Mar 27, 2025
A new article from Reason explores how the global transition toward a cashless society is accelerating with little public awareness or debate. Governments and financial institutions are pushing digital currencies and payment platforms under the banner of efficiency and convenience, while quietly sidelining physical cash. Once this shift becomes the norm, many fear it will be nearly impossible to reverse.
The piece highlights concerns over surveillance and centralization of financial power. Unlike cash, which offers anonymity and freedom, digital transactions leave a permanent trace. The risk, the author argues, lies in the possibility of programmable money—where governments or institutions could restrict what people buy, control access to funds, or impose ideological conditions. Countries like Nigeria and China are already experimenting with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) that raise these very red flags.
The move toward a cashless economy aligns with the future system described in Revelation 13:16–17: “And he causes all... to be given a mark... and he decrees that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark.” As the infrastructure for global economic control is being laid, it points to the coming beast system that will dominate the world during the Tribulation. While we are not yet in that time, the rapid disappearance of cash is a clear warning of how close we may be to those prophetic days. READ MORE
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Commentary by Joe Hawkins