
EU member states remain deeply divided over a framework that would allow US authorities to routinely query European biometric and personal databases for border and immigration screening, with unresolved disputes over automated decision-making, data retention, and sensitive personal information. This push toward a global biometric surveillance infrastructure — linking governments across continents in real-time identity tracking of entire populations — reflects the kind of unprecedented control architecture that Bible prophecy indicates will characterise the end-times system of global governance. Revelation 13 describes a world system with the power to monitor, control, and exclude individuals from participation in society, a framework now being assembled piece by piece through technology.