“Costco, like many major retailers, is rolling out new digital systems:
In some stores, they’re piloting Scan-and-Pay, where you scan items on your phone and pay through the app.
Membership scanners now require a physical card or a digital QR code just to walk in.
Soon you’ll be excusing yourself to AI robots stocking the shelves. Access, identity, and commerce are all being tied together digitally. It’s efficient. It’s convenient. But it does illustrate something.
It’s a system just like you read about in chapter thirteen of the Revelation. John tells us a time is coming when buying and selling will be controlled by a unified system – one that requires authorization to participate. As the Great Tribulation progresses, that participation will be controlled by the Antichrist.
For centuries, people wondered how such a system could be enforced worldwide.
Today, the issue isn’t whether it’s possible. The infrastructure already exists.”
