Nations Race to Register AI Agents Under Unified Identity Frameworks

China, Estonia, and major US institutions are building national and global frameworks to assign verified digital identities to AI agents, enabling autonomous machines to transact, act, and operate across economies without direct human involvement. This accelerating infrastructure mirrors the prophetic conditions described for the mark-of-the-beast system — a world where every economic actor, human or machine, must be registered, verified, and permitted to transact within a centralised control architecture. Revelation 13:16-17 warns of a system where no one may buy or sell without authorisation, and the binding of all commerce to verifiable identity — now extending beyond humans to AI agents — is laying that precise technological and institutional foundation.