Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Mark of the Beast?

1995 is where I began my Christian walk and began to study the Bible. The country church my family attended was the typical hellfire and brimstone type preaching. Oftentimes the sermons were on the Rapture of the church with references from the book of Revelation. The thing that stood out the most to me was the scripture on the Mark of the Beast (666). 
Revelation 13:16-18 (NKJ)
  • 16 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, 
  • 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[f] the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 
  • 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
Thats pretty scary...there will be a time where the only way to buy and sell is if you have this "Mark of the Beast" affixed to your right hand or forehead? Well obviously after reading this you would be a fool to take the mark, right? I mean if the Government came to the south and told everyone they must take this mark there would be a true civil uprising. So how will this happen?

Massive change does not happen overnight. It is a gradual thing. Since 1995 I have wondered about the Mark of the Beast. I see how it will happen now.

A sign of the "End of the World" is that there will be a one-world government and monetary system. Look at our political environment today. What do you see taking place? universal health care, global trade and markets, electronic transactions, Internet, etc...

Have you heard of RFID Chips? RFID Chips are not science fiction. These devices about the size of a a grain of rice can be implanted into humans which may contain your medical history or virtually anything else. Recently, I saw a YouTube clip of a sermon by Perry Stone about the RFID Chip and it's implications relating to taking the Mark of the Beast.

Pastor Stone and many others on recent Internet postings claim that Obamacare has a mandate that all will eventually be required to have such a device implanted containing our medical history/information. 

So, I decided to research this for myself. I stumbled upon the site Obamacare Facts This site was designed to explain to us and answer all our questions, and dispel all myths about Obamacare.

Interestingly enough it has a large section on the "Myth" about the requirement on an implantable RFID Chip. Here are the ObamaCare RFID Facts, directly from the site...

obamacarefacts.com
  • There is no mention of a mandatory RFID implant in the Affordable Care Act, but there was in an early version of the law HR3200.
  • RFID chips are real and there is more than a decade's worth of legislation pertaining to their use.
  • The only reference to "chip" in the ACA is CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program).
  • While the ACA doesn't allow for data collection from class II devices, it does contain wording pertaining to electronic data collection to improve the quality of care and better coordination between doctors including SEC. 3015. DATA COLLECTION; PUBLIC REPORTING.
  • It is very reasonable to think that in the future all Americans will elect to have RFID chips or legislation will be passed that mandates RFID chips. Not only could they monitor your health status, they could be used as GPS, a means to transfer currency, cell phones, computers, etc.
  • Like the use of drones and other advents of technology that could potentially be used to control the population, the implications of RFID devices need to be discussed openly by the public. The way we regulate RFID chips and their usage will determine the dangers they pose to us.
  • Despite the risks implants pose, the potential health benefits of being able to collect and monitor your health via a RFID chip could be a very useful medical tool that could drastically help people and revolutionize our ability to treat patients.
Ok...so there is no current mandate in ObamaCare requiring these implantable chips. But there was in the previous version? So according to the site there is no mandate yet there is paragraph after paragraph and a couple video's explaining the benefits of an RFID Chip implant.

How do you bring about change? Slowly. We are not mandating, however, this is a good thing...It's not evil...this can save your life. One day we wake up and realize its not so bad. Remember when on TV you NEVER saw a man and woman in the same bed together. Have you seen network TV shows lately. Slowly and incrementally we become desensitized to things. What was once called taboo, we now call art, freedom of expression, and entertainment.

Is the RFID Chip the Mark of the Beast? I do not think so. Is it a step in the direction of it? Most definitely.

Reader beware...If at any point you are mandated to take a mark on your right hand or forehead in order to buy, sell, or whatever...DON'T DO IT. Lift your eyes to Heaven and say this..."Father God, I believe Your son Jesus Christ came to this earth, died for my sins, and rose again on the third day. Please forgive me for all my sins. I believe. Save me." 

Revelation 20
And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.