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Guest (Male): Next on Light on the Hill, we'll learn about the mark of the beast. It's something that will be required of people to take if they want to buy or sell. Are things developing right now to the point where we could see this happen very soon? Find out next.

Guest (Male): Daniel speaks of a 70th week that has yet to come, and at the midpoint of that week, the Antichrist will demand to be worshipped and will force his mark to be taken by all people. If people refuse, the consequence will be death. We'll tell you what you need to know about that time today on Light on the Hill. Here's Pastor James Kaddis in Revelation, chapter 13.

James Kaddis: Verse 15: "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Now, I listened to some old Bible studies that Pastor Chuck did on this subject, one from 1981 and another one from 1999.

In both of the studies, he talks about this passage. What he said was that he really didn't know how the image of the beast was going to be given life. His best assumption in the 1999 Bible study was that it was going to be some kind of a cloning thing. Because if you remember, cloning was a big deal, and he thought that maybe some person would be cloned and it would be this weird image that people would worship.

Well, now we know what the story is. Think about it right now. Look at what is happening in AI alone. Do you understand that 30% of the daily interactions that you have every single day is with AI? Very little of the stoplights that you go across are driven the way they used to be driven. They're all AI-driven.

When you call most phone places, any time you call any company where they've got a phone tree, you're dealing with AI. How do you know ours is not AI? I just want you to know that right now. But you're dealing with that. Do you know how much AI is involved in your life?

You remember back in the day when they first started GPS systems, GPS maps that you could put in your car and that you could drive? I was one of the first adapters of those. When you had to drive in a circle-eight to be able to calibrate the GPS. Any ham radio operator will remember this because we had them way before everybody else.

In those days, they had eight tracking satellites in the sky instead of the hundreds of them that they have now. You could tell it where you want to go, and in those days, you had to give it coordinates. You couldn't give it an address. You gave it coordinates and it would give you an estimate of how long it would take to get there. Sometimes the estimate would be off by an hour or an hour and a half, and you'd beat those estimates every single time.

Sometimes they were way bad because they didn't anticipate traffic. Now, it's so good that it's not even funny. You can't beat that estimate sometimes by 30 seconds. Do you want to know why? AI. Whether or not you have maps turned on on your phone, when you're driving down the street, your coordinates are being transmitted to the satellites above you, and all that data is being gathered by these companies.

Apple's doing it, Google's doing it. They're all doing it. They know the average miles per hour on the road. They know whether or not you're going to use the carpool lane. How do they know that? Because your phone is listening to multiple voices in the car, so it will make the estimate on how fast it's going to be whether or not you're going to be in the carpool lane.

It actually has the ability to understand if there's a transponder in the car if you're going to utilize the fast track. It has gotten to the point where it's absolutely crazy. Some of you that drive up to the bank teller where you take your money and put it in a tube and you do the deposit, sometimes you actually think you're talking to a banker. You're actually not. You're actually talking to an AI image.

I had an advertisement the other day, last night as a matter of fact, on Facebook where it was a person who looked real. It looked like you were literally interacting with somebody, and that person says, "I'll do anything for you. I'll make phone calls for you. I'll set up appointments for you. I'll handle your Zoom appointments for you. Just tell me everything that I need to know about you and I'll totally take care of everything."

They even have AI characters that will do other insane, sinful things for you as well. It's dark, and by the way, it is completely mainstream now. If you think it's not mainstream, it is completely mainstream. It is being utilized at every kind of level, and as I demonstrated earlier, it's even in the pulpits. It is absolutely everywhere.

When I first started flying multi-rotors, when I flew in front of the church and I wanted to get some filming done, I would have to do one of two things. I'd have to get on my air radio and I would have to contact the tower that way and ask the tower for clearance. Then the tower would give me clearance and they would say to keep it under a certain altitude and you're fine.

Or I would have to call the tower, let the tower know what I was doing and the area that I planned to be in, and then the tower would give me clearance. That was the way we did it. There was a certain point about two years ago where I tried to call the tower to get clearance and they laughed at me. They said they don't do it that way anymore.

They told me there's an app you have to download that comes from the feds. You download this app and then you put in your request in the app and you'll get clearance instantly. It used to take as long as five or six hours to get clearance, and then when they gave me clearance, I still had to check in with them to make sure. Now, it's all instant because we've got AI traffic control happening right now.

That's old technology, by the way. Super old technology. Human beings right now, especially in the United States of America and Europe, are being trained to interact with AI. Those who drive a Tesla are driving some of the coolest cars. I'd buy one of those Tesla trucks right now if I didn't have a bunch of kids with me.

If you drive a car that is 2005 or newer, you are interacting with AI without you even knowing it. In the older cars that are 2005 or newer, you're not interacting with AI by virtue of the fact that there's AI on that car, but you are interacting with AI based on the fact that there's transponding technology in your computer that's interacting with AI that is directing how your car is being ran.

If you have OnStar in your car, which OnStar is 1997 and newer, you are interacting with AI today. If you go to a stoplight, you're interacting with AI. People don't get this. This is such a difficult perspective for people to have. If you think you're off the grid, it's very likely you're not off the grid unless you're living in the bush somewhere and you have no electronic devices and you're literally living a survivalist life, and even then they still see you because satellites are watching you.

The world has already been conditioned for what this false prophet is going to do. He is going to utilize artificial intelligence. It's not going to be cloning technology. It's going to be what we're seeing right now. Go online and look at Intel drones. Have you seen the light shows they're doing right now that are just extraordinary? They're way better than anything fireworks.

Disneyland did it for a while. One thousand little multi-rotors in the air that are coming up with these spectacular 3D images. It's almost like you're putting up a 200-foot by 200-foot screen in the air and you're suspending it and you're seeing these images.

Or how about if you go and you just look up some of these techno concerts with these DJs? You open up these videos and you see all these holographic images. They look so real because the technology is extraordinary. These DJs are investing a half a million dollars in these laser systems that are producing real, true-life images in front of people in these concerts. It is happening everywhere.

The idea that the false prophet can get an image that everybody will have to worship won't be hard. And by the way, here's a funny thing about AI. AI is not one-sided. So let's say I get this image that I animate that you are required to worship. If you don't worship me, the image will report back to me. I'll know who those people are. That guy doesn't have a mark. That guy won't worship. And they'll come after you.

That's the world in which we're living. You shouldn't be paranoid because we're going to be raptured by the time that all of this happens. Look at what it goes on to say: "And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, 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 666."

Let me make myself very clear. The vaccine is not the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast is not something that is going to get put inside of you. The mark of the beast is literally a marking on your right hand and your forehead that says 666. It's a physical mark. A lot of people say, "How in the world are you going to get anybody to take on 666 on their forehead or on their hand?" Have you seen how they're mainstreaming Satan worship now?

We talked about this when we talked about the worship of the dragon. The Bible tells us that people are going to wait in line in essence to get this mark. When we get into Revelation 14, we're going to learn about an angel that has to come down and tell the whole world not to take the mark. Because if you take the mark, you're going to die. Not only are they taking the mark, but they're doing it to show their allegiance to the beast.

How is this going to work? We don't know. It could be a DARPA-type tattoo that DARPA revealed to everybody 10 years ago, the kind that's stretchy and stays on your hand and can never be removed. It's got this weird silicone technology that has all kinds of information in it. Do you know that we have people in this church that you might not even know have a hip replacement or a knee that was replaced?

Do you know that if you had that within the last 10 years, you have something inside of you that has transmission capability? It at least has NFC capability, near-field technology, that will allow the doctor to scan your knee and know exactly what's in you. We have people that have pacemakers. Lots of people go in our church over the years that have had pacemakers that literally every bit of their heart is being recorded by the doctors. They are going through internet technology and they are literally transmitting that information to the doctors.

All of this stuff is all relatively old technology. I was listening to Pastor Chuck talk about this, going back to the studies that he was doing. He was teaching the '81 study after he had just shown *The Thief in the Night*. He said it's going to happen within the next 10 years, maybe even the next five or maybe two or three, but they are going to produce a piece of plastic. The plastic looks like a business card, and it has some kind of a device on there that you can go to any machine and scan that card and you can buy things with it.

He's talking about a credit card as though it's some mysterious thing that nobody's ever heard of. Then in 1999, Chuck is talking about the use of smart technology in a credit card. That's coming. This thing is going to have a million times more information than the magnetic strips have in them.

Every person in this room right now that has an ATM card or a bank card, a credit card, pull it out of your wallet and take a look at it. You'll see that there is what looks like a silver box on that credit card, typically on the top right section. That's the smart technology that Pastor Chuck was talking about. That technology is 25-year-old technology.

Now, the more common one is people have their watches. You hit a button on the watch and you go to McDonald's and you can buy your food that way, or wherever you want. I rarely ever pull my wallet out of my pocket. Everything is scanning my watch or my phone, even on big purchases. That's just the way it is.

But that's old technology too. Do you know that right now you could walk into an Amazon Fresh store, you could pull food off the shelf, put it in your bag or a basket, not have a cashier check you out, and you could walk right up to a little thing that scans the palm of your hand and it charges your credit card? All you got to do is sign up. Just take the mark. That's the world we're living in.

Chips in your dog. You can't have a dog anymore legally without having a chip in your dog. You can't buy a dog from a breeder without having a chip in your dog. It's just such a common thing. It's going to be a mark that will be put on your forehead and on your hand, and if you think for a second they can't track you, you've got something else coming.

Do you understand how much the dollar is in danger of completely falling apart? We all have talked about the introduction of CBDCs, Central Bank Digital Currencies. You know they've been pretty much in full play for probably the better part of a year. When we had a bank that actually fell apart, bank insolvencies like SVB, do you want to know why SVB did so well and nothing actually resulted in a lot of people losing their money?

Because of the CBDC infrastructure, the FDIC was able to give that money back to depositors as though nothing ever happened. Because CBDCs don't speak of your personal currency, it speaks of the type of currency that exists between banks and then the kind of debt that we're dealing with. Speaking of quantitative easing and printing currency, do you know that in the last four years, we have printed more United States currency than we've had since the history of its existence?

We are in trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars in debt to China and Russia and other countries. We go to print the money, and as we print the money it becomes worthless, and then printing the money as it becomes worthless, we take it and we exchange it to people who think it's still worth something with treasury notes. All treasury notes are is a statement that says we'll back the money that we actually printed even though the money that we printed has no value.

Let me tell you a story. I was playing Monopoly with my sister for a period of time as a young child. Again and again, she just kicked me in the rear. Finally, I did something about it and I started beating her silly in Monopoly. She didn't have a chance against me. Do you know what I did? I printed Monopoly money.

That's exactly what the United States of America is doing right now. And they keep telling you, "We're winning, we're winning." Except for the fact that when they actually start calling us on our debt, we're done. And the very moment that United States currency is done will be the very moment that all cash is done in the whole world. When that happens, Lord willing, we won't be here.

This final Antichrist is going to know where every dollar was spent. He's going to know every single little thing that we've done because of what's happening in this world. My advice to us is, first of all, praise God that we won't be here and that'll all be gone. But in the meantime, fight like literal hell. Do everything you can to keep this from happening in our nation and in our world.

I have a spiritual reason for this. Not only because we're called to do it and God wants us to do it, but I want people to see the effects of what happens when Christians leave this world. When Christians leave this world, non-believers might think twice about what they're buying into and maybe there's a few that will get saved as a result of it.

It's coming. I've never seen anything like it. There are things that we've never seen in human or world history that we're watching right now, and God is so good to us because our future looks bright. We have the word of God. The future looks great. It looks beautiful because God's faithful.

Guest (Male): Pastor James is leading us verse by verse through Revelation here on Light on the Hill. To hear this message again, visit Light on the Hill radio dot com or one place dot com. It's also available through the Light on the Hill app. Light on the Hill is made possible through the generosity of our listeners. If the Lord is leading you to support this ministry, please visit Light on the Hill radio dot com to donate, or you can give through the Light on the Hill app. Here's Pastor James once again with a special offer for you.

James Kaddis: I know many of you have been waiting for this and I am so excited to be able to tell you my new book is out. It is called *The Last Book*, and it deals with deep insight with respect to the book of Revelation. You are going to love it. It is my commentary on this amazing book in the Bible. The Bible tells us that if you study this book, you'll be blessed, and it is my prayer and my hope and my desire that you will be blessed as you use this as a tool to engage in the word of God. It is a labor of love, and I hope you guys will absolutely be blessed by it.

Guest (Male): In *The Last Book*, Pastor James takes us through Revelation chapters one through ten and shows us why we must live wholeheartedly for God, anchored in truth and awake to the times. You can order a copy today at Light on the Hill radio dot com or Amazon. If you hunger for more Bible prophecy, you may want to seek out Pastor James's videos, live or on demand. Many of them relate to current events and Bible prophecy. You can access them at James Kaddis dot com. You can also send us your questions about Revelation and Bible prophecy through the website Light on the Hill radio dot com. We hope to hear from you soon.

Guest (Male): Pastor James, what would you say to people thinking, "Well, when I see the Antichrist and the mark of the beast, then I'll know God is real and then I'll get right with him"?

James Kaddis: I will say that you are headed towards demise. Because the reality of it is we know that the people who are waiting in line to receive the mark will be very eager to do so. In Revelation 14, it actually tells us that there is an angel that is in essence yelling out loud saying, "Don't do this or you're going to suffer," and yet people are still going to do it. So when you have a choice to put your faith and trust in Christ when there's no pressure at all and nobody who's threatening your life, what makes you think you're going to do it when you're under the gun? There's just no way. You will meet your demise, and that's a terrible thing to say. So I would say do it now. Don't wait until later. You wait until later, you will be one of those who accept the mark.