Radicals threaten to rape Christian women in India (Second Coming Watch Update #181)

Radicals threaten to rape Christian women in India. According to Persecution.org, 20 activists roughed up a pastor and fifty believers at a prayer meeting in Bak-li Village. They accused the pastor of desecrating Hindu idols and defaming and blaspheming their gods and goddesses. Before leaving the scene, the radicals said that they would not hesitate to violate the women if they continue to follow Jesus Christ.

Iran significantly 'speeds up nuclear enrichment'. According to Agence France-Presse, two Israeli newspapers are reporting that Iran has significantly stepped up the pace at which it is enriching uranium, shortening the time it would take for it to reach a nuclear threshold. Israel says a nuclear Iran would pose an existential threat to the Jewish state and officials believe Tehran may be on the cusp of "break out" capacity -- the moment when it could quickly produce weapons-grade uranium.

India's biometric ID plan has implications for the entire world. According to the Washington Times, in a massive, nationwide project, the Indian government is attempting to collect the demographic information, fingerprints, and iris scans of all 1.2 billion residents. With this information, the government hopes to issue a unique 12-digit identity number to every man, woman, and child. If successful, India will build a major new piece of technological infrastructure for a modern economy, while fundamentally transforming the way residents interact with their government.

The Bible says in Revelation 13:16-17, "And he [the antichrist] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And 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."

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