Mark of the Beast
Other Forms of Mark of the Beast
Literal or Visible Mark of the Beast
The earliest mention
of the mark in the Bible concerns the life of Cain who is the eldest son of
Adam and Eve. After Cain murdered his
brother Abel he became a fugitive and a vagabond. “And the LORD said to him, ‘Therefore
whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.’ And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone
finding him should kill him.” (Gen. 4:15) Although the Bible does not give any
description of the mark yet we can deduce it to be a literal and visible one otherwise it would be difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to identify Cain.
In the book of Ezekiel
the literal and visible mark on the forehead identifies those that were
protected by God. “And
the LORD said to him, ‘Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all
the abominations that are done within it.” (Ezek. 9:4)
The original Greek word used for “mark” in Revelation is “charagma”
(Strong’s 5480). It means:
1. a stamp, an imprinted
mark that is stamped on the forehead or the right hand as the badge of the
followers of the Antichrist (Rev. 13:17)
It can also be the mark branded upon horses or cattle.
2. a
thing carved,
sculpture, graven work of idolatrous images
National Identity Card
There has been an ongoing debate in the United States
during recent years regarding the creation of a national ID card system, based
on the existing Social Security card that would include a centralized
computer-based registry of all U.S. citizens. While some government officials
in the past have advocated the creation of such a system as a means of
curtailing illegal immigration in the United States, organizations such as the
American Civil Liberties Union have repeatedly voiced their opposition to the
plan.
Debate over the creation of a national ID card system
has been renewed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and
revelations that the terrorists involved may have used stolen or forged
identification documents.
Idea of a national ID card is gaining support in U.S.
Wednesday,
September 26, 2001
By SHELLEY EMLING
COX NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK -- The
idea of an identity card for all Americans is winning fans as a shaken nation
reconsiders security measures it has long resisted.
For decades, the ID
has been proposed as a cure for everything from underage drinking to illegal
immigration -- and just as quickly rejected, sometimes amid reminders of how
identity documents were misused by Nazi Germany.
Then, hijacked
planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A new attitude
about restrictions on personal freedoms quickly began to emerge.
The identity card
is among a slew of ideas -- e-mail monitoring, metal detectors at large
gatherings, more restrictions on the rights of immigrants -- getting fresh
consideration.
"We need a
national ID card with our photograph and thumbprint digitized and embedded in
the ID card," Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle Corp., told a San
Francisco TV station last week.
"We need a
database built so that, when you're walking into an airport and you say that
you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it in a reader and you put
your thumb down and that system confirms that this is Larry Ellison."
Oracle, whose
company is a leading maker of database software, offered to donate the software
to the government to make it happen.
It wouldn't be the
first time Ellison worked closely with the federal government. As a programmer,
he developed a database for the Central Intelligence Agency in the mid-1970s.
Indeed, Oracle's name is derived from the CIA job's code name.
But the idea of
putting every citizen's personal information in federal computers has long been
anathema to liberals and conservatives alike.
A federal computer
registry "is an assault on Americans' basic civil liberties," the
libertarian Cato Institute wrote in 1995.
It warned that such a registry could be used to
"ensure employer compliance with affirmative action requirements, track
child support payments, verify that parents are getting their children
vaccinated, and conduct background checks on people who want to purchase
guns."
National Identity cards, Social Security numbers, and
credit cards have been used in many countries for decades. They have the potential of serving the dual
purpose of identification as well as for tracking devices. The United States already have such state of
the art capability of using biometric implantation on the human body such as in
the forehead or the hand as described in Revelation.
Presently President George W. Bush is not in favor of the National Identity card system but the war against terrorism may escalate to a critical point in the future that may force the United States into some form of identification system for aliens entering the country. There may be a possibility of using biometric implantation for identification and tracking purposes on people coming from the Middle-eastern countries. If you examine Revelation 13:17 you will read about what the Second Beast does. “And 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.” When the Beast Osama bin Laden attacked America he had actually caused the enactment, implementation and execution of many laws against terrorism that could never have been approved in the United States under normal peaceful conditions. Whether you like to believe it or not we are already in the scenario of the Great Tribulation.
Implanted electronic tag can track
terrorist suspects
Thursday
20 September, 2001 10:45 GMT+10:00
By
A
Florida company, Applied Digital Solutions, started work on the chip and then
shelved the idea but has now revived it after the attacks in New York and
Washington, the British weekly said.
"We've
changed our thinking since September 11," Keith Bolton, the company's
chief technology officer, said. "Now there's more of a need to monitor
evil activities."
Terrorist
suspects could be forced to have such chips implanted or it could be done
surreptitiously.
The
chip gives out a tiny signal that thanks to triangulation by the global
positioning system (GPS) gives that person's location.
A
potential use could be for finding people buried under rubble, as the search
for victims of the World Trade Center collapse has shown.
But
the "Big Brother" device raises serious questions for civil liberties,
as governments could use it to track innocent people, New
Scientist adds. And criminals not to mention
terrorists themselves could hack into the system and use the signals to home in
on targets.
Applied
Digital Solutions has already developed a watchlike device called Guardian
Angel, which transmits information about the wearer's identity, medical status
and location, using the GPS.
The
gadget is intended for keeping track of elderly relatives or wandering
children.
Tiny human-borne monitoring device
sparks privacy fears
December
20, 1999
Web posted at: 4:48 p.m. EST (2148 GMT)
By Richard
Stenger
CNN Interactive Writer
WASHINGTON (CNN) - A Palm Beach, Florida-based telecommunications company
has developed a miniature digital monitoring device that can be implanted in
people, intended to assist in locating missing children or for monitoring the
heart rate of at-risk patients.
But electronic freedom activists are concerned about exploitation of the
technology, which would use global positioning system (GPS) technology to track
implantees.
It sounds dreadful. That's about as bad as it gets," Marc
Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington,
said Monday.
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Planted inconspicuously just under the skin, the implantable transceiver
sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS technology. The
company expects applications in the fields of law enforcement, security and
medicine.
According to ADS, a company with an Internet and e-commerce focus, the
devise could track lost hikers, abducted children and "military,
diplomatic and other essential government personnel."
It can also identify individuals for e-business security and check certain
biological functions and alert a monitoring facility if it detects a medical
emergency.
"We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business
security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually
limitless," said ADS Chairman and CEO Richard Sullivan in a statement.
Fearing that "virtually limitless" potential, critics contend that
monitoring systems wind up being used for other than the original purposes.
"Over the years we moved from fingerprinting convicts to routinely
footprinting infants in hospitals," Rotenberg said.
He worries that this new surveillance technology could eventually restrict
freedoms of the general public.
"I think the use of implants for tracking is crossing into a new
territory," Rotenberg said. "It gets us closer to an Orwellian
'1984.'"
Patent documents refer to the device as a "personal tracking and
recovery system." But ADS said the device, named the Digital Angel, could
also have non-human applications. For example, it could be secretly hidden on
or in valuable personal belongings and works of art.
ELECTRONIC
HUMAN IDENTIFICATION MARK
FOR SALE TRANSACTION
Patent 5,878,155 was issued to
Houston inventor Thomas W. Heeter described as a "Method for verifying
human identity during electronic sale transactions".
Heeter's patent "abstract" reads:
"A method is presented for
facilitating sales transactions by electronic media. A bar code or a design is
tattooed on an individual. Before the sales transaction can be consummated, the
tattoo is scanned with a scanner. Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are
compared to characteristics about other tattoos stored on a computer database
in order to verify the identity of the buyer. Once verified, the seller may be
authorized to debit the buyer's electronic bank account in order to consummate
the transaction. The seller's electronic bank account may be similarly updated."
Heeter's invention is aimed toward the booming world of Internet E-commerce. In the very near future, many products will be purchased E-commerce via the Internet. WorldNet Daily writes, ". . . Internet e-commerce figures spiraling upward, and the European market expected to surpass the U.S. online community in a couple of years, potential sales online have been projected to reach nearly $1 trillion by 2003." (WorldNet Daily, September 30, 1999)
And the ONE major obstacle to the full-implementation
of the E-commerce world is security. Currently, most people will not purchase
over the Internet for ONE reason - SECURITY. But if somehow, someway, someone
could "secure" the E-commerce transaction "bodily" to the
purchaser - 100% security.
RELATED/SOURCE LINKS:
Heeter's U.S. Patent Info
World Net Daily Report
New Biochip Implant Technology - Visit these Web sites
- Is the Biochip the Mark of the Beast?
- Is Human Chip Implant Wave of the Future?
- The World's First Experimental "Microchip Man"
- Future Technology to Wire People
