From Biometric Scanning to Microchips and the Mark of the Beast?
Pastor Dale Morgan
Mar 07, 2007 8:35 AM
*From Biometric Scanning to Microchips and the Mark of the Beast?*
Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coming of Antichrist
By Thomas Horn
For News With Views
Today I learned that Madras High School in the little town of Madras,
Oregon is the latest government institution to allow students to pay for
their lunch with the swipe of a hand.
Only yesterday in a related event, Chief of Police Jack Schmidig of
Bergen County, NJ, a member of the police force for over 30 years,
received a VeriChip as part of Applied Digital Solution's strategy of
enlisting key regional leaders to accelerate adoption of its implantable
product.
Kevin H. McLaughlin, VeriChip Corporation's CEO said of the event that
"High-profile regional leaders are accepting the VeriChip, representing
an excellent example of our approach to gaining adoption of the technology."
The new and aggressive indoctrination program - Thought and Opinion
Leaders to Play Key Role in Adoption of VeriChip - is intended to create
widespread acceptance and exponential adaptation of the company's
FDA-cleared, human-implantable RFID tag.
Earlier this year ADS provided testimony that safeguards have been
implemented to ensure privacy in connection with implantable microchips.
ADS received patent rights to Digital Angel (TM) technology on December
10, 1999. What set Digital Angel apart from the competition was the
innovative design--a miniature digital transceiver specifically created
for human implantation.
According to information released last year the implantable transceiver
"sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global
Positioning Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and
actuation system are unlike anything ever created. When implanted within
a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement
of muscles, and it can be activated either by the 'wearer' or by the
monitoring facility."
An Information Technology report recently verified plans to study
implantable chips as a method of tracking terrorists. After first
pulling back from the implantable version of its Digital Angel, ADS
foresees a unique use of its product under the new name VeriChip in the
wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
"We've changed out thinking since September 11," a company spokesman
said, "Now there's more of a need to monitor evil activities."
ADS also claims the VeriChip (Digital Angel) has a variety of other
uses, such as "providing a tamper-proof means of identification for
enhanced e-business security, animal tracking, locating lost or missing
individuals, tracking the location of valuable property and monitoring
the medical conditions of at-risk patients."
Following the Internet World Wireless 2001 award for "Best of Show:
Client Services," Mercedes Walton, President and COO of Applied Digital
Solutions, said: ``We have always had high expectations for the Digital
Angel products. This award is truly a validation of our faith in Digital
Angel's ability to capture the imagination of the public. Consumer
anticipation has translated into accelerated interest from potential
partners and allies. We are eager to bring Digital Angel to the
marketplace in a very timely manner...."
To further advocate Digital Angel technology, Applied Digital Solutions
launched a website http://www.digitalangel.net where viewers can peruse
diagrams and read summary information.
Other manufacturers of sub-skin implants have quietly field-tested
similar devices over the past few years. The London Times reported in
October 1998, "Film stars and the children of millionaires are among 45
people, including several Britons, who have been fitted with the chips
(called the Sky Eye) in secret tests."
Due to civil liberty and privacy issues, the ACLU announced opposition
to mandatory microchip implantation when applied to humans. The ACLU is
certain to be a strange bedfellow of Christians and conservatives
concerning this issue.
THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY?
Many Christians believe that, before long, an antichrist system will
appear. It will be a New World Order, under which national boundaries
dissolve, and ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and economics from
around the world, orchestrate a single and dominant sovereignty. The
system will supposedly be free of religious and political extremes, and
membership will tolerate the philosophical and cultural differences of
its constituents. Except for minor nonconformities, war, terrorism, and
hunger will be a thing of the past.
According to popular Biblical interpretation, a single personality will
surface at the head of the utopian administration. He will appear as a
man of distinguished character, but will ultimately become "a king of
fierce countenance" (Dan. 8:23).
With imperious decree the Antichrist will facilitate the one-world
government, universal religion, and globally monitored socialism. Those
who refuse his New World Order will inevitably be imprisoned or
destroyed, until at last he exalts himself "above all that is called
God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of
God, showing himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2:4).
The Antichrist's widespread power will be derived at the expense of
individual human liberties. He will force "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 [666]" (Rev. 13:16-18).
For many years the idea that humans could somehow succumb to little more
than branded cattle, and that rugged individualism would thereafter be
sacrificed for an anesthetized universal harmony, was repudiated by
America’s greatest minds.
Then, in the 1970’s, things began to change. Following a call by Nelson
Rockefeller for the creation of a "New World Order," presidential
candidate Jimmy Carter campaigned, saying, "We must replace balance of
power politics with world order politics."
During the 1980's President George Bush continued the one-world dirge,
announcing over national television that "a New World Order" had
arrived. Following the initial broadcast, President Bush addressed the
Congress, saying, "What is at stake is more than one small country
[Kuwait], it is a big idea--a new world order, where diverse nations are
drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of
mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a
world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future!"
Ever since the President's astonishing newscast, a parade of political
and religious leaders have discharged a profusion of rhetoric aimed at
implementing the goals of a New World Order.
Developers of biometric implant chips employ similar language in
announcing compatible global technologies, and many Americans consider
electronically marking humans or implanting a series of digital
equations beneath the skin to be the natural progress of advancing and
necessary technologies.
IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE
Some people believe implantable microchips will be the Biblical Mark of
the Beast. These claim that acts of terrorism such as the ones in New
York and Washington, encourage microchipping humans for identification
purposes.
But even before the New York and Pentagon tragedies, a push was being
made to brand and monitor humanity.
Consider the following:
* As far back as 1973, Senior Scholastics introduced school age children
to the concept of buying and selling using numbers inserted in their
forehead. In the September 20, 1973 feature "Who Is Watching You?" the
secular high school journal speculated: "All buying and selling in the
program will be done by computer. No currency, no change, no checks. In
the program, people would receive a number that had been assigned them
tattooed in their wrist or forehead. The number is put on by laser beam
and cannot be felt. The number in the body is not seen with the naked
eye and is as permanent as your fingerprints. All items of consumer
goods will be marked with a computer mark. The computer outlet in the
store which picks up the number on the items at the checkstand will also
pick up the number in the person's body and automatically total the
price and deduct the amount from the person's 'Special Drawing Rights'
account."
* In the 1974 article "The Specter of Eugenics," Charles Frankel pointed
out Linus Pauling's (Nobel Prize winner) suggestions that a mark be
tattooed on the foot or forehead of every young person. Pauling
envisioned a mark denoting genotype.
* In 1980, U.S. News and World Report continued the warning, pointing
out that the Federal Government was contemplating "National Identity
Cards," without which nobody could work or conduct business.
* The Denver Post Sun followed up in 1981, claiming that chip implants
could someday replace I.D. cards. The June 21, 1981 story read in part,
"The chip is placed in a needle which is affixed to a simple syringe
containing an anti-bacterial solution. The needle is capped and ready to
forever identify something--or somebody."
* The May 7, 1996 Chicago Tribune questioned the technology, wondering
aloud if we could trust Big Brother under our skin?
* Then in 1997 applications for patents of subcutaneous implant devices
for "a person or an animal" were applied for.
* On April 27, 1998, Time Magazine ran the story, The Big Bank Theory
And What It Says About The Future OF Money, in which they opined "Your
daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a
debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted
under her skin."
* In August 1998 the BBC covered the first known human microchip
implantation.
* That same month the Sunday Oregonian warned that proposed medical
identifiers might erode privacy rights by tracking individuals through
alphanumeric health identifier technologies. The startling Oregonian
feature depicted humans with barcodes in their foreheads.
* Senator Robb (Virginia) felt it necessary to add the MARC
(multi-technology automated reader card) Card Amendment to the FY97 DOD
Authorization Bill.
* One can only speculate why bionics is now attempting to create
organisms that contain linked organic (human cells) material with
biometric chips for human implantation.
* Recently millions of Today Show viewers watched an American family get
"chipped" with ADS's VeriChip™ live from a doctor's office in Boca Raton.
* VeriChip recently has been solicting interest from the US Military to
implant all US Military forces with implantable "dogtag" VeriChips.
* Meanwhile, terrorism has many people in the mood these days to
sacrifice human liberties... and Digital Angel has opened its mass
production factory in Palm Beach, Florida.
WILL DIGITAL "MARKS" SOON BE MANDATORY?
Makers of implantable microchips claim the procedure will be voluntary.
But a report written by Elaine M. Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law
Center says: "A [mandatory] national identification system via microchip
implants could be achieved in two stages: Upon introduction as a
voluntary system, the microchip implantation will appear to be
palatable. After there is a familiarity with the procedure and a
knowledge of its benefits, implantation would be mandatory."
George Getz, the communications director for the Libertarian Party
agrees, saying: "After all, the government has never forced anyone to
have a driver license, [but] try getting along without one, when
everyone from your local banker to the car rental man to the hotel
operator to the grocery store requires one in order for you to take
advantage of their services, that amounts to a de facto mandate. If the
government can force you to surrender your fingerprints to get a drivers
license, why can't it force you to get a computer chip implant? "
People like Mr. Getz are correct. Conservatives and liberals alike need
to contact state and federal representatives and demand laws preserving
individual rights before Digital Angel and similar forces lead humanity
down a high-tech path of no return.
In the same way Social Security numbers were voluntary before becoming
defacto-mandatory, biometric chip implants will be compulsory in the
future unless citizens rise up in immediate and national opposition.
Even Applied Digital Solution's chief executive officer Richard Sullivan
envisions a scenario where ``people [are] required to be chipped or
[have] some combination of a device requiring them to be scanned and
monitored at all times.''
Note what the prophet said!
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark (charagma; [Greek charax] meaning to stake into or
"stick into") in their right hand, or in their foreheads....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)
Did the prophet foresee a hypodermic needle injecting something beneath
the skin? Sounds like it.
A temporary victory was won against such ideas following the original
news story by Raiders News Update concerning ADS's implantable microchip
intentions in 1999. News services across the web ran our story resulting
in an inundation by concerned readers. ADS's shares droped on the Nasdaq
from $5.00 to .50 each. ADS then released this statement: "We are not
pursuing any applications for embedded chips and we have moved away from
that for a couple of reasons....There are a number of privacy concerns
and religious implications -- fundamentalist Christian groups [Raiders
News Update] regard it [implanting computer chips] as the Devil's work."
The reprieve didn't last long. The Palm Beach testing center's
wristwatch version of Digital Angel was successful and ADS announced it
would "start implanting them inside humans between the muscle and the
skin on the forearm next year."
Then on 9-11, terrorism came along, the perfect incentive for mandating
everything from face scanning to implantable chips as not only
inevitable, but perhaps simply a good idea.
These are differences in degree, not in kind, and forecast a prediction
made long ago:
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man
worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead,
or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and
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 ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor
night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the
mark of his name" (Rev. 14:9-11).