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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
during the great tribulation. (sermon by Adrian Rogers, The Reassurance of His Coming,
(https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/read/articles/the-reassurance-of-his-coming-
15739.html)

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

The Condition of Mankind before the Revelation of End Time events…

2 Timothy 3: 1-7 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers
of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3.
Unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous,
reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although
they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into
households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always
learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Prophecy:
The “last days” represents the time period between the ascension of Christ and His second coming or
the “Church Age.” According to commentator Warren Wiersbe, “the NT indicates that “the last days”
refers particularly to the state of the church before the coming of Christ. These shall be “perilous” times,
that is, “difficult, hard to deal with.” This is the same word used in Matt. 8:28 to describe the Gadarene
demoniac. Because people will believe the “doctrines of demons” (1 Tim. 4:1ff), this world will become a
“demonic graveyard” just as in Gadara. We are in those days now!”

Twenty-two characteristics will describe the condition of mankind toward the end of the “last days” of
the Church age.

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