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Slide 1 Dr. Andy Woods Senior Pastor – Sugar Land Bible Church President – Chafer Theological Seminary ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 2 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 3 Seven Trumpets (Revelation 8‒11) 1. 1 st Trumpet (8:7) – 1/3 vegetation destroyed 2. 2 nd Trumpet (8:8‐9) – 1/3 ocean destroyed 3. 3 rd Trumpet (8:10‐11) – 1/3 water destroyed 4. 4th Trumpet (8:12‐13) – 1/3 luminaries darkened 5. 5th Trumpet (9:1‐12) – Demons released 6. 6th Trumpet (9:13‐21) – 1/3 humanity destroyed 7. 7th Trumpet (11:14‐19) – Legal transfer announced ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

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Dr. Andy WoodsSenior Pastor – Sugar Land Bible Church

President – Chafer Theological Seminary

 

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Slide 3  Seven Trumpets (Revelation 8‒11)

1. 1st Trumpet (8:7) – 1/3 vegetation destroyed

2. 2nd Trumpet (8:8‐9) – 1/3 ocean destroyed

3. 3rd Trumpet (8:10‐11) – 1/3 water destroyed 

4. 4th Trumpet (8:12‐13) – 1/3 luminaries darkened

5. 5th Trumpet (9:1‐12) – Demons released

6. 6th Trumpet (9:13‐21) – 1/3 humanity destroyed

7. 7th Trumpet (11:14‐19) – Legal transfer announced

 

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Slide 5 5 Non‐Chronological Parenthetical Insertions

1. Rev 7 – 144,000 Jews

2. Rev 10:1‐11:13 – Announcement of no more delay and the two witnesses

3. Rev 12‐14 – Israel’s flight, two beasts, six scenes of hope

4. Rev 16:13‐16 – Gathering of the nations to Armageddon

5. Rev 17:1‐19:6 – Babylon’s fall

 

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Slide 6  Revelation 11:15

“Then the seventh angel sounded; and there wereloud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of theworld has become the kingdom of our Lord and ofHis Christ; and He will reign (basileuō) forever andever.’” (cf. Matt. 6:10)

 

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Slide 7 Revelation 12‒14

A. Rev 12 – Israel’s flight

B. Rev 13 – Two beasts

C. Rev 14 – Six scenes of hope

 

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Slide 8 Revelation 12‒14

A. Rev 12 – Israel’s flight

B. Rev 13 – Two beasts

C. Rev 14 – Six scenes of hope

 

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Slide 9 Revelation 12‒14

A. Rev 12 – Israel’s flight

B. Rev 13 – Two beasts

C. Rev 14 – Six scenes of hope

 

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Slide 10  Two Beasts (Revelation 13)

1. First beast (13:1‐10)

2. Second beast (13:11‐18)

 

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Slide 11  Two Beasts (Revelation 13)

1. First beast (13:1‐10)

2. Second beast (13:11‐18)

 

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Slide 12  Two Beasts (Revelation 13)

1. First beast (13:1‐10)

2. Second beast (13:11‐18)

 

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Slide 13  The Second Beast Revelation 13:11‐18

1. His ethnic identity (11a)

2. His character (11b)

3. His purpose (12)

4. His miracles (13)

5. His deception (14a)

6. His image‐statue (14b‐15)

7. His economic system (16‐18)

 

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A. Global economy (16a)

B. Global numbering (16b‐17)

C. The Beast’s number (18)

7. His Economic System(Revelation 13:16‐18)

 

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A. Global economy (16a)

B. Global numbering (16b‐17)

C. The Beast’s number (18)

7. His Economic System(Revelation 13:16‐18)

 

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Slide 16 Satan’s Goal of Globalism

Dan. 7:23

Rev. 13:7‐8; Rev. 5:9

Rev. 13:16‐18

Rev. 17:15

 

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Slide 17  Matthew 16:1‐31 The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testingJesus, they asked Him to show them a sign fromheaven. 2 But He replied to them, “When it is evening,you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’3 And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, forthe sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how todiscern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discernthe signs of the times?”

 

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Slide 20  A Global Currency

"I think the dollar is now underquestion and I think the systemwill need to be reformed, so thatthe United States will be subjectto the same discipline as isimposed on other countries….Inthe long run, having aninternational accounting unitrather than the dollar may, infact, be to our advantage..."Jennifer Ablan and Daniel Burns, "Soros Says U.S. Faces 'Lasting Slowdown,'" online: http://www.reuters.com/article/us‐

usa‐economy‐soros‐exclusive‐idUSTRE53537D20090406 , April 6 2009, accessed 21 January 2016.  

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A. Global economy (16a)

B. Global numbering (16b‐17)

C. The Beast’s number (18)

7. His Economic System(Revelation 13:16‐18)

 

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Slide 22  Ezekiel 28:13, 15“13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every preciousstone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz and thediamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapislazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, theworkmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you.On the day that you were created They were prepared…15 You were blameless in your ways From the day youwere created Until unrighteousness was found in you.”

 

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“A Wisconsin company is about to become the first in theU.S. to offer microchip implants to its employees. Yes, youread that right. Microchip implants. ‘It's the next thingthat's inevitably going to happen, and we want to be apart of it,’ Three Square Market Chief Executive OfficerTodd Westby said. The company designs software forbreak room markets that are commonly found in officecomplexes. Just as people are able to purchase items atthe market using phones, Westby wants to do the samething using a microchip implanted inside a person's hand.‘We'll come up, scan the item,’ he explained, while . . .

Wisconsin Company to Implant Microchips In Employees

Josh Rosenthal of 5 Eyewitness ABC News ‐ July 24, 2017

 

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. . . showing how the process will work at an actual breakroom market kiosk. ‘We'll hit pay with a credit card, andit's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll holdmy hand up, just like my cell phone, and it'll pay for myproduct.’”

http://kstp.com/news/wisconsin‐company‐to‐implant‐microchips‐in‐employees‐three‐square‐market/4549459/

Wisconsin Company to Implant Microchips In Employees (cont’d)

Josh Rosenthal of 5 Eyewitness ABC News ‐ July 24, 2017

 

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“Gone are the days when an e‐ticket was seen as cuttingedge – one Swedish rail company is offering passengersthe option of using a biometric chip implanted into theirhand in lieu of a paper train ticket…The tiny chip has thesame technology as Oyster cards and contactless bankcards…to enable conductors to scan passengers’hands…Around 2,000 Swedes have had the surgicalimplant to date, most of them employed in the techindustry.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news‐and‐advice/sj‐rail‐train‐tickets‐hand‐implant‐microchip‐biometric‐sweden‐a7793641.html

Swedish Commuters Can Use Futuristic Microchip Hand Implant:The future is here – a Swedish rail company is trialing letting passengers 

use biometric chips as tickets Helen Coffey of The Independent ‐ June 16, 2017

 

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Slide 29  Revelation 13:16

“And he causes all, the small and the great, andthe rich and the poor, and the free men and theslaves, to be given a mark on [epi] their righthand or on [epi] their forehead.”

 

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“A new candidate has arrived, and one that is garneringpraise and attention worldwide as the next innovativebreakthrough. More noticeably, hardly anyone is eventalking about its potential as the mark of Revelation13. These devices are known as electronic tattoos. Made outof flexible silicon and rubber, the tattoo is applied in a similarway as a temporary tattoo, and is completely non‐invasiveand pain free. People around the world, Christians included,are so focused on its application as a biomedical savior thatcan handle everything from giving you a weather report, tomonitoring and adjusting blood sugar levels, and just aboutany other practical function for a modern world . . . The . . .

Mark of the Beast Technology is Not What You Think

 

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. . . difference in these devices and the RFID microchip, is thatthese devices are highly visible on the surface of the skin, andvirtually any design can be used to cloak its very electroniclook. One can easily imagine a design that somehow equatesto the number of the beast being the required mark that all ofmankind must accept at the hand of their new world leader.”

Mark of the Beast Technology is Not What You Think

http://idontbuthedoes.com/mark‐of‐the‐beast‐that‐n/  

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“Welcome to the Utah Data Center, a new home for theNSA's exponentially expanding information trove. The$1.7bn facility, two years in the making, will soon hostsupercomputers to store gargantuan quantities of datafrom emails, phone calls, Google searches and othersources...Since January 2011 a reported 10,000 labourershave built four 25,000‐sq ft halls filled with servers andcables, plus an additional 900,000 sq ft of space fortechnical support and administration, James Bamford, . . .

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/14/nsa‐utah‐data‐facility. June 4, 2014, accessed 15 November 2014.

“Welcome to Utah, the NSA's Desert Home for Eavesdropping 

on America” ‐ Rory Carroll

 

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…author of The Shadow Factory…said the public had yetto grasp the significance of Utah's data‐mining. ‘It'sbasically a hard‐drive. It's also a cloud, a warehouse. It'llbe storing not just text and audio but pictures and video.There's a lackadaisical attitude to this. People pay noattention until it's too late.’"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/14/nsa‐utah‐data‐facility. June 4, 2014, accessed 15 November 2014.

“Welcome to Utah, the NSA's Desert Home for Eavesdropping on America” (cont’d) ‐ Rory Carroll

 

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Slide 34  "Big Brother Is Watching" 

“If you want to be a film star, come to Britain. We’reall on camera. All you have to do is walk through anytown or drive down any road and you are watched,filmed, and monitored. When my wife, Pat, and Itour America, we feel neglected because theroadside cameras are no longer ever‐present—notyet. As the world moves towards a ‘Big Brother’society beyond the nightmares of author GeorgeOrwell, who predicted a world in which the state . . .

Alan Franklin, "Big Brother Is Watching," in The Departure: God's Next Catastrophic Intervention into Earth's History, ed. Terry James (Crane, MO: Defender, 2010), 341.  

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. . . watched everyone in his 1948 classic novel,1984, it is like we are inmates of a high‐tech prison.Big Brother really is watching us in Europe. The restof the world is not far behind.”

Alan Franklin, "Big Brother Is Watching," in The Departure: God's Next Catastrophic Intervention into Earth's History, ed. Terry James (Crane, MO: Defender, 2010), 341.

"Big Brother Is Watching" 

 

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Slide 36  China Installs Surveillance Cameras in Churches to Monitor Christians

By Michael Foust, ChristianHeadlines.com, Tuesday, June 11, 2019

“China’s Orwellian‐like network of surveillance camerasnow includes churches. Most churches…havegovernment‐mandated surveillance cameras that allowthe communist government to monitor thecongregation’s every move…The cameras are part of amassive network of cameras across China that allow thegovernment to monitor citizens. There are an estimated176 million surveillance cameras across China…Thatnumber could reach 450 million by 2020.”

https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael‐foust/china‐installs‐surveillance‐cameras‐in‐churches‐to‐monitor‐christians.html  

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A. Global economy (16a)

B. Global numbering (16b‐17)

C. The Beast’s number (18)

7. His Economic System(Revelation 13:16‐18)

 

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Slide 38  Revelation 13:17‐18

“17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy orto sell, except the one who has the mark, either thename of the beast or the number of hisname. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who hasunderstanding calculate the number of the beast, forthe number is that of a man [anthrōpos]; and hisnumber is six hundred and sixty‐six.”

 

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Slide 39  Revelation 13:17‐18

“17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy orto sell, except the one who has the mark, either thename of the beast or the number of his name. 18 Hereis wisdom [sophia]. Let him who has understanding[nous] calculate [psēphizo] the number of the beast,for the number is that of a man; and his number is sixhundred and sixty‐six.”

 

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Slide 41  Preterism Advocates

Recent Preterist Commentators

• R.C. Sproul

• N.T. Wright

• Scott Hahn

• J. Massyngbaerde Ford

• David Chilton

• Hank Hanegraaff

• Kenneth Gentry

 

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Slide 42 

 

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Slide 43  Problems With Neronian Calculation

Transliteration from Greek to Hebrew

“Cherry picking” to fit an ordained outcome

Not suggested by the ancient commentators

Inconsistent use of numbers

Date of Revelation

 

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Slide 44  Problems With Neronian Calculation

Transliteration from Greek to Hebrew

“Cherry picking” to fit an ordained outcome

Not suggested by the ancient commentators

Inconsistent use of numbers

Date of Revelation

 

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Slide 48  Problems With Neronian Calculation

Transliteration from Greek to Hebrew

“Cherry picking” to fit an ordained outcome

Not suggested by the ancient commentators

Inconsistent use of numbers

Date of Revelation

 

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Slide 50  Revelation 13:17‐18

“17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy orto sell, except the one who has the mark, either thename of the beast or the number of hisname. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who hasunderstanding calculate the number of the beast, forthe number is that of a man [anthrōpos]; and hisnumber is six hundred and sixty‐six.”

 

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Slide 51  Problems With Neronian Calculation

Transliteration from Greek to Hebrew

“Cherry picking” to fit an ordained outcome

Not suggested by the ancient commentators

Inconsistent use of numbers

Date of Revelation

 

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Slide 52  Problems With Neronian Calculation

Transliteration from Greek to Hebrew

“Cherry picking” to fit an ordained outcome

Not suggested by the ancient commentators

Inconsistent use of numbers

Date of Revelation

 

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Slide 53  Problems With Neronian Calculation

Transliteration from Greek to Hebrew

“Cherry picking” to fit an ordained outcome

Not suggested by the ancient commentators

Inconsistent use of numbers

Date of Revelation

 

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Slide 54  Late Date (A.D. 95)Irenaeus Against Heresies 5.30.3

“But if it had been necessary toannounce his name plainly at thepresent time, it would have beenspoken by him who saw theapocalypse. For it was not seenlong ago, but almost in our owntime, at the end of the reign ofDomitian.”

 

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Slide 55  DATE: EXTERNAL EVIDENCE

Mark Hitchcock, The End Times Controversy, 138.

Witnesses for Domitianic Date Witnesses for Neronic Date Irenaeus (A.D. 180) Victorinus (c.300) Eusebius (c. 300) Jerome (c. 400) Sulpicius Severus (c.400) The Acts of John (c. 650) Primasius (c. 540) Syriac Version of N.T. (550) Orosius (c. 600) Andreas (c. 600) Venerable Bede (A.D. 700) Arethas (c. 900) Theophylact (d. 1107)

 

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Nero did not:

1. Usher in persecution for exactly 42 months(13:5)

2. Control the entire planet (13:7; 5:9)

3. Force people to receive a mark on their righthand or forehead in order to participate inthe global economy (13:16‐18)

Nero Does Not Fit the Facts of Revelation 13

 

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Nero did not:

4. Coerce the entire world to worship a singularimage of him (13:15)

5. Resurrect from the dead (13:14)

6. Associate with a miracle working falseprophet (13:13, 15)

7. Receive global veneration (13:8)

Nero Does Not Fit the Facts of Revelation 13

 

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Slide 58  Revelation 13:14

“And he deceives those who dwell on the earthbecause of the signs which it was given him toperform in the presence of the beast, tellingthose who dwell on the earth to make an image(eikōn) to the beast who had the wound of thesword and has come to life [záō].”

 

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Slide 59 

Nero did not:

4. Coerce the entire world to worship a singularimage of him (13:15)

5. Resurrect from the dead (13:14)

6. Associate with a miracle working falseprophet (13:13, 15)

7. Receive global veneration (13:8)

Nero Does Not Fit the Facts of Revelation 13

 

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Slide 60 

Conclusion

 

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Slide 61  The Second Beast Revelation 13:11‐18

1. His ethnic identity (11a)

2. His character (11b)

3. His purpose (12)

4. His miracles (13)

5. His deception (14a)

6. His image‐statue (14b‐15)

7. His economic system (16‐18)

 

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A. Global economy (16a)

B. Global numbering (16b‐17)

C. The Beast’s number (18)

7. His Economic System(Revelation 13:16‐18)

 

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Slide 63 

“The LORD bless you and keep you; theLORD make his face shine on you and begracious to you; the LORD turn his facetoward you and give you peace.” (NIV)

 

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Mounce-Notice that Revelation 13:16 uses the terms "small and great, free and slave, rich and poor" to describe those under the dominion of the future Antichrist or Beast. “Such a coupling of opposites is a way of stressing the totality of human society. John mentions six classes of people from the social, cultural, and economic categories.” 

Terry L. Cook, The Mark of the New World Order (Springdale, PA: Whitaker, 1996), 203-04. “The New World Order economists are not ignorant of the importance of cash and its ability to inhibit their control of the world. They are aware that in order to completely control, track, and monitor the global population, they must first eliminate the use of cash. With cash, there is no way to know how people are using their finances, whether for or against the government and its agenda. Because control of one's finances in essence means control of one's entire life, advocates of world government have for decades been promoting a move toward cashless transactions via a myriad of banking plans, ATM machines, credit cards, point-of sale-machines, credit data – all funneled through massive computer systems. Eventually the goal is control of all these computers by the economic leaders of the New World Order.”

As noted by Liz Moyer in Forbes: “Money is becoming more of a concept than a physical entity…People are using debit and credit cards in more and more everyday situations, from meals purchased at fast food restaurants and fuel purchased at gas stations, to movies, groceries, sundries, highway tools, and clothing. Even New York City taxicabs are rigged with

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electronic readers. Increasingly, paychecks are electronically deposited, and the money for bills they pay – mortgage, utilities, cable and phone – are paid electronically as well. Banks offer incentives to consumers for using these direct pay options, which allow them to keep better tabs on their customers and their money. Welfare and food stamps are issued on cards, which can be downloaded at the register or through an automated teller machine.”  

Liz Moyer, “The Myth of the Cashless Society,” online: http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/11/cashless-society-cash_cx_em_money06_0214cashless.html , February 14 2006, accessed 14 January 2016.

Congressman John Dingell, an Obamacare advocate, unintentionally admitted as much during a live telephone interview concerning the imminent passage universal health care legislation in America. Dingell made the following remark to Paul W. Smith on Smith's Monday morning radio show (Detroit WJR News/Talk 760) on March 22, 2010:

“The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people (italics added).” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bK62MQ_OIEI&autoplay=1

CHINA’S chilling dictatorship is moving quickly to introduce social scorecards by which all citizens will be monitored 24/7 and ranked on their behaviour. The Communist Party’s plan is

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for every one of its 1.4 billion citizens to be at the whim of a dystopian social credit system, and it’s on track to be fully operational by the year 2020….Overall scores can go up and down in “real time” dependant on the person’s behaviour but they can also be affected by people they associate with. “If your best friend or your dad says something negative about the government, you’ll lose points too”...“If people keep their promises they can go anywhere in the world,”…“If people break their promises they won’t be able to move an inch!”…Under the system, those deemed to be “top citizens” are rewarded bonus points. The benefits of being ranked on the higher end of the scale include waived deposits on hotels and rental cars, VIP treatment at airports, discounted loans, priority job applications and fast-tracking to the most prestigious universities… Jaywalking, late payments on bills or taxes, buying too much alcohol or speaking out against the government, each cost citizens points. Other mooted punishable offences include spending too long playing video games, wasting money on frivolous purchases and posting on social media…Penalties range from losing the right to travel by plane or train, social media account suspensions and being barred from government jobs… Chinese journalist Liu Hu is one of millions who have already amassed a low social credit rating. He is now banned from travelling by plane or fast train. His social media accounts with millions of followers have been suspended. He struggles to find work. Big Brother: China’s chilling dictatorship moves to introduce scorecards to control everyone. Megan Palin https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/big-brother-chinas-

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India has collected biometric data on most of its 1.3 billion residents, to be used in a nationwide identity system called Aadhaar, meaning “foundation.” Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones. Civil libertarians are horrified, viewing the program, called Aadhaar, as Orwell’s Big Brother brought to life…Technology has given governments around the world new tools to monitor their citizens…Critics fear that the government will gain unprecedented insight into the lives of all Indians. Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances - The New York Times. By Vindu Goel. April 7, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/technology/india-id-aadhaar.html In fact, in the United Kingdom, a person on average is caught on surveillance cameras three hundred times per day. Maxine Frith, “How Average Briton is Caught on Camera 300 Times a Day,” online: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain, 12 January 2004, accessed 16 April 2014.

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Luke 14:28- For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

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Conclusion

Num. 6:24-26-24 The LORD bless you, and keep you; 25 The LORD make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; 26 The LORD lift up His countenance on you, And give you peace.’