Opinion: The Mark Of the Beast "On" Or "In" The Hand?
Pastor Dale Morgan
Opinion: The Mark Of the Beast "On" Or "In" The Hand?*
Apr 27th, 2007 8:53 AM
The Mark Of the Beast [Rev. 13:16] "On" or "In" the hand?
By: John Hinton, Ph.D., The Bible Restoration Ministry
Revelation 13:16 "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:
Ever since the Revised Version (RV) and American Standard Version (ASV),
users of modern versions have been given the misleading translation of
this verse in such a manner:
ASV Rev: 13:16 "And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the
rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a
mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;"
RSV Rev: 13:16 "Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and
poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,"
There is only one problem with most of these versions, and that that the
mark of the beast is stated to be on the hand and not in it as the KJV
tells us. These two prepositions are small words, but the error is not a
small one at all. Some translations go so far as to mislead readers by
insinuating that the mark is a tattoo. This is not impossible, since a
tattoo is both on the skin and in the skin, but it is not stated in any
Greek text and at best it is a guess. At worse, it is a lie to misguide
those who fall for the new version scam.
The translation "on the hand or forehead" is not hard to understand. The
usual meaning of the preposition epi is most often "on" and it is how
most would have translated this verse at first sight. In fact, if I was
seeing the text for the first time, it is exactly how I would have
translated it. I would have translated it that way because I am far less
of a Greek scholar than the translation team members of the King James
Bible committee, and because I am not used as an instrument of God to
preserve his word in the English language -- I am only a defender of it.
On the other hand, the modern Bible "corrector" thinks that he is
superior to the sum and total of all of these great men, in spite of the
fact that his Greek abilities are dwarfed by the least of the Greek
translators on the KJV committee. The modern Greek student is little
more than a babe compared to these men who learned the language long
before the dumbing down of education took its toll on today's academy.
They spoke the language, were able to write prose in it, and were
entrenched in it. There are a few universities with classics departments
like Bryn Mawr and Berkley in modern times that have standards of Greek
scholarship that are truly outstanding, but few truly well-rounded
students of the language are produced on the whole, and none on the
level of the great scholars of the 17th century. Most seminary students
are sloppy and inexperienced with any Greek other than koine, and could
not form a sentence without errors, even if their vocabularies were
sufficient to do so. They certainly could not write a simple essay in
Greek, let alone a complicated sentence. The majority of those who think
that they can correct the Bible do not even know any Greek at all. There
is hardly a church in America that does not have at least one con artist
with meager mental ability who uses Strong's Concordance to find
definitions that will enable him to babble boastfully how the KJV
translators had it wrong. He barely knows his own language, let alone
Greek, but he has learned to use that book, or a similar one, to
convince the gullible and rebellious that he is wise. Romans 1:22 was
written for the likes of such men: "Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools."
Revelation 13:16 is one of those verses that fakes and second-rate Greek
scholars use to puff themselves up, and it requires only the most
elementary level of study. Yes, indeed, when epi is used as a
preposition it is most often translated as "on" just as all dictionaries
will tell us. I did learn this the very first day that I began studying
koine Greek, and probably learned it the first day that I began studying
Greek twenty some years ago when my focus was on Modern Greek. This is
as basic as it gets, so why do these Bible "correcting" pipsqueaks think
that these great scholars of old, who were far more educated than they
will ever be, did not know the most common meaning of epi? This is not
just ignorance, but the worst kind of arrogance. The fact that they
chose not to translate epi as "on" demonstrates that they knew something
the modern quasi or pseudo-scholar does not know. These 53 men (the 54th
died early) knowingly translated or approved of the translation of epi
as "in" in its context for a reason. The preposition epi can also mean
in, to, at, with, along with, and a number of other similar meanings. It
must be read in context before it is translated, and unlike the
correctors of today, the KJV translators were able to do that. They did,
and they realized that a xaragma, which is translated as mark, involves
a scratching or etching into the skin. This, we could imply, would
include injections, although the idea of injections was not known when
the text was written. Any philologist of even meager ability realizes
that prepositions cannot be put into neat little boxes. They virtually
never translate perfectly from one language to another. For instance, if
we were to make a word for word translation of "turn the light on" or
"turn the light off" into any foreign language, we would not be
understood at all. For another example, when one learns a preposition in
Arabic like 'ala, the meaning of "on" will be learned first. If we were
to try to translate it as "on" in every instance, we would make a
complete mess out of the language, because 'ala means a whole lot more
than just "on", and it frequently requires either a lot of experience or
a lot of thought to discern what it means in a given passage. I am sure
that there is not a language in the world that uses prepositions that
does not have other examples. The translators of old put their
discernment to work when they translated epi; the modern version
pseudo-translators did not.
Many other Greek translators, all of whom greatly exceeded the learning
of the modern academic Bible so-called scholar, before and after the
King James was translated, came up with the same conclusion concerning
this passage. The Spanish Reina Vallera, Italian Diodati, Latin Vulgate,
and Ethiopic all agree with the King James.
Reina Valera of 1909 (following earlier versions)
13:16 Y hacía que á todos, á los pequeños y grandes, ricos y pobres,
libres y siervos, se pusiese una marca en su mano derecha, ó en sus frentes:
Diodati: Faceva encora che a tutti, piccoli e grandi, ricchi e poveri,
franchi e servi fosse posto un carattere in su la lor mano destra, o in
su le lor fronti:
Vulgate: et faciet omnes pusillos et magnos et divites et pauperes et
liberos et servos habere caracter in dextera manu aut in frontibussuis
Luther's German translation has "an ihre rechte hand oder an ihre
Stirn." The preposition "an" refers to being at, with, near, on, or in
something, and therefore has a broader range of meaning than our English
"in" has, but this translation does not contradict that of the King
James Bible. It does not say "auf ihre Hand," which would mean "on the
hand" as the NIV, NKJV, and virtually all modern versions say. The
German translation of the so-called Good News Bible, Die Gute Nachricht
in heutigen Deutsch, does precisely that. "...auf ihre rechte Hand oder
ihre Stirn machen."
The ancient French texts are similar. Both the Ostervald and the Martin
have "a la main"
"Et elle faisait que tous, petits et grands, riches et pauvres, libres
et esclaves, prenaient une marque à la main droite ou à leurs fronts;"
If the French translaters had meant "on the hand or forehead" they would
have used the preposition "sur" in order to be precise. This is what the
Westcott-Hort-based Louis Segonde does.
"16 Et elle fit que tous, petits et grands, riches et pauvres, libres et
esclaves, reçussent une marque sur leur main droite ou sur leur front,"
The French "à la main" has a range of meanings very similar to that of
the German "an". It means that the mark is at, near, with, in, or on the
hand. Like the German of Luther (and other early German works) neither
ancient French translation contradicts the King James Bible translation.
It is possible that the translators were not sure how to deal with the
mark. After all, they worked on the text long before there was any real
clue as to what is probably meant by the mark. All that they knew is
that a xaragma was carved or engraved into something, or inscribed.
Today, we can be reasonably confident that the mark of the beast will be
a biochip that will be inserted under the skin. Such chips have been
injected into livestock and pets for decades, and it has long been
theorized that people are to be targeted for these chips. There was a
time when some naive and ignorant people guffawed the idea that such
tracking devices would ever be placed in people, but only the most
foolish of the willingly ignorant can pretend that it is not happening now.
The Bible makes it clear that the mark will be used for buying and
selling, as well as for identification. Decades of planning and
theorizing have gone into shifting the economies of the world into
cashless societies. Only in a cashless society where money is intangible
and under the control of a central authority can people be reduced to
total livestock. America, including America's Christians, have allowed
our country to be taken over by an international banking cartel called
the Federal Reserve with armed thugs (IRS, BATF, FBI, FEMA, etc.) that
enforce their godless will on the masses through terror. We have been
numbered like prisoners with the Socialist Slavery Number, which some
confuse with social security. The Bill of Rights and Constitution have
been null and voided and the Bible has been removed from the public
arena, and has been replaced with faith-based community organizations
and other 501(c)3 government corporations that have turned away from
Christ and turned toward Caesar. We have allowed devils and degenerates
to rule over us, and as a consequence, the technology for the mark of
the beast is ready now for those too weak and reprobate to take a stand.
ISO 9000 is another clever way our hidden fascist masters are making
sure that we are all employed -- by major corporate slave masters that
is. The International Standard Organization claims to be concerned with
protecting the quality and safety of our workplaces. What it really does
is make international corporate slaves out of all of us by denying work
and income to anyone not participating in their scheme. It also allows
an international bankster front organization to control what we sell,
and how and where we market it. It reduces the quality of products and
the quality of working environments because it bogs down each and every
employee with the most complicated, convoluted and oppressive processes
imaginable. In the future, anyone who cannot afford the huge expense of
signing into this oppressive program will be unable to compete in the
global market, and slaves of the ISO system will be told that they are
forbidden from hiring non-ISO workers. Even lawn mowers may be affected
as major corporations start including lawn care in their services.
Non-ISO lawn mowers may be hired in secret, but they will probably have
to settle for considerably less money, or break down and work for a
corporation.1
National ID's, or papers as they have been known in other fascist
systems like Nazi Germany, are worldwide now, and are about to become
required to buy and sell in America. Travel permits with barcodes,
digitalized photographs, magnetic strips, socialist slavery numbers, and
biometrics are already ipso facto national ID's. Debit cards are
becoming the norm instead of tangible cash, and it is only a step away
before they will be replaced with an insertable chip, as is already
happening in some quarters. Companies like Avid, Destron-Fearing,
Digital Angel, and Verichip started out by chipping livestock and pets,
but now speak of adding people to their livestock list. Right now there
is even a plot to chip all domestic animals from chickens to cows with
trackable chips. Not only will this intrude on the independence and
liberty of Americans, but it will make the private raising of livestock
impossible for anyone not owned and controlled by a rich corporation.
See http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov /nais/index.shtml for the USDA's own
description of this program. Also, take a look at what some fascists at
Clemson University are doing to encourage this brave new world of terror
and oppression: http://www.clemson.edu/LPH /nais.htm. For a wealth of
information on the program provided by a group trying to fight this
wicked encroachment on our rights, go to nonais.com.
Meanwhile companies like Monsanto and the Cargill Corporation are
patenting hybrid seeds and criminalizing anyone who grows their plants
without permission. These plants will degenerate into useless weeds if
the seeds are collected for more than a season or two. So between the
ISO, the USDA's NAIS, the major seed conglomerates, and the
international banksters who control these organizations our entire food
supply is being taken out of our control. This should frighten all of us.
The idea of inserting trackable chips in people is now being brought
into the open. I'll never forget hearing pseudo-conservative Paul Harvey
break from his usual commercial-filled monologue to making a statement
that he thought inserting chips in people would be a good idea. Of
course, he thought it should only be done with "bad" people, although he
did not define who they were. He had nothing to say about the attack on
privacy, independence, freedom, and dignity. I saw two different 60
Minutes hosts, Andy Rooney and Charles Grodin say the exact thing. Like
Harvey, they had no criticisms, but only good things to say about the
idea. Of course, they were not volunteering for it themselves.
In the May 11, 2002 issue of Time an article called Meet the Chipsons
was published.2 Accompanied by a photograph of a family that looked
strikingly braindead was an article describing a boy named Derek who was
volunteering to be chipped. As Time put it: "He's becoming a
cyborg--part man-child, part machine. Derek, his mom Leslie and his dad
Jeffrey are the first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable
computer device called VeriChip." This company is becoming bolder and
bolder with it plan of inserting chips into people. It is already being
done in Brazil, and Italy where Italian bar flies are being chipped to
spare themselves of the "hassle" of carrying cash into their hangouts.
The word "pathetic" just isn't enough. In the Chipsons article not only
are we told that in the future we will be merged with computers, but
that "resistance is futile." This is a phrase from a Star Trek series in
which a fictional culture of people merged with machines into one mass
mind with no individuality, and as a perfect collective consciousness
devoid of any trace of independence. This phrase sounded ominous coming
from the fictional Borg's collective mouths. Unlike the New Age authors
of the Star Trek script, the New World Order advocates at Time thought
that it was something cute and amusing, much as a TV network turned
Orwell's fictional allusion to a nightmare world of cruel and total
totalitarianism into a "cute" TV program about degenerates, whores,
sodomites, and assorted nitwits living in a house together trying to use
deceit to eliminate each other through the watchful eyes of omnipresent
cameras.
Before this braindead family was used to help boil the proverbial frog
there was the experiment of Kevin Warwick in England. "A professor at
the University of Reading in England has had a silicon chip transponder
implanted into his arm to demonstrate how computers and humans might be
able to communicate in the future.
Professor Kevin Warwick envisions a world in which humans communicate
directly with computers without extraneous input devices such as mice
and keyboards, and a world in which humans network continually with
computers, he said. The experiment could have wide-ranging implications
for employers and for society in general as humans determine how closely
they want to be connected with computers."2 Wide-ranging implications
indeed!
Anyone blind and foolish enough to doubt what is being prepared for them
should look at what Battelle Memorial Institute states in their own
literature. Battelle is the richest research foundation in the world.
They have offices, laboratories, or research centers in over 100 cities
around the world. They are responsible, or share the responsibility, for
an incredible percentage of the technology required to establish a
cashless, socialist, privacy-free, Big Brother society of slavery and
surveillance, such as debit cards, road camera monitoring systems,
barcodes (with their imbedded 666's), GPS, and insertable biochips.
Battelle publishes ten and twenty year forecasts every year or so. These
forecasts should be read by anyone concerned with the future. In their
forecast for 2006, which was prepared in 1996, they state that
"Electronic money will be used for everything from buying soda in a
vending machine to making an international transaction over your
computer. Pockets will rarely jingle in ten years as credit card-sized
smart cards begin to replace cash, as well as house and car keys."
Doesn't this sound charming. Not only will your money be reduced to
intangible blips of light on a computer screen that are under complete
control of your unseen masters, but they will have control of the access
to your house and car. Not only that, but they hint that they intend on
eventually using insertable chips in our bodies in another entry:
" Smart maps and tracking devices. Getting "there" will be decidedly
easier with the widespread use of Global Positioning Systems-"smart"
maps that will show travelers, boaters, and hikers their exact position
and direction. Global positioning systems also will be used to help
prevent crime by tracking the exact location of cars and other
valuables. People also will be able to track the exact location of their
children and even their pets."3 There was a time when insertable biochip
companies like Destron-Fearing and Avid claimed that it was only
livestock and pets who would be chipped, never people. They were lying,
and Battelle makes it clear that chipping humans has always been the
goal, above that of animals. Guess who the livestock and pets are?
Battelle also informs us that in the future we will not own our
appliances. Corporations will not only control all of our wealth, lives,
information, children, but our possessions as well. Independence will be
impossible. Furthermore, monitoring devices may be inserted into your
appliances and you would be vandalizing them if you removed them, since
you do not own them.
"Never-owned products. Major household appliances, such as furnaces, air
conditioners, washers, dryers, and water heaters will be leased instead
of purchased. This trend will be spurred by environmental concerns and
regulations, cost, and the increasing speed of technology, which causes
products to become obsolete quicker."4
Battelles "Breakthroughs for Future Household Products by 2007" gives
more of the same, but with a few more details concerning tying us up
with computers, personalized identification (i.e. slave cards and
chips), monitoring systems (they claim for health), and virtual reality
to keep us distracted from what is being done to us, and from reality
itself.
"Highly Miniaturized Communication and Electronic Products. In ten
years, we will have developed wristwatch-size phones and highly
specialized, hand-held, wireless computers that will help us perform a
variety of day-to-day activities, from managing your banking and
investments to planning your weekend entertainment."5
"Virtual Reality Products. Virtual projections and sound environments
will be used to enhance computer games, music systems, video
entertainment systems, and exercise equipment. We will see a convergence
of home entertainment, information, and well care."6
In Battelle's forecast for 2008 we are told that we will be even more
wired to a central control center.
"Convergence of Technology in the Home. In the past, we separated our
home life from work and from shopping. In the next ten years, the home
will be the place of convergence for private and public lives.
Increasingly, the home will be a place for us to work, shop, get an
education, and enjoy entertainment. The biggest technological change
occurring in our personal lives will be the convergence of
telecommunications, entertainment, networking, education information
access, and computing power into the home. The technology challenge is
how to empower and protect individuals in their own homes."7
"Micro-Security. The Cold War has died away, along with a great deal of
the world's fear of nuclear holocaust; yet, in the wake of car-jackings,
gang violence, and terrorist bombings in New York, Oklahoma City, and
Atlanta, many people feel no safer than they did 10-15 years
ago.Technology's security challenge will shift from national
security--protecting nations from invading armies or missiles--to
personal and community security. We will develop technology-based
methods to keep us protected from crime and terrorism."8
Battelle, true to their Orwellian ways, not only has altered the above
quoted item, but it originally appeared in their forecast for 2007
forecast. The uncleansed version ended with the following words: "we
might want those satellites to keep track of our children on their way
home from school." It is hard to say why they felt it necessary to alter
this entry when they are so very up front about their intentions to
encourage placing chips under our skin in other places.
"Omnipresent Computing. Computers will be everywhere. We will be in
constant contact with very miniature, wireless, highly mobile, powerful,
and highly personalized computing with network access. Such computers
may first appear on the market as watches or jewelry with the power of a
computer and cellular phone. Later, we will have computers embedded in
our clothing and possibly implanted under our skin."9
Many other details of our future nightmare police state are given in
their INNOVATIONS IN NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE BY 2012
"Advanced Detection and Tracking Systems: The security of American
borders and transportation centers has improved greatly, but will
improve even more. We will have non-invasive biological, chemical, and
weapon detectors as reliable and easy to use as x-rays or metal
detectors today. We will see integrated sensors and detectors at
airports, for example, which will identify illegal drugs and potential
weapons of terrorism as quickly as a Geiger counter picks up radiation.
"Early detection of biological weapons is absolutely critical to the
success of American security in the years to come, and it's an area
where much R&D is being done," said Steve Kelly, Senior Vice President
and general manager of Battelle's Defense Systems. Once identified,
there is a need to accurately track potentially dangerous objects and
people. Today, optical scanners, bar codes and computers provide
excellent tracking in commercial markets. By 2012, we will see a new
generation of tracking with radio frequency identification tags, homing
devices, cameras, and global position systems (GPS) for tracking weapons
and other potentially threatening materials."10
Who will be defined as a dangerous person in the NWO of 2012? Those who
are foolish enough to let a godless government trick or force them into
taking dangerous and potentially deadly inoculations, will likely be
foolish enough to allow chips to be injected into themselves at the same
time. Will they even be told if they are being injected. According to
the information of Avid: the animal doesn't even usually know that he
has been injected with a chip at all. Battelle, again, plays on the
Orwellian fabricated terrorism scheme to scare the gullible into rushing
to inoculation centers.
"Universal Inoculation: Much fear exists today that bacteria and viruses
may be used for terrorism or combat against the U.S. Biological weapons
were central issues in recent Middle Eastern conflicts. A key protective
measure against biological threats of the future will be the universal
inoculation. One, or a small number of inoculations, not necessarily
shots, will protect large numbers of people from multiple pathogens. By
2012, based on a more thorough understanding of the genetics behind
disease, we'll be able to guard people's good health against dozens of
bacteria and viruses."11
The mass use of insertable chips is likely to come after the official
national ID is brought into being in America. This card will doubtlessly
be merged with a debit card. The first place such a card was used in
America was with the military. They called it the MARC card. Christians
in the military complained about the obvious biblical allusion being
made by this name so they changed it to R.A.P.I.D. A short time later
they changed the name back to MARC. That name must have been very
important to those behind it. The first university to use such a card
was Ohio Dominican, a Catholic college in Columbus. These cards were
used as ID's, library cards, copy cards, and debit cards, and were used
at pop machines. The company's name was Cybermark, and was formed as a
partnership between Fanny Mae (J.P. Morgan/Federal Reserve), Huntington
National Bank of Ohio, and Battelle Memorial Institute.
Everyone seems to want to give us a card today that monitors all of our
transactions. Kroger, for example, will charge a much higher price to
anyone who does not want to use one of their intrusive cards.
Fingerprinting is already beginning to replace cards in some places. I
have already seen banks with devices that read the fingers of customers
in order to make transactions called One Touch. A huge percentage of
companies no longer allow employees handle their own paychecks, and will
only pay them through direct deposit. There are even Antichrist
abominations masquerading as churches that extort tithes from their
congregation through direct deposit. These 501(c)3 IRS-owned corporation
chairmen are more like New World Order criminals than pastors. Such
pastors will undoubtedly be delighted to take the next step and advise
their people to take a convenient chip in their hands, just like the
four-legged and winged livestock will likely be chipped before the
two-legged variety. After all, they will say, "the mark of the beast is
supposed to be on the hand or forehead, or it will be a tattoo. It won't
be in the hand or forehead." Even more will ignore the further warning
that some may go along with the Antichrist system without an actual
mark, but by taking the number or name of the beast, however, that will
be a future essay topic. The users of texts like the NIV will be among
the first to become part of the system. The NIV, which is the largest
selling "Bible" on the market, has not only changed the mark to one that
is on the hand or forehead, but it has removed the Antichrist entirely
by calling the number 666 man's number, removed the name Lucifer
entirely, removed the warning about the Beast's name or number, and has
called the future reformation during Christ's reign on earth the New
Order! The Antichrist will give them the Rock and Roll and other forms
of entertainment that they crave, and their perversion of scripture will
not warn them. I could continue for hundreds of pages and not exhaust
the subject of enslavement technology, but I will force myself to stop
here. Everywhere we look we see evidence that the mark of the beast will
be an inserted mark as the KJV warns us. The KJV and other early
translators would never have foreseen that such technology would come
into being, but they were still inspired to put together a translation
that was prophetic. It should be added that if the mark were a tattoo,
the KJV would still be correct. A tattoo is both on and in the skin. The
modern version committees are the product of New Agers, Luciferians,
witches, Darwinists, Marxists, abortion supporters, and an assortment of
other degenerates, apostates, and seekers of filthy lucre. It should not
require much discernment to know which text to follow.
1 http://www.iso.org/iso/en /ISOOnline.frontpage
2 http://www.time.com/time /archive/preview/0,10987 ,214099,00.html
3 http://www.cnn.com/TECH /computing/9808/28/armchip.idg/
4 http://www.battelle.org /forecasts/innovations.stm
5 ibid
6 ibid
7 http://www.battelle.org /forecasts/challenges.stm
8 Ibid
9 ibid
10 ibid
11 http://www.battelle.org /forecasts/defense.stm
Your servant in Christ, John Hinton, Ph.D. Bible Restoration Ministry A
ministry seeking the translating and reprinting of KJV equivalent Bibles
in all the languages of the world.