Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, will soon deliver a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist in Nashville. “The Nashville Antichrist Lectures will draw from history, literature, art, theology and politics to explore the biblical Antichrist through Thiel’s unique vantage point at the frontier of science and technology,” the event page reads. Thiel has spoken publicly about his belief that humanity faces threats from the bibl

The Bible tells us that a time will come when commerce—the act of buying and selling—can be controlled worldwide. This facility will actually be invoked at one point during the Great Tribulation period: “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17). This is a