Fresh Warnings of the Mark of the Beast

My three main interests in life are prophecy, economics, and general news. I watch several financial videos each week, and I’ve noticed that many of them are worried about the implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). They warned that such a system would give the government too much control over our lives.

I am concerned because I see this device as the advanced stage of what will be the mark of the beast. A couple of decades ago, there was no possible way to implement a digital currency that could conduct all financial transactions. Today, a working CBDC is being tested by several government agencies.

The COVID pandemic helped set the blueprint for the mark. Millions of people couldn’t go to work, so they needed a handout from the government. The feds had the power to put trillions of dollars into the bank account of everyone who qualified.

Since the rapture will probably create far greater chaos, the Fed could offer more money to restore order. Only in this case your bank account will be with the Fed, and you’ll need to get a chip Injection to access your funds.

If the government can put money into your current bank account, they can easily transfer all your funds to your new Fed account. You could be a billionaire and be separated from your money by a system that the Bible warns we should not become involved with. Everyone who takes the 666 mark will be condemned to hell.

“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God …. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night …. Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” (Rev. 14:9-12).

People will not be tricked into taking the mark by accident. By accepting it, a person will be pledging their obedience to the Antichrist. There could be an oath that people will be required to take.

I find the mark to be one of the scariest things in the Book of Revelation. You could be a rich person but have to face starving to death to save your soul from the lake of fire. The beast government will save many from dying of hunger by chopping their heads off.

There is another technological development that I find equally worrying. There has been much news about the danger presented by artificial intelligence apps.

The “Godfather of AI,” Geoffrey Hinton, recently resigned from his position at Google, where he has worked for over a decade. He joined a growing chorus of critics who warn of the existential risk artificial intelligence systems pose to humans.

Elon Musk has warned of the danger of AI, but he founded the company that created ChatGPT, the most widely used AI app. Many of the scientists that labored to create the atomic bomb got cold feet when it came to using the bomb against Japan. When people create things that can be used for evil, they cannot be un-invented.

There is one example of AI being used by criminals. Fox News reported that a Florida man received a call from what he thought was his daughter. The voice sounded just like his daughter, but it was an AI-created clone. The scammers asked him to send $600 to resolve an undisclosed dire situation.

Some people who rejected the mark may get calls from their dead relatives begging them to get chipped. Since the government records all phone conversations, AI would have no trouble producing the voice of someone’s dead mother.

AI could put pressure on holdouts by turning off their utilities, their internet, and their wireless phones. People could have their homes or cars taken from them because they didn’t pay loans that were paid off years ago.

There will be few places to hide from an AI-driven mark of the beast system. Every true Believer should rejoice each day that God has promised to save us from an evil man who will briefly have total control over the earth.

“And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority …. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations” (Revelation 13:2; 7).

— Todd

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This End-of-the-Age Rage

You have to hear it for yourself to understand. It is the manifestation of the reprobate mind—the result of turning one’s back to God and deliberately going in the opposite direction.

The sound, you would think, comes from inside asylums for the insane. But the seeming uncontrollable screeching is heard more and more as lunatic-sounding protests have grown from demonstrations and debates of the past, stemming from a degree of sensibility to become guttural screams that drown out any counter viewpoint.

The level of enragement that points to the reprobate mind that no longer is willing to hear what God’s Word has to say is wild animal-like—without self-discipline of any sort.

Most of the rage is centered at the heart of the aberrant sexual agenda being foisted at present, particularly against the very youngest. The screams are especially steeped at the center of the LGBTQ+ entities and organizations in America.

Although by far in the minority of societal and cultural composition, the shrill howls of animal-like shrieking garner the attention of politicians and courts. A news item perhaps will somewhat describe my intended point.

A transgender activist let out several primal screams at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting last week after SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to prosecute a Walgreens security guard who shot Banko Brown, a black transgender individual.

Jenkins declared that “the evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense.”

[The woman, preferring the pronoun their] expressed their (?) displeasure with an intra-scream diatribe:

“I live in [District 6]. I hate a lot of people on this board…for the reasons that led up to Banko Brown’s death. So, often I prepare something—maybe it’s a little historical, may even be a little poetic, whatever. There’s a lot of performative people on this board who will say one thing and support Black people, homeless people, trans people, and then immediately stab you in the face—being racist, transphobic, anti-homeless.

“So I don’t have any words prepared today. I just want you to feel our pain. I don’t know if you can at this point, based off your policy choices, but I have to pretend you have some form of empathy left. So, I am going to spend the next minute screaming ‘cause that is what is going on in here.”

McGeever then gave several primal screams, saying, “That is what the trans genocide in this country, in this city, has brought me to.”

As Jonathan Turley writes, “No, that is what an age of rage has brought all of us to. This entire scream session was due to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announcing that her office would not prosecute Michael-Earl Wayne Anthony, a Walgreens security guard responsible for the shooting death of Banko Brown, a Black member of the transgender community…

“Our politics is now reduced to a collective scream session with zero content beyond pure unadulterated rage.

“As I noted earlier, this trend was previously captured by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), who is shown on videotape screaming about gun control in the Capitol as his colleagues left the floor following a vote. When Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) asked Bowman to stop yelling, Bowman shouted back, “I was screaming before you interrupted me”—which could go down as the epitaph for our age. (“AAAAAAAAAHHHH”: Trans Activist Unleashes Primal Scream at SF Board Meeting,” Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, RR News, May 7, 2023)

The screaming was indeed bloodcurdling. Those in control tried to use reason, but their effort was useless. If not insane at the moment, the individual certainly couldn’t be differentiated from someone who had lost their mind–even by a clinical psychologist—in my opinion.

And this is just the latest of a series of such baying-at-the-moon, ear-piercing-type bellowing.

This type of insane rage seems to have had its genesis as an uncontrollable crying and shrieking by a woman who, back in 2016, sat on a curb when she learned that Donald Trump had won the presidential election over her candidate, Hillary Clinton. The demonstration of the loss of sensibility now has become almost a regular feature by both men and women—especially in demonstrations that are protesting on behalf of Sodom-like activities carried on by LGBTQ+ and their lookalikes. These are demonstrating the “reprobate mind” before the whole world—even the world of the woke of San Francisco governmental entities.

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.”

Seems to me that insane shrieking for minutes on end is not exactly convenient, especially not to the ears that have to listen.

The closer time comes for Christ’s call for the Church to “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:2), the more Sodom-like the enragement manifests.

The end-of-the-age rage is but another strong signal of where this generation stands on God’s prophetic timeline.

“He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).

—Terry

Fox News Under Attack

There are about 100 million people in America that visit some form of news outlet each day. The left controls about 90% of all the news produced by these sources. You would think the liberal media would be very satisfied having such massive control over the news.

The News program called Fox News is an endless source of interest by the other news outlets. The left acts like Fox has 90% of the followers and they are the ones with only a 10% voice.

Fox News only has a 4% chunk of the news market; liberals focus on it because the second conservative news organization is unknown. The other 6% is made of thousands of sites that don’t have any major influence.

When Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News in 1996 with Roger Ailes, he had an instant cash cow. All the other major news organizations had a leftist bias. By hiring major personalities from conservative talk radio, Fox quickly drained CNN of a large part of its audience. CNN allowed its conservative audience to be pilfered because it refused to create right-wing content to keep them.

Fox News is a small portion of the larger Fox Corporation but makes nearly half the company’s earnings. It’s amazing that some other billionaire has not seen the possibility of starting another conservative news network that would put Fox News to shame.

There may have been several rich people who entertained the idea, but I’m sure Satan whispered in their ears, saying it would be too big of a risk. There must be 1,000 casinos out in Las Vegas, but someone is always thinking that the city could use one more.

The left’s absolute fixation with Fox News defies many forms of logic. I have not watched CNN and MSNBC in years. I don’t even know where they are on my channel list. Because anything said on Fox can be used to attack the network, there have to be people at major networks whose job is to watch Fox News all day.

I don’t care about why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News. My attention is focused on the impact it has on the news business. Carlson is important because he reveals a situation that no other reporter would cover. His family has long been in the news world, and Carlson saw himself as purest when it comes to reporting the news.

There is now a guideline that everyone at Fox News needs to follow. You don’t talk about hot-button issues that can cause financial trouble for the network. One of the reasons why Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787 million is because, in a trial, Dominion’s legal team would play videos of Carlson questioning the voter fraud claims.

The legal system has become weaponized by the left, and Fox could face more lawsuits. The network is so demonized, Democratic judges will set aside their pledge for fairness and let the flimsiest case against Fox go to trial.

One major problem I have with several of the Fox News reporters is that they just narrate the left’s destruction of America. Carlson would find a problem and apply pressure to stop it. If some company wanted all its employees to celebrate a transgender day, Carlson could generate 1,000 angry emails or letters from his 3 million viewers.

The vast majority don’t do anything to combat evil. If just 0.1% of the population became more involved, we could turn the tide on many social issues. If you allow the enemy to win battles, the landscape can quickly change. About 20 years ago, not a single company would say we support gay pride events. Today, only a handful of firms will refuse to fly the rainbow flag.

When I was a teenager, I wondered what people in the USSR thought of the news they were getting from the government. I’m sure it was mostly sunshine propaganda lies that focused on good news. There was no hiding the fact that the USSR was falling apart. Never mind that we had a bumper onion crop. Why are we having to import wheat from America?

We headed toward the point where the American news media will be equal to the USSR. We will be worse off because, unlike many citizens of the USSR, we will know we are being fed lies.

During the tribulation, there won’t be any news organization that is not controlled by the government. The current sad state of news tells me that we are not far from information tyranny. The reporters can come and go at a News channel. In the end, God runs the show. For several years now, He has used one single news network to keep the enemies of truth off balance.

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7).

— Todd

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Heavenly Hatred?

Those who see God as a grandfatherly teddy bear who sits in Heaven and smiles tolerantly down upon imperfect human beings often argue that God is love and would never send people to an eternity of torment. Most in this category would agree with Pope Francis that even atheists will eventually go to Heaven.

When considering today’s world, while wickedness is on the rise and is the order of the hour, the fallen mind, it can be reasoned, might be justified in reaching such a conclusion. Wickedness pervades societies and cultures around the planet. Those who perpetrate heinous activity seem to get away with their iniquitous behavior. God in Heaven seems to the “God is love only” crowd to be forgiving of all evil—even if repentance isn’t forthcoming.

“A loving God couldn’t send even the Adolf Hitlers and Mao Zedongs to a place of punishment such as the Bible describes” is the mantra. Although such beastly humans are subject to earthly retribution, the retribution is only temporary. The person’s spirit is ultimately absolved of all sins. This is the religiosity behind many in the matter of good vs evil.

“God is only love; that such a deity could harbor no hate” is at the heart of this earth-centered theology.

Of course, those who hang onto this view want no heavenly governance for the most part. They want to be free to do what is right in their own eyes. They don’t want to answer to a deity for their own sins. They will make it to Heaven because a loving God could never send them, or anyone, to the Hell described in the Bible.

And they must, at the same time, view the Bible as a book that is flawed at the very least—not the Word of God (at least, not of their version of God).

Because they declare that God can’t hate—that He is only love—they must deny that the words of the Bible aren’t the Truth—the very words of the Living God.

You might disagree with my analysis of the type of things God hates, but I thought these are matters we’re all familiar with. Here is why they must deny the Bible to be God’s Word. This is how the writer of Proverbs puts it:

“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him.

• A proud look,
• A lying tongue,
• Hands that shed innocent blood,
• An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
• Feet that be swift in running to mischief,
• A false witness that speaketh lies,
• And he that soweth discord among brethren” (Proverbs 6:16–19)

If there is a God who punishes sin with eternal fire in Hell, there is a world full of people at this moment who will not make Heaven without repentance. Let’s look at some of the sins we should be thoroughly familiar with, since we’re inundated with such wickedness at an exponentially increasing rate.

“A proud look”

We remember the actress who held up a performance award she had just won and told Jesus to do something in the most vulgar of terms. Hollywood types and politicians of the anti-God, ideological left often display such prideful blasphemy.

“A lying tongue”

A president—despite absolute, even scientific, DNA evidence—lied that he had never had sex with a young woman, and had only his hand slapped for the lie to a forum before which lying supposedly brings severe punishment.

Additionally, another president continues to have ongoing lies perpetrated against him from opposition politicos, entertainers, and even mainstream news organizations. The Russian collusion hoax continues to haunt our eyes and ears, with other lies just as egregious making their way to the forefront of the crooked election processes of our day.

“Hands that shed innocent blood”

Can there be any among us who are truly innocent other than babies in the wombs of their mothers? Yet their blood continues to be shed by the millions every year in America and around the world. Laws are made just to secure the right to commit this most wicked practice and those who practice abortion as “the right to choose.”

“An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations”

In considering this thing that God hates, we think on the desires of those who want to do wickedness to the youngest of children through exposing them to evil, transvestite, and other sexual perversions. One political party is now controlled by those who want to teach these perversions in classrooms and even to change the genders medically of children while declaring parents who oppose such activity as anarchists. The FBI has joined in the pursuit of such parents who seek to protect their children.

“Feet that be swift in running to mischief”

Black Lives Matter (BLM) comes immediately to mind. Its followers have done billions of dollars in damage to private and public properties—have even burned churches, such as setting on fire the church known as the church of the presidents in Washington, DC.

These and other rioter organizations, like Antifa, have burned entire portions of inner cities and blocked off certain areas as “off limits” to police.

These, funded by the evilest of globalist minions, run swiftly to any mischief that arises.

“A false witness that speaketh lies”

We recall a Supreme Court nominee who, in the recent past, was subjected to a woman who, it was proven, falsely accused the nominee of sexually assaulting her and other young women many years previous.

Justice Clarence Thomas also went through such false accusations at his hearings, with the current president of the United States, when he was a US senator, leading the false accusations in what has become known as a high-tech lynching.

“And he that soweth discord among brethren.”

For me, this is manifest in those who claim to be of a political party but run to left-leaning forums, particularly mainstream “progressive” panels such as The View and TV programs at networks, and tell the anti-America, anti-God hosts what they want to hear. This is all to get air time while throwing their fellow party members under the proverbial bus because of hatreds they hold.

Some would say this is only politics and doesn’t fit God’s condemnation in this sense, but, as I say, to me personally, this is one example of this type of wickedness God hates. I certainly hate it, at any rate.

God is a God of love, absolutely. But He is also a God who is perfectly righteous. He is patient concerning His judgment, but His patience is not without limits. He hates sin in any form and will ultimately destroy it.

With all the wickedness, the evil we see all around us, we must ask: Is the Lord of Heaven about to bring all of this anti-God activity to an end?

“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him” (Jude 1:14–15).

Before that great judgment, Jesus said the following will happen:

“And when you see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your head, for your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28).

—Terry