"He causes all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on
their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the
mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation
13:16-17
"If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his
forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the
wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His
indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their
torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who
worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."
Revelation 14:9-11
"So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and
loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who
worshiped his image." Revelation 16:2
"But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had
performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had
deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his
image." Revelation 19:20
"Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to
Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image,
and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they
lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." Revelation 20:4
Employees get microchip implants - WorldNetDaily.com
Company requires controversial device for certain workers
A Cincinnati company is requiring any employee who works in its secure
data center to be implanted with a microchip.
The video surveillance company CityWatcher.com injected two of its
employees in the triceps area of the arm with the VeriChip, a
glass-encapsulated RFID, or radio-frequency identification, tag, according
to Liz McIntyre, co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and
Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID."
CityWatcher.com's Network Administrator Khary Williams spoke with McIntyre
by phone Wednesday after the company announced it had integrated the
VeriChip VeriGuard product into its access control system.
The tag can be read through clothing from a few inches away.
The highly controversial device is being marketed as a way to access
secure areas, link to medical records and make purchases like a credit
card.
As WorldNetDaily reported, when former Secretary of Health and Human
Services Secretary Tommy Thompson joined the VeriChip Corp. board of
directors, he pledged to get chipped and encouraged Americans to do the
same so their electronic medical records would be available in
emergencies.
But McIntyre and co-author Katherine Albrecht contacted VeriChip Corp. in
December and were told the chipping never took place.
VeriChip spokesman John Procter said Thompson had been "too busy" to
undergo the procedure, adding that he had no clear plans to do so.
CityWatcher's Williams said a local doctor already has implanted two of
the company's employees with the VeriChip devices.
"I will eventually" receive an implant, too, he added.
Meanwhile, Williams accesses the data center with a VeriChip implant
housed in a heart-shaped plastic casing that hangs from his key chain.
He told McIntyre he had no reservations about having the procedure and
would do it as soon as time permits.
But McIntyre says she's worried that CityWatchers – a government
contractor specializing in surveillance projects – would be the first
publicly to incorporate the technology in the workplace.
CityWatcher provides video surveillance, monitoring and video storage for
government and businesses, with cameras set up on public streets
throughout Cincinnati.
The company hopes the VeriChip will bolster its proximity or "prox" card
security system that controls access to the room where the video footage
is stored, said Gary Retherford of Six Sigma Security, Inc., the company
that provided the VeriChip technology.
"The prox card is a system that can be compromised," said Retherford,
referring to the card's well-known vulnerability to hackers.
He explained that chipping employees "was a move to increase the layer of
security."
"It was attractive because it could be integrated with the existing
system," he said.
McIntyre points out, however, researchers have shown the VeriChip to be
vulnerable to hackers.
Security researcher Jonathan Westhues showed last month how a hacker can
clone a chip and theoretically duplicate someone's implant to access a
secure area.
Westhues believes the VeriChip is not secure and "not good for anything."
"No one I spoke with at Six Sigma Security or at CityWatcher knew that the
VeriChip had been hacked," said McIntyre, author of a chapter titled
"Hacking the Prox Card" for Simson Garfinkel's recent "RFID: Applications,
Security, and Privacy."
"They were also surprised to hear of VeriChip's downsides as a medical
device," he added. "It was clear they weren't aware of some of the
controversy surrounding the implant."
Albrecht says that while CityWatcher.com does not require employees to
receive the chip to keep their jobs, the company is establishing an
unsettling precedent.
"It's wrong to link a person's paycheck with getting an implant," she
said. "Once people begin 'voluntarily' getting chipped to perform their
job duties, it won't be long before pressure gets applied to those who
refuse."
Albrecht believes the VeriChip will be hard to sell when people learn of
the security flaws, combined with a general squeamishness about implants.
"Obviously, nobody wants their employer coming at them with a giant
hypodermic needle," she said. "But when people realize it takes a scalpel
and surgery to remove the device if it gets hacked, they'll really think
twice. An implant is disgusting enough going in, but getting it out again
is a bloody mess."
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- A Washington forum debated on Friday the benefits and hazards posed by
a new way of identifying people with a microchip implanted under their
skin to replace conventional paper identification.
The heated debate at
the National Academies, a non-profit think-tank advising the government
on matters of technology and science, focused on the threat to
individual privacy versus the convenience of switching to a chip.
Implanted microchips
have long been used in the animal kingdom, to track wildlife and to help
pet owners recover their lost animals, but the idea of using them on
humans has sparked fierce criticism from scientists and privacy
advocates alike.
"We have absolutely
no data about this particular product and about the implications over
the long term if Americans are chipped," Marc Rotenberg, director of the
Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, said.
Applied Digital
Solutions Inc.
ADSX.O says its
glass capsule the size of a grain of rice, injected into forearms and
other fleshy body parts, could help authorities find missing persons and
speed up medical diagnosis treatment.
The VeriChip, a
scannable device worn under the skin and encrypted with personal
information like medical records and emergency contacts, was unveiled
last year in Florida.
So far about 20
people have been "chipped," including an entire family in Florida.
"I can't feel them at
all," said Richard Seeling, an Applied Digital executive who has
implanted two microchips into his right forearm to test the product.
"Most of the time I forget they're there until someone asks about it."
Seeling said the
chips were both painless and safe but scientists at the National
Academies said too little was known about the device and warned it could
pose health risks like infections and immunity disorders for bearers.
The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration ruled in October it would not regulate the device so
long as it was not used for medical purposes such as diagnosis.
This left Applied
Digital free to market the chip for personal identification and
security, for instance locating missing children or identifying car
accident victims.
"I do think there
could be beneficial uses, particularly for Alzheimer's patients, but on
a large scale this is essentially a system of control," Rotenberg said.
Privacy advocates
worry the microchip could spell the end of anonymity in the United
States, particularly if authorities began requiring people to wear them
to meet conditions of parole, employment or border crossings.
Seeling said each
chip costs about $200, and that scanner devices needed to read the data
would be targeted for sale to police, hospitals, schools and other
agencies across the United States.
Verse for story: "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."Revelation13:16-17(NIV)
Identification technology
is big business these days. Terrorism and security concerns, forgetful
grandmothers, and lost dogs and children have given hard kicks to the ID
industry to bring on more simple and certain ways of identifying things
and people. This last week in Barcelona, Spain, ID companies from around
the world gathered to demonstrate the most up-to-date ID technologies,
including automatic data collection, smart cards, biometrics and radio
frequency identification (RFID) technology.
ID technology has gone
far beyond giving CIA agents access to top secret rooms deep in some
governmental gopher hole. Now, major retail stores are using microchips on
products to streamline inventory. Biometric identifiers are being included
on passports and ID cards in dozens of countries. Right now, Belgium is
busily standardizing an electronic identity card - the first European
country to do so. Every Belgian citizen will be expected to get with the
e-ID program and possess a card by the end of 2009. Pets have been walking
around for years with microchips embedded under their skin to identify
them in case they are lost, and people are now getting "chipped" as well.
Two hundred employees in Mexico's attorney general's office were recently
implanted with the VeriChip RFID chip in order to access to secure areas.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration just gave the thumbs up to ID technology in the medical
field as well. In October, Applied Digital Solutions(ADS), a company in
Florida, got FDA approval to market their VeriChip for medical purposes.
This means that Americans can officially choose to get a chip implanted in
one arm in order to be more quickly identified at the hospital. The chip
holds a 16-digit identification number so that when the chip is scanned,
medical personnel can access the "chipped" person's medical records in a
central database. While ADS believes the chip can be used in a large
variety of ways to help people and save lives - from offering quick access
to the medical backgrounds of unconscious people brought into the hospital
to tracking lost children - many people fear the potential privacy
invasions that an implantable chip represents.
"For someone like a
diabetic, it could be life-saving. If it could save a life, it would get
into society quickly," said computer science and engineering professor
Lawrence Holder. However, he added, "As soon as someone figures out a way
to make something private, someone figures out a way to break it. They
have to make sure they work hard to protect that information."
At the World ID
Conference in Barcelona last week, ADS addressed the privacy concerns many
people have over the advances of RFID technology. ADS CEO Scott R.
Silverman presented his company's six-point privacy statement, the first
point of which was that, "VeriChip should be voluntary and voluntary only.
No person, no employer, no government should force anyone to get
'chipped.'" He assured his audience that his company would be working to
make sure that privacy rights and concerns were a top priority, to
guarantee that only authorized persons could access the VeriChip database
and chipped persons could have their chips removed at anytime.
"We pledge to
thoughtfully, openly and considerately engage government, privacy groups,
the industry and consumers to assure that the adoption of VeriChip and
RFID technology is through education and unity rather than isolation and
division," Silverman concluded as his final point.
Unfortunately, while
VeriChip and similar chips may provide many benefits, nobody can determine
right now where the technology will lead us in the future. Who can say
that companies in the future will not require all employees to be chipped?
Who will stop future world leaders from using the technology to more
completely control their citizens? As we grow used to being identified
through microchips and they become a normal part of our every day lives,
we are increasingly vulnerable to misuse of those chips by corrupt people,
whether on the private level, or in the top seats of government.
Radio-frequency identification
(RFID) chips are being called the next technological revolution by some
experts and, thanks to Wal-Mart, may be coming sooner than you think.
Wal-Mart believes RFID is the future of inventory management and has set a
deadline of January 2005 for its top 100 suppliers to fit their products
with the chips. Other suppliers have until 2006 to implement the
technology, providing the push necessary for RFID to one day replace the
barcode.
RFID tags contain a small chip
that stores data, which can be broadcast by a small antenna. Radio
frequency readers pick up the data, which communicates item identification
and location. The tags are very similar to product barcodes except that
there is much less need for human interaction, making RFID tags much
easier to use. In the beginning, Wal-Mart will only require the chips to
be placed on shipping crates and on the cases of product, and not on the
individual products. Still, this will greatly help Wal-Mart in keeping
track of inventory.
Suppliers have endorsed
Wal-Mart's request publicly, but many may not be too happy about the 2005
deadline for the change. An RFID chip costs 20 cents or more, and the
antenna and packaging for the tag add to the price. Suppliers must also
pay for the equipment and personnel to add the tags to their shipments.
And if they want to take internal advantage of RFID's capabilities, they
have to pay for readers, software, employee training and more.
However, Wal-Mart's January
2005 deadline has now been matched by the Department of Defense for its
43,000 suppliers as well. The DoD wants to be able to better coordinate
supplies to its forces and believes RFID chips are the perfect solution
for making sure troops in the field are properly equipped at all times.
Other companies such as Texas Instruments Inc., Microsoft Corp. and
Wal-Mart competitor Target are also looking into RFID technology. As more
companies jump on the RFID bandwagon, it is expected that the 20-cent chip
will soon drop to 5 cents, a price that will allow many other smaller
companies to join in on the technology.
While still a long way off,
analysts believe RFID tags will eventually be found on every product in
the store. Those with privacy concerns worry that, some day, people might
be tracked through the RFID tags on the things they’ve purchased. Some
RFID enthusiasts envision a can of soda being tracked from manufacture to
warehouse to store to a customer's RFID-equipped refrigerator.
Despite the concerns, RFID is
moving ahead and, according to one expert, "People who cannot come up to
speed on this technology are going to be left behind. Eventually, it's
going to be a way of life."
What do chives - that delicate green herb that adds a hint of onion flavor
to our meats, salads and vegetables - have to do with anti-Semitism? As
one of the products Israel exports to Europe, chives have triggered one of
the most virulent anti-Zionist attacks to date in the European Union (EU)
parliament.
Over the past few years, Israeli produce has enjoyed steadily decreasing
tariffs in the EU, a trade advantage agreed upon in the 1970s when the
European community was still friendly toward Israel. Today, the mood has
changed. The new EU strategy is to penalize Israel with higher tariffs on
fruits, vegetables and other products from the “settlements” in Judea,
Samaria and the Gaza Strip. The aim is to use the EU’s enormous economic
leverage as blackmail and force Israel to capitulate to Europe’s
definition of “peace.”
Israel and the European Union disagree over borders and the status of
Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. The EU regards Judea and
Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”), Gaza and East Jerusalem as
Palestinian, while Israel believes that the status of these disputed areas
will be determined at the negotiating table.
So as the EU attempts to put Jewish farmers out of business with
exorbitant import taxes, the Palestinians are showered with favorable
trade arrangements. The not-so-subtle message in the marketplace is:
“Don’t buy from Jews.”
Since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, the EU has become the
self-appointed guardian of the Palestinian people and chief benefactor of
the Palestinian Authority (PA). In 2000 and 2001, EU aid to the PA totaled
more than $310 million. Among other things, EU funding helped produce the
virulently anti-Semitic PA textbooks that teach Palestinian children to
hate Jews.
After the outbreak of fighting three years ago, Israel froze taxes and
other monies collected for the PA because they were being used to finance
terrorism. Not surprisingly, the EU condemned Israel and stepped in to
ease the financial burden: The Palestinian war machine was given an
immediate grant of $110 million, and a stipend of $12 million a month. The
EU did not even pretend to earmark this money for humanitarian aid, but
rather gave Yasser Arafat a blank check.
In effect, the EU is imposing economic sanctions on Israel while financing
the Palestinian terror war. Israeli chives are taxed out of competition in
the marketplace, as the EU works hand-in-hand with the PA regime to weaken
Israel politically and militarily. Ultimately, the EU is collaborating
with the Palestinian goal of annihilating the Jewish state. And the Jews
have again become the scapegoat, blamed for the political instability that
threatens Europe’s prosperity.
In Revelation 13:17, the apostle John describes the time of the
anti-Christ: “No one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who
has the mark.” From personal experience, I’ve seen that the mechanisms for
fulfillment of this verse are already in place.
We are blessed with 19 wonderful grandchildren. Eleven years ago, when our
first granddaughter, Eden, was born, we opened a savings account for her
in Switzerland. Every month, we make a small deposit so one day she’ll
have a little nest egg to help her get started. Many grandparents do the
same.
Last year, when I wanted to open an account for a new grandchild, I was
refused because I’m from Israel! The intervention of a friendly bank
manager allowed me to proceed.
This year when we wanted to register two more grandchildren, the bank
teller already knew of my “status.” Yet, when she entered the name
“Israel” in the computer, it set off an error message, ejecting her from
the program! She tried to circumvent the problem manually, but the
computer refused every time it recognized “Israel” or “Jerusalem.”
I realized that what John saw in his vision has become feasible because of
the role the computer plays in our lives. While friendly clerks still try
to help us, we’ve arrived at a time when it’s getting harder for Israelis
to buy and sell as others do.
It always begins with the Jews, but it doesn’t stop there. First, the Jews
were sent to the death camps, but then those Christians who rejected
Nazism suffered the same fate. Eventually, Jews and Christians who don’t
carry the special “mark” will not be able to conduct business in the
marketplace. It could happen sooner than we expect.
August 17,
2004
Chip implant or endtime prophecy?
- EDISON THOMAS, TIMES
NEWS NETWORK
Scientists welcome it, but it is doomsday indicator, feel others
It's finally here. Or so say endtime watchers. They say it is here in the
form of a microchip for animals. It is now a pre-requisite in many
countries for pets and domestic animals to have a radio frequency
identification device implanted in them in the form of a 12-mm microchip
when these animals are transported from one country to another. The
facility is available in Bangalore and even tracking a lost dog is quite
easy. The chip provides each animal an identification number.
The cause for concern for endtime watchers is, however, the increased use
of microchips leading to man being microchipped. "We have heard of wild
animals and some prisoners in the west being microchipped so their
movements can be tracked. The time may come when all of us need to have
identification chips," says Anita, who's read some doomsday prophecies.
According to the book of Revelations, "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..."
Shirley Premsingh, a biblical researcher, says, "It speaks of the mark as
not only a form of allegiance, but as something you conduct commerce
with."
While history has seen several false prophets and prophecies, interpreters
who unravel the riddles, feel that many have come true. But, as the book
of Revelations says: "It calls for wisdom, if anyone has insight, let him
calculate the number of the beast or its man's number. His number is 666!"
WHAT THE DOC SAYS
According to Dr Gambetta daCosta, the first to introduce this technology
here who is aware of the prophecy, "We'd like to be at the cutting edge of
technology. When the owner or vet is miles away, the progress of an animal
that is ill can be monitored online."
PROPHECIES FULFILLED
▪ Jerusalem to become an international problem was predicted between 520
and 518 BC. ▪ When the fig tree blooms again, endtime will be near. The
fig tree is a representation of Israel. Recorded around 30 AD ▪ The Jews
will return to Israel. Indian Jews also have been allowed to go to Israel.
Recorded between 626 and 528 BC ▪ The world will be able to witness events
simultaneously. (Television and the Internet make this possible). Recorded
between 54 and 95 AD ▪ Nuclear wars foretold between 520 and 518 BC ▪
People will receive a mark. (A microchip perhaps) recorded between 54 and
95 AD
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no
man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the
beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a
man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Rev 13:16-18)
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Primary school children to use their fingers at meal times - By Julia
Fields
Scottish primary schools are set to pilot a new device that will allow
children to buy their lunches with the swipe of a finger.
Developed over the past 18 months by Yarg Biometrics in Glasgow, the unit
could in the longer term also eliminate the need for security ID cards and
credit card PIN numbers.
The company, which is a spin-out of Scottish multi media firm ADS Visual
Group, hopes to target the fast- growing user-authentication device world
market, predicted to be worth $2.6 billion by 2006.
Yarg Biometrics has taken thermal-scanner technology which is made in the
US and morphed it into a product that can recognise a person out of a
database of 5000 within seconds.
The swipe unit recognises differences in temperature in the lines and
curves of a finger. According to Yarg managing director Alan Cunningham,
the use of thermal imaging makes the technology more secure as no print is
left on the sensor. As recognition is also based on heat from the finger,
a latex print could not be used, nor indeed would a dead finger register.
Cunningham added that the invention is particularly attractive to the
education sector (for which they have a patent) because the software
records 25 points rather than the child's entire fingerprint and therefore
does not violate civil liberties.
"We trialled the system in one Scottish primary school over the last two
weeks in June and it was a great success" Cunningham said.
"The kids had no problems with it at all. The next stage is to sign up an
order so we can begin installing the system in schools."
A second trial at a school within the same local authority is planned for
this autumn, and, according to Cunningham, eight other local authorities
are waiting in the wings to see if the trials are successful.
The Scottish Executive's proposal to have cash-less systems in place for
catering in Scotland's 3000 primary schools by 2005 was the catalyst for
the development.
Eighteen months ago, a local authority asked ADS Visual, which has
operated in Glasgow for the past 17 years and has experience with
electronic graphics products, if it could come up with a cash-less paying
system for school dinners that a younger child could more easily use.
It was thought that students of this age would lose swipe cards, requiring
constant costly replacement.
After successfully developing the technology, ADS realised it could be
used for other applications such as leisure club and casino membership
identification, hotel room entry, security access for government or
companies.
Ian Gray, ADS Visual's managing director, decided to spin the technology
out into a new company to focus solely on its commercialisation.
Cunningham said: "There are limitless applications for the unit. We are in
discussion with a number of organisations who need door entry and access
solutions, membership database solutions, staff time recording and even
retail applications. I'd go as far as to say that in the future we won't
need door keys, only fingerswipe units."
The company received a £25,000 grant from the Scottish Enterprise to
develop its prototype but is now hoping to raise more funding from its
senior executive team and other individuals.
Cunningham said: "We really want to get this product to market quickly.
"We need to become a market leader before someone else comes along and
challenges us."
Forget about retina-scan, fingerprinting and photographs, used at the
presidential inaugural. Don't get me wrong, they're all quite helpful. Yet
none of them would prove as good as a chip combined with one of these
other technologies. And sooner or later that idea will sink in.
People don't like the idea of thinking that soon, they will have a
body-resident chip replacing that old card they now carry. But that's the
ticket in the march forward towards technological innovation, if America
is going to advance to the next level of national security. Forget about
retina-scan, fingerprinting and photographs, used at the presidential
inaugural. Don't get me wrong, they're all quite helpful. Yet none of them
would prove as good as a chip combined with one of these other
technologies. And sooner or later that idea will sink in.
The folks will kick it around. All kinds of questions will come: "Is it
safe?" "Will it hurt?" "What if it breaks?" Most are quite willing to
receive a system as this if it was offered to them free or for low cost.
We are in a security-conscious frenzy now, so we are most easily persuaded
when we are emotional about something like our safety.
With the FDA already giving the nod of approval and the Mexican government
using it now according to the Associated Press, it won't be long before
America and Europe discover it. A new technology with driver's licenses,
designed to create multiple images of the owner, will be used here soon
that is only being offered in Australia at present.
Our nation must be careful not to give away our most precious, cherished
liberty in the hopes of being protected by our government. I believe God
protects each of us and our nation as a whole, from all calamity or allows
the same, to bring us back to a place where we are able to see the brevity
of life and the endlessness of eternity, that we might call upon Him, to
comfort us in time of trouble, Who alone has power to save after the
manner of Daniel's three friends.
So what is our poor nation to do, with the threat of biologic, chemical
and even nuclear weapons?
Our national defense is the finest in the world. Our military is
second-to-none. And yet, for all this, even the greatest military in the
world cannot substitute for the individual, for you and me.
Look at the long lines we using at the airport. Countless hours, wasted,
when we could get into that plane far faster with a new system. Think of
all the applications. In a few years, such devices could make sure that
people are not stranded. They would also be traceable. People don't like
the idea of knowing that the government could find them if need be, but
don't they already?
With the future of our nation hanging in the balance our country needs to
decide what or Who is going to be the source of our national strength.
"Cursed is the man whose strength is his right arm" but "Blessed is the
nation that serves the Lord."
Getting rid of Christmas, and singing of carols, and nativity scenes, and
making mention of God in the public square, and the removal of the Ten
Commandments from the public square, are all poor indications of where the
nation might go if enough folks who cared otherwise didn't voice their
opinion in these matters.
And now, we are on the verge of adopting a new system of identification
that in replacing the old will appear very much like what some in
theological circles liken as the "mark of the beast". This is taken from a
futurist-literalist interpretation of Revelation 13:16-18, in which the
"mark" is nothing short of an internally-planted device of some type.
Scholars for centuries have rather interpreted this as the Latin kingdom
etymologically, according to the general assignment of the Greek letters
to their numerical equivalency. Futurists, on the other hand, elaborate on
what is believed an unfulfilled "week" of Daniel 9:24-27, in which the
"antichrist" figure rises up, making a peace treaty with Israel for
several years, during which time the world will receive a "mark" no man
might "buy or sell" without, and thus the interpretation of the text runs.
Classic interpretation of this Daniel text sees the entirety fulfilled in
the ministry and passion of Jesus Christ. The Revelation text is seen in
the context of the Roman kingdom and not assigned to any portion of the
future, especially in our day.
What then, would Christians think of receiving such a new form of
identification? I imagine that most will balk at the idea and that this
very fact is, if not the most, one of the most powerful forces preventing
such a system up to now. I don't think any new ad campaign will convince
folks that this is not the mark of the beast. But this is now. Not twenty
years from now…
And this is where I am speaking. Twenty years down the road from now. If
most will be convinced that a body-resident form of identification is not
the Biblical "mark of the beast" then they will go for it, in the
interests of national security. So, while most don't like the idea that a
chip may replace that card, most will probably go along with it for a
myriad of reasons, leaving only a few who will abstain.
