Sign of the times
2. He answered and said unto them, “When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Matt 16:2-3
I thought I’d stop and take a minute to write about present circumstances. Right now, the world is reeling from COVID-19 and the aftermath of the decisions to halt it’s spread. Part of the effects of those decisions is giving rise to the end times.
But how will you know when the return of the son of man is drawing near? I’ll take a excerpt from Jesus himself:
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 24:4-8
The end is not yet, it is the beginning, of sorrows.
I’m going to focus on verse 7 and 8 here, but am including a larger portion of the passage later for posterity’s sake…
Regarding verse 7 (King James). The greek (actual text, not English translation) has a word for pestilences, which means plagues. Literally. We haven’t seen a disease (or impact from one I should say) like this sort for literally hundreds of years. In fact, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre last closed, during the Black Plague to give some perspective. I’d say COVID-19 counts for the sort of plague Jesus was referring we’d see (and possibly more), which would mark the beginning of the end times…
Likewise, we’re starting to see nations rise up against others with now China, Russia and the United States all vying for power, again. I find it no coincidence we have these disputes with China and the US, and Russia and the US’s nuclear treaties expire late this year, as does the Iran treaty that we’ve abandoned but the rest of the world is still acknowledging also expires later this year. The Middle East I suspect will enter a crisis with oil being virtually zero dollars a barrel, what will those countries dependent on oil exports do now that the money has dried up, if it doesn’t come back? That’s one way world peace can happen (in the Middle East): when they have no choice due to economic conditions but to accept it. That’s another prophecy waiting to happen: the antichrist will negotiate peace in the Middle East.
However, what’s the most alarming are the contact tracing efforts coming in the wake of COVID-19…
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606
That’s a patent from Microsoft, not some small start-up, for a new cryptocurrency system that utilizes public key certificates that are “wearable”, which the European nations want to piggy-back on to prove immunity, or vaccination compliance, as well as establish risk factors and proof of or lack of risk. This is no different than a smart card which can carry multiple certs being married to a cryptocurrency system that’s highly secure and finally being married with “wearability”. Like the iPhone before it, it wasn’t the first certificate based token, it wasn’t the first cryptocurrency, and it wasn’t the first chip to be put into an animal, but it is the first to marry them together in the same way Steve Jobs announced the iPhone: “An iPod, a phone and an internet communicator”. It’s a hybrid of currency and contact tracing meeting each other that’s universal, which stamps out problems of participation, technical hurdles, and a myriad of other issues that stop contact tracing from being truly effective… Its “the” answer. I find it no surprise the patents name and the biblical reference to it…
14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666.
The patent name, W2020 (year), 060606A1. That’s some coincidence…
Obviously folks aren’t being forced to take the mark yet. However, when folks like Governor Inslee make decrees like the one he just did, you can see how this can come about fairly quickly without warning…
“Therefore, those individuals that refuse to cooperate with contact tracers and/or refuse testing, those individuals will not be allowed to leave their homes to purchase basic necessities such as groceries and/or prescriptions.”
Couldn’t make this up.
When you see pacts like California, Oregon and Washington state have made to band together, you can see how that can quickly become gospel where one copies the other’s policies. It’ll become a mandate to have contact tracing, then, it’ll become a mandate that it’s a certain flavor of it, and ultimately that flavor being the mark of the beast. Funny how those coincidences happen…
This is just the beginning of the matter, not the end. I’m simply raising my hand saying, hey, you might want to have a look at this more carefully and be sober and awake for the time draws near (for the return of the son of man).
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Matt 24:9-33
Saturday, May 30, 2020