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A reader of this page sent a link to the following report found at Voice of America (VOA), a US government news agency:

January 15, 2014

The U.S. National Security Agency is reported to have implanted malicious software in nearly 100,000 computers worldwide, allowing the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines while creating a digital highway for launching cyberatacks.

The New York Times reported that the N.S.A. inserts most of the software by gaining access to computer networks, but has also increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the internet.

The report, which cites N.S.A. documents, U.S. officials and computer experts, said the technology relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and memory cards physically inserted into the computer.

The Times also said that the N.S.A. has successfully implanted the software into such targets as Russian military networks, systems used by Mexican police and drug cartels, trade groups inside the European Union, and anti-terrorism partners such as Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan.

The newspaper claimed that there is so far no evidence the N.S.A has implanted its software or used the radio frequency technology inside the United States.

The details of the N.S.A.’s surveillance efforts are part of the scores of documents leaked by former N.S.A. contractor Edward Snowden that created a firestorm of criticism. President Barack Obama will deliver a speech Friday outlining what steps he will take to reform the agency’s practices.  http://www.voanews.com/content/report–us-spy-agency-infiltrates-personal-computers-worldwide/1830406.html

The above essentially confirms something posted here a couple of weeks ago (see Applebaum claims NSA can even spy through your computer when it is offline).  “Big Brother” is watching.  As far as reforms to be proposed by US President Obama, basically from what I have come across, it appears that Barack Obama will allow the surveillance will go on, but also will likely propose a little more judicial oversight and claim to put in certain limits.

I do not believe that whatever will be proposed will sufficiently restore privacy rights.

But even if it were, the damage to reputation of the USA and its relationship to Europe has been done (though more revelations about USA/UK espionage could worsen this further).

The reader of this page that sent me the link to the VOA article wrote the following:

Big Brother is watching – maybe YOU!

Is this an indicator that the “first beast” is about to come on the scene?

My response was:

I have done many posts and even one or two YouTube videos related to this.  I believe this is setting the stage for the Beast.

How is this setting the stage for the Beast?

First, it shows that the type of surveillance that the Bible warned about nearly 2,000 years (Revelation 13:15-18), ago now exists.

Furthermore, all of this has outraged Europe and seriously destroyed continental European trust in the USA (the UK has been working with the USA on much of this and the continental Europeans are outraged about this too).  Many Europeans believe this espionage shows that not only does the USA not trust them, that the USA has been misleading them in the war on terror in order to further spy on them.

Various ones in Europe now believe that the USA has been using illegal and unfair surveillance to give the USA economic advantages over Europe.

Basically, because of getting caught with all of this, the USA has already agreed to share its intelligence gathering information with the Germans and other Europeans. The Europeans did not know a lot of this and they are now getting more and more filled in about it and how to do it themselves.

The upcoming Beast power will soon have what it needs to fulfill various prophecies such as the following:

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 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.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18, NKJV)

23 ‘And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the perfecting of the transgressors, stand up doth a king, fierce of face, and understanding hidden things; (Daniel 8:23, Young’s Literal Translation)

It would seem to take computers and other technology to aid in the fulfillment of the above scriptures, as well as various forms cyber-spying/monitoring. And that is something that the USA has been engaged in and that technology is being shared now with the Europeans.

Notice also the following:

Snowden travels trace a path of government hypocrisy

Edward Snowden’s global travels have highlighted the chasm between the political posturing and actual practices of governments when it comes to free expression. As is well known now, the former government contractor’s leaks exposed the widespread phone and digital surveillance being conducted by the U.S. National Security Agency, practices at odds with the Obama administration’s positioning of the United States as a global leader on Internet freedom and its calls for technology companies to resist foreign demands for censorship and surveillance.  http://www.cpj.org/blog/2013/06/snowden-travels-trace-a-path-of-government-hypocri.php

Bible prophecy warns about a peoples, who are now based in the German-dominated regions of Europe that will rise up in the end time and takeover “an hypocritical nation” (Isaiah 10:6, KJV) even though the leaders there do not think that they would (Isaiah 10:7-11):

5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? (Isaiah 10:5-11, KJV)

The part of the prophecy that names Samaria is a reference to the descendants of Manasseh (cf. Isaiah 9:8-12,21), the USA. As far as Assyria, please check out the article Germany’s Assyrian Roots Throughout History there is also a You-Tube video sermon on this titled Germany’s Biblical Origins. The Snowden disclosures have shown that the USA is a hypocritical ally and the Europeans will remember this.

This, combined with its accelerating moral decline, does not bode well for the USA, which badly needs national repentance. It also does not bode well for the world as the USA is helping set the stage for the rise of the final European Beast power.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 at 4:00 pm and is filed under Prophecy.

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