it too, as TechRadar reports:

“Age verification for sites, apps, and devices is fast becoming the norm as regulators look to protect children from potentially harmful content — including content on social media. Now Meta has announced new ‘age assurance measures’ for teen users, and predictably, they are powered by AI.

Specifically, the system will use contextual clues associated with a profile (such as mentions of birthdays or school grades) together with a ‘visual analysis’ to help figure out how old a user is.”

But, of course, Meta claims it’s not “facial recognition”:

“We want to be clear: this is not facial recognition,” says Meta. “Our AI looks at general themes and visual cues, for example, height or bone structure, to estimate someone’s general age; it does not identify the specific person in the image.”

Do you believe that? They can call it whatever they want, but a camera is scanning a person’s face, and A.I. is analyzing it. What else would you call it?

Apple

In compliance with UK law, Apple is implementing age verification for its UK users. As Modernity.News reports:

“UK iPhone and iPad owners updating to the latest iOS 26.4 are now confronted with a stark choice: verify you are an adult by providing a credit card or scanning your ID, or accept automatic web content filters that restrict access.

The message users see states clearly: ‘UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult to change content restrictions.’

Those who do not confirm their age – or are found to be underage – have web content filters turned on automatically.

The government-appointed communications watchdog Ofcom welcomed the development, calling it ‘a real win for children and families’ and noting the UK would be ‘one of the first countries in the world to receive such restrictions on their devices.'”

Notice that last line. “One of the first countries.” This isn’t intended to be a UK-only requirement. They want it everywhere.

What’s at Stake

Ultimately, governments will roll out digital ID for two primary purposes:

1) To Monitor Financial Transactions

Digital ID will be a means to verify the identity of anyone using central bank digital currencies (CBDC), stablecoins, and/or tokenized assets. All these digital financial instruments are fully programmable, meaning they can be programmed against you. They can literally control your ability to buy or sell.

For example, under The Genius Act here in the United States, all stablecoins must comply with the following:

“All stablecoin issuers must possess the technical capability to seize, freeze, or burn payment stablecoins when legally required and must comply with lawful orders to do so.”

This means stablecoins, like CBDCs, are indistinguishable in both capability and function from the mark of the beast system.

2) To Surveil Every Aspect of Your Life

Digital ID will also be a means to track everything you do on a daily basis – what websites you use, social media postings, who you associate with, where you shop, what your daily routine is, and more. To a degree far beyond what most people imagine, this is already happening. Digital ID simply centralizes all the data governments and corporations are already gathering, while taking away the last vestiges of anonymity.

This is how they keep you compliant – by taking away your power. Here in the United States, then presidential candidate Nikki Haley proposed making a digital ID necessary to post Internet comments. Again, they don’t want you doing anything without their “permission.”

In the end, digital ID isn’t about what’s best for you – it’s about what’s best for government. By centralizing all information associated with you as an individual, it streamlines their ability to surveil and control your life.

While the dangers of a digital ID system to freedom and liberty should be clear, the public pushback is barely noticeable. Why? I believe the reasons are many, including ignorance, naivety, and outright exhaustion when it comes to fighting back against these types of intrusive government measures.

But one of the reasons is how they’re selling it.  Like most government programs, the language used to describe digital ID is the exact opposite of what it is.

They call it “privacy-preserving.” They say it “gives citizens control,” or it will always be “voluntary.” And of course, the biggest trojan horse of all – they claim it’s “to protect the children.”

Until the rollout is complete, they’ll use this type of language to assure the public. Then, once the system is fully rolled out, they’ll shut the door to the digital prison, and no one will be able to escape.

They’ll say it was “for the children.” It was never for the children.

From the beginning, it was all about digital control.

How to Escape the Beast System

Keep in mind, digital ID and the digital system they want to implement is NOT the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast requires the arrival of the Antichrist, the false prophet, and the seven-year Tribulation. And we’re not in the seven-year Tribulation right now.

However, this digital system DOES lay the foundation for the mark of the beast system we read about in Revelation 13. It creates a system effectively the same in terms of controlling who can buy and sell:

“He required everyone – small and great, rich and poor, free and slave – to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name” (Revelation 13:16-17, NLT).

Eventually, everything will be in place for the Antichrist and the false prophet, and all they’ll have to do is flip a switch to implement the beast system.

So how do you avoid all of this?

A lot of people ask me questions about how to escape the coming beast system. Often, what they’re really looking for is a way to circumvent the digital system in this world.

That is, they want me to say, “Buy XYZ, move to XYZ location, and you’ll escape the digital system.” But they’re rolling out this digital system on a global basis – you won’t be able to escape it here on earth.

The reality is this – you only have one way to escape from the beast system that will roll out during the Tribulation.

And your escape is Jesus Christ.

If you know Jesus, He promises to keep you from the Tribulation:

“Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world” (Revelation 3:10, NLT).

This underscores the importance of having a born-again, personal relationship with Jesus. He’s the only way to escape not only the Tribulation (assuming you’re reading this before the rapture of the church), but more importantly, Jesus is the only way to be reconciled with God.

So make sure you understand the Good News of Jesus Christ.

In the meantime, the stage is being set for the mark of the beast, and it’s just one more sign Jesus and prophets pointed to.

It means Jesus is right at the door (Mark 13:29).

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Britt Gillette is the author of several books on Bible prophecy and the end times. You can find more of his work at brittgillette.substack.com

 

 

Neuralink, Starlink, xAI, and the Beast System

Is Elon Musk constructing the beast system the Antichrist will use to enslave the world?

It certainly seems that way.

Even if Elon’s companies and systems aren’t the exact tools which enable the Antichrist’s rule, he’s no doubt helping to pioneer the technologies the Antichrist will rely on to enslave humanity.

Let’s take a look at just a few of the components Elon Musk is building:

1) Starlink

Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX, one of the many companies Elon Musk founded. It provides high-speed, low-latency broadband to over 150 countries and uses thousands of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver Internet to remote and rural areas.

In essence, it enables voice and video streaming from any location on the planet.

As you can see on this website, Starlink provides satellite coverage of the entire Earth.

There’s literally no place on Earth where you can’t link to a Starlink satellite.

That’s great if you’re adrift on a raft in the Pacific Ocean, and you can call someone to come rescue you.

But it has a distinct downside as well…

There’s literally no place on Earth where you can get away from a Starlink satellite.

Total coverage of the planet means the ability to surveil the whole world. It means the ability to connect and communicate with the whole world. And it means the ability to issue orders to control the whole world.

With Starlink, it’s easy to see how this can happen:

“And for three and a half days, all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will stare at their bodies. No one will be allowed to bury them” (Revelation 11:9, NLT).

This verse recounts the deaths of God’s two witnesses during the Tribulation. After they’re killed, the whole world stares at their bodies for three and a half days.

When John first wrote the Book of Revelation, this was impossible outside of the supernatural. Today, with Starlink and the proliferation of smartphones, this becomes possible.

Furthermore, when John first wrote the Book of Revelation, the idea of a truly global empire was absurd. Governance would have been impossible. The fastest man could travel on land was by horse, and communication from a central hub like Rome took longer and longer the further the empire expanded.

Nevertheless, the Book of Revelation made this bold statement:

“And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation” (Revelation 13:7, NLT).

The Bible foretold a time when one man will rule over the entire world. Starlink shows us how he could issue his orders, but another Elon Musk creation shows us how he could handle the task of governing the entire world.

2) xAI

xAI, now an internal division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is a unit focused on the development of advanced artificial intelligence. Its signature product is the “Grok” chatbot. The latest iteration, Grok 4, is considered one of the world’s most sophisticated A.I. models, boasting top-tier performance in academic reasoning and real-time data analysis. It’s widely considered to have PhD-level expertise across many subjects and often scores high on A.I. intelligence benchmarks.

Think of the power A.I. gives to government. With it, the ability to “see” and “hear” almost everything will become even easier.

Already, most people voluntarily reveal the most intimate details of their lives. They upload pictures of themselves and their friends to social media. They reveal personal information on public websites. And they set up Siri- and Alexa-enabled devices in their homes. These devices respond to voice commands and make life easier. But they also spy on you. By definition, they’re always listening. If you have one, that means you voluntarily placed a listening device in your home. In some cases, you placed a camera in your home as well.

All this data collection gives governments access to information Cold War intelligence agencies could only dream of. But this massive collection of data presents a problem.

How can the government sift through all this data? It would take legions of 20th-Century intelligence analysts a century or more to listen to just one day of global conversations. But A.I.?

Artificial intelligence can sift through mountains of video, audio, and data feeds. It can search for specific phrases and “undesirable” language. It can search for patterns in behavior. With such technology, governments will soon have the ability to “listen” to every conversation on Earth. No one will escape the ever-watchful eye of “Big Brother.”

Is it any wonder the Antichrist will be able to control “every tribe and people and language and nation” (Revelation 13:7)?

3) Neuralink

Neuralink is a brain-computer interface (BCI) company founded by Elon Musk. It develops implantable, wireless BCIs with a stated aim of restoring autonomy for people with paralysis or neurological disorders. It currently enables users to control computers, smartphones, and robotic limbs using only their thoughts.

With the rise of advanced technologies such as Neuralink, it’s easy to envision the end result. It’s an era in which “the blind will see, the deaf will hear, the lame will walk, the mute will speak, and the sick will be healed” (Isaiah 35:5-6).

The Bible tells us the arrival of the Antichrist will come “with counterfeit power and signs and miracles,” and he will use “every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction” (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10). It’s easy to see how Neuralink could play a role in that deception.

But the purpose of Neuralink goes beyond helping the disabled. Its ultimate purpose is to enhance the human body.

For example, in this article from The Guardian, we read the following:

“In his authorized biography of Musk, Walter Isaacson describes how the billionaire first began thinking about implanting chips in brains in 2016, when he was travelling in a car with his chief of staff, Sam Teller, and became frustrated by how long it took for him to type a message on his iPhone. ‘Imagine if you could think into the machine,’ Musk said, ‘like a high-speed connection directly between your mind and your machine.’ Musk immediately asked Teller to find him a neuroscientist who could help him understand BCIs…

Musk hopes the enhanced human brain will be able to keep one step ahead of – or at least keep up with – computers. ‘If we can find good commercial uses to fund Neuralink, then in a few decades, we will get to our ultimate goal of protecting us against evil AI by tightly coupling the human world to our digital machinery,’ he told Isaacson.”

Elon’s stated goal is to stay “one step ahead of computers.” How? By merging with them.

Elon says this is what he plans to do.

This 2022 CNBC article has a headline which reads, “Elon Musk shows off updates to his brain chips and says he’s going to install one in himself when they are ready.”

If the Antichrist merges with artificial intelligence through a brain-computer interface, he could control all the systems governing the world. And one man could easily exercise authority “over every tribe and people and language and nation” (Revelation 13:7).

4) XMoney

In addition to the technologies cited above, Elon Musk has also shared his vision for X as an “everything app,” including the prospect of using X to make digital payments.

As CBS News reports:

“Elon Musk is planning to launch a new payments platform, called XMoney, in beta form to select users in April.

In announcing a planned partnership between XMoney and Visa more than a year ago, then X CEO Linda Yaccarino referred to the platform as a so-called “Everything App” — a reference to the kind of all-in-one digital products that combine messaging, social networking, shopping, payments and other services in a single app, such as China’s WeChat.

In a brief post on social media Tuesday, Musk, also the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, didn’t specify when the first users will be offered early access to XMoney, which Musk previously described as a platform “intended to be the place where all the money is.”

Digital currency is one of the greatest threats to freedom and liberty we face. It creates a system of programmable currency which can be used to surveil, reward, and punish individuals with little recourse.

And Elon Musk wants X to be the place “where all the money is.”

Right now, almost every nation in the world is pursuing some form of digital currency, whether it’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) or stablecoin. And that should be alarming to everyone on the planet, because the goal of these digital currencies is to assert control over everyone who uses them.

Here’s an excerpt from a White House press release touting the Genius Act, which passed into law last year:

“All stablecoin issuers must possess the technical capability to seize, freeze, or burn payment stablecoins when legally required and must comply with lawful orders to do so.”

This means under U.S. law, stablecoin issuers must make their coins programmable. Why? So they can “comply with lawful orders” to “seize, freeze, or burn” your stablecoin.

The Book of Revelation describes an end-times financial system with these exact same requirements and capabilities. It’s often referred to as “the mark of the beast system”:

“He required everyone — small and great, rich and poor, free and slave — to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name” (Revelation 13:16-17, NLT).

The construction of a digital currency system identical to the mark of the beast system in both capability and function is underway right now.

And Elon Musk is at the forefront when it comes to designing it.

Paving the Way for the Antichrist

In the meantime, it appears Elon Musk is paving the way for the Antichrist through his various efforts to develop advanced technologies.

Some people speculate Elon himself is the Antichrist. That’s not the case, for reasons we discuss in this video.

But, whether he knows it or not, Elon Musk is putting the infrastructure and technologies in place which will likely be used by the Antichrist to rule over the world during the seven-year Tribulation.

And in all likelihood, one of the people the Antichrist will rule over will be Elon Musk himself. Oddly, Elon hinted at this possibility over a decade ago.

As Silicon reported back in 2014:

“Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AeroAstro Centennial Symposium last week, Musk told an interviewer that his recent investments in AI research were made with the intent of ‘keeping an eye on what’s going on’ rather than with the expectation of commercial development.

‘I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence,’ he said. ‘If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that.’

Musk said there should be ‘regulatory oversight’ of AI research at a national or international level, ‘just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.’

He compared the construction of artificial minds to the calling up of unknown forces that could easily go beyond the inventor’s control.

‘With artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon,’ he said. ‘You know those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and … he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.’”

Twelve years later, Elon appears to be ignoring his own warning. He’s sure he can “control the demon,” but in all likelihood, the Antichrist will end up controlling him and the rest of the world – in part, through technologies Elon helped put in place.

But regardless of where Elon fits into end-times events, you can be certain of one thing – the seven-year Tribulation and the global reign of the Antichrist will occur. The Bible makes it clear.

If your trust is in Jesus Christ, you can take comfort in this promise:

“Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world” (Revelation 3:10, NLT).

Jesus has promised to keep the church from the Tribulation, meaning the rapture of the church will take place prior to the Tribulation.

If you don’t yet trust in Jesus Christ, what he did for you on the cross, I encourage you to read about the Good News and put your trust in Christ today.

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Britt Gillette is the author of several books on Bible prophecy and the end times. You can find more of his work at brittgillette.substack.com