Ok I haven't read the replies on this thread, but something occurred to me as I read the initial post.
Is it possible that the whole monetary system and TPTB are the 'beast' that the Bible talks about? And this will be the fatal head wound of which it suffers? Which means that it will recover from this wound by giving ample money to those people who don't have anything monetarily. That would cause everyone to worship it because they finally have everything they could ever want. But somehow this new system will only give this money to everyone if they take some sort of mark in order to buy and sell?
I know this has probably come across this forum before but please forgive me if that's the case.....I live under a rock! Lol!