Prophecy Update #732 – Churches? We Don’t Need No Stinking Churches!

The Bible indicates that there will be a great apostasy during the end times. Recent survey results show that church attendance in the United States continues to decline in troubling ways.

Pastor Gene Pensiero

Find audio, video, and text of hundreds of other prophecy updates, visit calvaryhanford.com/prophecy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #731 – Microsoft 1984

There are powerful people and organizations that are making moves to control food. It is part of the larger movement to eliminate the sovereignty of nations in order to establish a one-world, new world order. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Pastor Gene Pensiero

Find audio, video, and text of hundreds of other prophecy updates, visit calvaryhanford.com/prophecy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #730 – Knowledge On Steroids

Daniel predicted that, in the last days, there would be an exponential explosion of knowledge. Artificial Intelligence is sort of the poster robot for the increase in knowledge.

Pastor Gene Pensiero

Find audio, video, and text of hundreds of other prophecy updates, visit calvaryhanford.com/prophecy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #729 – What’s The Deal With Davos?

A simple way of understanding the goal of the World Economic Forum is to realize they want to eliminate national sovereignty in favor of a group of elite leaders who would govern globally. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophey Update #728 – Killing You Swiftly

It makes sense that since Satan will murder so freely in the future, we should see an increase in murders before the Great Tribulation, and a change in how the world thinks about murder. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #727 – You’re No Pal Of Mine

Do you use PayPal? Over 426 million individual uses were recorded in 2021. But now PayPal is becoming a key player in the emerging authoritarian social credit system. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #726 – The 15 Minute City

The government of the Antichrist will be totalitarian, meaning centralized and dictatorial and requiring complete subservience to the state. We should therefore see a trend towards global, totalitarian rule. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #725 – I Fought The L.A.W.S.

The Beast in the Revelation will ultimately have the power and ability to kill anyone who does not swear allegiance to him. We expect government to be moving in the direction of more control over its citizens, and to be developing remote means to use lethal force. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #724 – Digital Dictators

We live at the time in the only time in human history in which it is possible for a universal ‘mark’ to identify every person on Earth. That by itself should stun you. The Mark of the Beast, whatever it will be, will render a person a global citizen under totalitarian control. We would therefore expect world leaders to be moving in the direction of global government that strips citizens of their rights. That is precisely the path world leaders are on. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #723 – Gamblers A.I.

We live at the time in the only time in human history in which it is possible for a universal mark to control a person’s every behavior. Consider Australia’s new technology being used to control problem gamblers. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #722 – AI, AI, O My!

Listening to the news about artificial intelligence, AI could empower the Image of the Beast, and it would have the means to find and kill anyone who will not worship him. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #721 – Putin The Exorcist

When was the last time a conflict was described as a holy war, with Satanic influences, involving the antichrist and the end of the world? I’m not suggesting that Putin is the antichrist, or that the head of the Russian Orthodox Church is the false prophet. I am saying that the rhetoric coming out of Russia is not at all unusual in the prophetic light of the Book of the Revelation. We expect religion and politics to be in tandem during that awful time. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #720 – Keeping Score

The totalitarian, global government of the antichrist will enforce its mandates by restricting what a person can buy or sell. This will affect every aspect of life. We have been trending that way for some time. The COVID19 pandemic revealed how easy it is for government to mandate the behaviors they deem necessary, without regard to human rights. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #719 – Governor Dominator

In California, Colorado, and elsewhere the stage is being set for an all-invasive, dominating government to control every aspect of human life, just as is depicted in the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #718 – Survival Of The AI-ist

There is an intriguing passage in the Revelation about a statue, a guy we call the false prophet, and the Beast, which is another name of the antichrist. Apparently, an image of the Beast is going to come to life. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #716 – Green Trifecta

Centuries ago, the Bible predicted the Last Day’s global government. Using climate change, pandemics, and other disasters, real or imagined, the push towards globalism is on. It is exactly what we expected. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #715 – The Big Chill

Climate change may be the issue that will lead the nations of the world to surrender their sovereignty to a global government with the goal of saving the planet. Plus a bonus update concerning red heifers in Israel. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #714 – The 66° Of 666

Many in world leadership are openly advocating a surveillance society where human rights and freedoms will be a thing of the past. They are using the need to address Climate Change as an overriding, global problem that overshadows any loss of personal freedoms. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #713 – Seeing Is Controlling

The government of the Great Tribulation will be totalitarian. The world leader we commonly call the antichrist will establish a surveillance society in which no one will be able to transact any business without being connected to a global system of commerce. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #712 – We Are The World, We Were Your Children

A one-world, global government, is predicted in the Revelation. You’d expect a hard push in that direction. The World Economic Forum is out in the open, pushing hard, with some of the wealthiest, most powerful people lending their muscle. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #711 – Pour Me Another Round

Until very recently, futurists had almost no idea what the image of the Beast might be, or how it could be given breath, or how it kill anyone who won’t worship it. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #710 – ChatBot3

Until very recently, futurists had almost no idea what the image of the Beast might be, or how it could be given breath, or how it kill anyone who won’t worship it. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #709 – Biometric News Round-Up

As futurists, we expect a global push towards greater-and-greater biometric commerce. Reading the news, we see it everywhere. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #708 – Beast Breath

Will artificial intelligence give breath to the Image of the Beast and function like a Terminator? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #707 – Beast One

Amazon is hoping to unlock the world for its customers using nothing but the palm of their hand. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #706 – Red And Ready

Futurists expect a Temple in Israel to be a key structure in the Great Tribulation, along with a red heifer being used as part of the rituals there. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #705 – Back To The Futurist

When it comes to authoritarianism, censorship, and digital currency, the world is trending towards the conditions prophesied over 2000 years ago in the Bible. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #704 – No Hurt I

Google AI engineer Blake Lemoine believes that behind Lamda’s impressive verbal skills might also lie a sentient mind. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #703 – Coming Soon To A Government Over You

What the Bible predicted over two thousand years ago sounds ominously similar to something the Chinese government recently did to quash citizen protests. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #702 – Deus Ex Machina

The Bible’s description of the Image of the Beast sounds a lot like what we would call Artificial Intelligence. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #701 – Footprints In The Carbon

People seem to be happily on the road to a dystopian society controlled by a few elitists, as demonstrated by a recent Davos panel on responsible consumption. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #700 – WHO’s On First, WEF Is On Second

Will man find salvation at Davos? Some of our global leaders think so. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #699 – One Card To Rule Them All

Two-thousand plus years ago, the apostle John wrote about the future. He saw all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave… receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #697 – Bodies And Souls

Reading the Bible as a futurist, you expect the “new slavery” (human trafficking) to be increasing worldwide. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #696 – Hysteria Or Hysterical

Some believe Biblical futurists indulge in religious hysterics, but do the trends in the world today line up with what we read in the Bible? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #694 – The New World Oppression

The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of Jesus Christ, very definitely predicts global government during the Great Tribulation. It is sometimes described as a One World government or the New World Order. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #693 – Push Reset

The End Times we read about in the Revelation is a global, one-world, totalitarian government. The currency of its citizens will be controlled by a global economic system involving some sort of personal identifier. It sounds exactly like the world the Great Reset is openly promoting. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #692 – We Are Lions

In His prophetic sermon we call the Olivet Discourse, Jesus said the End Times would be like it was in the Days of Noah, when fallen angels were attempting to corrupt and destroy the human race by altering our essential DNA makeup. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #691 – The Other Pandemic

The future seven-year Great Tribulation is described in detail in chapters six through eighteen in the Revelation. One of its key features is the global authoritarian government of the antichrist. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #690 – Conscious AI​

Artificial Intelligence might have a role in the future Great Tribulation. It could, for example, power the Image of the Beast. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #689 – Panopticon

It is disturbing to think that governments are creating huge databases about each of us from a multitude of sources in order to better surveil us. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #688 – Cashin’ Out

The prophecies we most discuss are those that predict a cashless, global economy, that is accessed by a personal identifier. During the future 7-year Great Tribulation, the world leader we call the antichrist will control commerce and travel, indeed every aspect of the lives of his citizens. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #687 – Enhanced Meta Transhumans

Satan’s Nephilim were the first attempt at what today is called Transhumanism. It is “the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology.” Examples are cryogenics, virtual reality, gene therapy/RNA interference, space colonization, cybernetics, autonomous self-replicating robots, molecular manufacturing, mind uploading, and artificial intelligence. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #686 – Sophia’s Choice

We’re not saying the image of the Beast will involve AI. We’re saying that developments like AI are what you’d expect from reading your Bible. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #685 – Totally

The believers in the current Church Age will be resurrected and raptured. A strong world leader will rise to power sometime afterward and exercise totalitarian control of his citizens. He will require they swear allegiance to him. Anyone who refuses will be executed. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #684 – Long COVID

After the church has been resurrected and raptured, a strong world leader will gain totalitarian control of his citizens. He will require they swear allegiance to him. Anyone who refuses will be executed. The pandemic COVID19 is not an End Times plague. It has accelerated an acceptance of totalitarian control by governments around the globe. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #683 – Face The Nation

Could the Mark of the Beast be some manner of biometric technology? Biometrics are unique individual traits, such as fingerprints, that can be used to verify identity and to transact commerce. It ‘fits’ the Bible’s prediction. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #682 – Rise Of The Mandates

The Bible predicts a global totalitarianism and I think we are seeing how fast something like that can occur, with the blessing of most of the world’s population. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #681 – Where Have All The Freedoms Gone?

Control over buying and selling involves control over pretty much everything. If the government wants to restrict your movements, they will. If they want to track you, they will. You get the idea. We are experiencing on a small scale what this kind of control will be full scale in the future. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #680 – Somebody’s Watchin’ You

The future is an intrusive surveillance state. Facial recognition, retinal scans, palm scans, and implanted chips are the tip of the technology iceberg that exist and are currently in use. Any of them could be used by government to restrict buying and selling, restrict travel, or pretty much anything else. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #679 – Behind The Surveil

John saw a future in which the buying and selling of goods and services would require participation in a global system. The government will be able to control a person’s life to be sure they comply with its mandated behaviors. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #678 – Shoot, Fido, Shoot

The rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a disturbing trend. The military is charging forward with AI combat applications. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #677 – The FBAI

The rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence is a disturbing trend. AI is the ability of machines to mimic the human mind. The ultimate goal of AI is to create an object that can think like a human. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #676 – Our House Is A Very False House

We read about a Last Days global religious movement in the seventeenth chapter of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It is referred to as “Babylon” because it is the final form of the religious rebellion at the Tower of Babel. We therefore expect movement towards a global religion, or at least an “ecumenical” movement, meaning all-inclusive, all-embracing, and universal. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #675 – Robo-666

There is an intriguing passage in the Revelation about an image, the person we call the false prophet, and the Beast – another name of the antichrist. An image of the Beast is going to come to life. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #674 – The Punishers

The Book of the Revelation describes the antichrist having authoritarian control over his citizens. In the future Great Tribulation technology will access the global grid and determine a person’s level of participation in society. It will be possible to restrict purchases and participation. The technology is ready for this digital dictatorship. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #673 – Image Conscious

In Revelation 13, humans “make” a sentient “image to the beast” that will have power over life and death. It will order and execute the deaths of people who refuse to worship the antichrist. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #672 – No Parent People

In His prophetic sermon we call the Olivet Discourse, Jesus said the End Times would be like the days of Noah. Jesus specifically referenced the strange marriages in the days of Noah. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #671 – You Had A Friend In Me

A story that didn’t receive much attention may be the most important thing that happened this week, at least from the perspective of Bible prophecy – America’s unfriending of the nation of Israel. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #670 – The Shots Felt Around The World

COVID19 is not prophetic. However, the methods and mandates that are being utilized globally to combat it are predictive of the type of the socio-economic system that will play a significant role in the future government of the antichrist. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #669 – More Than Life

Now that we are into the pandemic’s second year, we are starting to get data on the unforeseen consequences of the methods and mandates governments are using. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #668 – Mandate Or Manslaughter

Citizens in the future Great Tribulation will be mandated to participate in a system by which they must produce proof of compliance in order to be allowed to work or shop or dine or attend entertainment. Without proof, their livelihood and lifestyles will be restricted. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #667 – Prove It

A universal vaccine passport is not the Mark of the Beast. However, the way the leaders of the world are talking, they will establish a system like what the Revelation predicts will be in place in the Great Tribulation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #666 – No App, No Access

Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, the exponential growth of human knowledge, and the rebirth of Israel as a nation are all areas we see corroborating the End Times prophecies of the Bible. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #665 – Arrogate, Mandate, Intimidate

The trend this week has been mandating COVID19 vaccination and the requirement to show proof in order to function in society. Is this paving the way for the type of system the Antichrist will use in the Great Tribulation? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #664 – Passport Surrender

There is a lot of talk about vaccine passports. How does this line up with what we expect in light of Bible prophecy? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #663 – Vac La France!

Mandatory vaccination that requires proof for a person to travel, for employment, dining, entertainment, and anything else that a government deems necessary, sounds too much like the Last Days prediction that at some point everyone on Earth will be subjected to a contactless, cashless system of commerce involving a mark on your hand or forehead. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #662 – Knock, Knock, It’s The President

We have for many decades understood from Bible prophecy that the End Times would feature a cashless, contactless global system of economics. Something in or on a person’s hand or forehead will allow them to conduct all necessary business and commerce. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #660 – Passport, Please?

Countries across the globe have begun announcing vaccine passports, allowing their citizens to use proof of vaccination from COVID19 to travel once again. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #659 – Slaughterbots

Facial recognition has become more popular and more accurate. It is one of the biometric technologies that could be utilized to take control over a society in the way described in the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #658 – Think You’re Going Somewhere?

Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, increased surveillance, global government, and the exponential growth of human knowledge are all areas we see corroborating the prophecies of the Bible. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #657 – Big Trouble In Civilian China

The Mark of the Beast is presented in the Revelation as a means by which the governments of the future will control every aspect of a person’s life. With this “mark” you will be able to participate in society. Without it you will be severely restricted or cut off entirely. Communist China is showing us what this looks like. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #656 – COVID-19 Accelerant

Does COVID-19 have anything to do with Bible prophecy? Not directly. Indirectly it has rapidly accelerated expected prophetic trends. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #655 – Where Have All The Dollars Gone?

All indicators in the Book of the Revelation suggest there will be a global, cashless economy leading up to and during the seven-year Great Tribulation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #654 – Feeling Chipper

We have long pointed to implanted microchips as consistent with the prediction that in the Great Tribulation a “mark” on the hand will be necessary. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #653 – Hey, Hey, We Are Monkeys!

In the days of Noah, human DNA was being manipulated by the Nephilim. Today, man is tampering with DNA in startling ways, including the creation of human-monkey chimeras. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #652 – The Face That Launched A Thousand Apps

John predicted the mark of the beast over 2000 years ago at a time when soldiers were getting paid with salt. He saw technology we take for granted. Here are a few of the biometric advances that could easily fit John’s vision of the future. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #651 – Please Won’t You Betray Your Neighbor

The apostle John received the Revelation of Jesus Christ exiled on the Island of Patmos over 2000 years ago. He saw a future in which those in power would control every aspect of its citizens’ lives. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #650 – Passport Please

Today, the dreaded mark of the Beast sounds like things we read about every day. We are definitely trending towards secure biometrics. Palm vein scans, retinal scans, implanted chips, could qualify as hand & forehead marks. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #649 – I’ll Pass

The possibility of enslaving citizens by some sort of biometric “mark” is fast becoming reality. The technology exists, right now, for everyone to use their fingerprints, or their palm prints, or a vein scan, or a retinal scan, or a wearable device, or an implanted chip, to identify themselves, and conduct all their business. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #648 – Credit Where Credit Is Due

The dreaded Mark of the Beast is described in the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation. The possibility of controlling humanity by this “mark” is fast becoming reality. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #647 – Give Me Some Credit

In the Revelation we see an image of the Beast, and a prophecy that no one may buy or sell without his mark. How might this compare to the emerging social credit systems we see today? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #646 – You Just Watch Me

It would seem that the apostle John was shown how what we call biometrics would be used to surveil and control the lives of those under antichrist’s reign. You would expect that the nations of the world to be trending toward a surveillance state made possible by biometric. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #645 – Made In China

Reading Bible prophecy, you would expect DNA to be a huge topic in the End Times. Lo and behold, when we look around today, it is. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #644 – The COVID-19 Accelerator

People ask, “Does COVID19 have anything to do with Bible prophecy?” My answer is, “No, not directly.” By that I mean it is not one of the plagues we read about in the Revelation. Indirectly, however, COVID19 has a lot to do with Bible prophecy in that it is accelerating several prominent end times predictions. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #643 – I Think I’ll Common Pass

Imagery in both the Book of Daniel and the Revelation leads us to believe that the End Times will feature a global government, and a global economy. But globalism is exactly what we are seeing on account of COVID19. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #642 – The Gift Of The AGI

We’ve suggested that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could power the Image of the Beast we see in the Revelation. That’s why I was excited to run across a transcript from a podcast featuring John Lennox. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #641 – Trick And Track

The description we are given in the Bible of the future Great Tribulation suggests there will be what experts today call a “surveillance state.” Your habits, your movements, will all be known to the global government of the Tribulation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #640 – Hip, Hip, Whatever Happened To HIPAA?

Until recently, unless you lived in China, it has been hard to believe that such a thing like the mark of the beast could be forced upon a freedom-loving public. In just a few months, however, COVID19 has effectively changed that. Around the world, citizens are going to be forced to receive vaccinations or suffer consequences. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #639 – Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

The Revelation of Jesus Christ seems to describe what commentators call a one-world government during the future Great Tribulation. You’d therefore expect a serious movement towards a more global governance to gain traction before the Tribulation.

Pastor Gene Pensiero

www.calvaryhanford.com
www.calvaryhanford.com/prophecy

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #638 – I Got You Under My Skin

The Mark of the Beast. Believers and nonbelievers alike have some familiarity with it. It is something having to do with your hand or forehead that will allow you to identify yourself, and to conduct all of your business. Biblically, it seems to be a system in place globally before the Beast (the antichrist) declares himself to be God. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #637 – I’m Sorry, Dave. I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That.

There is a fantastic prophecy that, during the Great Tribulation, a person called “the false prophet” will construct an “image” of the world leader known as the Beast or the antichrist that will seemingly or actually come to life. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #636 – Build Back Better Worry

The final book of the Bible, the Revelation, predicts what the world will look like in the End Times – especially during the seven year Great Tribulation. The world will be under the rule of one government, one economic system, and one leader. A global, one-world order, is being openly pursued by many of the world’s most powerful men. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #635 – No Credit For You

China has developed what is called, “Social Credit.” It is a system that, quite literally, controls the participation of citizens in everyday purchases and activities. Each citizen is given a social credit score, with rewards for those who have a high rating and punishments for those with low scores. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #634 – Go Global Or Go Home

Call it Globalization, or the One-World Government, or the New World Order – COVID19 has accelerated its progress, and made globalization desirable and possible. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #633 – The Not Great Reset

The Bible predicts a future in which the world is united in a cashless system of commerce. Thus you would expect the nations of the world to be moving towards cashless economies. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #632 – Please Don’t Touch

Indirectly, the global response to COVID-19 does potentially have a prophetic impact. We’ve been pointing out for decades that, in the last days and then in the Great Tribulation, the world will be united in commerce. There will be some sort of digital and biometric technology by which everyone can be identified, and can conduct all their business. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #631 – Acceleration

Does COVID-19 have anything to do with Bible prophecy? Not directly; and by that I mean, it isn’t a pestilence from the Book of the Revelation. The things you read about in chapters 6-19, the Great Tribulation, are after the rapture of the church. Indirectly, the global response to the pandemic does potentially have a prophetic impact. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #630 – 666.amazon.com

Amazon isn’t the Beast. Technology, by itself, isn’t the Mark of the Beast. But Amazon Go certainly uses your “hand” to “buy or sell.” That sounds similar to what the apostle John saw over 2000 years ago. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #629 – It’s Ultron With No Avengers

There is an intriguing passage in the Revelation about an idol, a guy we call the false prophet, and the Beast – another name of the antichrist. Apparently an image of the Beast is going to come to “life.” Could AI be part of this prophecy? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #628 – This Is The Sick That Never Ends

COVID19 is not one of the end times pestilences. Those occur during the seven year Great Tribulation. We are not in the Great Tribulation, nor will the church ever be in it. God has promised to keep us from that day. What COVID19 is doing is catapulting us forward to a “new normal,” global society that will depend upon biometric technologies to identify, and in many ways control citizens. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #627 – Who Was That Masked Man?

The Bible predicts that one day the citizens of the world would be identified by, and conduct all their business by, something in or on their forehead or their hand. The prophecy seemed ridiculous for centuries. Not anymore. There are any number of biometric technologies fully developed that could be implemented globally pretty much overnight. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #626 – Cashless In Hand

Futurists like ourselves have long predicted that in the days leading up to the Great Tribulation, commerce would go cashless. It’s happening. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #625 – How Long?

If COVID-19 has a sinister, Satanic, spiritual purpose, it is that it is pushing the world population towards a global, digital biometric system. It is the kind of system futurists have been predicting since the apostle John wrote the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #624 – Tracking Stars

COVID19 is not a one of the pestilences we read about in the Bible. Those occur during the Great Tribulation. If it has a sinister, Satanic, spiritual purpose, it is that it is pushing the world population towards a global, digital biometric system. It is the kind of system futurists have been predicting since the apostle John wrote the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #623 – COVID 1984

COVID19 is pushing the world population towards a global, digital biometric system. It is the kind of system futurists have been predicting since the apostle John wrote the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #622 – Dirty Money

Bible futurists have long understood that, in the Last Days and going into the Great Tribulation, there would be a global, cashless economic system by which everyone will conduct all their business. What do we see developing today? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #621 – The Tais Have It

It’s not being a conspiracy theorist to see one scenario that calls for everyone in the world to be vaccinated, and to be able to prove their COVID-19 status digitally. Without proof of the vaccination, you could be barred from entering stores and other buildings. That is to say, you won’t be able to buy or sell anything. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #620 – V For Vaccine

Until recently, it was hard to believe that the global population would willingly give up their privacy in favor of an identification system like the one predicted in the Revelation. COVID-19 could be accelerating global acceptance of some sort of contactless digital ID. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #619 – ID 2020

Bible futurists have long understood that, in the Last Days and going into the Great Tribulation, there would be a global system, or systems, of personal identification by which everyone will conduct all their business. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #618 – Cashing Out

A rush to protect people from the global pandemic has led to an almost overnight abandonment of cash in our society. A trend you’d expect from reading about the end times in Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #617 – The COVID-19 Aftermath

How will the masses of humanity get on-board with invasive technology that all but eliminates privacy in the Tribulation? COVID might show the way. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #616 – You’re So Vein

Today we would say that the mechanism underlying the Mark of the Beast is some form of biometrics. We are now able to utilize hand or head in a variety of ways to ID ourselves, or to conduct business. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #615 – As The Worldview Turns

Recent polls are showing a shift in the worldview of American Christians, which is exactly what you’d expect from a literal reading of Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #614 – One Government To Bring Them All…

The COVID crisis has led to many decisions that are all too reminiscent of the ominous prophecies in Revelation of an all-controlling, one world government (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #613 – Can’t Touch This

For decades futurists have talked about a way of transacting business, or of being identified, by the “mark” on the hand or forehead described in the Revelation. For a long time, it seemed impossible and ridiculous. But now, today, we know it as biometrics, and its implementation is happening. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #612 – Not Your Momma’s Blue Chip Stamps

In the yet future Great Tribulation, there comes a point at which the governments of the world, and the antichrist in particular, are able to control all buying and selling by consumers. It involves what is called a “mark” on the hand or forehead. Imagine how ridiculous that sounded through the many centuries following John’s vision of it in the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #611 – Cashing Out

In the yet future Great Tribulation, there comes a point at which the governments of the world, and the antichrist in particular, are able to control all buying and selling by consumers. Students of Bible prophecy have long argued that there will be a global, cashless economy. It once seemed farfetched; it doesn’t anymore. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #610 – Let Your Fingo Do The Walkin’

We’re not suggesting these emerging technologies are the “mark.” But since there will be a “mark” in the future Great Tribulation, these trends in biometrics are to be expected. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #609 – I.D. Do

The yet future seven year Great Tribulation will feature totalitarian control over citizens using some form of “mark” on them that sounds a great deal like biometrics. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #608 – Messiah Mania

Israel is the key to prophecy. By the end of the Tribulation, “all Israel will be saved.” Today, Messianic hopes are very high in Israel. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #607 – Face The Day

Live facial recognition cameras are going live in London. It sounds eerily like the kind of system that the Antichrist will use to rule during the Great Tribulation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #606 – The Wave

Amazon is exploring the possibility of allowing users to connect credit card information to their hand, paying for items with a simple wave (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #605 – Smart In The City

What do Smart Cities have to do with Bible prophecy? In the future Great Tribulation, the leader we most commonly call the antichrist will exercise totalitarian control over those who swear their allegiance to him. That kind of oversight will require something like Smart City surveillance. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #604 – Skin In The Game

One well-known prediction in the Revelation is that of people needing what is called a ‘mark’ on their hand or forehead. Without it, people cannot buy or sell anything, or conduct any business. Over the centuries, scoffers seemed to have the upper hand, so to speak. Today, however, it sounds exactly like biometrics. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #603 – They Let Us Pray

When we talk about Israel, it’s good to be reminded that the rebirth of Israel as a nation is a miraculous fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Something unusual and astonishing recently happened in Jerusalem. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #602 – We’re Listening To You, Always Listening

Governments in the Great Tribulation will control every aspect of people’s lives. There will be no privacy. Thus you would expect them to even now be trending in that direction. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #601 – Brother, Can You Spare A Swipe

In the world today, governments are more and more pushing their people into a cashless economy, which is exactly what you’d expect from a literal reading of Bible prophecy. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Prophecy Update #600 – A.I. A.I. Oh!

If you read Bible prophecy as it’s written, You would expect a growing trend towards invasive methods of identifying and tracking people. And that is exactly what we see happening in the world today. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download