We Are in Biblical Last Days

Imagine walking through a supermarket checkout without stopping, or entering into a room and having the lights turn on without flipping a switch. Or never having to use a credit card again—ever. Medical records would be instantly available to the hospital if you were in an accident away from home. Family members could instantly find each other if they were separated in a crowded mall.

Science fiction? No, it is current technology according to MSNBC on September 27th . To prevent theft, it can be placed under the skin of your body.

There is a downside, however. If other family members can find you in a mall, so can a corrupt government. In fact, your entire life would be instantly available to intrusive bureaucrats, insurance companies and anyone else who can hack computers. The National Security Agency’s Echelon electronic eavesdropping system already scans every e-mail, telephone call, and fax transmission in the world for key words that then trigger a more thorough analysis.

Amazing as it is, this technology was foreseen by the Apostle John while in exile on the Isle of Patmos. During his vision of revelation, John saw a man of evil that; "causeth 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. (Revelation 13:16-17, KJV) Verse 18 states the name of the beast is numerically equivalent to 666. Revelation 14:9-10 warns that anyone who accepts the mark will suffer God’s wrath.

Is this technology a fulfillment of end-times prophecy? In Matthew 24:36, Jesus makes it very clear that no one will know when the last day will occur, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." (KJV) Nonetheless, Jesus also states in verses 32-34 that we can know when the time is near, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." (KJV) The "things" Jesus referred to are dozens of end-times prophecies in the Bible.

While there are disagreements about what these prophecies mean and when they will occur, most scholars agree that the last days will be dominated by a world government and religion. In Daniel chapter 2, Daniel interprets a reoccurring dream of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. The King’s dream was of a large statue. God revealed to Daniel that the gold head was Babylon, and as explained by an angel in Daniel 8:19-22, the silver chest and arms were Medo-Persia, and the bronze belly and thighs were Greece. Daniel’s prophecies are incredibly accurate. He would actually live to see the Medo-Persian armies conquer Babylon.

The fourth kingdom, Rome, was represented by the legs made of iron that degraded into iron mixed with clay. Although Rome initially ruled with an iron fist, it became internally corrupt and gradually destroyed itself from within by fighting between Roman governors vying for the position of Caesar. Invasions from outside forces finished the job.

Western civilization evolved from Roman governance, and Daniel 2:42 records that the empire would eventually reemerge in the form of ten toes, "And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken." Daniel 7:23-24 explains that the ten toes are actually ten kingdoms, "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise..."

While many scholars believe the ten kingdoms are represented by the European Union (EU), the EU has fifteen members, not ten. Yet there is nothing in these prophecies that forces the fourth beast to be within the boundaries of the old Roman empire. The iron represents the type of iron fisted governance that ruled through military-socioeconomic regional governors of Rome.

Although the ten kingdoms will be flexibly administered, global governance, as revealed in UN documents, will result in the type of iron-fisted world government (see DTT, February, 1999) described in Daniel 7:23 and Revelation 13:1 and 17:3, 8 as the beast.

The destruction of the beast described in Revelation 18 makes it very clear that the beast will comprise the international financial/corporate community. Historian Caroll Quigley, in his opus Tragedy and Hope, makes it clear that for over 100 years these financiers have had a far reaching aim to "create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and of the world as a whole...in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert [through] secret agreements." Quigley, a mentor of President Clinton at Georgetown University, was an insider with the power elite, and his book was dedicated to their brilliance.

Like iron, global governance will crush every nation on earth through this abhorrent set of interlocking international treaties, agreements and financial controls. And like clay, these ten kingdoms, if they are actually created, will have nothing to unite them but weak treaties and agreements based in raw deception.

In a dual prophecy, Daniel saw the future world government, like that of Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 175 B.C., led by the master of deceit, the Antichrist, "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many..." (Daniel 8:25)

Revelation 17:3 reveals that the deceit and treachery which brings this beast to power comes from a despicable religion, "I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." Both the beast with the ten horns and the harlot woman (church) need each other to attain world domination.

Known as Babylon the Great, the woman is viewed by God as a filthy prostitute based upon the old Babylon religion of worshiping the earth. Derivations of this religion can be traced throughout history and were the focus of Baalism and the worship of Asherah, Canaan’s fertility goddess, during Old Testament times. Today environmentalism focuses on worshiping the Greek fertility goddess Gaia. Just as John prophesied in Revelation 17, contrived and deceptive environmental holocausts like global warming are being used to justify the need for international treaties, global governance and world religion (see DTT, February, March, June, July, 1999 and this issue).

Are we in the last days prophesied by so many of God’s prophets and Jesus? Every generation since John penned the Book of Revelation has thought they lived in the generation that would see Christ return. There is one major difference between those generations and ours, however. Every prophecy of the last days that had to happen before the tribulation period begins has either been fulfilled or seems to be in the process of fulfillment (see pages 5-6). No other generation can say that. None.

Nonetheless, the return of Christ may still be years, maybe even centuries away. That the world is moving towards iron-fisted global governance, divided into military-socioeconomic regions that are patterned after the EU (see DTT, September, 1999) and the Roman Empire, however, should be a red flag to all Christians.