Pastor John Kilpatrick recently delivered a message unlike his usual ministry tone, telling his congregation the Holy Spirit pressed a warning on him about global changes already underway. “This message is not a normal encouraging message,” he said. “It’s more or less a concern that the Lord has placed on my heart about some things that I see are right at the door.”
Kilpatrick said believers will be affected even if God sustains them through the shaking. “The things that I’m seeing is going to affect everybody, the nation and the nations,” he warned. “God’s going to take care of you, but it’s going to affect you.”
His primary concern is the collapse of the U.S. dollar and the transition to digital control systems. “The currency of the United States, which is the dollar, has been in intensive care for a long time,” he said. Efforts by both political parties have failed to fix their decline. “The time has come for seismic changes in the currencies of the world, and it will touch every individual.”
Kilpatrick believes this collapse opens the door to the next phase: enforced digital finance.
“Everything is going to shift into digital money. It’s coming. It’s right at the door,” he said. The transition, he added, won’t be optional. “Cash is on the way out,” and once digital currency is centralized, “everything that people spend money on will be tracked and can be controlled.”
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He sees this movement as the infrastructure for Revelation’s prophetic warnings. Quoting Scripture, he emphasized that the Antichrist system “causes all … to receive a mark … that no one will be able to buy or sell” without allegiance. Kilpatrick said, “I’m not telling you that we’re there right now, but … it’s creeping that way.”
To illustrate the danger, he pointed to China’s social credit model, where behavior determines access to banking, travel and schooling. “They have developed social credit scores … based on a person’s behavior,” he said. Losing points can mean losing fundamental freedoms. Kilpatrick believes this mindset is spreading to Western nations, citing the United Kingdom’s move toward requiring digital ID for employment: “You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.”
He fears similar policies will surface in America. “The day may come when preachers like myself also may be silenced,” he said. “But while I’ve still got a voice, I’m going to lift it.”
Kilpatrick also warned about how technology conditions society to accept these systems. He asked, “Has this generation already been programmed to accept the beast system?” noting that younger people have “already had the reset” and that digital dependency has normalized surveillance and control. “If you take the phones away from kids or young people, it drives them crazy,” he said.
Even the elimination of the penny and the weakening of money’s purchasing power carry prophetic meaning for him. “The death of the penny is a classic textbook case of currency debasement,” he said, adding that when the smallest unit collapses, everyone should pay attention to the health of the dollar.
Still, Kilpatrick does not end in fear. He insists God is preparing His church for the days ahead. “We have got to have a divine reset,” he declared. Quoting Jesus, he affirmed, “‘I will build My church … and the gates of hell will not prevail against what I’m going to build.’”
His closing question is simple but pointed: “Are you ready for what’s coming?” Readiness is not political or financial but spiritual. “The only thing that you can do to be ready is to yield yourself totally into the hands of God.”
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.
