Mark of the Beast
The beast which will arise is not limited to a region, or country, but will encompass the earth. Even as all men everywhere in the world will be judged, so will all men face the terror.
As God lives in the temples (bodies) of men, so too does a prideful, dark spirit desire a body. Eventually this dark spirit will find a single man to give IT life, but even now those that love the darkness work unknowingly upon the building of the body - creating the bones of steel, nerves of wire, the invisible structure of its thoughts through unseen wireless waves of data, a body of endless computer terminals and servers, and the eyes of countless monitors and cams - and millions of fleshly servants to feed it information.
Even as God breathed life into man, and man then partook of knowledge - so will this beast come to live and know through the eventual technological advances of one man. Then the spirit of darkness shall have a body and a mind.
As this kingdom of iron is being built, so too is man growing into this kingdom. We are being led slowly into an unholy alliance, following willingly the lies of luxury and ease it promises us. The coming tribulations will shock and paralyze world governments - but they will rebound under a central leadership. And most men will still not see the deepening darkness, which is already gathering. Those that do will have already lost their freedom to fight back.
Corporations will gain more and more power, and our governments, presidents and kings will become more and more as figure heads - puppets to the system. All of this is simply the societal restructuring necessary for this "beast" to assimilate men.
Eventually man will lose the control of what he has built - and will serve
the beast he has helped to create. An image of the beast will run throughout men's minds - linked by the wires and wireless
connections of the Internet throughout the world. In all of this, men's
evils will grow as they become slaves to this new technology, which worships
the things of the beast - pride, selfishness, corruption, greed and pure
hatreds - and eventually the image itself. And the image will think
- and it will be awake.
Consider all these things that I
have said, as I will not explain them to any that cannot see.