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Revelation 11 reveals that the two witnesses will be killed at the middle point of the Tribulation and the
whole world will watch and celebrate as their bodies lay on the street in Jerusalem. Today, live satellite
technology allows people all around the world to watch an event occurring almost anywhere in the
world.

Revelation 13 reveals that unless people take the identifying mark of the beast on their forehead or the
back of their hand they cannot buy or sell. The technology of each person having an implantable chip on
their forehead or the back of their hand, which will be used for identification and financial transactions,
is already developed and ready for use. In the US, we plant chips in dogs to locate them should they run
away. Around 50 employees at Wisconsin-based Three-Square Market have had microchips implanted
between their forefingers and thumbs that are designed to allow them to more easily make purchases
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and enter the office. The technology is here, and people are willing to take the chip.

1 Timothy 4:1-5 and 2 Timothy 3:1-5 prophesy changes in people on the earth in the last days.

1 Timothy 4:1–5 (NIV84)1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and
follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars,
whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to
abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and
who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received
with thanksgiving, 5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

2 Timothy 3:1–5 (NIV84)1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be
lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful,
unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness
but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

These descriptions of the end times are becoming more and more true in our day.

Jewish Political Preparations

While the Tribulation period will bring the age of the Gentiles to an end, God will again be ministering to
and through the Jewish people. Many of the prophetic events of the Tribulation period, especially as
revealed by Jesus in Matthew 24-25, deal with the Jewish people. Therefore, we should be watching
the Nation of Israel.

The fact that Israel is back in the land after being gone for over 1,800 years, is a very important
development. In 1948, Israel again became a nation in the land around Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 37:21–22 (NIV84)21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the
Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them
back into their own land. 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There
will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two
kingdoms.

At least 10 Biblical prophesies received their fulfillment in 1948 when the Jewish people finally received
their ancestral home in Israel. Amos prophesied that the Jews would once again have the land of Israel

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