This is an addendum to my 5-part post on The Mystery of Iniquity which concluded with my treatise on the credit crunch and global financial crisis.Concerning the ramification of the global credit crunch for the world, I previously wrote: (Quote) “The conspirators behind the current U.S. financial crisis caused by the credit crunch want to see America weakened which will affect the rest of the world, for this is their route to the New World Order being established. A weakened America paves the way for the European Union to take over as the dominant economic power. It is from the core ten EU economic powers that the Antichrist, empowered by the devil, has been prophesied in the Bible to arise. Therefore, from the big-picture perspective of Satan's grand designs, the current credit crunch and global financial crisis have been two millennia in the making.
“The cycle of crisis and reform is a trend that can be traced as far back as to the early 1920s. Back then, when the elite cartel of bankers created rumours of insolvency of the smaller banks, the international bank moved for a White House support of a congressional bank reform. The reform that resulted was the passing into law of the Federal Reserve Act, which consolidated the power of the International Bankers to dictate the wealth and economy of America.
“Reforms are very much a ploy of the Mystery of Iniquity to move the world towards a new socio-economic order. Now reforms are also being fructified on the lips of President Barack Obama, and Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Kevin Rudd, as well as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the rulers of the European Union. These reforms include:
1. A cashless society – a new monetary order and One-World currency that replaces gold and all the world's currencies. This is to pave the way for the realisation of the Mark of the Beast whereby every one who wants to participate in the global economy must carry a mark on the forehead or right hand. Also to make way for the realisation of a post-Orwellian surveillance society whereby the Antichrist can determine a dissident's whereabouts as quickly as the swipe of a card or a scanning of codes from an implanted computer chip, read from his or her mobile phone.
2. A socialist revival – this has been happening since the late 70s and is gaining ground today. Make no mistake – the reforms called by the governments in the forms of their bail-out plans to rescue private corporations, banks and industries from total collapse are transforming previously free market capitalist economies into socialist ones. Socialism is just a small step away from total communism or dictatorship, in which an individual's sovereignty is surrendered to his government. It makes it easy to ease the masses into a surrendering of their wills, sovereignty, rights and freedom to the Antichrist” (unquote).
This post, which continues in Part 2, is an update on the progress of the world towards the institutionalizing of a global cashless and surveillance society. In chapter 13 of the book of Revelation, verses 16-18, God gave the apostle, John, this vision of an end-time economic scenario of the global community:
“And he (Antichrist) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.”
The above verses foretell of the new One-World currency imposed by the Antichrist, which is known as the Mark or Number of the Beast (Antichrist). An axiom of the new cashless society, this Mark will be the sole legal economic tender in a global village that will soon be governed by a One-World leader known as the Antichrist. Scripture prophesies that everyone must carry in his right hand or forehead this Mark or Number (666) in order to buy and sell in the global economy. This is going to take place during the Great Tribulation and without the number or mark, a person will not be permitted to acquire commodities or effect any financial transaction. It is going to be a time when individual privacy will be a thing of the past, and for those citizens who refuse to comply with Antichrist's decrees, they will be subject to round-the-clock surveillance by the Antichrist's police and military forces.
The Bible prophesies that the Great Tribulation will be a time of the widespread martyrdom of many new converts, known as the Tribulation Saints, who will be beheaded for their refusal to carry the Mark of the Beast. “And I (John) saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands” (Revelation 20:4).
A month ago, I had finished reading the latest book in my collection, Countdown to the Apocalypse by Grant R. Jeffrey [1], (whose incisive weekly TBN broadcast, Bible Prophecy Revealed, is aired Friday nights on TTV at 10.30 pm). Jeffrey's book corroborates, in addition to providing an update on, my didactic. Part 2 will include an excerpt of this corroboration.
Part 2 here.
Footnote:
1. Grant R. Jeffrey, Countdown to the Apocalyse, Waterbrook, USA, 2008.
