I dunno, China is closer than any nation with their social credit system.
Yes but have they flooded the world with FRN's and thus debasing all currency ? Making sure that everyone tow the line and only use the FRN in all transactions and if you don't we just might have to free the crap out of you.
Maybe not THE beast but sure could be the whore who rides it.
Revelation 17:1:
"Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters."
Revelations 17:2: "With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”
Leaders are swayed by the ideologies of Babylon. They give up the ways of the righteous and follow after evil and all acts of sinfulness. As we witness in the Old Testament, when a leader of a nation falls prey to this, the whole nation does so as well.
Revelation 17:3:
"There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns."
We previously see this beast in Daniel's visions. Both the whore of Babylon and the Beast play a massive role in the End Times.
Revelation 17:4:
"The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls."
Purple and all these other elements show royalty, power, and wealth. The whore of Babylon has
influence over culture and over people.
Revelation 17:4:
"She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries."
Sound familiar?