Further Down The End Times Trail

LEADING TO 'THE MARK':
The U.S. government ordered commercial airlines and cruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the country. The travel industry is balking as the new government requirements will cost billions. Isn't it interesting how concerned our government is about restrictions on airline travelers, but could seemingly care less about how many thousands of people can walk undetected across our southwestern borders daily?
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AND GETTING EVER CLOSER TO THE ONE WORLD BEAST SYSTEM. Our leaders seem to see us as just one member in the larger global village, sort of a large state in the larger global government instead of a sovereign nation, in effect. To put it in perspective, we are more like California as part of the U.S. (or maybe Texas would be more appropriate?) - a major player, but still just a player in a larger system. In their view, it seems that borders and nationalism made sense in the past, but in this brave new world of modern communications and transportation, they are obsolete. They believe that more efficient use of resources (and that includes you and me) benefits the planet as a whole. It's just that they can't admit it to the great unwashed. To do so would risk awaking us from our stupor. Better to just do everything off the radar and out of the light of day, while feeding us the pablum that passes for news these days. Guess I'm getting old and drank too much coffee today, but that doesn't mean it's not true. Anyway, here's another article where the leaders of Canada and Mexico, our partners in the SPP (Security and Partnership of North America), and the coming North American Union, come to the defense of The Decider regarding NAFTA. "This is not the time to even think about amending it or canceling it," said President Calderon of Mejico, in regard to NAFTA.
...Here's the link to the SPP website. And a link to the Wikipedia entry on the SPP, which also has lots of other links both pro and con.
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FOOD:
WORLD FACING HUGE NEW CHALLENGE ON FOOD FRONT, Business As Usual Not A Viable Option, BaltimoreChronicle.com. On the world scene, food riots have become commonplace. Following are some of the many data points in the article, which is one of the most comprehensive articles I have seen on this important subject.
...In Sudan, the U.N. World Food Programme, which has the responsibility of feeding over 2 million people in Darfur refugee camps, has had 56 trucks hijacked in the first three months of this year. 24 of the drivers are still missing.
...In Pakistan, thousands of Pakistani troops are assigned to guard grain elevators and to escort grain shipments.
...The WFP in March asked for an additional $500 million, as the 37 countries that depend on the WFP's emergency food supplies are facing additional risks.
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FUELS VS. FOOD, U.S. Energy Policy Hurting World's Poor, New York Post. Also, the cost of producing ethanol is more than the cost of producing fuel from petroleum. And corn produced ethanol is not going to be the answer to weaning us from our Middle Eastern suppliers, at least not in the ham handed way that our legislators have ordered. Our leaders have mandated that corn is the answer. Not only does that take more acreage away from food production, but corn is also not as cost efficient as other means of producing ethanol. For example, the sugar cane that Brazil uses is three times as cost efficient as corn.
...And there are new biotech breakthroughs that have the potential to produce ethanol from all kinds of products, including waste, corn husks, prairie switchgrass, and wood chips, for example. But maybe that wouldn't be as profitable to the the powers that be and their cronies? Mandating that our ethanol comes from corn also mandates who makes the profits. Sort of like other government agencies not endorsing natural herbal remedies that you can grow in your backyard or find in the wild - after all, who would profit from that?
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For the love of money is the root of all evil. I Timothy 6:10.
The Bible tells us that the final world beast system will be different and more terrible than all which preceded it. I think it is becoming increasingly clear that one reason for that is that all previous world empires had national identities and allegiances. The final system will be different. It will be a mixture of nations that, instead of owing their allegiance to a national identity, will give themselves over to a world system, a system that owes its allegiance to money. That is why the Bible speaks of that final system being part iron and part clay.
...That system will ultimately control all financial transactions. The day is getting closer where anyone on the planet who desires to conduct any commerce will have to access a central computer system and provide biometric identification in order to access the system. In its final form, the system will likely require all users to agree to some sort of oath, an oath that will offend last day saints to the extent that they will be unable to agree to it, and will thus be excluded from the world's financial system.
...Christians will go through the final tribulation period. Dreams of rapture are just that: dreams. They are of necessity a Western phenomenon. Try telling poor families in Africa who see their loved ones dying of Aids and starvation, and being raped and pillaged by whatever latest version of marauder comes through the countryside, not to worry. They'll be raptured out before things get really bad.
...The rapture doctrine was not taught in the early church. It originated in 19th century England. Premillennialism has been taught by some folks all throughout church history, but not the dispensational brand of it which includes the rapture doctrine. The rapture doctrine sells a lot of books, but it is wrong and belief in it is going to hurt a lot of people. Read your Bible for yourself.
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