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There was no paper money and credit cards during the time when Apostle John rcvd the Revelation in Patmos island, and there was no computer either 2000 years ago, so it was how John warned what he saw for the end times people. He saw the devil and evil behind this.
Says you, but there is precisely no reason to believe your opinion on the matter; for at least two reasons:
1) There is nothing, neither explicitly or implicitly, in the text to suggest some kind of "cashless society" that is pure eisegesis.
2) Your assumption that this is about "the end times" is hardly something that can or should be taken for granted; the Futurist reading of the Apocalypse is not a given, and frankly requires dismissing the historic and literary context of the text in order to make certain baseless assumptions. I have no reason to believe the Apocalypse is about "the end times", it certainly never says this is the case, and the context of the Apocalypse suggests that John, writing to the seven churches in Asia, is writing about things relevant to them. The Futurist reading requires a dismissal of the fact that the Apocalypse was written to a specific audience.
"John, to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. ...
I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. ...
'Now write what you have seen, what is, and what is to take place after this.'" - Revelation 1:4-5, 9, 19
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