Merging Of Commerce, Religion, Politics - Stepping Stone To Mark Of The Beast?
By PNW Staff July 09, 2019
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Every few years attempts are made at removing "In God We Trust"
from US currency but, as in other years, the Supreme court has rejected
the most recent case attempting to prove the entanglement of state and
religion with currency.
In a previous ruling,
the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Establishment Clause of
the Constitution doesn't force the government to purge itself from all
religious reflection.
"Precluding general references to God would do exactly that," the federal appeals court ruled.
In
Canada, the government has been more than willing to communicate
politically correct progressive messages by means of what is being
called the "Gay Loonie".
Canada's gold-colored
$1 coin is affectionately called the "Loonie" from the Loon bird that
adorns its cover design. However, the Canadian mint has now released a
commemorative Loonie to mark the 50th anniversary of the
decriminalization of gay sex in Canada.
Perhaps recognizing the challenge of how to memorialize
legal sodomy on a coin, the Mint opted to celebrate this milestone with a
more coy "stylized rendering of two overlapping human faces . . . the
two faces will form one whole face in front view composed of two eyes
with eyebrows, a nose, a mouth and two ears with a small hoop earring on
the left ear." There are also rays emanating from the men that give
the image a "holy aura". No doubt, we are to assume they are rainbow
rays.
Conservative Canadian Christians have
called the new coin a highly offensive attack against God, and protests
were previously set up at the Canadian Mint in Ottawa to try to stop its
introduction. The protesters argue "the politicization of our coinage
and the aggressive push of the LGBT agenda on all Canadians needs to
stop".
Such political messages on currency
remind us of the passages in Revelation 13 which warn us that one day
currency and the ability to conduct commerce will be directly related to
both religion and politics.
Whereas there is
a lot of debate about the technology that will be behind the "mark of
the beast" such as digital currency, microchip implants, etc., the clear
message of Revelation is that this mark is a merging of commerce,
religion, and politics. Only those who worship the Antichrist will get
the mark and only those with the mark will be able to buy or sell.
There
has been growing concern in the Conservative and Christian community
over the potential for blacklisting by the financial community. Similar
to how Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have taken to banning
organizations that disagree with their left-leaning policies, we now
have credit card services, banks and other financial services under
pressure to do the same.
Although MasterCard's
board says it is committed to the principle of allowing "all lawful
purchases," online payments platform Patreon says that MasterCard asked
it to withdraw service from Islam critic Robert Spencer, founder of
JihadWatch.org, in August 2018.
Mastercard
also pressured a payment processor to cut off service to the
conservative activist and think tank founder/author David Horowitz.
Although this action took place last year, the processor later
reinstated service following pressure from Breitbart News and other
conservative media.
Imagine that you are a store
merchant who relies on credit card processing but MasterCard and Visa
decline your account for promoting "hate". Without the ability to
process credit cards, you would be out of business overnight.
Or your personal PayPal account is shut down for doing
business with organizations that PayPal rules to be "extremist".
Realize that the CEO of PayPal has revealed the multi-billion dollar
service partners with the leftist organization Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC) to decide who should be blacklisted from their company.
Using "company corporate values" as their defense, PayPal has taken
intentional steps to deny access to conservatives.
This
is a big concern for Christians because the SPLC has taken an
anti-Christian slant in recent years, targeting groups like James
Kennedy Ministries and the Family Research Council just because they
hold Biblical views about sexuality and life. Such irony! They argue
"values" as their defense, all the while denying conservative Christians
the same "values" argument.
Crowdfunding
services such as GoFundMe have already shown how easy it is to shut down
those they disagree with when they closed the account of Christian
Rugby player Israel Folau who was raising funds to fight his legal
battle with Rugby Australia, having been fired for criticizing
homosexuality on Instagram. Folau's campaign had raised more than
$750,000 from several thousand donors before the site closed the account
and refunded all donations.
With Facebook now
looking at introducing its own digital currency, the Libra... Imagine if
the use of such currency were directly linked to your Facebook
profile. If Facebook will ban your posts critical of homosexuality or
abortion, will they also ban your ability to use their instrument of
commerce? In other words, you could be restricted in your ability to
use this currency based on your religious or political views.
The
interesting thing about Facebook's new currency is that unlike Bitcoin,
which is an open system, Libra is closed and will be highly gate-kept.
Facebook announced the currency in partnership with 27 other major
corporations, firms, and non-profits, including Visa, MasterCard,
Spotify, Lyft, Uber and eBay.
These Founding
Members make up the Libra Association, which will be in charge of
processing transactions for the network and maintaining its version of
the blockchain. By the coin's tentative launch in 2020, the project
hopes to expand to roughly 100 members.
So,
bear in mind: this is not just Facebook but a conglomerate of some of
the biggest players in the world, essentially launching its own entirely
new monetary system controlled by corporations instead of the
government. This is a very significant development, not unlike China's
Social Credit System that monitors and punishes citizens who do not 'toe
the line'.
A centralized network like Libra
loses all of the features we associate with cryptocurrencies. The
Association will be able to blacklist users they don't want to serve,
they will be able to rollback transactions they don't like, and like a
bank, they will have total access to all your financial information: who
you paid, when you paid, why you paid, and how much you paid.
Given
Facebook's reputation for mismanaging user data and its flippant
approach to privacy, an understandable concern from the community and
even lawmakers has been, "Can we trust Facebook with our money and its
related data?"
Many of us can live without Facebook but few of us
could live without our credit cards for a week.
Thus far, Mastercard, Visa and most banks have not given into the blacklist pressure, but it is just getting started. An extreme event may be just the catalyst needed to move them to take more drastic action. In fact, following the Hegelian dialectic, they just might provoke that 'extreme event' themselves.
Thus far, Mastercard, Visa and most banks have not given into the blacklist pressure, but it is just getting started. An extreme event may be just the catalyst needed to move them to take more drastic action. In fact, following the Hegelian dialectic, they just might provoke that 'extreme event' themselves.
With respect to world religions,
only Christianity is being challenged legally. Only Christians and the
one true God are being marginalized. Only Christians and the one true
God are being isolated.
We should expect to see a 'change-up' in these legal challenges in the not-too-distant future as Satan inspires the next step in his tripartite assault: elimination.
We should expect to see a 'change-up' in these legal challenges in the not-too-distant future as Satan inspires the next step in his tripartite assault: elimination.
The
elimination of God will effectively be accomplished simply by changing
the definition of God, followed by changing His identity. Bible
believers know this to be the case as we are plainly forewarned: "Let no
man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there
shall come an apostasy first, and that man of lawlessness be revealed,
the son of perdition; who opposes and exalts himself above all that is
called God, or that is worshiped; so that he, as God, sits in the temple
of God, showing himself that he is God." (II Thessalonians 2.3, 4)
Psalm
2 anticipates our present circumstances: "The kings of the earth set
themselves, and the rulers (of industry?) take counsel together, against
the LORD, and against His Anointed (His Christ) saying, 'Let us burst
their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us'." (Psalm 2.2, 3)
So
long as it is in the world, the Church is a restraining force in
society. It is these "bonds and cords" that provoke the antagonism of
the world, not simply because of their restraint, but because of He Who
has ordained them, "the Lord's Anointed".
For
those lacking discernment, those who fail to see the 'change-up' that is
to come, they're going to be 'fanned'; their reaction will be a 'swing
and a miss'.
The prophetic merging of commerce, religion and politics is happening slowly and subtly, but surely.
The
prophet Habakkuk states it like this: "For still the vision awaits its
appointed time; but at the end it shall speak and not lie. If it seems
slow, wait for it; it will surely come and will not delay." (Habakkuk
2.3)
These societal changes could prove to be some of the most dangerous and prophetic developments of 2019.
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