Is This the Mark of the Beast?
 

You can inject one under your skin and no one will ever notice. Using short-range radio frequency identification (RFID) signals, it can transmit your identity as you pass through a security checkpoint or walk into a football stadium. It can help you buy groceries at Wal-Mart. In a worst-case scenario – if you are kidnapped in a foreign country, for example – it could save your life.

Microchip implants like the ones pet owners use to track their dogs and cats could become commonplace in humans in the next decade. Experts are divided on whether they’re appropriate for people, but the implants could offer several advantages. For soldiers and journalists in war zones, an implant could be the difference between life and death. A tracker could also help law enforcement quickly locate a kidnapped child.

“In the long run, chip implants could make it less intrusive than some emerging ID systems which rely on physical biometrics (like your fingerprints or unique eye pattern),” says Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of the book “Distraction Addiction” and visiting scholar at Stanford's University’s Peace Innovation Lab.

“This should be a matter of individual choice, but fighting crime should be much easier using chips,” adds sci-fi author Larry Niven, who predicted chip implants in the ’70s. Niven said he supports chip implantation for security reasons, provided it is an opt-in measure.

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Whether the "Beast's Mark" will be a computer chip embedded under the skin, or not, I don't know. Prior to the technological invention of the computer, there had never been, in the history of man's presence upon the earth, the means available whereby one's every action could be so closely monitored as is possible by the means of a computer chip on one's physical body. Of course we realize that God needs no such thing, for He already knows everything about us, even our thoughts, but it will not be so with the coming Anti-Christ.

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I see you're feeling better. :)

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Where is a micro chip in the Bible? The Greek word for mark is χάραγμα which means to engrave as with a chisel to sculpt a statue. Now if the mark in Revelation 13:16-18 is a chip, what about the writings in the foreheads of the people in Revelation 14:1?

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

of course the advocates of such controls will tout the good that it could do, while conveniently ignoring that it is creating a big brother system quite prone to abuse. and if something can be abused, it will be...?

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Did you have your bacon today? :foottap

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And then there's the rev 22 branding.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

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Well that's really a laser tattoo. :heeheehee

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I was doing Bible study at a particular place in town and this young man told me that I needed to meet his father and mother. The young man told me that his father knew the book of Revelation better than anyone, so I told the young man to get his father down here pronto quick. When the man walked up he was wearing these big sunglasses, and when he whipped them off he look me in the eye, and I burst into laughter.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...terMadness.jpg

He told me that this was fulfilling Revelation 14:1.

Hey if the mark in Revelation 13:16-18 is literal, then so is the one in Revelation 14:1. I guess the chap was just trying to stay consistent? :heeheehee

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Personally, I believe that if one notices that the overall pattern throughout Revelation, including the mark of the beast, perfectly coincides with the Exodus journey of Israel, one will come to conclusions about what the mark and other things really are in ways that make something like a chip or tattoo to be far off -- ahem -- the mark.