
Western Australia Police deployed a live facial recognition van that scanned over 131,000 faces across 10 locations in a single week, resulting in 18 arrests and the identification of 21 registered sex offenders. This rapidly expanding surveillance infrastructure — now spreading across multiple Australian states — reflects a global trend toward unprecedented government monitoring of civilian populations, a key hallmark of the control systems Bible prophecy warns will characterise the last days. Revelation 13 describes a world system with the power to monitor, identify, and ultimately control who may participate in society, and technologies like this lay the precise groundwork for that reality.