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To Chip or Not To
Chip
Dealing with Bible Prophecy,
we as the watchmen and women on the wall continually keep our eyes and
ears focused on events that take place around us and in the news. For the
past 10 or so years many in the Bible Prophecy arena have been talking and
speculating about a technology called the “radio transponder Biochip. When
this was unveiled everyone myself included said “This is it! This is the
mark of the beast!†After countless hours of
research, it is Tracye and my feeling that the implantable Biochip is NOT
what the antichrist is going to use. But there is an upcoming technology
that is taking the world by storm. So much so that supermarket giant
Walmart as well as the US Department of Defense have mandated that if you
want to do business with them, you must comply with the new technology
that they have just put in place. What is The Mark of The Beast?
The mark of the beast
is referred to in scripture on eight different occasions. The place that
draws the most attention is Revelations 13:16-18, "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. For many centuries
the meaning of these passages was veiled in obscurity. It's interesting
that after almost 2000 years these verses, like never before in all of
human history, have started to really come into focus. Fascinating, in
light of Daniel 12:4: "But thou, O Daniel,
shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of end: many shall
run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." To fully understand
the meaning, you must remember that the New Testament was written in
Greek. The etymology of the word "mark" will shed great light on the
actual, intended meaning. The word "mark", as
used in Revelation 13:16-17, is the Greek word "charagma." The root word
of charagma is charasso, which means "to engrave." Now, charagma is a
Greek noun in the accusative neuter singular and is preceded by the Greek
preposition "epee," which means "upon." According to Strong's
Concordance, the Greek word charagma means "a scratch or etching, stamp a
badge of servitude, graven mark." Derivatives of the word are:
"charakter"- a graver, the figure stamped, i.e. an exact copy or
representation, express image; "charax"- to sharpen to a point through the
idea of scratching. In Revelations 13 we
see three components of the future new world order working in tandem under
this future 666 Antichrist and his world system. Jeff Baker, political
analyst, researcher, and journalist, in his excellent classic book,
Cheque Mate, (p. 203) comments on the meaning and significance of
666. "I believe that the 666 is
actually a combination of three sets of sixes. The first 6 represents
man's political system, the second 6 represents the economic system of
man, and the third represents the religious system of man." A very astute
observation and that is exactly the three headed structure we find in Rev.
13. The 666 referred to in verse 18 is very significant, because in
ancient times a person's name had a fixed numerical value. The reason for
that: the letters of the alphabet were used for numbers. In scripture, 6
is the number representing man. The number 6 is also considered sacred by
many new age and secret society groups, a triad, or 3, is God's number.
So, the triple 6 (666) is the symbol of man making himself God. See Daniel
11:36 and 2 Thess. 2:4. The number 666 is also the
Greek word chi xi stigma. (Rev. 13:18)
Now when one looks up
"stigma" in Strongs, this is what you find… Strong's Concordance "stigma":
G5516- "stigma" “The 22nd, 14th, and an obsolete letter of
the Greek alphabet, used as numbers; denoting respectively 600, 60, and 6;
666 as a numeral-six hundred threescore and six." What Is a Biochip?
A Biochip /
Verichip is an implantable radio frequency device that is about the
size of a grain of rice. It is implanted subdermally through an
injection during an outpatient procedure. It contains information
about the patient's medical history which can then be obtained by passing
an eternal scanner across the area of skin where the biochip / verichip
has been inserted. The biochip / verichip is dormant under the skin
until this external scanner passes radio frequency energy to it energizing
the chip, which then emits a radio frequency signal containing the
identification number of the chip. This identification number is
transmitted to an FDA compliant secure data storage site via the telephone
or internet and the medical information is then provided, helping the
medical professional. Right now it only holds a small amount of
data. However, Applied Digital Solutions are planning on adding
sensors that will read your vital signs and a satellite receiver that can
track where you are, much like digital
angel. (1) Here is some more
interesting information about the Biochip. Dr. Daniel Man was
awarded a patent for developing a microchip to be placed under the skin.
Approximately 10
years ago Peter LaLonde, producer and anchorman for This Week In Bible
Prophecy had a fascinating interview with Dr. Man. Dr. Man who is also a
Jew, stated that it is his desire to see every Israeli Jew have the
microchip transponder that he developed implanted under their skin. The
stated purpose: the end of kidnapping and terrorism, as each individual
could be precisely located instantly. No one questions Dr. Man's
intentions for the good of his fellow Israelis. It also must be emphasized
that technology-- in and of itself --is not evil. However, imagine Adolph
Hitler with similar surveillance ID microchip capability at his disposal.
Can you imagine this? Problems with the
Biochip I believe much as
Jeff Baker stated above, but I will take it a bit further. I believe that
the Mark of the Beast is 3 fold… 1. You give your allegiance
and soul an economical system. 2. You give your allegiance
and soul a political system. 3. You give your allegiance
and soul a religious system. When the mark of the
beast is put in place, the individual will accept whole heartedly and with
his or her soul an economical, political and religious system. The mark of
the beast must meet all three. For example in World
Net Daily article, GOP star
to get chip implant Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy
Thompson has volunteered to get an RFID electronic chip implant to show
the world just how safe the new technology is. The former secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services in President Bush's first term
sees it as a potentially life-saving move because the chip will have
details of his medical history should he ever be in an accident.
Thompson will be among the
first humans to get the chip. Pets have been routinely chipped at pounds
and veterinarians' offices in recent years. (2) In having a biochip
implanted, Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson did not take the mark of
the beast. The reason is that it did not meet all the necessary
requirements that are needed to be “The Mark of The Beast.†He did not
pledge his allegiance and his soul to a political system, economic system
or religious system. Now I think that he was rather foolish in doing this,
but he did not receive the mark of the beast. The reason that I say
that the implantable biochip is NOT the mark of the beast is for several
reasons 1.
I
feel that when the mark is taken, it is something that the people of that
time and of that mindset are going to be very proud to do. Remember that
this will be a very powerful thing taking place. There will be religious
ceremony, political pride etc. These individuals are giving their
allegiance and soul to the anti-christ. The mere narcissistic nature of
the anti-christ will not allow for anything else. He will want to rub this
in God’s face. I can just hear him say “See God, See! These are MY
followers! NOT YOURS!†So this will be something of major importance to
the world and to the people in that time who take the mark. 2.
The
implantable biochip is something that is just as it is called, implanted.
Meaning; that it is going to be placed deep under the surface of the skin.
There is no sign of one taking the mark, no way to recognize a person who
has the mark and no unity just because of an implant. Only way one knows
if they have received a biochip / mark is if their biochip is “read†from
a sensor or reader someplace. 3.
The
biochip in and of itself is not tamper proof and also there is no means
for true authentication of the person and the biochip. It is only the
biochip. Just imagine someone who is living during that time, they could
find someone who had a chip, cut it out and presto, they can now move
around freely although they would still need the chip to buy and sell. 4.
Lithium leakage if capsule
were broken could cause serious sores. I remember seeing my
first RFID about four years ago when I purchased a computer manual at
Barnes and Nobel. (To those who are reading this outside the
It is in the summer
2004. The RFID industry was starting to pick up speed. There were more
companies entering the market, more companies utilizing the technology. We
fast forward to today. Tracye and I utilize a news program to stay up to
the minute on what is going on in the world. One of the areas that we have
been keeping an eye on for the last month or so is RFID. In researching
back to 2004, you would see an article here, a press release there. Today,
a new article or press release comes out almost every hour, RFID industry
advances in technology, new business solutions, network architecture, etc.
The RFID industry is moving at a faster rate than the dot com industry did
in the past and everyone knows how fast and how often dot coms were in the
news. Just a few days ago, Oct 23,
2005, the public was informed that all new US Passports will contain a
RFID tag. (Drivers licenses are next) In May 2005 a military
spending bill was passed that included a little known law that was pretty
much buried called Real ID Act.
Buried in an $82 billion
military spending bill and passed without any If the government opts to
require RFID chips, more than 196 million RFID or Radio
Frequency Identification is a “cousin†to the Implantable Radio
Transponder Chip. The difference is that the “chip†has to be implanted;
an RFID tag can be placed on just about any surface or embedded just
below. Where the older “Chip†was incased in glass, the RFID no longer
needs that. Unlike
ubiquitous UPC bar-code technology, RFID technology does not require
contact or line of sight for communication. RFID data can be read through
the human body, clothing and non-metallic materials. RFID is in use
all around us. If you have ever chipped your pet with an ID tag, used
EZPass through a toll booth, or paid for gas using SpeedPass, you've used
RFID. In addition, RFID is increasingly used with biometric technologies
for security verification. (4) RFID is all around
you and many of us did not even know that it was there. Imagine in the very near future
you walk up to the cashier at your favorite superstore and the person
behind the counter tells you, that is $45.19 please. And get this you have
not even taken the items out of your basket yet. But that is ok, you tell
the person behind the counter, thank you and tap your wallet on a little
pad next to the credit card/debit card keypad and presto, your bill is
paid. How can this happen?
All the items in the store have a RFID tag that has been printed on the
container or package, when you walked into the RFID sensor / reading zone,
your items were instantly scanned and totaled. You quickly and
conveniently paid with your visa, mastercard, or debt card that has a RFID
tag imbedded. The new buzz word for this is called, “Contactless Paymentâ€
'The
New Wave'
Just as with the EZPass toll
system for highways and bridges, or Exxon Mobil's SpeedPass for gas, the
new "contactless" system uses radio frequency waves, or RFID, to transmit
encoded information. You have to be very close to the receiver, but
there's no need to give up your card to a clerk or insert it into a
machine to read the magnetic stripe. And there's no need to dig for cash
or coins. "It is the new wave," said
Dave Jentsch, senior vice president of card products for HSBC Bank
Such "contactless" payments
are the newest effort by banks, credit card
companies and merchants to extend the reach of plastic payments and reduce
Americans' reliance on cash. The goal is to make it possible to pay for
small-dollar purchases by using credit or debit cards where they haven't
been used before, but without tying up the consumer and
merchant. Banks and merchants say the
electronic payments are faster, easy, more secure and more convenient than
cash, and they're cheaper for the business to handle. And by accepting
fast plastic for purchases, merchants hope to bring in more business --
and larger purchases -- from consumers who are in a hurry or who don't
have enough cash on them. "Those merchants recognize
that people don't want to stand in line," said Tom O'Donnell, senior vice
president of marketing for JPMorgan Chase's Card Services division.
"Customers will keep driving if the line is too long, if there's too many
sets of taillights, or if there's too many people parked at the
convenience store."
(5) Why RFID?
There are many
problems in the world that RFID could be touted as the solution to the
problem. 1.
Terrorism / border control –
as we all know terrorism is on the rise. The ability to keep track of who
enter and exit borders as well as keep tabs on individuals is a very high
priority right now and will continue into the future. 2.
Criminals – Criminal activity
is also at an all time high, if criminals had RFID tags, then tracking
these individuals would be possible. Not to say also that this would help
in the fight against the very high rate of child abductions. Have all the
sex offenders in the RFID database and when the sexual predator enters an
area near a school, the police are informed and the perpetrator is picked
up. 3.
Control of goods / inventory –
RFID controlled stores, such as Walmart, are showing a substantial
increase in profits due to inventory control and theft. If one takes this
one step more and implement “Contactless Payment,†retail and grocery
stores can save millions in employee costs. If there is no need for a
person to check you out at the store, then the store saves money. 4.
“Contactless Payment†also
solves a lot of the counterfeit money problem that the I think if you would
look at the applications, you to can come up with many other uses that
RFID can perform. The use for RFID in controlling goods, services and
resources is endless. My Speculation regarding
RFID I have been actively
keeping an eye on the RFID industry these last few months as I have stated
before. I would like to point out some press releases and news articles
that have come out of the industry in just these last few weeks.
Conductive
inks -
“Conductive inks are used to produce conductive tracks for the manufacture
of printed circuits, membrane switches or printed wiring boards (PCB, PWB)
and for a wide variety of other uses such as intelligent packages, circuit
components and antennae for radio frequency identification solutions,†(6)
RFID
Powder –
“The newest form of RFID tag is Creo’s Traceless® taggant.
Traceless® is a powder that is mixed with ink or other fluid and applied
to product packaging during manufacturing. Suspending the powder particles
in fluid allows them to form a random pattern known as the “taggant image
signatureâ€. A computer records/retains this signature as the item’s unique
identifier, like the EPC of traditional RFID…What really distinguishes
Traceless® is that it is undetectable, making it virtually impossible to
counterfeit or tamper with. Using proprietary methods, Creo mixes a ratio
of taggant in solution that is too small to be perceived visually or
chemically, and is detectable only by Traceless® readers.â€
(7) Fluidic
Self Assembly - Fluidic Self Assembly that
floats RFID chips in a water-based slurry. When the slurry is passed over
tag material, the individual chips automatically settle into position.
(8) RFID tags on flexible substances entirely by
printing -
DNA-Enabled
Security Holograms - “The strategic combination of
DNA-Hologram technologies and RFID, available from Holomex and Applied DNA
Sciences in a single device opens major new opportunities for the
packaging industry, increased protection for brands and greater safety for
consumers. We are in active discussions with several of the largest firms
in the packaging industry and our new products are receiving an extremely
positive receptionâ€. (10) RFID
Network Architecture - Cisco Systems recently
announced an Intelligent Foundation for Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID) to help enterprises introduce RF technologies into their supply
chains to increase visibility into product information and optimize
business flow for lower operating costs. Central to Cisco RFID
Solutions is the extension of Cisco AON to now include embedded RFID
middleware functions into the network onto Cisco data center switches and
branch office routers, leading to increased scalability, reduced
deployment cost and more simplicity. The RFID-enabled Cisco AON modules
can be installed throughout an enterprise's network. The AON modules can
perform tasks like outbound encryption, digital signature and
content-based routing when sharing data with external business partners.
According to Cisco, by enabling localized event responses, customers can
now optimize business application performance as well as maximize network
value as they deploy current and future RFID applications across their
enterprises. (11) First
Strong Security Solution for RFID – “WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2005--SecureRF Corporation has developed the world's first
commercial-strength security solution to address both passive and active
radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Its solution is several
thousand times more efficient than any currently available commercial
security system and can also address other resource-constrained
environments including smart cards and wireless devices. Initial target
markets for SecureRF include applications for the Departments of Defense
and Homeland Security, and high value supply chains.â€
(12) By now I think that
you can see where I am going with this. But first of all, I want to put a
disclaimer here and say that the above press releases and their companies
are not covertly working with some sort of secret organization to create
the mark of the beast. These are all companies that are on the fast track
implementing a new technology and I applaud that. As stated above, I see a
lot of good in RFID and it would solve a lot of problems. In the wrong
hands, I see a lot of bad as well. The above articles
are footnoted at the end of this article and I advise you to read all the
articles. All these leaps in the RFID industry has taken place in just the
last several weeks. That is a lot of technology moving in one direction
really fast. If you take all these
latest developments and put them together, it is my opinion that you have
the technology and makings for the mark of the beast.
Let me review here.
We read in
Revelations 13:16-18 that the word “mark†literally means to be “engraved
upon.†When computer chips are produced, the process is called “chemically
engraving†upon a piece of silicon. I speculate that the
mark of the beast will be some sort of engraving, chemical or other
process that will create and bond down to the DNA level a RFID chip
directly into the skin. It will become part of the skin and be flexible.
With current technology the RFID chip is tamper proof, highly secure as
well as can possibly be printed / engraved / tattooed onto the skin with a
hologram which also creates another level of security and authentication.
The above
technologies, if taken further and as the technologies grow, technology
can produce that very effect which I speculate and present in this
article. With a chip that is engraved, and bonded at the DNA level, the
chip itself can draw power strait from the electrical current flowing
through the body, thus creating an “Activeâ€(13) RFID tag that
can be read and can communicate with RFID reading / sensing devices over
100 feet and quit possibly from satellite. Everyone will literally be part
of the network. In presenting this
model, it also meets all 3 of the points that I make which encompasses the
mark of the beast. Again those points are an economical, a political and a
religious system all wrapped into one. By having some sort of holographic
image on the right hand or forehead, there is also recognition and unity
of the masses who take the mark. This also identifies those who have not
taken the mark. My earnest hope is
that many of you that took the time to read this information won't just
let all this fall by the wayside. Right now you have two options. You have
an opportunity to freely receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, or
someday face a global tyrannical dictator who will demand the entire world
to worship him and show allegiance to him by receiving his mark. This mark
will reveal that you are owned by him; failure to comply will result in
execution by beheading-Rev 20;4. I believe the first option is by far a
better decision, don't you? Here is what God’s
Word says… Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God; Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and
knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him,
and will sup with him, and he with me. I would encourage you
to not delay in receiving Christ as you Savior today if you have not
already done so. He died for your sins, and rose from the dead. He offers
you eternal life, but that's your choice to make. I hope you will consider
doing that today. Sinners
Prayer: Father in Heaven, I know that
I am a sinner in need of a savior. I need your forgiveness through Jesus
Christ who died on the cross just for me to cover the sins that I have
committed against you. Please forgive me of my sins and come into my
heart. I want to live for you Lord Jesus and from this day forward be
known as a Child of God. Thank you for forgiving my sins and coming into
my life, in Jesus’ wonderful name. Amen If you are a
Christian, but have fallen away from the Lord, come back to Him. Our
Heavenly Father is a good and loving Father. Just ask and commune with
Him. You see, He never left your side, we just left Him. Reach out and
renew your relationship with Jesus Christ our Savior today.
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Author: Ray & Tracye Gano
are the Executive Directors of Prophezine. Prophezine deals with Bible
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to http://www.prophezine.com/ Footnotes:
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http://www.wiu.edu/users/nmk100/verichip.htm 2.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45409 3.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-18-2005/0004171675&EDATE= 6.
http://www.inkworldmagazine.com/Oct033.htm 7.
http://www.global-packaging-alliance.com/news_print.php?NewsID=69 9.
http://www.adnas.com/PRESS%20RELEASE/pr64.htm 10. http://www.wirelessdesignasia.com/article.asp?id=862 11. http://www.integratedmar.com/ecl-usa/story.cfm?item=19992&cid=0 | |||
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