US Plans Real-Time Facial Biometric Verification for Passport Applications

The US State Department is moving to make passport applications almost entirely online, incorporating real-time facial biometric verification using phone or computer cameras — building on a database of 360 million facial templates already maintained by contractor Idemia. This marks a significant acceleration toward a centralised, AI-driven identity infrastructure that mirrors the kind of universal surveillance and control system long anticipated in biblical end-times prophecy. Revelation 13:16-17 warns of a coming global system that controls who may participate in society — developments like this lay the precise technological groundwork for such a regime.