How Identity Theft, Online Fraud and the Faltering Dollar are Intersecting to Bring The Mark of the Beast!

One was boiled in hot oil and deported to an isolated island to live his days out in solitary confinement! One has set his sights on doing whatever is necessary to make America great again! One just wanted to downsize into a comfortable retirement home and one just thought she would spend the cold winter afternoon connecting with friends on Facebook! Four separate people with four totally different life callings and none of them ever crossed paths and met but each had a story that helps paint a picture of how Revelation 13 will play out . And how the time of its fulfillment seems …STARTLINGLY CLOSE!

90 A.D. …SMALL ROCKY ISLAND..AEGEAN SEA

His existence had become a lonely one . The once labeled “beloved apostle of Christ” had become a banished hermit on a desolate island destined to die in isolation because the authorities couldn’t figure out another way to kill him. They had boiled him in hot oil but that method didn’t work and for fear they may be dealing with a religious man that no one should mess with , they decided their best bet was to send him away where he never would be heard from again . That idea had once crossed Pharaoh’s mind as he sent Moses across the desert only to have him return with a vengeance . Rome’s attempt to silence John would have a similar ending . 

As John sits alone with his thoughts , the Lord Jesus Christ in all His Glory appears to him and explains the unfolding of the Church age and the eschatology of all the end things to come . Particularly difficult for John to comprehend is how one day the entire world will be marked and required to worship a diabolical ruler who will control the commerce of the whole earth . A false religious leader will help enforce this system and dissenters will pay for their opposition with their life . How could this be ?

How could everyone in the world be under the watchful eye of one man ? How could even their ability to buy or sell something or even to purchase a morsel of food to eat be completely under the power of this one global dictator and his prophet? 

“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.  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, 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. This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.”

-Rev 13:15-18

John wrote it all down faithfully just as the Lord told him to. He was shown the visions of it but it was beyond his grasp to understand . The technology of it and the details made little sense to a first century man but one thing he could tell for sure. The Beast to come would be dreadful, powerful and would act swiftly to implement his agenda at the close of history . And the only way of stopping him ….would be the second coming of Jesus Christ !

NEAR MIDNIGHT….NOVEMBER 8, 2016

He was as surprised as anyone in the room but confidently smiled and proclaimed that America was ready to start winning again and would do exactly that under his patriotic watch . Just having been elected the 45th President of the United States, the man beamed with hope and pride. Donald Trump had been a brilliant businessman and entrepreneur with a keen sense of timing to seemingly always be in the right place at the right time . He knew how to get things done and he was sure that America was ready for a shrewd deal maker to take charge of the country and drain the wasteful swamp that the American political system had become . He was aware that the opposition would be great and he watched everyone like a hawk knowing very few could be trusted . But even he had no idea how viscous the opposition would be . ..or from what spiritual realm they would be attacking him from !

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” -Eph 6:12

For four long years they hounded him with a satanic hatred! Tribunals, conspiracies, impeachments, false accusations and fabricated crimes were all leveled against him to rid the country of the “people’s choice “  as commander and chief…. But incredibly, nothing they tried worked . The economy was soaring . There were no notable wars happening anywhere in the world . Even minority unemployment was the lowest in American history and it seemed conceivable that against all odds (and all the evil plans of the Democrat party and the demonic realm) Trump was actually fulfilling his promise to “Make America Great Again!” 

Then … came the pandemic . Destruction of small businesses through forced closures. Destruction of jobs. Supply line stoppages. Lockdowns. Etc … etc… etc… We all know the story. The thriving Trump economy was halted dead in its tracks but not only that, the voting policies and laws were changed to make the unimaginable 2020 election farce a reality . 

Perhaps worst of all were all the massive government stimulus packages  passed to bail out all who were affected financially by the Covid crisis . Waste upon waste as one bill after another continued to pummel our economy and sink the dollar lower and lower in value as the National deficit hit over 35 Trillion …and still growing. 

With the American dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and our nation hopelessly swimming in debt, the entire planet is on economic life support currently . Trump is miraculously back in office after winning the 24’ election by a landslide but we are a far worse off  nation economically in 2025 than we were when he was first sworn into office back in 2017. New findings of massive government waste are being uncovered daily now but it appears too late. The only thing that may save the planet from the darkest global depression in history could  be a new global currency based on a digital unit of some sort. It seems every nation is currently preparing to convert to digital currency … and the American dollar may soon be taken off life support. Trump is still a supporter of paper currency but he is also a savvy businessman . If it takes a digital dollar to save our economy he will do whatever it takes to keep us on course to his version of Greatness! 

Digital currency is no longer a matter of if… but when!

BITTER COLD FEBRUARY EVENING…2022

Her husband of 57 years had just passed away two months before and now the still-grieving widow was snowed into her home on the coldest day of the year. With temperatures at zero and the wind chill of minus 20 it wasn’t safe for her to venture outside so she decided to hunker down in her cozy family room and connect with some old friends on Facebook and see pictures of her great grandchildren that the family may have posted building snowmen on this wintry day. 

As she scrolled the social media site, a post appeared that said “ want to see what Sally Fields looks like today? You won’t believe it!” The question raised her interest because as a young woman many people always felt she resembled Sally Field a lot . So she clicked on the picture . INSTANTLY a warning flashed across her computer screen that she had been INFECTED with a computer virus and a button appeared saying “click here to contact Microsoft immediately : You have been hacked “ ! She obeyed the command and another message appeared on the screen with a telephone number saying “call this number now” to avoid having your IDENTITY and FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS STOLEN !  In panic she picked up her phone and punched in the number . 

For the next three hours a man kept her on the phone . Insisting her vital information stored in the computer had been hacked and that her retirement savings was on the way to a foreign untraceable bank account that would soon disappear leaving her destitute. He convinced her that her phone had also been hacked and she could not call her son to get help because his phone would be hacked then too and he also would lose everything . The scammer even warned that time was of the essence and that she only had an hour or less to save her financial situation so calling the police would only delay her ability to act swiftly and ruin any chance she would have of stopping her life savings from being stolen. Her only hope …. Was to follow his instructions carefully ! But… he said he was more than happy to connect her with her bank’s fraud prevention department! 

After asking which institution she banked with , the man on the phone connected her with another voice . This one supposedly a local man from her regular bank . The new voice said he was from her banking institution and yes indeed she had been hacked . But he told her that it takes time to transfer the money out of her account and there was one way to save it . She needed to make a minimum $4000 deposit in her account immediately to flood the banks deposit and withdraw system and freeze her account up. Using another card like a credit card would take time and would not work . Only instant cash cards like Amazon gift cards would work so she needed to immediately go and get $4000 worth of gift cards and give the PIN numbers to the fraud prevention man to apply to her account . Time was wasting . And because the weather was too snowy and icy for her to drive , she set out on foot to walk to the nearest grocery for the gift cards. 

For nearly a mile she struggled to tread through the frozen night… the man still on the phone because he said a disruption of the connection could be terminal for her life savings…finally, she made it to the store . A cap on her debit card only allowed her to obtain $3000 worth of gift cards and the purchase raised eyebrows with the checkout girl but the woman didn’t say a word for fear that any disruption would rob her of all hope to finish the task. After nearly 90 minutes, shivering badly and mentally frazzled, she made it home and read off the PIN numbers to the man on the phone . He said he would get to work and let her know if his plan worked within a matter of a few hours. She was riddled with fear and anxiety. Then .. the phone call ended! 

Afterward she waited ! And waited . Her son called, worried because he has not been able to contact her all afternoon . She was brief and gave no details but said she had gotten into some trouble and would explain later . He immediately drove to her home through the cold sub-zero gusts and heard her tale. She said the man on the phone was from the bank and  was  trying to protect her from scammers . He quickly diagnosed the situation and told her that the man on the phone WAS the scammer and the only money that she lost was the $3000 in gift cards she has just supplied him with . She was relieved but felt foolish and ashamed at the same time for being outwitted . 

If only there were some way to police the internet to prevent these scammers from taking advantage of the elderly she thought …That kind of security would be a God-send! 

JULY 2015…SOUTH BEND, INDIANA

The retired lady had just received the news that her offer on a condominium half the size of her current home had been accepted . She was ready to down-size and get into a place that was easier to care for and provided lawn care so she could travel more often and visit family without the worry of having to find someone to watch after her home. 

The new place was costly and in a brand new development that offered recreational facilities and walking trails. She had enough cash saved to avoid a loan and figured she would reimburse her funds when her current home of 25 years had sold. After phoning her daughter with the news, she decided to check her email and see if her broker had sent her Home Owner Association Documents for her new place to review. Instead … she saw an introductory welcome email from a title company with information and wiring instructions for her new purchase . She quickly opened the greeting . 

The letter said they were the title company handling all the closing process and because it was a cash transaction and no bank loan, the process would be simplified and accelerated if she would go ahead and wire the money from her bank to the title company as soon as possible so they could get things ready. She saw no reason to wait since she had made her assets liquid recently and had all the money in her savings account  to pay for the new condo. She printed off the wiring instructions, got in her car,  and headed to her bank to start the process. 

20 minutes later, her transaction was complete. She headed home believing her new place had been paid for in full and now was just the formality of signing the necessary papers to make it all legal. Sadly, what she didn’t know was that a hacker had recently emailed a virus to someone working in the real estate firm which was representing the woman in her purchase.  Since the network in that office was

Not secure with the right virus protection, everyone working there had been infected including the woman’s real estate agent. The criminal  had successfully infiltrated their system and when he saw the woman’s agent send a title policy order to a local title company, he spoofed the name of the title company with a false document requesting the wire and sent it to the buyer . The  fake email included an untraceable Wiring account number to an account that had just been opened for this purpose under a false name. Once her money was sent and received It was immediately stolen and the account disappeared before anyone knew.

It took the lady a couple days to even know she had been heisted . When she called her agent to see if everything was good for closing, the agent gave the buyer an amount and wiring instructions that didn’t match what she had previously received . When she told her agent she had already wired the money the agent got suspicious and contacted the title agent. That’s when everyone realized what had happened and that the woman was out her entire purchase amount without ever getting the new home she coveted.  

She was utterly devastated!

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER…

So what does it all mean and how are these 4 individuals’ experiences tied together to somehow point to the endgame John’s vision revealed ?  Let’s take a look at some ways :

1. Obviously the technology has been built and continues to evolve into devices that allow for scams to thrive and fraud to increase. Many people can be easily confused by their online visits and become  easy prey for savvy internet criminals. 

2. Due to the increased frequency of cashless purchases and the explosion of credit and debit options with Apple Pay, PayPal, bank cards, etc… the world is already easing into a paperless economy so the moment a digital currency becomes available, it will not be the culture shock it would have been a generation ago . In fact with the availability of cryptocurrencies in recent years, many will see no change in their financial processes at all. 

3. The fear of identity theft has raised the level of anxiety in millions of the elderly in recent years because they are easy prey for the higher tech online scammers. While the older generations would most likely be the ones to object to a cashless system due to their more traditional understanding of freedom and liberty, they are being forced to accept ideas like a digital ID and Digital currencies for fear of losing everything to a mistaken click of a mouse if they don’t conform. 

4. The under 40 crowd basically abandoned the desire to carry cash with their first real job and most of them use their cards for all purchases with little concern for paper money at any time . Accepting the digital currencies will be a no-brainer for them. 

5. As we saw with the pandemic, FEAR changes everything in a society. And those seeking massive change will use that fear to shame, terrify, coerce and ultimately offer incentives with their solution, in order to bring about the change they want. When digital currencies are ready to be rolled out to the masses, a digital ID will be needed to ensure everyone has only one online identity to protect anyone’s online assets from future fraud. Once that takes place , digital currency will be incentivized to get the majority on board . And finally, those who still hold out will be given ultimatums to turn in their paper currency within a certain time frame or the money will become worthless after a certain date. 

THE COMING MARK

I was told nearly 13 years ago that Interment cyber crime is now the number one money making industry in the world and that even small companies like the one I managed at the time are not safe from losing everything through computer viruses unless anti-virus protection is kept constantly updated. That was like a millennia ago in the cyber world .  

Now Add AI to the mix . If cybercrime was so deceptive and successful over the last decade , imagine what it will be like with AI technology in the hands of those seeking to steal the wealth of unsuspecting  people ! Breaking codes for passwords and figuring out usernames was possible  for experienced hackers even before AI. But what took them hours or days to figure out may only take a second for an AI program . Deception will be far more convincing with AI impersonating loved ones, mimicking voices and aiding criminals in ways the general public will have no way of detecting .  As the cyber world enters uncharted territory with artificial intelligence, so will the world of high crime.  And thus the need for higher security measures to protect the public. 

In addition to the skyrocketing tech advancements making cybercrime an even bigger threat, we simultaneously are seeing paper currency going the way of the dinosaur. It is too easy to steal and counterfeit, and too difficult to keep track of if you are a surveillance society wanting to control the activities of people . A new digital currency fully controlled by the banking system (and the government that oversees it) is going to be necessary to stop the cybercrime networks in their tracks and restore a felling of stability and protection for the savings and identity of the people. In other words , to provide the citizens with peace and safety once again in regards to their identity and belongings . 

President Donald J Trump is no dummy. He has surrounded himself this term  with people who offer brilliant ideas and plans to move the world forward in the necessary direction to keep up with the technological advancements . He knows the dollar is being questioned and abandoned by a lot of the world and that decades of unbalanced trade agreements with other nations have been detrimental to American manufacturing . His tariffs may help or hurt . We are not sure at this point although the objective makes sense for American independence but one way or another, the digital age is bringing about the need for a new safer global accounting method with a new type of currency  and Trump will not be left standing on the sidelines when the digital currency age commences . He will be taking charge of it . 

And this is where we now stand . A president who needs solutions to America’s waning financial system . A bitter global order that would like to distance itself from an American dollar led currency system. A world that needs to combat identity theft and online fraud while there is still time . And an Apostle who saw it all coming 2000 Years ago and how it would ultimately play out . 

“And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” -Rev 13:14-18

John saw it all coming . In an age where the technology to control every transaction globally was unfathomable, John saw it and it has taken 2 millennia for tech to catch up with the Bible . But now we are here at the exact moment John spoke of.  It is time for people to surrender to a new form of ID that will make them safe online…as well as a new currency that will help fix the global financial woes and make accounting infinitely more efficient and traceable . The people have been conditioned by the fear of inflation, fraud and identity theft to surrender their privacy and individual freedoms for a little safety . And remember what Benjamin Franklin (one of our founding fathers ) once said : "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,"

Sadly, once the liberty and privacy are forfeited to the new digital ID and digital currency age , they will never be enjoyed again because of what their compliance will ultimately lead to …The Mark Of The Beast! 

ON THE DOORSTEP OF 666………

So once the people all have accepted a new digital identity , and a digital currency … they will be slaves to the global order . At first it may seem great because everyone will be easily identifiable online with no fake identities or scammers to fear . And perhaps purchases will seem more secure and maybe even more affordable for a short time . But as China is showing now with its social credit scores and complete dictatorial governance of its people , if anyone disagrees with the new governmental

Policies or the system , they may find their bank accounts no longer accessible and their freedoms are completely lost along with their access…. And then the worst will come ! 

Once the Antichrist takes over and the MARK OF THE BEAST transforms the new digital system into a life and death decision , it will be too late to revolt :

“Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Rev 13:4

The answer is NOBODY!  It will then go from a decision about liberty to a decision about living or dying . If you refuse the Beast’s mark then you will be cut off from the economy . And if you refuse to worship the Image of the Beast you will be killed :

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” -Rev 13:15

Perhaps this Image will be an AI system possessed by a Demon as the old Ouija boards were ? A Demon making Artificial Intelligence appear to be sentient ? Demanding worship as a new scientific god perhaps ? Possibly ! We can’t be certain but we know it’s coming and it will be carrying the power of the sword to take the life of those who refuse to worship it ! 

But … it gets even worse . The loss of liberty from the system destroys your freedom . The refusal to take the MARK will cost you your ability to function and even eat .. The refusal to worship the Image will cost your life. And then this :

“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” - Rev 14:9-11

Those who take the MARK will be DAMNED !

CONCLUSION…

Major change always requires conditioning . No one wants to change drastically and be pushed out of their comfort zone but they will agree to it if change is subtle or if a crisis requires it for their safety. That is what we have been seeing with all the fraud, identity theft , and desire to thrive in a debt based system over the last two decades . People will give up privacy and  liberty to make sure their wealth is secured . They will give up their freedom to carry cash in order to have a higher spending limit on a card . And soon they will surrender everything to a system they think will protect them and watch out for their financial well being . But they will be so so wrong !

Technology is all here to bring about the Mark of the Beast and to usher in the Antichrist’s ruthless tyrannical system . The groundwork is being laid down even today as the world unknowingly prepares itself to be enslaved by Satan’s global deception after the Rapture of the Church takes place . AI, Digital ID and Digital currency are all coming on the scene together to bring the Beast system’s economy to life and once they are completely ready… nothing will stop them from fulfilling their evil destiny . As Victor Hugo said in “The Future of Man”…

“Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

No nothing in the world , even the armies , will

Be able to stop the Beast system … only the Heavenly Army Led by the King of Kings will be able to conquer it … And He will !!!

“ I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

king of kings and lord of lords.”

-Rev 19:11-16