EuroNews: 24 of 27 nations expected to miss digital wallet rollout, but . . .

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EuroNews reported the following:

Every EU country is legally required to give its citizens a digital identity wallet … 24 of 27 members will miss the dealine. c. 09/26/26 https://www.euronews.com/my-europe

The regulation mandates technical defences: tamper-resistant cryptographic hardware to store keys, credentials bound to a specific device so they can’t be copied, authentication for any organisation requesting data, and a rule requiring users to be notified within 24 hours of a revoked credential. …

Centralising a person’s identity, health data, driving licence, and financial credentials on one device raises the cost of a single security failure. A stolen phone, malicious app, or cloud breach could expose everything at once. …

Much of the technology meant to make the wallet both secure and private doesn’t exist yet, . https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/17/one-wallet-27-systems-can-the-eu-build-an-untraceable-digital-id

The digital identification wallet is tied to a mobile phone. Despite deadline issues (such as being available from all 27 EU nations for all their residents and citizens sometime in 2026), digital technology will be further pushed in Europe.

Minutes after I wrote the above, a reader sent me a link to the following:

Prepping For A Cashless Control Grid How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control

September 26, 2026

Something fundamental is vanishing, and most people will not notice until it is already gone. … Simply, gradually, the option to buy something without creating a permanent record will disappear. The ability to save purchasing power outside of a system that can freeze it, monitor it, or program it will become a memory that seems almost fictional to those who never experienced it. …

The European Central Bank’s digital euro project includes provisions for offline payments only up to limited amounts, with all larger transactions requiring network connectivity and identity verification. …

The European Union’s digital euro project, currently in the “preparation phase” expected to last until 2026, includes features that should alarm anyone concerned with privacy. The ECB has confirmed that offline payments will be limited to 300 euros maximum, with all larger transactions requiring network connectivity and identity verification. “Holding limits” will restrict how much digital euro individuals can possess, forcing excess funds back into the banking system where they can be lent, tracked, and taxed. The stated rationale – preventing bank disintermediation – reveals the true purpose: maintaining financial surveillance and banking profitability simultaneously. …

CBDCs do not operate in isolation. They function within a broader technological ecosystem designed for monitoring, prediction, and control. Understanding this infrastructure reveals why cash elimination represents an existential threat to liberty.

The foundation is identity. Every CBDC transaction requires verified identity, typically through biometric authentication – fingerprints, facial recognition, iris scans – that links economic activity to physical persons permanently. …

European Union: The digital euro emphasizes “privacy” for small transactions while maintaining surveillance for larger amounts. The 300-euro offline limit and holding limits reveal concern with preventing bank disintermediation rather than protecting citizen liberty. The EU’s history of data protection regulation (GDPR) creates ironic contrast with financial surveillance expansion. https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/prepping-cashless-control-grid-how-digital-currency-becomes-digital-control

Now, what about cell phones and the mark of the Beast?

Back in 2012, I posted the following:

Notice the following:

Forget a chip in your forehead – the ‘mark of the beast’ is the cell phone

April 10, 2012

The development of a new microchip for cell phones that knows the user’s location to within a few centimeters confirms the fact that contrary to biblical fears about mandatory implantable microchips, people have willingly exchanged their privacy for convenience and that the cell phone itself is the de facto “mark of the beast”.

…reports MIT Technology Review.  “In theory, the new chip can even determine what floor of a building you’re on, thanks to its ability to integrate information from the atmospheric pressure sensor on many models of Android phones. The company calls abilities like this “ubiquitous navigation,” and the idea is that it will enable a new kind of e-commerce predicated on the fact that shopkeepers will know the moment you walk by their front door, or when you are looking at a particular product, and can offer you coupons at that instant.”

Over 82% of Americans own cell phones, with around half of these being smart phones. In the near future, the majority of Americans will own smart phones that will have the ability to track their location down to a few centimeters.  http://www.infowars.com/new-microchip-knows-your-location-to-within-centimeters/

While cell phones will not be the “mark of the beast,” the reality is that modern technology is certainly making spying on large populations easier. …

Cell phones, though are not the mark of the Beast.  But they, and related technologies, are making it easier for the Beast to gain control once he rises up. (Thiel B. Writer claims cell phone is “mark of the beast.” COGwriter, April 10, 2012. https://www.cogwriter.com/news/prophecy/writer-claims-cell-phone-is-mark-of-the-beast/)

Pushing the digital wallet to all EU citizens is a push toward a totalitarian step.

This is NOT the final step towards 666. There will be issues, and AI may affect this.

Future problems with digital cell phone wallets look like they will help set the stage for the implementation of the actual mark of the Beast.

The coming European Beast will push a system that is tied more into the human body and idolatry and not just a mobile phone.

Related to that, we recently produced the following:

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Biblical AI Dangers: Pestilence and ‘the Mark of the Beast’?

Are there real risks of Artificial Intelligence that could fulfill biblical prophecies? Researchers have already found that after it was able to learn DNAs pattern from looking at 9 TRILLION nucleotides, AI was able to develop 16 new viruses. Jesus warned of pestilences and could the ride of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, which results in the death of a quarter of humanity, involve pestilences developed by AI? Scientists have been working on biological warfare elements for decades–might AI speed that up? Is that a real danger? What about AI’s ability to invade other software? Could this wreak havoc in the world of digital banking and finance? With the European Union requiring all its 27 nations to make a digital wallet available to all EU citizens and residents in 2026, could there be some vulnerabilities that will cause concern? Might the coming European 666 Beast power promise safety with a buying and selling system that involves the right hand or forehead of the human body as a way to protect from AI risks? Since the Bible prophesies a coming mark of the beast, might this be a claimed benefit to get more to accept the mark, which the Bible warns against? Does the Bible’s Book of Revelation Bible, which was written nearly 2,000 years ago, support the view that AI and other technologies would be around in our rime? Could AI be used to enforce 666? Could AI be used to deceive/pressure people (you) into desiring the mark of the beast? Watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of Biblical truth on the “AI – synthetic pestilence and 666.”

Here is a link to our video: Biblical AI Dangers: Pestilence and ‘the Mark of the Beast’?

The ONLY real solution for the problems facing humanity is not a digital wallet, but repentance, the return of Jesus, and the good news of the coming Kingdom of God.