WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO OF A 12,000 "CHRISTIAN" CHURCH AUDIENCE CLAPPING AND WHOOPING AS THEIR PASTOR TELLS THEM THAT HE MET AND TALKED FACE TO FACE WITH JESUS CHRIST ON GOOD FRIDAY!!

GOD'S SECRET 666 CODE IS REVEALED AND SUPPORTS BARACK OBAMA TO BE THE ANTICHRIST - IF YOU BELIEVE THE DELUSIONAL RON REESE!!

  GOD'S SECRET 666 CODE SUPPORTS OBAMA AS ANTICHRIST &

      APRIL 11, 2018, THRU SEPT. 21, 2021, AS HIS 1260-DAY REIGN!!!

If this title does not pique your interest, as a Biblical watchman, I do not know what will.  Not just "supports", but "strongly supports".  Over four decades of writing, as a Biblical watchman, has caused me to restrain myself from using the word "confirms". But when we combine the evidence in this post, with all of the other evidence for Obama being the Antichrist, and for the above listed time frame to be the 1260-day reign of the Antichrist, it is safe to say that the evidence is beginning to be overwhelming.  Then when we combine all of this, with much more evidence to come in upcoming posts, this is as close to a "slam dunk" as you can get.  That is correct, fellow watchers.  It is almost a "slam dunk" that Barack Hussein Obama will SOON become the Biblical Antichrist, and that the date that he begins his 3 and one-half-year reign is April 11th of this year, just a few short weeks away!

The world is about to get its wish for the Second Coming of Obama, the Antichrist. The Bride of Christ is also about to get its wish, the first stage of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  The anti-Messiah is the one who wishes to become the world's Messiah.  Satanic forces are at work, behind the scenes, to make this wish a reality. I believe they are targeting the Holy Week.  I fully expect worldwide dramatic and climatic changes to be taking place in early April, and possibly the last few days of March.  Obama has been doing just what the Antichrist is supposed to do, which is attempting to imitate the real Christ.  Soon that will be the main subject of another post.

Satan wants it to be a big surprise as to just when his man, Obama, who will SOON become Satan incarnate (just like Judas), begins his 1260-day reign over the world. Most believe that this will be the final 3 and one-half years of a future Final 7 Years. Most believe that the Rapture has to happen before these "future" Final 7 Years begin.  Most believe that there has to be a 7-year peace treaty with Israel and the Antichrist before these Final 7 Years can even begin.  Many believe there HAS to be a worldwide spiritual revival before the Final 7 Years.  Most believe that there has to be this elaborate 3rd Temple in Israel for the Antichrist, before the midpoint of the Final 7 Years. 

This is how deceptive Satan can be.  I used to be a staunch believer in every one of those false theories.  Pre-conceived ideas and false (but well-meaning) teachings have led most of the church world astray, when it comes to the proper interpretation of end-times Bible Prophecy.  Progressive revelation, and over 40 years of studying end-times Bible Prophecy, have led me to new, and more correct, understanding of the above-mentioned teachings.

Any theological position that you take that projects some other prophetic event that HAS TO happen before the Rapture is false.  These false teachings will keep one from believing that their Lord and Saviour could come back today.  This should be the BLESSED HOPE of every believer, that Jesus could come back for His Bride TODAY. 

The Rapture should be the PURIFYING FORCE in the heart and lives of every single Christian.  It is what keeps us, with the help of the Holy Spirit, on the straight and narrow.  It is what keeps us holy.  It is what keeps us living a life pleasing to our Lord. That is why we WATCH!   We WATCH the signs of the times.  We study end-times Bible Prophecy.  We make every attempt to live our lives, focusing on the spiritual, and not the carnal, as Jesus commands us to.

Any future event that we believe HAS TO happen before Jesus can return in the Rapture robs us of our BLESSED HOPE that TODAY could be that day.  This, in turn, robs us of the PURIFYING FORCE in our lives.  It is almost like a license to sin, as it means that we can always repent later, because Jesus cannot come back today.  It means there can be NO REPERCUSSION TODAY, because such-and-such prophetic event has not happened yet.  It reduces our salvation to a life-insurance policy, rather than a living, dynamic, life-changing relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  If you have that BLESSED HOPE within you TODAY, that Jesus could Return for you TODAY, then Jesus will become your Lord, and Soon-Coming King, and not just your Saviour. 

One more point before I move on to the secret 666 Code, is that we all should be reminded that there exists positions in Jesus' Millennial Kingdom, and an elaborate reward system in place, much of which will be determined by what we do in these final few weeks, before the Firstfruits Rapture, not to mention being found worthy by Jesus to even participate in this first Rapture (Luke 21: 34--36).

I trust that you have read my post of one week ago, which referred extensively to the signs in the Heavens of the two intersecting comets in the sky, Comets Hyatuke and Hale-Bopp, at the EXACT same co-ordinates.  This AMAZING event happened in consecutive years, 1996 and 1997, ON THE VERY SAME DAY OF THE YEAR, APRIL 11TH, in the constellation which represents the Antichrist, and with the nearest star also representing the Antichrist.  There were also prophecies given that this fantastic, and unparalleled Biblical astronomy event WAS THE SIGN OF THE ANTICHRIST!!!  It certainly appears that God was giving us the DAY, but we have not been able to determine the YEAR, UNTIL NOW!!!!!!  All of the Biblical evidence, in my opinion, points us straight to APRIL 11, 2018, to be the first day of the 1260-day reign of the Antichrist.  More evidence to come in the near future.  This post is an absolute MUST read.  The link is below:

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2018/ronr121.htm

Now for the secret Bible Code 666 that strongly supports Obama as the Antichrist, and APRIL 11, 2018, through Sept. 21, 2021, Day 1 of Feast of Tabernacles, as the 1260-day reign of the Antichrist.  (Isn't it amazing, and extremely supporting, how this 1260-day reign of the Antichrist ends with the Return of Jesus on Day 1 of Tabernacles, the Day that Jesus should begin tabernacling with His people???????). If you continue to cling to your pre-conceived ideas, you will have to chalk this up to a coincidence.

We all know about the number in the Bible of 666.  Revelation 13:18 says, "Here is wisdom.  Let him who has understanding COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST: FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN; AND HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE (60) AND SIX.

Most of you already know about the birth date of Obama being part of this 666 Code. Obama's birth date has been given as August 3, 1961.  Many Bible Prophecy students, including me, do not believe that this is a coincidence, as August 3rd is the 216th day of the year.  The number 216 is the product of three SIXES.  6 times 6 times 6 = 216.  This results in the number 666, just like Revelation 13:18 tells us will be the number of the Beast, or Antichrist.

I believe the Lord has given to me the other half of this secret 666 Code.  It was almost one year ago that I was strongly impressed that the Lord was giving to me, not the date of the Rapture, but the EXACT timetable for the 1260 days of the Great Tribulation, and reign of the Antichrist.  The evidence began mounting very quickly (and I am doing my very best to present these points to you in several consecutive posts), and very convincingly. 

Very soon into this process, I felt strongly impressed to COUNT THE DAYS OF OBAMA, so that is what I did.  Rev. 13:6 says, "And power was given unto him (Antichrist) to CONTINUE (Obama will be given power to CONTINUE what he has started) for forty and two months."  In other Scriptures it mentions 3 and one-half years, and in others, it mentions 1260 days.  They all refer to the very same time period, which is the Great Tribulation, which is also referred to as the 1260-day reign of the Beast, or Antichrist.

One more piece of compelling evidence that we have that 2018 is the year, is both the starting date of April 11th and ending date of Sept. 21, 2021.  These dates are 1260 days apart.  We have EVERY reason to believe that these are the starting dates, and ending dates, of this 1260-day reign of the Antichrist.  As shown above, Apr. 11th is the Sign in the Heavens of the Antichrist, with the comets on Apr. 11th (among much other evidence).  Sept. 21, 2021, and not likely by coincidence, is Day 1 of Feast of Tabernacles, the day that we have every reason to expect Jesus to begin tabernacling with His people.  It is absolutely amazing and compelling that there is sooooo very much (with much more to come) evidence for this to be the EXACT time frame for the 1260-day reign of the Antichrist.  In very few years do these days of the year fit, but they do if the starting date is APRIL 11, 2018!

Now for the other half of this secret 666 Code.  We have every reason to believe that the Antichrist will be cast into the lake of fire on the 1260th day of his reign and rule, on the Final Day of the Great Tribulation.  My timetable has that date to be Sept. 21, 2021, Day 1 of Feast of Tabernacles.  The days of the Antichrist are numbered.  His days should come to a fiery conclusion on this day of Sept. 21, 2021. 

The reasons for Barack Hussein Obama to be the Antichrist are too numerous to mention in this post.  Revelation 17 teaches us that the Antichrist is the 8th King in a series of succession of 8 Kings.  Obama is also the 6th King, with Donald Trump being the 7th King, who only serves a short time.  We are rapidly approaching the End of the rule of the 7th King, who is President Trump.  To follow quickly in succession will be the evil reign of the 8th King, the 2nd Coming of Obama.

Here is further proof of Obama becoming the Antichrist, and for April 11th of THIS YEAR to be his FIRST day to rule and reign, and Sept. 21, 2021, to be his LAST day of his 1260-day reign.  This should be Obama's LAST day upon this earth.  Here is the 2nd half of the secret 666 Code:

On this date of Sept. 21, 2021, the Final Day of the Antichrist, OBAMA WILL BE 60 (6 DECADES) YEARS + 6 WEEKS + 6 DAYS OLD!!!!!!  THERE WE HAVE OUR 3 SIXES, IDENTIFYING OBAMA AS THE ANTICHRIST, AND IDENTIFYING APRIL 11, 2018, AS THE 1ST DAY OF HIS REIGN, AND IDENTIFYING SEPT. 21, 2021, AS HIS LAST DAY OF HIS WICKED REIGN!!!!!!  OBAMA WILL LIVE 60 YEARS, PLUS 6 WEEKS, PLUS 6 DAYS, AND THEN BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE!!!!!!

Anything that I could add to this would be anti-climatic.  Stay tuned, as there is more to come!

Maranatha!

Ron Reese

rgreese49@aol.com

p.s.  I have also just learned, since I wrote the above email, that when Obama ended his 8-year rule, as President of the United States, the most powerful position in the world, in January of 2017, that OBAMA WAS 666 MONTHS OLD!!!!!! 

NEW BOOKLET BY NEVILLE STEPHENS TITLED "THE ANTICHRIST - WHO IS HE" IS NOW AVAILABLE AT AMAZON!! A QUITE AMAZING AND ASTONISHING READ!!

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IT IS A QUITE AN AMAZING AND ASTONISHING READ, AND WILL HAVE YOU RUSHING BACK TO YOUR BIBLES IN TRUE BEREAN MANNER TO SEE IF WHAT NEVILLE IS PROPHESYING IS INDEED CORRECT!!

NOT ONLY DOES DOES NEVILLE IDENTIFY THE LAST DAYS "ANTICHRIST" FOR YOU BUT HE ALSO GOES ON TO SHOW WHO THE "SECOND BEAST" OF REVELATION IS! THAT OF COURSE, IS THE FALSE PROPHET WHO WORKS IN COMPLETE HARMONY WITH THE SON OF PERDITION TO WREAK HAVOC ON THE CHOSEN NATION OF ISRAEL, BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK TO SAVE THE DEVASTATED JEWISH STATE!

THIS REMARKABLE PROCLAMATION HAS BEEN PRICED AT A GIVEAWAY PRICE. THERE IS NO PROFIT INVOLVED AT ALL, AND NEVILLE HAS PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED THIS CUTTING EDGE AND DYNAMIC BOOKLET TO OPEN THE EYES OF MOST CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE BEEN FED THE FALSE "REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE" SCENARIO.

THEY DO THIS WITHOUT REALLY INVESTIGATING AND STUDYING THE "FACTS" OF BIBLE PROPHECY BUT RATHER LISTEN TO THEIR SO-CALLED "EXPERTS" PASS ON TO THEIR DEVOTED BUT DELUDED FOLLOWERS ERRONEOUS INFORMATION!!

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FALSE MIRACLE WORKER KENNETH COPELAND AND HIS EXTREME WEALTH AND TOTAL SECURITY - AS EXPOSED BY DERREN BROWN WHO CONTINUES TO EXPOSE THESE LAST DAYS FALSE TEACHERS AND WORKERS OF SATAN!!

False Teachers Around In These Last Days As Derren Brown Exposes The "Christian" Fake Faith Healing Leg Trick!!

ONE EVENT TO DEFINITELY MISS THIS MONTH IS THE NEW WINE CYMRU'S "ONE WORSHIP CONFERENCE WHERE YOU PUT YOUR HAND UP AFTER A FEW EMOTIONAL SONGS AND YOU ARE "SAVED".......NOT!! AND IT ONLY COSTS THIRTY QUID TO HEAR THEIR VERSION OF THE GOSPEL!! WE ARE SURELY IN THE END TIMES FOLKS!!

ONE: Worship Conference 2018

ONE: Worship Conference 2018

Date: Fri 26 Jan, 2018, 7:30pm - Sat 27 Jan, 2018,

Location: Venue 2

Address: Neath Road
Swansea, SA6 8EF
This is a joint Worship Conference between "New Wine Cymru" and "Sound of Wales".

TWO OF THE BIGGEST FALSE PROPHETS AND CHARLATANS IN SOUTH EAST WALES - ROBERT KING AND RICHARD TAYLOR!!

Here is a copy of my reply to Peter Hodge in the comments section further down this blog:

Many Thanks for your gracious and thoughtful comments Peter.

I know nothing of Robert King's "church upbringing" which has left him bitter, but I am only criticising his ministry in the past few years since he took over at Freedom Church.

KIng (pictured below)  is leading so many people astray with these false emotional feelings and his endorsement to look for feelings and to encourage them to dance around, to lie on the floor, to make some awful sounding "UnBiblical" noises and generally give the wrong impression of what The Real Holy Spirit Of God is like!

I also remember him saying about four years ago how jealous he was that "god" gave the so-called outpouring to Richard Taylor and Victory Church, for he was the first one to bring over the infamous Todd Bentley from America, and that the lord should have rewarded him and his "ministry"!

He sounded very bitter and angry at the time, but whether it was at Two Locks (Freedom) or Victory Church, both in Cwmbran, it was NEVER GOING TO WORK because it was orchestrated by "the god of this age" and not our Great God and Saviour, The Lord Jesus Christ!

What happened at Greenforge is history now as the drip of a watery event fizzled out in total embarrassment, that Taylor was sacked for his serial adultery, and was also given a five year pulpit ban by his covering Elim Church Hierarchy, which of course he totally ignored in his usual arrogant and bombastic manner!

Of course, now like the proverbial bad penny, Tricky Dicky has re-emerged in our lovely Valleys of South East Wales as the Americans refused to grant him a visa and so block his "ministerial" move to the USA.

Taylor (pictured below) has the nerve to call himself a "reverend", and he has now taken over as Head Pastor at The Heads Of The Valley Church in Dowlais in Merthyr, and has the nerve to rename it as The New Beginnings Church and also charge £20 to get "anointed" in his version of "the holy spirit"! And his forgiving wife Jill has also been made a pastor, so a double whammy of ungodliness!

Robert King is also claiming that there has been a "revival" going on at Two Locks for TEN YEARS NOW!! That is quite an amazing lie, unless he does not know the definition of a revival.

It sounds very similar to Taylor and his "revival" which was to sweep all over Wales, then all over Britain, then all over the world in the biggest move of god since sliced bread!

We ran a Post Office in Cwmbran at the time and when we asked our staff and customers for their reactions to this "great new revival" they laughed as they had never heard a word about it until we brought the subject up.

I fear it is the same with King, and I think he is trying to delude himself that "god" is still working through him and "owes him one" for offering the "outpouring" to VC and not to Freedom!

Maranatha Blessings,
Nev.

THIS IS A "JOKE" OF A TESTIMONY BY THE INFAMOUS PAUL HAYNES WHO WAS NOT HEALED OUT OF HIS WHEELCHAIR AT THE FALSE SO-CALLED "WELSH OUTPOURING" IN CWMBRAN IN 2013. HE NOW GOES BY THE NAME OF VICTOR PAUL HAYNES - I WONDER WHERE THE "VICTOR" HAS SUDDENLY COME FROM? ANYWAY, THE ERRATIC, CONTROVERSIAL, AND CONFUSED HAYNES WHO NEVER KNOWS WHEN TO SIT IN HIS WHEELCHAIR (IT DEPENDS WHO IS LOOKING OR CHECKING UP ON HIM) HAS NOW DESERTED VICTORY CHURCH IN CWMBRAN FOLLOWING THE SACKING OF THE ADULTEROUS RICHARD TAYLOR WHO ORGANISED THE OUTPOURING AND LED SO MANY PEOPLE ASTRAY! HAYNES HAS NOW MOVED ACROSS TOWN TO THE NEWLY NAMED "FREEDOM CHURCH" HAVING FORMERLY BEEN CALLED TWO LOCKS CHURCH, BECAUSE THERE IS WHERE IT IS LOCATED!! AND HIS NEW "PASTOR" ROBERT KING IS ON A PAR WITH RICHARD TAYLOR, AND ALL OF THE OTHER FALSE TEACHERS AND FALSE HEALERS FROM THE "OUTPOURING" AT VICTORY CHURCH. KING EVEN INVITES THE LIKES OF TODD BENTLEY AND KATHIE WALTERS TO PREACH THEIR DOCTRINES OF DEMONS AT HIS CHURCH, SO THIS TELLS YOU WHERE KING STANDS BEFORE THE HOLY LORD JESUS CHRIST. ALSO HAVE A WATCH AGAIN OF "THE ANOINTED" KING SPEAKING IN THE VIDEO BELOW, AND HAVE A LAUGH ABOUT THE REVIVAL WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON AT "FREEDOM" FOR TEN YEARS NOW - AND NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF IT!!!

Understanding the End Times: Dancing With Demons!!

SHORT VIDEO SHOWING A CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST BEING ARRESTED FOR PREACHING FROM THE BIBLE!!

"Mark of the Beast: Digital Identity and the Cashless Cartel" By Martin Edwards from "The UK Column"!!

Mark of the Beast: Digital Identity and the Cashless Cartel

With the release of the iPhone X people have been asked to accept a new level of biometric intrusion so that their phone can identify them. But is this a simple security measure, or is there a global policy agenda at work?

Since the turn of the century the general public has been increasingly conditioned to interact digitally. From social media, to e-commerce and cashless payment systems such as Apple Pay and Android Pay, the "smartphone" is at the centre of the digital revolution.

The driver for this is not just corporate. There has been an accelerating transformation in the way that we interact with government agencies. As just one example, patients in England & Wales are now encouraged to pre-book doctor appointments. In order to register for Patient Access patients simply need to attend their doctor's surgery with their passport and driving licenceafter which they will be issued with a user ID and password.

Digital transformation of other government services is being driven by the Government Digital Service (GDS) which is part of the Cabinet Office. GOV.UK Verify is the new way to prove identity online. Government agencies now using GOV.UK Verify include DVLA, DWP, HMRC and DEFRA. Using GOV.UK Verify to access a government service requires "customers" to select from a list of companies certified to verify identities, including:

·         Barclays, ·         CitizenSafe, ·         Digidentity, ·         Experian, ·         Post Office, ·         Royal Mail, ·         SecureIdentity

According to the Government Transformation Strategy, 2017 - 2020, published by the Cabinet Office, "By harnessing digital to build and deliver services, the government can transform the relationship between citizen and state". 

Consideration is also being given to making the GOV.UK Verify system available to Local Authorities across the country. PublicTechnolgy.net reported on 29 August 2017 that "London mayor Sadiq Khan has appointed the capital’s first chief digital officer (CDO) ... Camden Councillor, Theo Blackwell ... will take the lead on work to digitally transform public services and turn London into the world’s smartest city”.

In his 2016 report UK Digital Strategy – local government and digital transformation Theo Blackwell emphasised that:

"Whitehall should empower local government to...lead the development of an interoperability framework that enables data sharing and end to end process automation across local and central government".

By this stage you will probably be wondering where all this transformation towards digitised Central and Local Government Services is leading us. To discover the answer to this question we need to examine the ongoing role being played by global financial institutions such as HSBC.

HSBC and HSBC Safeguard

HSBC's international network serves around 38 million customers in 67 countries and territories. Many of HSBC's customers have already received, or will soon receive, letters concerning HSBC SafeGuard. This is a global policy of this banking giant.

A copy of this letter has been examined by UK Column researchers. This letter is headed "HSBC Safeguard: Help Us detect fraudulent transactions and safeguard against financial crime". It states that:

At HSBC, we're committed to protecting all our customers' accounts, today and for the future. To do this we need a little help from you. Our global systems rely on having the most up-to-date customer information to detect fraudulent transactions and safeguard against financial crime.

The letter continues, "As part of HSBC safeguard, we're asking you to provide us with a document to prove your identity". The fact that customers already provide this information when opening the account now appears to be irrelevant.

How then can customer identity be proved to the satisfaction of HSBC?

We prefer to see government issued documents that include a photograph, such as a passport or driving licence.

The letter continued:

One of the quickest and most convenient ways to provide us with your documents is to use the new online JUMIO tool. To use this you'll need a computer equipped with a webcam.

There is no indication in the letter whether compliance with this request is voluntary or mandatory. However, it does clearly state that if you fail to provide up-to-date documentation "we may not be able to provide you with all of our services".

Reference to the frequently asked questions section indicates that if a bank customer "fails to respond within 30 days of receiving the letter a reminder will be sent". This implies that compliance is mandatory. HSBC were contacted by telephone to clarify the issue. HSBC indicated that this was not a mandatory requirement however we have anecdotal evidence to suggest that customers who fail to comply with the requirements of HSBC SafeGuard have received a further HSBC letter stating

We are sorry to advise you that we will no longer be able to provide you with banking services ... and ... we will not be revisiting this decision.

JUMIO

The HSBC website incorporates a Jumio documents upload page.

Further reference to the HSBC letter reveals that "Jumio is an external company specialising in verifying the authenticity of specific documentation". 

Jumio, which is based in Palo Alto, California, "uses computer vision technology to verify credentials issued by over 200 countries in real time web and mobile transactions. Jumio’s solutions are used by leading companies in the financial services, sharing economy, retail, travel and online gaming sectors".

One of Jumio's solutions is Netverify. This system "combines ID Verification, Identity Verification, and Document Verification for a complete solution to establish the real-world identity of consumers". This product "integrates into websites, iPhone, or Android applications". For ID verification the customer scans their ID document, the ID is authenticated against security features, the customer's facial image is compared with face in ID document, and biometric facial recognition ensures the person is actually present. Netverify utilises "advanced technology including biometric facial recognition and machine learning" in order that outdated customer verification methods that require customers to email, fax, or physically drop off copies of ID documents at a branch office, can be avoided.

This explains perfectly why the HSBC customer identity check is best made using the Jumio tool via a computer equipped with a web-cam. It appears to us that HSBC customers with smartphone banking apps will soon benefit from Real-time ID Scanning and ID Authentication using their IOS and Android mobile device cameras.

Know Identity Conference 2017

Jumio were sponsors of the Know Identity Conference which took place in mid-May 2017. Amongst the other sponsors were: IBM; CapitalOne; Equifax; Experian; IDMe, and, LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Details of the Know Identity Conference can be found on the website of One World Identity.

Daily Insights published by One World Identity provide a flavour of what the future could bring to the UK. This includes

·         Singapore plans smartphone-based national digital identity system for accessing government services

·         Singapore bank pushes cashless transactions to elementary school children with free smartwatches

Keynote and other speakers in May 2017 included:- Edward Snowden,Former Intelligence Officer & Whistleblower; Carmi Gillon, Former Head of the Israeli "Shin Bet" Security Service and a leading cyber-security expert; Serge Llorente, Director of Mobile Connect of Orange; Susan Joseph, Advisor at One World Identity; Anand Menon, Director, New Customers at Mastercard; Don Thibeau, Chairman and President of the Open Identity Exchange; Matt Miller, VP Conversational Commerce and Remote IoT at Mastercard; Matthew Thompson, Director of Business Development at Capital One; Laura Hunter, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft; Adam Madlin, Business Development Director at Symantec; Tom Purves, VP Digital Products - Visa Checkout at Visa Inc.; Toby Rush, CEO of EyeVerify; Alex Ketter, Head of US Compliance at Google Payment Corp; Greg Kidd, CEO at Global iD; Juan Llanos, Senior Advisor of One World Identity; Alka Gupta, Co-Founder global iD.

We also noted the presence of Niall McCann, Lead Electoral Advisor at UN Development Programme; Adam Cooper, Lead Technical Architect at UK Cabinet Office, and, Stephen Stuut, CEO of Jumio.

Examples of topics listed on the 2017 conference agenda included:-

·         Identity As A Pillar In The Global Development Agenda: Efforts To Date And Future Directions;

·         Identity and Democracy: A Look at Voter Registration;

·         The Personal Data Economy;

·         National Identity Schemes: Contrasting Different Approaches and Progress;

·         The Business Of Identity;

·         Who Owns Identity? A Conversation;

·         Facilitating e-Commerce in a World Where Everyone is a Merchant.

We get a clue where this mixture of corporate and government interests want to go from another session entitled Implementing Identity for All:

Over 1.5 billion people globally lack the ability to prove their identities. SDG 16.9 aims to provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.

The ID2020 Alliance

According to the ID2020 website, Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights "stipulates that 'Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.' The Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030) include target 16.9 which aims to "provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.' Critically, this must include the >20M refugees worldwide."

This is now made technologically possible because "the rapid proliferation of smart devices globally, combined with ever-increasing computing power and rapidly expanding broadband coverage, enables new methods of registration and facilitates ongoing interaction between individuals and their identity data".

On June 19th, 2017, approximately 300 people gathered at the United Nations for the second annual ID2020 Summit. The ID2020 Alliance, a consortium of public and private organisations, was launched there. The summit was attended by representatives of UN organisations such as UNDP (United Nations Development Programme); UNECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean); UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), and UN OICT (United Nations Office of Information and Communication Technologies).

Participating organsiations included: Accenture; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Biometrics Institute; Gavi (the vaccine alliance); General Electric; IBM; IrisGuard; MasterCard; Microsoft; One World Identity; Open Society Foundation (George Soros); PwC; Rockefeller Foundation; Standard Chartered Bank; Unique Identity Authority of India; Verizon; the World Economic Forum, and HSBC bank.  

The ID 2020 Alliance is a "global partnership of governments, NGOs and the private sector". The benefit of such a partnership approach is that it "opens up opportunities to piggyback on the systems and processes that public and private organisations already have in place".

The ID2020 Alliance approach is supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and major financial support from Accenture (NYSE:ACN). By 2030, their goal is to enable access to digital identity for every person on the planet.

Services giant Accenture in partnership with Microsoft are building an "unprecedented global digital ID program to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people without documents around the world".

It is also worth noting that in August 2016, the World Economic Forum, in conjunction with Deloitte, published their 108-page document A Blueprint for Digital Identity: The Role of Financial Institutions in Building Digital Identity. Among the steering committee members we discovered John Flint, Chief Executive Officer, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, HSBC.

The Identification for Development (ID4D) Initiative

The Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative was originally launched by the World Bank, and they are proud to be working alongside the United Nations to get “legal identity” into the hands of all. The following comes from the official website of the World Bank:

Providing legal identity for all (including birth registration) by 2030 is a target shared by the international community as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (target 16.9). The World Bank Group (WBG) has launched the Identification for Development (ID4D) cross-practice initiative, with the participation of seven GP/CCSAs sharing the same vision and strategic objectives, to help our client countries achieve this goal and with the vision of making everyone count: ensure a unique legal identity and enable digital ID-based services to all.

A findbiometrics article published in 2015 revealed that

A report synopsis notes that about 1.8 billion adults around the world currently lack any kind of official documentation. That can exclude those individuals from access to essential services, and can also cause serious difficulties when it comes to trans-border identification.

That problem is one that Accenture has been tackling in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which has been issuing Accenture-developed biometric identity cards to populations of displaced persons in refugee camps in Thailand, South Sudan, and elsewhere. The ID cards are important for helping to ensure that refugees can have access to services, and for keeping track of refugee populations.

Moreover, the nature of the deployments has required an economically feasible solution, and has demonstrated that reliable, biometric ID cards can affordably be used on a large scale. It offers hope for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of getting legal ID into the hands of everyone in the world by the year 2030 with its Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative.

In the (very) near future, the absence of a unique digital legal identity could mean that an individual becomes disqualified from seeking paid employment, is denied a bank or credit card account, is unable to arrange a mortgage, is denied access to healthcare, and is refused access to central or local government services.

On top of that, the governments, financial institutions, credit reference agencies and technology companies have demonstrated time and again that they are not to be trusted with the data they hold on us today. Should the idea of a unique digital identity make us feel safer?