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May 31, 2025

Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Saturday, May 31, 2025, and this is episode #6 in Series 2025. This episode is titled, “It’s All about Control!”

What’s all about control? The events we see going on in the world today.

Our world is fast moving toward the rise of the AntiChrist and his global dictatorship. Everything is being set up for the establishment of the Beast system and, sad to say, most of the world is clueless.

What about you? Are you clueless, too? If so, listen to this podcast to the very end so that you can be prepared for what lies ahead in the very near future.

You’ve very likely heard of the accelerated move toward the digitalization of our world, including the financial, medical, and social segments of society. Digital currency is making major head-roads in Europe, with the soon establishment of the digital Euro by 2026, if not before. The European Central Bank has stated that it “hopes to have a political deal on the digital Euro by early 2026.” I’ve posted the article containing this quote under “Sources Cited” in the show notes.

In another article, posted by Accenture and titled “The Digital Euro: A strategic step toward Europe’s monetary sovereignty?,” the author explains that “cash is rapidly losing ground” and being replaced by a digital system that will purportedly make monetary transactions safer and more convenient.

Pay attention to the words “safer” and “more convenient.” You will be hearing and seeing those words more and more as the world becomes completely digitalized. Under the guise of safety and convenience, the New World Order is setting up a system of control over the entire world population. Eventually, as they proclaim, “You will have nothing and be happy.”

Why will you have nothing?

Because your freedom is being gradually stolen from you, under your very nose. And you are very likely unaware that it’s happening. What looks like a “safer and more convenient” way of living is actually leading to tyranny.

Lest you think I am being far-fetched and alarmist, consider this:

__Surveillance cameras are everywhere, watching our every move. One writer noted that the United States has more surveillance cameras per person than any other country in the world. (https://theconversation.com/surveillance-is-pervasive-yes-you-are-being-watched-even-if-no-one-is-looking-for-you-187139)

__More and more countries are requiring more and more identification processes—like iris scanning, facial scanning, palm scanning, and on and on—in order to travel, purchase, and do things we used to do without such scanning.

__When you’re online, websites use ad-trackers and third-party cookies to gather information about you. These ad-trackers and third-party cookies are stored in your browser and follow you around from site to site, enabling advertisers to follow you around as well.

__These days, surveillance is the name of the game in healthcare as well. A recent article, titled “AI may be listening in on your doctor’s appointment,” raises a red flag on another aspect of stolen freedom. (https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/05/ai-may-be-listening-in-on-your-doctors-appointment/)

__If you wear a device to monitor your health, such as a FitBit or SmartWatch, you are being surveilled. It has been noted that there is an eerie resemblance between a FitBit and the ankle bracelets people wear when being monitored by a court of law. The analogy reminds me of the heavy chain prisoners used to have to wear around their ankles.

__Perhaps the biggest tracking culprit of all is your cell phone. GPS gives your location to maps and weather apps. WiFi and Bluetooth can pinpoint your phone’s location.

Do you use gaming apps? Then your information is being tracked. Do you own a late-model car? Then very likely your car employs telematics, such as OnStar or Bluelink to track your location.

All of this is playing right into the hands of the AntiChrist and his beast system. While the world embraces safety and convenience at the expense of freedom, the beast is laughing at our gullibility.

All of this is also being promoted in the name of convenience and safety. Let’s make life safer and more convenient for you. Let’s get rid of cash, credit cards, debit cards, and every other device. Instead, let’s use your body parts to identity you. Let’s scan your eyes or your face or your hand. Look how convenient it is! And how safe! If you forget your cash or credit card, you’ll still be all right. You have yourself.

And we like sheep comply and follow the crowd—all for the illusion of convenience and safety.

Have we ever considered that in choosing convenience and safety over responsibility and freedom, we are choosing tyranny?

Ben Franklin wrote: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Yet, all of this was prophesied in the Bible, particularly in the Book of Revelation. What we are witnessing in our day is the rise of the global beast system that will mark the reign of terror of the AntiChrist. All the pieces are in place, and soon the world will witness the appearance of this man who will be Satan personified.

From the very beginning, Satan has wanted to be God. And he hasn’t stopped trying to overthrow God’s throne, despite the fact that Jesus Christ defeated Satan as a result of the Resurrection. Satan is fighting a losing battle, but he is still determined to fight. In the near future, during the seven-year period known as the Tribulation, Satan will demonstrate the fullness of his evil by assuming total control of the world through the man called the AntiChrist.

And if you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you will be one of the AntiChrist’s victims.

Friend, I am not talking through my hat. What I am telling you is the absolute truth, found in the Holy Bible which is the Word of God. God Himself is warning you through me in this message to get right with Him or else suffer the consequences.

So what will you do? Will you dismiss God’s warning as the crazy rantings of a misguided woman, or will you at least look into what I’m saying yourself? Intellectual honesty demands the latter, would you not agree? And so does concern for your personal well-being.

You see, my friend, no matter what you believe, the Bible is true. Most of the prophecies in it have already come to pass exactly as predicted. A few more remain to be fulfilled, and they too will come to pass exactly as predicted.

Several of those prophecies have to do with the rise of the AntiChrist and the New World Order. Already we are hearing leaders from all over the world speaking of the New World Order. Although it sounds good, the New World Order will be a global dictatorship headed up by the AntiChrist and implemented by his right-hand man, called the False Prophet. The AntiChrist will control the world through digital currency, and, as prophesied in Revelation 13: 16-17, no one will be able to buy or sell anything without taking the AntiChrist’s mark on his hand or his forehead. Those who refuse to take the mark will not be able to buy or sell. In other words, they and their families will starve to death.

Let’s look at those verses:

“It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.”

Taking the mark of the beast means giving Satan, in the person of the AntiChrist, total control of your life and worshipping him as god. In essence, those who worship the AntiChrist will be selling their soul to the devil. Are you willing to do that?

Those who sell their soul to Satan by accepting his mark will be doomed forever to hell, with no chance of redemption.

So, what is your response to this information? Are you going to dismiss it as foolishness? Are you going to take it seriously? I hope you will. Your choice will determine your eternal destiny.

Friend, I don’t want you to go to hell. Neither does God. God does not send people to hell. People send themselves to hell by refusing to believe the truth.

If your heart is calling you now to believe what I am saying, then that is God inviting you to come to Him. Won’t you accept His invitation?

If your heart says yes, then pray this simple prayer with me now:

Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner in need of a Savior. I cannot save myself. I repent of my sin. I believe that You are the Son of God Who died for me and Who rose from the dead. I invite you now into my life to be my Savior and Lord. Make of me what You created me to be. In Your Name. I pray. Amen.

If you sincerely prayed this prayer from your heart, you are now a born-again child of God. Write to me at drmaryannn@maryanndiorio.com, and I will send you a free PDF e-booklet titled After You’re Born Again.

In case you are not aware, I write heart-mending fiction that deals with the deepest issues of life. In my stories you will find characters just like you who struggle with what look like impossible problems and situations. Check out my books at my online bookstore at shop.maryanndiorio.com. That’s shop.maryanndiorio.com. 

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Until next time, remember that God loves you just as you are and just where you are, yet enough not to keep you there. As you live in Him, He will help you to keep on winning with the Word.

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Source Cited: 

“ECB hopes to have political deal on digital euro by early 2026”
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ecb-hopes-have-political-deal-digital-euro-by-early-2026-2025-05-15/

“Is the UN’s Digital ID plan the end of privacy as we know it?”
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/03/is-the-uns-digital-id-plan-the-end-of-privacy-as-we-know-it/

“AI may be listening in on your doctor’s appointment”
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/05/ai-may-be-listening-in-on-your-doctors-appointment/

“Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched even if no one is looking for you.”
https://theconversation.com/surveillance-is-pervasive-yes-you-are-being-watched-even-if-no-one-is-looking-for-you-187139

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