then that the greatest deceiver of all time, the Antichrist at the behest of Satan, will have a

sidekick who is a lying prophet.

This is a great segue because into what you've done here in the book in that, again, we

see this snapshot.

And now we've been introduced to economics about buying and selling. And this is one of the places where I love skeptics. I love people that maybe they're partial predatorist or whatever. That's fine. No, it's not. Well, I mean, I don't agree with them, but I love it to me. Okay, we'll say it. You know, they're, sure some of them, you know, will be in heaven. Of course. And, yeah, because they have faith in Jesus. But the fact is, for this kind of stuff, it's all fulfilled. This makes, this isn't, this makes nothing for them that it's been fulfilled somehow. But this is the verse that has been used by those that take a futurist approach to the Bible,

to the book Revelation, as evidence of a cashless society, of a digital.

And so you talk about that in the book, and this would be a good way.

Kind of talk about how you brought this up in the book, because again, we're seeing a snapshot

here that this is happening, but we're not giving the play-by-play.

But what you're doing in the

book is you're showing how we, the stage is being set. Oh, yeah. To bring us to that point. Yeah. So the whole idea of all of those books, my three most recent books, is that if the stage is being set for events that will take place in the tribulation, that means the rapture must be even closer because it happens first so but real quick before I answer that back to this text

you just read I just want to point out that there's a series of merisms there, small, great, rich, poor, free slave. Those are figures of speech to mean everybody. Yeah, like the whole earth, the whole earth will be under this control system. Right now in the church age, the whole world is under the sway of the wicked one. He's the prince of the power of the air. But in the tribulation, there will be an actual physical controlling of them. So, yeah, I think what we see happening now is, and rapidly, by the way, is technological mechanisms

being put in place that will make it next to impossible for anyone to escape the control grid.

Now, remember, the church, we believe, will be raptured before the great day of the Lord's wrath,

this seven-year tribulation. But for those who get saved after the rapture and who are alive

during this seven-year reign of terror, as you referenced earlier, at the midpoint, that's when

things get really dicey. And believers at that time are going to need to as Jesus said head for the hills and hide

out and because it's they're going to start hunting you down yeah it's good it's going to that that

gets changed oh now it's it's complete genocide not only for the Jews right who are fleeing for the

christians as well for the rest of her offspring right you know so well let's talk about that for a minute

because um we we know in, I'll tell the story I shared in another environment earlier, but I was in Seattle last week. Yeah. And I needed something. I was walking around Seattle. It's been a long time since I've been there and I said, I need something for a trip. And so I walked into the Amazon store.

And I was like, oh, it's an Amazon store.

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