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What about the Mark of the Beast?

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Corporations and governments have amazing technology available that has been developed over the last 20 years.

Revelation 13:16 says that Satan "causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark."

The Greek word translated "mark" literally means "etching." Computer microchips have information etched into silicon. Microchips may play an important part in the mark of the beast. One example of technology is the UPC, or bar code. IBM developed the bar code in 1972. The black and white lines stand for numbers and letters in binary code. By the way, the two skinny lines at the beginning, middle, and end of every barcode are the same as "6" in binary code: 666. Under some bar codes you may see an F or H printed sideways, which may stand for forehead and hand. As far as financial transactions, four people have called me from Arkansas and Missouri to report seeing customers at the grocery store pay for purchases by scanning their hand.

Many advances have been made in tracking people or items. Microchips can be implanted in pets or cars to track those lost or stolen. Several satellites in earth's orbit can detect the microchip and report its coordinates. Also, Hughes Aircraft Corporation developed a toll booth substitute that tracks cars. As a car passes, this strip in the highway deducts 50 cents (or whatever the toll is) from a debit account, makes an image of the license plate, and checks it to see if the car is registered properly or has been reported stolen and if the driver is wanted by the police. The strip can check eight cars per second at 100 mph per lane.

Finally, an imbedded wire along some highways and a new hand-held device both can turn off the ignition of a running car by destroying the car's computer with a burst of energy. These new control and monitoring technologies may be forerunners of the mark of the beast.

Dean Martin (martindl@freent.com) has the best seminar I know of on the subject. His phone # is (850) 455-5011. Carl Sanders, P.O. Box 279, Leslie, Arkansas 72645, (870) 447-2167, fax (870) 447-3231, sho-phar@trumpetmin.org, has great info.