The book of Revelation reveals that the antichrist will be able to track and control all financial transactions and that NO MAN will be able to buy or sell anything unless he has the mark. Advances in digital technology have placed the world today on the verge of an identification system capable of monitoring virtually every human transaction - an ominous development for serious students of Bible prophecy.
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark of 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
No one knows how the mark will be imprinted on the hand or the forehead and I am not saying everything described here will necessarily become the mark of the beast. It's important to note that some have identified bar code labels and Social Security numbers as "the mark of the beast" in the past, and have been proven wrong. Rather, those technologies were precursors to later technologies even more powerful in the hands of the antichrist. Given rapidly evolving modern technology, if the Lord tarries a bit longer there may be some development that would fit the bill even more closely. However, there are some good candidates and numerous ways this can be accomplished today.
The AntiChrist
System May Have Arrived
Not until recent times did people understand
how this prophecy could possibly come to pass. There was simply no way that
anyone could control the buying and selling activities on such a large scale.
In the wake of events following
Sept. 11, 2001, the
monitoring and tracking of people have become commonplace. Indeed, Anticrhist's
world government is not only believeable but may have actually arrived. The
American and British minion governments have essentially eliminated personal
privacy and is now collecting data and tracking its citizens in nearly
everything they do. What they can't accomplish through willfull compliance or
legislation, they do so illegally as President George W. Bush demonstrated
during his term of office.
Modern technology has created a brave new
electronic world without borders. With modern computer technology, satellites,
GPS, biometric and smart card technology, people can now be tracked within 3
feet anywhere in the world. We have already demonstrated our willingness to
accept devices to electronically tag or track individuals. It has become quite
commonplace, for example, for law enforcement agencies to require individuals
to wear electronic bracelets in order to monitor their activities.
Bar Codes
Bar codes are everywhere: they are as familiar as a trip to buy groceries.
Now part of almost every package that crosses the supermarket, drugstore, and
retail counter, bar codes and other related technology stand poised to move
into many other facets of society.
In their quest for better device
identification, the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA are testing coding
systems that pack in much more information than current bar codes. These new
"two-dimensional" bar codes can squeeze in enough information to fit the
Gettysburg Address into a two-inch square. This next generation of
identification codes needs no centralized database. Instead, the symbol itself
can contain all the necessary information, thus these codes can help companies
and the military keep better track of products that "cross organizational
boundaries." When the device, substance or person travels to a new warehouse,
store, hospital or location, all its data go along, in compact form, accessible
to anyone with a machine that can read the symbol.
"It's a portable
data file," says Doug Mohr, mechanical engineer in program development at the
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho Falls, who is evaluating these
technologies for use by the federal government. At the Wilford Hall U.S. Air
Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Tex., hospital administrators expect that
within a year patients there will carry ID cards with medical histories and
personal data encoded on the back. The hospital had evaluated other types of
codes, including current bar codes, but discovered with the two-dimensional
format that "we didn't need to tie up our database memory," says Lt. Col. Frank
J. Criddle, an emergency room physician at Wilford Hall.
Miniaturized,
some of these new codes can identify electronic components, jewelry or even
medical devices. "It represents a giant step in component traceability," says
Robert S. Anselmo, president of Veritec, Inc., in Chatsworth, Calif. He boasts
that his company's symbols could fit on a grain of rice. Others say they can
make their codes invisible to the eye but still readable to a scanner.
RFID
Expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods, RFID (radio frequency
identification) is fast becoming a part of passports and payment cards. RFID
chips contain unique identification codes, and can be read at varying distances
with special reader devices.
The
Real ID Act, supported by
Republican politicians and backed by President Bush says that driver's licenses
and other ID cards must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting
features and undefined "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data
elements" that could include a magnetic strip or RFID tag. When this is
implemented, American citizens without drivers' licenses that conform to the
federal standards find themselves essentially stripped of their ability to
participate in life as we know it. Americans cannot get a job, open a bank
account, apply for Social Security or Medicare, exercise their Second Amendment
rights, or even take an airplane flight, unless they can produce a state-issued
ID that conforms to the federal specifications.
Subcutaneous implant
The
technology now exists and has been successfully tested to allow an
identification device of some type, including a tiny microchip, to be implanted
under the skin of the hand.
Programmable subcutaneous visible implants
could contain biosensors to monitor temperature and blood pressure, and display
these readings -- clearly a medical advancement. But the devices could have a
more serious purpose. They could be used for electronic tagging. Whenever
anyone wanted to buy or sell someting, he could be required to wave his hand
over a scanning device that would read the chip, identify the buyer or seller,
and validate or invalidate the sale.
Interval Research (Palo Alto) has
patented a "programmable tattoo." The biologically inert subcutaneous implant
is constructed of a flexible material so as to conform to the skin's surface.
The small liquid-crystal display can be inserted just beneath the skin (e.g.,
in place of a wrist watch). Because human skin is partially transparent, the
display is clearly visible. The implant also includes a receiver for receiving
programming information from a user, and a display for displaying the
programming information through the skin. The display is connected to a control
chip and power comes from a small battery. Both of these are implanted beneath
the skin. Implanting is an outpatient operation and the battery can be
recharged inductively, by holding the wrist near a charger.
Digital
Angel
The Digital Angel™
technology incorporates a microchip that can be worn close to the body and
includes biosensors that can measure the biological parameters of the body and
send the information with RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to a
ground station or computer. It will also have an antenna that can receive
signals from GPS satellites, thus pinpointing the location of the wearer.
According the the
Digital Angel™
web site, "While a number of other tracking and monitoring technologies
have been patented and marketed in the past, they are all unsuitable for the
widespread tracking, recovery and identification of people due to a variety of
limitations, including unwieldy size, maintenance requirements, insufficient or
inconvenient power-supply and activation difficulties. For the first time in
the history of location and monitoring technology, Digital Angel™
overcomes these limitations.
Some of it's potential uses, according
the their web site includes: monitor patients by doctors, commodities supply
chain management, locating people such as small children and the elderly,
tracking parolees, people under house arrest, and individuals in witness
protection programs, trace valuable items such as art pieces or computer
equipment. Of particular interest is its application as an important security
measure. It can carry personal identification information and transmit this
information via wireless communication with personal computers.
Palm
Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions unveiled the VeriChip immediately after
the 9/11 tragedy. Similar to pet identification chips, the human VeriChip is a
syringe-injectable radio frequency identification microchip that can be read
from a few feet away by either a hand-held scanner or by the implantee walking
through a "portal" scanner. Information can be wirelessly written to the chip,
which contains a unique 10-digit identification number.
The Digital
Angel human implant, called VeriChips, was recently approved by the FDA for storing
medical information and the company is going forward to market their
implantable chips that would provide easy access to individual medical records.
(WorldNetDaily, October 21, 2004)
Applied Digital
Solutions, based in Delray Beach, Fla., expressed hope that such medical uses
would accelerate the acceptance of under-the-skin ID chips as security and
access-control devices. (The New York Times, October 14,
2004)
All it takes is a syringe-injected microchip implant for
patrons of the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain to breeze past a "reader"
that recognizes their identity, credit balance and even automatically opens
doors to exclusive areas of the club for them. "By simply passing by our
reader, the Baja Beach Club will know who you are and what your credit balance
is," Conrad K. Chase explains. (WorldNetDaily, April 14, 2004)
Iriscans
Iriscan technology is already being introduced in financial organizations
here and abroad that require nonintrusive, noncontact, and accurate electronic
identification. 
Iriscan technology identifies people by analyzing the
unique pattern in the iris of the human eye. The iris is the colored ring of
tissue that surrounds the pupil of the eye and is a complex combination of
patterns that can be recorded and stored by the computer. The iris-recognition
product captures a photographic image of the iris, analyzes its unique visual
structure, and then compares it to previously stored Iriscodes for
authentication of identity. ["Security for Your Eyes Only,"
Byte, May 1998.] Imagine this technology being in place providing access
control to facilities and point-of-sale control. It's already in place at some
bank ATMs.
Thermograms
Thermogram's are a type of imagery that translates a person's
heat-emitting facial features into an infrared image. Registering the various
heat peaks and valleys in surface, the thermogram looks like a colorful,
face-shaped topographic map. Like a fingerprint, each person's face creates a
unique thermal pattern. Captured by a special infrared camera, the image can be
digitized and stored in a computer. Later, the person is rephotographed and the
new thermal image is electronically compared with the old. ["Smile, You're on Thermogram," ID Systems, August 1995.]
Smart Cards
The smart
card - a piece of plastic with a computer chip on its face - is becoming
entrenched in the United States with uses from defense and health care to
retailing and transportation. It looks and acts like your average bank card,
but it knows a lot more about you than you may think. The cards have replaced
food stamps for many and meal tickets for students in college. Marines and
peanut farmers are whipping them out for boot polish and crop reports. The
Clinton Administration announced a nationwide system to use electronic banking
technology to deliver billions of dollars in government benefits and President
Clinton's proposed health-reform plan would have required every American to
carry a health identification card bearing, at a minimum, his or her Social
Security number.
For businesses, the card is a shortcut to valuable
market research. With your card in its computer, a company could learn your ZIP
code, shoe size, what magazines you subscribe to, or the date of your sporty
sedan's last oil change, and respond accordingly. Already, the Vision marketing
system for supermarkets is tailoring coupons to U.S. shoppers who use smart
cards. Customers insert their Vision cards into computers at the checkout line.
Then the card tracks purchases and supplies the customer with product coupons,
allowing the store to collect marketing data and pitch its products more
effectively.
New computerized systems are being implemented for
drivers licenses. Instead of the cumbersome Polaroids, the new system will use
a special camera that will store the photographic image that is on the card on
a computer instead. Weight, eye color, and signature will be stored on a
magnetic strip on the card as well as to a computer data base. Copies will be
shared with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, giving agents quick access to
photographs of suspects and victims. The KBI will share copies with other law
enforcement agencies. [Dave Ranney, "Say goodbye to Polaroids
next time you get your license renewed," The Wichita Eagle, April 19,
1994]
Smart card acceptance in the U.S. has skyrocketed in
recent years. The Smart Card Forum, a consortium of organizations utilizing
smart card technology, forecasts between 1-1.5 billion smart cards will be in
use by the year 2000.
At the
Smart Card
Alliance 2004 annual fall conference in San Francisco, a number of sessions
indicated strong growth and continuing interest in applications for contactless
payment devices for fare collection in mass transit systems across the country.
During the conference, Ann Flemer, deputy director of operations for the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the transportation planning,
coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay area,
gave an overview of her organization’s
TransLink program, which
is developing a single contactless payment system for the more than 20 transit
agencies, including Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), San Francisco Municipal
Railway (Muni) and Golden Gate Ferries, with 1.5 million daily users
combined.
The U.S. State Department is switching over to new passports
that will be fitted with chips using RFID, or radio frequency identification,
technology. Reader devices at borders and customs checkpoints will be able to
read the information stored on the chip, including the person's name, address
and digital photo.
To increase use, card makers are forming alliances
with companies that are closer to consumers. Micro Card Technologies Inc.
supplies cards to Copicard Inc., which worked with the University of Calgary to
convert student and staff IDs to smart cards and is doing the same at several
U.S. colleges. Micro Card Vice President John Taskett said a few U.S. airlines
briefly tested the smart cars for frequent flyers. Meanwhile, AT&T and
Lockheed Corp. will jointly seek contracts for public highways where drivers
would pay tolls with dashboard-mounted smart cards. A transmitter at the
tollbooth would read the card as the car goes by.
The average American
who has a dozen pieces of plastic in their pocket probably doesn't even know
what a smart card is," said Nicolas Samaras, a technology analyst at Dataquest
Inc. in San Jose, Calif. technology analyst at Dataquest Inc. in San Jose,
Calif.
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Unlike today's financial cards, the smart card doesn't need a magnetic stripe on the back. |
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Instead, it's equipped with a wiry silicon chip, often displayed at left center but sometimes hidden in the plastic. (Smart cards may also have embossed account numbers, holograms, graphics and photos on the front or back.) |
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Like a bank card, the smart card is slipped into a computer. Then the owner enters a four - or five-digit ID number and uses the card to make purchases, convey information, or both. |
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The card can hold three pages worth of typewritten data, compared to one line of type for a magnetic-stripe card. That means several accounts could be loaded onto one smart card, said Diane R. Wetherington, president of smart card systems at American Telephone & Telegraph Co. For example, the same card that checks out library books and buys clothes on credit could give an emergency-room clerk a patient's blood type insurance data and doctor's name. Each account would have a separate ID number, so the librarian couldn't see your blood type. |
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark of 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]
Mark of the
Beast?
I do not believe that the people developing this technology
are necessarily conspirators purposely developing a system they know the
Antichrist will use for his own wicked purposes. These people are
compartmentalized where those at different levels of development do not know
what others at other levels are doing and visa versa. These are men and women
who are developing what, to the natural eye, are brilliant ideas for the
world's future. Nor, do I believe that today, as I am writing this piece, that
the technologies I write about are NOW the mark of the Beast. Rather, I see
them as being potential technologies that need be in place in order for the
Antichrist to accomplish his nefarious scheme. Each technology builds upon
previous technologies and are each designed to incrementally condition us to
accept even more invasive technologies.
So, what's so bad about these
technologies. They improve our lives ... right?
David Chaum, a leading
cryptographer, believes that an identification-based system could lay the
groundwork for a future dictatorship. As a Jew, Chaum is sensitive to the
memory of how government records enabled the Nazis to systematically identify
Jews. He is also concerned that competition and self-interest could be causing
many decision-makers in this new technology to miss the broader social
consequences of their decisions.
One critic calls them "little brother
in your wallet." David Banisar of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
believes that the ability to monitor every transaction an individual makes will
soon be in place. While tracking single transactions may be harmless, the
combined trail left behind by an identification system that tracks all
financial transactions could one day become a tyrant's dream. What's wrong with
having a single card that contains all of your personal history from medical
files to veteran's status to tax records to your bank balance and credit
available? It's convenient, portable and you have at your fingertips access to
all the details of your life. It's like carrying around a little computer that
has stored every piece of information about you.
The Smart Card - A Way To Control
The World?
President Bill Clinton proposed a health plan where there
is a provision for a national health identification card, and eventually, a
state-of-the-art, tamper-proof numbering system. This probably means an
implantation device in the head, arm or somewhere on the body. No one will
receive health coverage without a number. We are also headed for a cashless
society - first by credit card, and later by a laser implantation beneath the
skin. The European Community has already planned for this.
Technology is sold
to the public for it's beneficial aspects.
The U.S. government is
already using smart cards to replace food stamps and reduce fraud. With
Electronic Benefits transfer there will be an electronic audit trail for every
transaction, making fraud much easier to detect and prosecute.
One
concern about the smart card is privacy. Even though manufacturers are
confident that accounts on the same card would remain separate, some are still
unsettled that so much personal information could be stored on one little
computer chip. What if the librarian could look up someone's doctor bills? And,
asked Richard Civilles, program director at Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility, could using smart cards as national IDs give the government
more control over citizens at employment agencies or highway checkpoints? What
if the government denied a job or benefits to someone based on personal tidbits
gleaned from the card?
But manufacturers are optimistic that consumers
will warm up to smart cards as they become more prevalent, said Amy Wight
Eckel, product manager for AT&T smart cards. "It looks and feels like a
credit card," she said. "People already know how to use it."
The Coming New
World Order
One of the goals of the Jeremiah Project is to warn
people of the New World Order and One World Government, which is being set up
today. One of the methods to be used to enslave every man, woman and child on
the face of the earth will be a new money system that will be introduced taking
us into a "The Cashless Society". Sadly, many people today find it difficult to
believe that those days will ever come or if it does how they can be hurt by
it.
When the mark of the beast comes full force, it is going to be hard
for people to trade any other way but by using the mark. I hear many Christians
say, "I won't take that mark". Well, Satan has been a little smarter than most
Christians. He is slowly implementing the mark. Like a fisherman, Satan is
getting people to swallow the whole bait (mark) just a little at a time (Social
Security number, Federal Reserve Notes, National I.D. card) until one day we
will wake up in his boat.
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. [James 5:1-3]
The transition from the beneficial uses of technology to that of the Beast spoken of in Revelation 13 will happen quickly. Prophecy teachers have been speaking these words for many, many years. It is only just now, during your lifetime, that the prophecies are literally being fulfilled. You would be enlightened if you were to turn to the Word of God particularly the prophecies in the books of Daniel and Revelation and understand that these are no idle words of a mere man but these are words of the living God.
Control the World by Controlling the Food
The United Nations globalist agency located in Rome
Italy, the
World Agriculture and Food Organization, will soon tell
farmers in the U.S.A. and around the world what and when to plant. No one
will be able to buy or sell food not approved by the global organization.
This is the reason why the U.S. Department of Agriculture is demanding that
every farm animal—horses, cows, sheep, goats—be microchipped and
tagged and that ranchers and farmers maintain exhaustive records of the birth,
death, and life of each and every animal. Soon, you will not be able to own
livestock or any other farm animal without obtaining a government
permit.
Legislation being pushed through Congress with support from
multinational pharmaceutical corporatons such as Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo, and
Tyson, is so broad based that technically someone with a little backyard garden
could get fined and have their property seized. It will effect anyone who
produces food even if they do not sell but only consume it. It will literally
put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge
amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods. If people
choose to farm without industry standards such as chemical pesticides and
fertilizers they will be subject to a variety of harassment from government
agencies that has never before existed. That’s right, whole new government
agencies are being created just to police food, for our own protection of
course.
We are now living
in the "last days!"
Taken by itself, these technological signs do
not prove we are now living in the last days. However, when combined with the
big picture of what the Bible and the various categories of signs that the
Bible predicted would come together just before the return of Christ, it's easy
to conclude that we are now living in the end times. Jesus Himself gave us the
best insight shortly before his execution on the cross.
"Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will
come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ, ' and will deceive many. You will
hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such
things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in
various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
"Then you
will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by
all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and
will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and
deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most
will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this
gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all
nations, and then the end will come. [Matthew 24:4-14]
General 'signs' Jesus said would be visible prior to His return.
- Deliberate deception by men of God's Word
- Rise of false Christs
- Increase in wars and rumors of wars
- Famines, Pestilence & Earthquakes
- Discrimination and hatred against Christians
- Backsliding, turning from the faith, betrayal
- Hatred of Christian against Christian
- False Prophets and "New Age" leaders
- Lawlessness abounding
- Love and concern for others grows cold
- Gospel preached worldwide
A
day of reckoning will come.
There will be an end.
Jesus didn't live a life of
comfort. Compassion came easy to Him because He loved God and His ways and
lived in the streets with those hearts He touched."
