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How can one man control the economic systems of all nations?

As we see technology expanding in the world, we see the rise of digital currency. Years ago, most
people exchanged goods or services via cash of some form. However, now the vast majority of
transactions in the world are digital, either through electronic transfer, debit cards, credit cards, or
online transactions. In fact, writing a check or paying by cash is almost unheard of in many families.
Digital currencies exhibit properties of other currencies but they do not have a physical form. They
allow for nearly instantaneous transactions. And they are considered legal tender and more easily
enable ownership transfer across government borders and countries.

Digital money can be centralized, where there is a central point over the money supply. It’s all
transacted through the internet. Access to the transactions people make are readily available from the
databases located in the central point. As quickly as access is granted, access can be denied, as when
your credit limit is reached, and a credit card transaction is denied.

So, is it NOT difficult to see how one person could control the economies of the world! The
infrastructure is already in place for such a process to occur.

The antichrist will be demon possessed and controlled by the Devil. His intellectual genius will be
great. His authority will be overpowering. His hatreds will be extraordinary. His techniques will be
superb. Men will be willing to die for the antichrist. Women will swoon and faint at his feet. Little
children will breathe his name with praise. He will come as a great world leader, part of Satan’s
master plan, which is tied to Satan’s master man.

He will turn this world into a vast concentration camp with all of the inmates numbered. Everyone must
receive a number to buy or sell. No sign, no sell. No mark, no merchandise. He will be evil wickedness
distilled, all of the Hitlers, Napoleons, Stalins, and Saddam Husseins melded into one man.
By computer, all people still on earth at that time will be registered. And they will be regimented with
no escape. The more machines act like men, the more men will act like machines, and they will do that
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during the great tribulation. (sermon by Adrian Rogers, The Reassurance of His Coming,

The events we are witnessing in the news everyday may be the stepping-stones that are going to fulfill
Revelation 13:16-17.

2. Israel will become a nation and will build the third temple.
Isaiah 2:2 foretold that in the last days the Temple of God would stand again. “And it shall come to pass
in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.”

So, we do know that the generation who sees the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem is the
generation living in the last days. The judgment brought to Israel because of her unfaithfulness to the
Lord initiated the “time of the Gentiles.”

Jesus does give one chronological clue about the times of the end. He says, "Jerusalem shall be trampled
underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." (Luke 21:24, NASB). And
then he says something very interesting. He says, "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away
until all things take place.

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