Rev 13:17 (17) 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.
Looks pretty consistent to watch for such things as a sign of the times.
Rev 13:17 (17) 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.
Nothing there about "cashless", just that you got to have ID.
Looks pretty consistent to watch for such things as a sign of the times.
But this is not a reference to a “cashless society” as Lindsey suggests. It says nothing at all about being cashless. (Of course Lindsey real problem is the unwarranted literalism he tries to apply to the passage.)
Besides, we read elsewhere in Revelation words like this:
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine." (Rev. 6:6)Note the reference to a denarius, a common form of money back in the 1st century. How does on get a “cashless society” is denarii are still being used?
The denarius stopped being minted back in the 3rd century AD. This is yet another reason to think that if you are not reading Revelation in a preterist manner you are really missing the story big time.
I also find it amusing to read Lindsey's take on the passage in Daniel 12, "Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end." He claims we are living in the time of the unsealing. Yet what does Mr. Lindsey make of a similar passage in Rev. 22, "Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand." The meaning of that verse is undeniable. John was not to seal the prophecy because the very thing of which it was speaking was just about to take place. You can't have it both ways, Hal.
Lindsey is still clueless. His ideas on eschatology are worthless, biblically speaking.