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FULFILLMENT OF BIBLE PROPHECY
IN TODAY'S NEWS

Newspaper, radio, and television news reports repeatedly show that ancient, centuries-old Bible prophecies are now being fulfilled. These prophecies proclaim one truth: JESUS THE CHRIST IS RETURNING FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! Read a sample of these prophecies and the news reports of events which pave the way for Jesus' return in our lifetime.

God has given us His plan for the end of the age of grace, and we now live in the last days of this age. All prophecies pointing to Jesus' return have been sufficiently fulfilled for His return. He can appear in the clouds to call His believers to join Him at any moment. In this Website, current news stories and ancient Bible prophecies are correlated to show that THE HOLY BIBLE IS TRUE, GOD IS REAL, and JESUS WILL RETURN SOON. The true significance of events reported daily in the news media can be understood only by studying Bible prophecy. It is impossible to read Bible prophecy with an open mind without coming away with an unshakable belief in God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Prepare to meet Jesus— the Savior of all mankind— in glory and reward, not in shame and punishment. Warn others you know to prepare for His return. Persons who receive salvation through your efforts will be your spiritual children for eternity.

"Remember this... I am God, and there is no other.... I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please." Isaiah 46:8-10

[Says God the LORD] "Behold the former things have come to pass, and the new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." Isaiah 42:9

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WELCOME! Approximately twenty-eight percent (28%) of The Holy Bible is devoted to prophecy, and many of the prophetic verses deal with the end of the age in which we now live. Only a small sample of available prophecy references can be included in this site because of space limitations. Thousands of news items appear in newspapers, television, and magazines every day, and many of these items relate to conditions which will be present at the time of Jesus' return. Only a small sample of pertinent news articles can be included in this site. Prophecies of these events were written in The Holy Bible by men of God many centuries ago.

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WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS,
TERRORISM
BIBLE PROPHECY CURRENT NEWS

BACKGROUND: Jesus prophesied a world filled with wars, rumors of wars, and terrorism prior to His return to Earth. In Jesus' teaching, the Greek word ethnos has been poorly translated as "nation." A better translation is "ethnic group" or "people." This term accurately describes terrorist groups— small groups of people with, at best, only loose connection with any recognized national government.

Since World War II, there has not been a single day free of international war, civil war, or terrorism somewhere in the world. Islam now holds the nations of the Earth— especially the United States ("the great Satan") and Israel ("the little Satan")— in expectation of the next terrorist attack. The September 11, 2001 attack on the United States was a dramatic foretaste of the terrorism to be inflicted on America and Western countries. The unusually meticulous preparation of terrorists and the war on terrorism being conducted in the Middle East has likely delayed additional attacks on America. More likely, the lull in repeat terror attacks may represent God's pattern of judgment: warning, followed by a period of grace (to determine if repentance will occur), followed by judgment (if people do not repent). More terrorism attacks can be anticipated, and weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, or biological) will surely be employed.

See a Wars, Rumors of Wars, Terrorism e-newsletter archived elsewhere in this Website.

REPRESENTATIVE SCRIPTURES: Matthew 24:6-7: [Jesus said] "You will hear or wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things will happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom...."
Mark 13:7-8: [Jesus said] "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom...."
Luke 21:9-10: [Jesus said] "When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away." Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom."
Revelation 6:3-4: When the Lamb [Jesus] opened the second seal, I [John the Revelator] heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword [nuclear weapons?].
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ISRAEL (DESTINY OF AND STRUGGLE FOR)
JERUSALEM (DESIRE OF MANY AND SOURCE OF CONFLICT)
JEWS, HATRED OF (ANTI-SEMITISM)
BIBLE PROPHECY CURRENT NEWS
BACKGROUND: All end-of-the-age prophecy revolves around:
  1. God's Covenant people (the Jews), God's Covenant land (Israel), and God's Holy City (Jerusalem), at a time when the Jews occupy Israel; and
  2. How the nations of the Earth treat the Jews.
Many Bible prophecies have been fulfilled since May, 1948, e.g., the return of the Jews from nearly 1,900 years of exile (the Diaspora); the re-birth of a Jewish nation under the name "Israel," with language and religious practices intact; return to Israel of sons and daughters of Zion from around the world; and intense hatred of the Jews by all nations and peoples of the world. After the 1948 re-establishment of Israel, God has promised to provide victory for Israel against all future assaults. Israel is under Divine protection, and all of her enemies will be destroyed.

REPRESENTATIVE SCRIPTURES: Genesis 12:2-3: [The LORD speaking to Abram, who would be re-named Abraham, said] "I will make unto you a great nation* and I will bless you.... I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse...." *EXPLANATION: This promised great nation, rising as sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are the Jews. After Jesus, His followers— Christians— were grafted into God's "olive tree" (Israel). See a God's Two Olive Trees e-newsletter archived elsewhere in this Website.

Only Jews and Christians are in fellowship with God. Only Jews and Christians have a right to own Jerusalem and Israel. Others who claim Israel and Jerusalem, e.g., Muslims, have a counterfeit claim. The Arabs' inheritance is to land east of Israel, i.e., the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' gift from God is not His Covenant relationship, but His grace for salvation— a gift available to every person in the world.


Amos 9:11-15: "In that day I will restore David's fallen tent [the nation of Israel], I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be; so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name," declares the LORD, who will do these things. "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from the hills. I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God. EXPLANATION: Prior to 1948, present-day Israel was a sparsely populated, impoverished, unproductive wasteland. Since the Jews' return in 1948, the land has become a vibrant, productive, modern, democratic country, by the grace of God and in fulfillment of His promise to the Jews.
Zechariah 12:2-4, 6: "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah [Israel] will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness," declares the LORD. "I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. | On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place." EXPLANATION: God will not permit Israel to be defeated in battle after the Jews' final return (in 1948) to the Covenant Land. Nations of the world will turn against Israel and hate the Jews, but they cannot— they will not— defeat Israel because an all-powerful God will defend the Jews and defeat providentially all of the Jews' enemies!
Psalm 83:2-8: See how your [God's] enemies are astir, how your foes raise their heads. With cunning they conspire against your people [the Jews]; they plot against those you cherish. "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more." With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you— the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. Even Assyria has joined them.... EXPLANATION: This list of ancient peoples is the same list of Arab/Muslim nations now fanatically desiring to push the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea, that the nation of Israel will never exist again.
Ancient place names in which these enemies of Israel lived (live) and modern equivalents are:
  • Edom: ancient Palestine between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba— Edomites were descendants of Esau, twin brother of Jacob (Israel);
  • Ishmaelites: Arabian Peninsula— Ishmaelites were descendants of Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar;
  • Moab: land east of the Dead Sea in present-day southwest Jordan— Moabites were descendants of Lot and his daughter;
  • Hagrites: similar to Ishmaelites (see above), Hagrites lived in desert land east and south of ancient Palestine (Israel)— Hagrites were descendants of Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar;
  • Gebal: mountainous land of Edom (see above) south of the Dead Sea, now called Djebal;
  • Ammon: an ancient kingdom east of the Jordan River in present-day northwest Jordan; its capital, Rabbath-Ammon, was on the site of present-day Amman, Jordan; the Ammonites were descendants of Lot and his daughter;
  • Amalek: Amalek, Esau's grandson, gave rise to Israel's perpetual enemy, the Amalekites, an ancient nomadic people in Canaan and the Sinai Peninsula:
  • Philistia: ancient land in southwestern Palestine along the important Egypt-Syria trade route— its people were the Philistines, long-standing enemies of the Israelites;
  • Tyre: ancient Phoenician city on the eastern Mediterranean Sea in present-day southern Lebanon; and
  • Assyria: an ancient Asian civilization, which included much of the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and as far south as the Persian Gulf.

Ezekiel, chapter 37: SUMMARY: The LORD gave Ezekiel a vision: He saw a valley littered with many dry bones. The LORD said He would restore the bones. They were joined together and were covered with flesh, as men and women, but they did not breathe. Then, breath came to them from the "four winds", and the assembled forms had the breath of life. The LORD said that these bones depicted the whole house of Israel. The LORD promised to bring His people back to the land of Israel. Ezekiel was then told to take two sticks of wood, writing "Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him" on one and "Ephraim's stick belonging to Joseph and all of the house of Israel associated with him" on the other. Ezekiel was told to unite the two sticks into one because they will never again be divided. Then, "David" will be King over them and they will follow God's laws. COMMENT: This important prophecy, written nearly 2,600 years ago, surely was written for our time. In AD 70, Roman legions defeated the Jewish people, destroyed their Temple, and either slaughtered the Jews or carried them into captivity throughout the world— a nearly nineteen-century period known as "the Diaspora." The Jews remained dispersed until May 14, 1948, when they returned to re-establish Israel (the dry bones becoming flesh). Since 1948, the Jews have re-built Israel under one government (the two sticks joined as one), and God has promised they never again will be defeated. Jews from all parts of the world (the breath from the four winds— the four cardinal points of the world) have come to Israel. Rule under "David" will not occur until the Millennial Kingdom, when Jesus Christ will rule the world and all nations will know and worship God (Jesus was from the House of David— see Jesus' genealogy in the Gospels) and was sometimes called "Son of David.".
Deuteronomy 30:1-5, 7: When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul... then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you back to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.... | The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you....

SUMMARY: As present-day events spiral out of control, one country and one people are and will remain at the center of the world's turmoil— exactly as foretold in The Holy Bible by the writings of prophets thousands of years ago.

The descendants of Abraham's two sons— Isaac and Ishmael— will continue contending for the land given by God to Abraham and his son Isaac. As The Holy Bible clearly states:

  • God gave the Jews (see Genesis) and the Christians (see Romans) the land of Israel, made Jerusalem His Holy City, and gave the Jews His eternal blessing.
  • God gave the land east of Israel— including the Arabian Peninsula— to the descendants of Ishmael (the Arabs), Lot (the Moabites and Ammonites), and Esau (the Edomites).
  • The important blessing God extended to Ishmaelites and their cousins (Arabs, or centuries later, the Muslims) is His grace, that they may convert from Islam to Christianity and receive eternal life in Heaven. God's grace is available to every person in the world.

The lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (the Jews) are the rightful heirs of the Covenant Land (Israel) and God's Holy City in that Land (Jerusalem). This lineage continues through David and Jesus Christ, so that engrafted, or "adopted," Jews (Christians) are also the rightful heirs of the Covenant Land and Jerusalem.

The lineage of Abraham and Hagar, of Ishmael, of Esau, of Lot, and sons of Abrahah and Keturah— present-day Muslims— are not the heirs of Israel and Jerusalem.

The Holy Bible clearly informs that the struggle between Jews and Christians and their enemies will increase dramatically prior to the return of Jesus; that the conflict between followers of the God of Israel (Jehovah for Jews and Christians) and other gods (Allah for the Muslims and secular humanism for the Europeans) will take peace from the Earth; and that mankind will not achieve lasting peace until the return (the Second Coming) of Jesus the Messiah.

Expect wars, rumors of wars, and violence to continue in the Middle East and elsewhere until the Lord Jesus Christ returns to bind Satan and stop the warring nature of man. Expect Jews to continue coming home to Israel from all parts of the world to fulfill prophecy of an aliyah (rising up to go home) of Jews in the last days.




RELATED REFERENCE SITES:
+ The Mitchell Report (April 30, 2001)... Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-finding Committee Final Report.
+ The Tenet Plan (June 13, 2001)... The Tenet Plan: Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire and Security Plan, Proposed by CIA Director George Tenet.
+ The Wye River Memorandum
+ UNISPAL... United Nations Information Site on the Question of Palestine.
+ The Palestinian National Charter
+ Peace in the Middle East: Senate floor statement by U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), March 4, 2002
+ Zola Levitt Ministries— On the home page, click on "The History of Israel in a Nutshell"
+ The Search for Peace (The United States of America Embassy in Israel)
+ U.S. State Department: Middle East Peace Process
+ The Peace Process Reference Documents
+ CAMERA Media Report (The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
+ Israel's Timeline
+ The Bible promises that the Jews will rebuild the Third Temple. The Western Wall is the only part of the Second Temple which remains at the present time.
WISDOM AND TRUTH IN TWO SENTENCES:
I cannot give credit where due because I do not remember who said the following two sentences, but they sum up the present powderkeg situation in Israel:

If the Palestinians lay down their arms, there will be no more war.
If the Israelis lay down their arms, there will be no more Israel.



STATISTICS FOR AMERICANS TO UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL: (population numbers are close approximations)
  • The population of Jews in Israel is 6.75-million (2006 estimate).
  • The population of the United States is 301.14-million (July, 2007 estimate).
  • For every 1 Israeli Jew, there are approximately 44.6 Americans (301.14/ 6.75 = 44.6).
  • An American should multiply each Israeli death by 44.6 to appreciate the equivalent loss of life in the U.S.A.
  • For example, if a homicide bomber "only" kills 1 innocent, civilian Jew in Israel, it would be equivalent to 45 Americans killed by a terrorist; 10 killed Israeli Jews would be equivalent to 446 killed Americans; 200 killed Israeli Jews would be equivalent to 8,920 killed Americans; and so forth.
  • Americans would demand that the U.S. government stop such terrorism on American soil by any means possible, if such carnage were inflicted by terrorists. Should Americans demand less protection of her citizens by the Israeli government?

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EUROPEAN UNION (E.U.)— THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE
BIBLE PROPHECY CURRENT NEWS

BACKGROUND: The Jewish prophet Daniel served as King Nebuchadnezzar's slave in Babylon. The King had a troubling dream about a magnificent statue. With guidance from God, Daniel was the only one who could interpret the dream. This interpretation is found in Daniel, chapter 2. Even though the Book of Daniel was written more than 2,500 years ago, the prophetic interpretation of the dream has been inerrant in predicting the great empires that would affect the Jews from Daniel's time to the present time. There is no reason to believe that the remaining portion of the prophecy will not be fulfilled in the future.

The statue's parts and what the parts represented are:

  • Head of gold: Babylonian Empire (the dominant empire in Daniel's time)
  • Chest and arms of silver: Medo-Persian Empire
  • Belly and thighs of bronze: Grecian Empire (Greece)
  • Legs of iron: Roman Empire (Rome).
At the time of Jesus, this part of the dream had been fulfilled. John had a vision of a similar beast in Revelation, chapter 17.

But the dream continued. The legs of iron (representing the Roman Empire, which by now has passed into history) will sprout feet and toes made of iron and clay. Multiple toes represent multiple nations of the revived Roman Empire— the European Union (E.U.)— which will occupy the land previously ruled by Rome. The mixed composition will note a mixture of strong nations (iron) and weak nations (clay). As prophesied, the E.U. is a mixture of strong and weak nations, and blending these nations into a single united states of Europe has at times been difficult and controversial (just as clay and iron do not mix well together).

But the dream still continued. A stone cut without hands (which is a Biblical metaphor for Jesus the Messiah) will crush the toes and, then, will become a mountain covering the Earth. This prophecy coincides with other prophecies that Jesus, at His Second Coming, will crush the armies at Armageddon (including the army of the E.U.) and will establish His Kingdom worldwide (the Millennial Kingdom).

Fulfillment of the final part of Daniel's prophetic interpretation began in 1948— the same year the Jews were allowed to return to Israel to re-establish Israel after nineteen centuries of dispersion into other countries (the Diaspora) and the same year dozens of other end-of-the-age prophecies were fulfilled! European countries were weary of war (two world wars had been fought on their continent in three decades) and were frightened that they were sandwichewd between two nuclear powers. Three small countries— Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg— formed the Benelux federation, which has grown into a multi-national alliance of nations, the European Union.

The E.U. now occupies much of the land formerly occupied by the Roman Empire. The E.U. now has a single monetary system (currency), which is the first time this has happened since the collapse of the Roman Empire many centuries ago. The E.U. is building an impressive military force, in an attempt to replace NATO and the United States in the "defense" of Europe. The E.U. is actively engaged in international affairs, in an attempt to replace American diplomacy and influence. The E.U. grows economically stronger each day.

In addition to the preceding trappings of a world superpower, two other events are shaping the future E.U.: (1) Once strongly or nominally Christian nations are becoming apostate. The worship of God is irrelevant for many Europeans. Many European churches would be empty today, except that they remain favorite tourist attractions. In Europe, secular humanism has largely replaced Christianity. (2) Many European nations are gripped with anti-Semitism. Jews have long been hated in many parts of Europe (witness the Jewish Holocaust in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s), and countries such as France are intensely anti-Semitic. E.U. policies favor Palestine and the Arabs over Israel and the Jews.

The situation thus described sets the stage for the Tribulation. A powerful people— with great military, technical, and economic might, not guided by the precepts of God and antagonistic toward Jews— will be led by a charismatic man, the Antichrist, to make war against God's people.

REPRESENTATIVE SCRIPTURES: Daniel 2:41-43): [Daniel said] "Just as you [Nebuchadnezzar] saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay." COMMENT: Daniel in later life had other visions, foretelling more precisely the nature of the empires portrayed in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, including the role of the E.U. and the Antichrist. See Daniel 7:1-28; 8:1-27; 9:20-27; 11:36-45.




RELATED REFERENCE SITES:
+ EUobserver.com
+ Web Site of the European Union
+ Europa Rising (Chuck Missler):
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THE ANTICHRIST AND HIS GOVERNMENT,
INCLUDING THE FALSE PROPHET AND HIS FALSE RELIGION
The Unholy Trinity: Satan, Antichrist, and False Prophet
BIBLE PROPHECY CURRENT NEWS
BACKGROUND: Since his expulsion from Heaven, Satan, the enemy of God, and the angels who fell with him have tried to defeat God's plans and God's people. This battle between the good of God and the evil of Satan will intensify as Satan's time grows short. The evil of Satan will become especially intense and wicked during the Tribulation, a seven-year period after the Rapture/Resurrection and immediately prior to the Second Coming of Jesus. There will arise a man, the Antichrist, who will promote Satan's kingdom during the Tribulation. He will be aided by the False Prophet, possibly an apostate Christian or apostate Jew, who will develop a new religion to worship the Antichrist and Satan. Many scholars believe the Antichrist will arise from the European Union (the revived Roman Empire). Recall, though, that the Roman Empire covered many present-day nations including Great Britain, western Europe, Mediterranean nations, and the eastern part of the Middle East, extending to Egypt. He certainly will do Satan's bidding, as Satan attempts to establish a kingdom on Earth to thwart the return of Jesus Christ. Every plan of Satan (through the Antichrist) will be an evil counterfeit of God's plan. Thus, in his kingdom— a counterfeit imitation of God's Kingdom in Heaven, Satan will establish an unholy trinity, an imitation of the Holy Trinity, with Satan attempting to replace God the Father, the Antichrist attempting to replace Jesus the Christ, and the False Prophet attempting to replace the Holy Spirit. The Antichrist will be the First Seal Judgment of the Tribulation in Revelation (Revelation 6:1-2). The Antichrist will come to world prominence when he affirms a peace pact between Israel and her Middle Eastern enemies. At heart, he will be a man of war, and this peace pact will be short-lived. The Antichrist will march into Israel and defile the third Jewish Temple. The influence of the Antichrist will be widespread throughout the world, as he works to establish a one-world (global) government, a one-world cashless financial system, and a one-world sham religion. Not all of the world will follow him, though. Anything at the present time which attempts to unify the world in government, a financial system, or religion serves to prepare people to accept the ultimate global power scheme of the Antichrist during the Tribulation. Watch for the "spirit of the Antichrist" to usher in the actual antichrist. Jesus warned us to not be deceived by and follow false Christs (Matthew 24:4-5; Mark 13:5-6; and Luke 21:8).

In The Holy Bible, the Antichrist is given numerous names:

  • Satan's seed (Genesis 3:15);
  • The king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4);
  • The ruler of Tyrus (Ezekiel 28:2-19);
  • The little horn— "another horn, a little one" (Daniel 7:8);
  • A stern-faced king, a master of intrigue (Daniel 8:23-25);
  • The prince who shall come (Daniel 9:26);
  • The willful king (Daniel 11:36);
  • The Assyrian (Isaiah 10:24);
  • The destroyer, the oppressor, the aggressor (Isaiah 16:4);
  • The worthless shepherd (Zechariah 11:16-17);
  • The one who comes in his own name (John 5:43);
  • The man of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3);
  • The man doomed to destruction (2 Thessalonians 2:3);
  • The man of lawlessness, lawless one (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 8-10);
  • The man doomed to destruction (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 8-10);
  • Antichrist (1 John 2:18);
  • The beast (Revelation 11:7); and
  • The first beast that comes out of the sea (Revelation 13:1-10).

REPRESENTATIVE SCRIPTURES: See the above-cited Scriptures for descriptions of the Antichrist. I will not use space to expound further on the Antichrist and False Prophet. A description of the False Prophet (the Beast out of the Earth), including the infamous mark of the Beast he institutes, is found in Revelation 13:11-18.




RELATED REFERENCE SITES:
+ Charter of the United Nations
+ Applied Digital Solutions Company has developed a miniaturized, implantable device, which can store personal data and generate radio frequency transmissions (VeriChipTM); a miniaturized, implantable power source, which generates electricity from body heat (Thermo Life); and an implantable GPS device. While this company may be completely innocent of any future association with the False Prophet, these devices represent the type of technology which likely will be used as the mark of the Beast (Revelation 13:16-17). Advertisements and news articles for these products are presented to show that technology for the mark of the Beast is now available:
+ VeriChipTM
+ Thermo Life
+ GPS implant
+ Humanist Manifestos I and II (American Humanist Association)

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