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CURRENCY ANYONE?

We like every week to bring what we call a Prophecy Update. We show how news and trends in the world are corroborating centuries-old prophecies found in the Bible.

The Bible predicts that a global government will be established on earth in the last days. This being the case, any movement towards a global government, or talk of greater global cooperation, peaks our interest.

In the last year or so there has been a movement towards establishing a global currency. The latest news come from Britain’s prime minister, Gordon Brown.

On February 19th Reuters UK ran a story on their website titled, PM wants global constitution for financial system.¹

Excerpts:

Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Friday for a world constitution to regulate the financial system and said he hoped for agreement on a range of regulation issues at G8 and G20 meetings in coming months.

Speaking at an international conference on progressive politics, Brown also said now was not the time to put a fragile economic recovery at risk by withdrawing fiscal support, but to make 2010 a year of growth. Brown said a global solution was required to transform financial services, which he defined as follows:

“Common rules for capital and liquidity, common standards for supervision, common rules for bonuses and a shared way of assessing the contribution banks should make to society, free of the unfair and disproportionate use of regulatory and tax havens which penalize countries doing the right things.”

Back in September of 2009 the United Nations,

Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and economic crises.

It added that the present system, under which the dollar acts as the world’s reserve currency, should be subject to a wholesale reconsideration.²

In March of 2009 China was calling for the creation of a new global currency to replace the dollar.³

In late March 2009 US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner confessed that he had not read the plans by China’s central bank governor for a “super- sovereign reserve currency” run by the International Monetary Fund, but nevertheless let slip that Washington was “open” to the idea. China’s suggestion is backed by Russia, Brazil, and India (among others).

In 2008, the European Union was calling for a global currency.⁴

Also along the lines of globalism, a website called Deutsche World on February 26th posted the following:

The 24-strong bloc of Latin American states known as the Rio Group is to join the Caribbean Community to form a new trade body intended to present opposition to US dominance.⁵

And then there was this article on FoxNews.com, UN Still Pushing For Green World Order By 2012.⁶

Excerpts:

Despite the debacle of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the United Nations is pressing full speed ahead with a plan for a greatly expanded system of global environmental governance and for a multitrillion-dollar economic transfer scheme to ignite the creation of a “global green economy.”

Their analysis of the effort is that the UN is trying to establish “a global system of governance and what amounts to the next stage of a radical transformation of the world economic and social order, in the name of saving the planet.”

The move towards a global currency and eventually a global government is no surprise to evangelical Christians. We’ve see it in the Bible and now we see it being played out in the last days.

Get ready, stay ready, keep looking up.

Ready or not, Jesus is coming!

1. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61I23320100219?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Reuters/UKBusinessNews+%28News+/+UK+/+Business+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader [↩]
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/6152204/UN-wants-new-global-currency-to-replace-dollar.html [↩]
3. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/23/china-takes-aim-dollar-urges-new-global-currency/ [↩]
4. http://www.infowars.com/eu-leaders-call-for-global-currency/ [↩]
5. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5293667,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf [↩]
6. http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2010/February26/2692.html [↩]

1 Corinthians 16.13-24 – Addicted To Love

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BIOMETRICS BOOMING

Every Sunday we present a prophecy update. We show how news and trends in the world corroborate centuries-old prophecies you read in the Bible.

Studies have suggested that the amount of human knowledge is doubling every 8 years. Some of the technologies that are emerging will no doubt have a role to play in Bible Prophecy.

Revelation 13 describes a mark, in the right hand or forehead, that will enable people to buy or sell items. In fact you won’t be able to conduct commerce without it.

• When you hear comments by the head of MasterCard that microchip implants under the skin could be used for commerce – you can’t help but see the path we are on.
• The approval of the FDA for implants under the skin for medical purposes will no doubt play a role in this emerging trend.
• The increase of RFID technology also presents some amazing possibilities in terms of commerce and tracking technology.

Eventually this technology will be dictated by the man we know as the antichrist. He will demand that everyone swear allegiance to him, that everyone worship him, or they will not be able to conduct any business.

There were some developments I thought interesting along these lines. A February 19th article posted on the Jerusalem Post website was titled, Biometric Law will make Identity Theft Harder.¹

Excerpts:

Effective use of biometric data could have prevented the apparent theft of Anglo- Israelis’ identities, Meir Sheetrit (Kadima), the architect of the country’s Biometric ID

Law, and a former minister of intelligence services, told The Jerusalem Post Thursday evening.

Sheetrit said the identification documents – identity cards and passports – that would come into use as a result of his law would “be impossible to forge.”

“Once we have the smart chip in passports and identification cards, we will finally be part of the developments that we are beginning to see throughout the world,” he added. “It will become increasingly difficult to cross international borders with fake identification once more and more countries install fingerprint-reading devices at border crossings.”

“The majority of states in the world, including the United Kingdom and other European countries, are going in the direction of biometric identity documents and biometric scans at borders,” said Sheetrit.

Meanwhile on the same date a technology tracking website, Squid, ran a story titled, Contactless smart cards ’show a big step towards a cashless society.’²

Excerpts:

It has been advised that one of the key ways that the UK can step towards a cashless society is by the implementation of contactless smart cards.

A new study – The Future of Cash and Payments – by Retail Banking Research has found that eMoney enabled mobile phones will also help to eradicate the need to carry cash in Britain, Near Field Communications World has stated.

The report’s authors have predicted that there will be a “significant increase” in the use of contactless smart card technology in European countries such as the UK and France from this year onwards.

Additionally, it is forecast that the number of cash transactions will decline by 2.3 per cent a year in Europe up until 2014.

Recent announcements from the UK Payments Council could be seen to pave the way for increasing contactless smart card uptake among consumers – the body has revealed that central cheque clearing will close altogether by 2018, meaning that by this date people will no longer be able to purchase goods using this method of payment.

Then there was this report from QSRweb.com, titled, Digital Dining to unveil new biometric POS (Point Of Sale) solution.³

Excerpts:

The latest version of Digital Dining’s restaurant point-of-sale software now features “U.are.U” fingerprint biometrics technology from DigitalPersona, a provider of fingerprint identity and authentication solutions. The POS solution will be unveiled at the Digital Dining National Dealer Conference in Austin, Texas.

“Over the last 10 years we have seen biometrics become a huge area of interest to our customers,” Digital Dining’s business development manager Andre Nataf said in a news release. “The DigitalPersona U.are.U fingerprint readers are phenomenal. They integrate seamlessly with all of our partner’s machines. Eighty percent of our implementations include U.are.U biometrics from DigitalPersona. It has become standard equipment.”

The Digital Dining solution serves customers in industries ranging from restaurants and hospitality to universities and hospitals. It also is being used by organizations in the entertainment industry such as night clubs, bars, movies theaters, bowling centers, casinos and racetracks.

Technology and Bible prophecy are intersecting for the first time in history. It is a sign we are living in the last days.
What should we be looking for? We should be looking for the return of Jesus to resurrect and rapture the church. It’s an event that is presented as imminent. It could occur any moment with no prophecies needing to first be fulfilled.

Get ready, stay ready, keep looking up.

Ready or not, Jesus is coming!

1. http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=169106 [↩]
2. http://www.squidcard.com/corporate/emoneynews/contactless-smart-cards-show-a-big-step-towards-a-%20cashless-society324.html [↩]
3. http://www.qsrweb.com/article.php?id=17365&prc=71&page=83 [↩]

1 Corinthians 16.1-12 – Give Ready To Go

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EZEKIEL 37

Every Sunday we present a prophecy update. We show how news and trends in the world corroborate centuries-old prophecies you read in the Bible.

A four-chapter passage in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel has long captivated students of Bible prophecy. Ezekiel 38 through 39 tells of a future invasion of Israel by a coalition of nations that surround it. As we read the headlines in the newspapers of today, and witness the conflict in the Middle East, it’s not hard to imagine that this invasion prophesied over 2600 years ago, could be fulfilled in our lifetime.

Ezekiel 36-37 predicted a regathering of the Jews to the nation of Israel which obviously must precede any such invasion. For 19 centuries the Jewish people were scattered throughout the world, and there was no nation of Israel to invade. The, on May 14, 1948, a nation was reborn in a day and since that time Jews have indeed regathered in their ancient promised land – just as foreseen and foretold by Ezekiel.

I found it amazing that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that Ezekiel 37 has been fulfilled. He recently delivered a speech at the ceremony commemorating sixty-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

Excerpts:

I came here today from Jerusalem to say to those who perished here: The people of Israel live!

We have returned to our homeland, to the land of our fathers, to our capital Jerusalem. We have come from every corner of the earth – Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees from Arab lands, Jews from the Soviet Union and Ethiopia, Poland and Yemen, Romania and Iraq, France and Morocco, Jews from seventy lands and five continents.

The Jewish people rose from ashes and destruction, from a terrible pain that can never be healed.

Armed with the Jewish spirit, the justice of man, and the vision of the prophets, we sprouted new branches and grew deep roots.

Dry bones became covered with flesh, a spirit filled them, and they lived and stood on their own feet.

As Ezekiel prophesied:

“Then He said unto me: These bones are the whole House of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone; we are doomed.’ Prophecy, therefore, and say to them: Thus said the Lord God: I am going to open your graves and lift you out of your graves, O My people, and bring you to the land of Israel.”¹

Israel regathered is perhaps the most powerful indication we are living in the last days predicted in God’s Word.

Ezekiel 36 & 37 have already been fulfilled. Can we doubt that Ezekiel 38 & 39 will be fulfilled?

In previous Updates we’ve seen how the nations named in those passages are aligning against Israel. While there is debate among Bible scholars as to the exact timing of the invasion of Israel from the North by that coalition, we can no longer doubt that it will, in fact, occur just as God has said.

Something else will occur just as God has said. Jesus will return to resurrect His church. When He does, living believers will be raptured along with the dead in Christ rising. It’s a prophesied event that is presented as being imminent. It could happen any moment.

These are the last days.

Get ready, stay ready, keep looking up.

Ready or not, Jesus is coming!

1. http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/PMSpeaks/speechauchwitz270110.htm [↩]

1 Corinthians 15.50-58 – Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Saint

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Ezekiel 13.17-23 – Black Magic Women

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