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Tracking and Data Harvesting Technologies Finalize Preparations for the Antichrist’s ‘Mark of the Beast’ System Sucking Up Data Like Robot Vacuum Cleaners Guarding our privacy is a challenge as vast caches of personal information are extracted daily by government authorities and data corporations. We are monitored and followed through our Social Security numbers, bank accounts, purchases, electronic transactions, emails, mobile phones, Internet traffic, fingerprints, facial recognition scans, palm vein scans and chips implanted in our cars, appliances, ID documents and clothing. The European Union Antitrust Chief, Margrethe Vestager, recently commented about how Google and Facebook are harvesting consumer information. “So, these companies are a bit like one of those robot vacuum cleaners,” she observed, “working their way into every corner of the digital world, and sucking up data.” Some people, on the other hand, have no objection to being tracked and monitored, including many travele...

  “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed,” (Luke 17:26-30 NKJV). From these verses, I have heard sermons preached that life will be “business as usual” until the day the Lord returns as a thief in the night. The ministers were not wrong. Scripture tells us, for many, that is exactly what will happen. However, I want to focus on the more ominous aspect of this text. Of all the stories in the Old Testament, why did God choose to have Luke use these two to describe the societal conditions that would precede...