SkyWatchTV ‘Mark of the Beast’ not lost on AG Barr
By Thomas Horn / Published April 14
Recently Bill Gates argued that once we have a coronavirus vaccine, “digital certificates” should be issued to persons that have received it, causing U.S. Attorney General William Barr to say he would be “very concerned about the slippery slope in terms of continuing encroachments on personal liberty.”
Barr did not use the term ‘Mark of the Beast,’ but he is a conservative Christian and surely the idea of somehow ‘certifying’ people that have been vaccinated without which they will not be allowed to buy or sell or reenter the marketplace was not lost on his—our our—knowledge of Bible prophecy.
Recently in various media I have gone so far as to suggest a coronavirus-like pandemic could someday trigger events that give rise to a global mandatory vaccine, and that this could be how Antichrist introduces his dreaded mark.
Secular media do not appreciate me voicing such suspicions.
But then, they never like what I have to say (see John 15:18-25).
Nevertheless, many Christians believe that, before long, a prophesied end-times government will indeed appear and could be developing now. It will become a global authority, under which national boundaries dissolve, and ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and economics from around the world, are forced to orchestrate a single and dominant sovereignty.
According to prophecy, a single personality will surface at the head of this administration. He will appear at first to be a man of distinguished character but will ultimately become “a king of fierce countenance” (Dan. 8:23). With imperious decree he will facilitate a one-world regime, universal religion, and globally monitored socialism. Those who refuse this dictatorial system will inevitably be imprisoned or destroyed, until at last he exalts himself “above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thess. 2:4).
The Antichrist’s widespread power will be derived at the expense of those individual liberties the U.S. Attorney General is concerned about. He will force “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six [666]” (Rev. 13:16-18).
For many years the idea that humans could somehow succumb to becoming little more than branded cattle, and that rugged individualism would thereafter be sacrificed for an anesthetized universal harmony, was repudiated by America’s greatest minds. Then, in the 1970’s, things began to change. Following a call by Nelson Rockefeller for the creation of a “New World Order,” presidential candidate Jimmy Carter campaigned, saying, “We must replace balance of power politics with world order politics.”
During the 1980’s President George Bush continued the one-world dirge, announcing over national television that “a New World Order” had arrived. Following the initial broadcast, President Bush addressed the Congress, saying,
What is at stake is more than one small country [Kuwait], it is a big idea–a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future!
