Jeremiah and Lamentations are extremely applicable to our day. The Last days are very much like the last days of Judah.
CASHLESS SOCIETY?
Those end-time book writers said we would someday be able to purchase about anything with the swipe of the card, even a telephone call, the vending machine and a parking lot? A stretch in the 1970s, but now I hardly ever carry cash or coin anymore. Other that the coffee kitty at work I can go weeks without coin or paper money. To be completely cut off from it would be no big deal. As long as the card scanner worked. Oh and did I mention you could use the card all over the World? How possible was that in 1972? Now we are having China, the EU, and others saying we need to move to a global currency, and now for the first time ever we are listening. Which brings me to the next topic.
ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT?
We have come along way on this one since Hal Lindseys book, havent we? Hard to visualize in the 1970s. Now, its something even the main stream media is picking up on. We can now communicate at the speed of light anywhere we want because of the World Wide Web and satellite communication.
ONE WORLD LEADER / ANTICHRIST?
In 1974 when I first read Hal Lindseys book The Late Great Planet Earth, It was a great mystery to me how one man could enter the World stage and become so popular in such a short amount of time, and how this popularity will cross borders of all Nations. After all he will only have 3 1/2 years to position himself for the abomination of desecration to take place. Obama sets a good example of how it could happen. He did come out of nowhere in just a few months to become almost a God to hundreds of millions of his followers who did not even know who he was prior to that speech at the 2004 convention. If you reflect on that, I think the mystery has been solved. The power of persuasion spans all borders, and I think the real Antichrist is waiting just off stage, and Obama has shown us all how fast this sort of event can take place.
But how could there be a Global attraction? If it is a true man and not an invisible entity like the U.N. Assembly, then I think it may take a global catastrophe to usher someone like that in. And between Iran and North Korea there are two countries that could start such a thing in motion.