666 (600 60 6) MARK OF THE DICTATOR

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Moderate earthquake hits New Zealand
www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-29 08:50:41

WELLINGTON, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred near Taopo, the North Island of New Zealand, early Saturday, but no damages were reported. GNS Science said the quake, occurred at 7:03 a.m. local time Saturday (18:03 GMT Friday), was centered 80 km below the surface of Lake Taupo and was felt across much of the central North Island. An earlier quake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale occurred on Thursday. It was located 10 km northwest of Turangi at a depth of 120 km. Earthquakes near Taupo in the last few days were nothing out of the ordinary and their depth should have prevented damage, GNS Science said. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Gisborne region in North Island on Dec. 20, and caused damages. Editor: Jiang Yuxia.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Snowstorms disrupt travel in central US Fri Dec 28, 4:38 PM ET

CHICAGO (AFP) - Heavy snowstorms continued to disrupt travel in the central United States Friday and forecasters said little relief was expected until the New Year. More than 400 flights were cancelled and delays were averaging an hour and a half at Chicago's O'Hare airport as the storm system which crippled Denver on Thursday moved eastward.But the Chicago airport authority said there was no need yet to bring out the cots set up last weekend as fog and wind stranded thousands of Christmas travelers.They're handling it fine, spokeswoman Karen Pride said of Friday's stranded and delayed passengers.It looks like it's a normal day.

United Airlines, which has hubs in both Chicago and Denver, has been hard-hit by the storms.Last weekend's delays led the airline to cancel even more flights on Monday and Tuesday because of crew shortages after mandatory work limits were reached.The debacle led to harsh words from the company's pilots union, which noted that other airlines had managed to operate with few cancellations in the same conditions.United said it shifted the crews around to make sure that passengers made it to their destinations in time for Christmas and that the current storm would not upset their schedule as much.We will operate as many flights as we safely can, spokeswoman Megan McCarthy told AFP.We have sufficient pilots to operate our flights for the remainder of the year.But delays and cancellations could be unavoidable given the storm systems expected to blow through the midwest in the coming days, the National Weather Service predicted.It's going to be a fairly active week, said meteorologist Michael Eckert.It looks like the Great Lakes and northeast United States are going to have mostly snow for tonight and Saturday, cooling down on Sunday and a second storm system will be riding up the east coast Sunday and Monday, he said in a telephone interview Friday.

Then we'll have another storm system coming across the Great Lakes and much of the eastern United States will get really cold for the New Year.Both systems will dump about eight to 15 centimeters (three to six inches) of snow, which is quite normal for this time of year but enough to make road and runway conditions difficult, he added.

One storm moves out of Atlantic Canada, another moves in
Sun Dec 30, 1:19 AMBy The Canadian Press

As one winter storm moves out of Atlantic Canada - another is moving in. A new storm system is moving fast up the U-S coast.
Snowfall warnings have been issued for Newfoundland's southern coast and the Avalon Peninsula, with up to 15 centimetres expected by noon today. Just two days ago a blizzard dumped 20 centimetres on the St. John's area forcing government offices to close and disrupting air traffic. The new system will start bringing snow to southwestern Nova Scotia tonight, then barrel across the province to Cape Breton by Monday morning. Environment Canada says significant snowfall amounts can be expected before the snow changes to ice pellets or freezing rain, then rain. Prince Edward Island should start seeing snow Monday morning. Weather conditions are expected to deteriorate rapidly once the storm hits, making driving treacherous in many areas.

METEORS HIT THE EARTH

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

REVELATION 8:12-13
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels,which are yet to sound!

An Asteroid Hurtles Toward Mars
Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007 By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK Scientists say that asteroid 2007 WD5 has a 1 in 75 chance of striking the planet Mars

NASA Article Astronomers have good news, better news and some bad news about an asteroid known as 2007 WD5. The good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our planet any time in the foreseeable future. The better news — for eager space-watchers — is that the asteroid, currently about halfway between Earth and Mars, has a plausible chance of hitting the Red Planet at the end of January. If it does, astronomers will be treated to an unprecedented sight.

The event itself, however, will have plenty of precedent. The craters that pock the surface of Mars, the Moon, Mercury and other Solar System bodies come from about four billion years' worth of this sort of thing. Earth has had plenty of collisions too; it's just that erosion, continental drift and vegetation have erased or hidden most of them. Not all, though: Meteor Crater, in Arizona, was blasted out some 50,000 years ago by an asteroid about the same size as 2007 WD5. A much bigger object, a few miles across, is thought by many scientists to be the reason the dinosaurs died out some 65 million years ago.If 2007 WD5 does smack into Mars, every telescope on Earth will be pointed in that direction — just as they were in 1994 when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. In that case, the comet broke up while it was still in orbit, so astronomers watched nearly two dozen individual impacts. But Jupiter is made mostly of thick clouds, so there was no lasting scar, and because it lies so far from Earth, the event wasn't quite as spectacular as this one promises to be. Asteroid 2007 WD5 should release some 3 megatons of energy if it slams into solid ground near Mars' equator, and orbiting satellites will show the aftermath with crystal clarity.

Finally, the bad news: 2007 WD5 has only a 1-in-75 chance of actually hitting Mars, which means astronomers would be wise to be pessimistic. But the possibility of impact calls to mind a loosely related incident that occurred almost exactly 100 years ago, when something exploded above the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees in a 25-mile radius, their trunks pointing outward from the epicenter of the blast. Scientists are pretty sure it was a comet or asteroid — about the same size as 2007 WD5, as it happens — that disintegrated from its own shock wave as it plowed through the atmosphere. (UFO enthusiasts have long been convinced it was a flying saucer that somehow made it across trillions of miles of interstellar space safely, only to blow up above Russia.) The scientific explanation would account for the aerial explosion, and also the fact that no crater has been found.

Except that now maybe it has. An Italian team has measured seismic waves reflecting off a high-density spot in the bottom of the suspiciously crater-shaped Lake Cheko, which lies close to the event's ground zero. It could be a piece of the original object — and finding it could help investigators understand exactly what happened a century ago.If they find a burned-out flying-saucer engine, all bets are off.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

World Briefing | Middle East
Iran: Russia Denies Planning Missile System
By C. J. CHIVERS December 29, 2007

A Russian government agency disputed reports that it had signed a contract to sell a sophisticated air-defense system to Iran, saying it had no such plans. This week, the Iranian defense minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najar, said that a contact had been signed and that Russia would equip Iran with S-300 missiles, which are used to shoot down planes and missiles. In a statement posted on its Web site, the Russian agency, the Federal Military and Technical Cooperation Service, flatly denied the Iranian claim. The issue of supplying Iran with S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, raised by mass media, is not on the agenda, is not being considered and is not being discussed with the Iranian side at the moment, the statement said.

GPS device demonstrated for Russian heads
Dec. 29, 2007 at 2:14 PM

Print story Email to a friend Font size:MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and top security officials witnessed a demonstration Saturday of their country's new global positioning system.Alexei Gromov, the presidential press secretary, told RIA Novosti that Russian Security Council members were on hand with Putin in Moscow to witness the demonstration of the new global navigational satellite system, Glonass.Once fully operational in 2010, the system will use 24 satellites to provide detailed positioning and navigational data for all of Russia. Currently, the system offers coverage of the entire Russian Federation, but with only 18 satellites.

A similar GPS system is set to launch in 2008 with a focus of tracking pets from orbit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.ITAR-TASS said that, according to Gromov, other matters of Russian domestic and foreign policy also were discussed during the meeting Saturday.2007 United Press International.

British Council spat could hit EU-Russia ties: ambassador
DEC 29,07

MOSCOW (AFP) — Britain's envoy to Russia warned Saturday that plans to shut British cultural offices could hamper EU-Russia ties, but said London would not block talks on a new bilateral pact because of the dispute.It will be very difficult, I think, for the European Union to adopt this mandate instantly at a time when the British Council is under extreme pressure, because part of the European Union's relationship with Russia is a cultural relationship, Ambassador Anthony Brenton told Interfax news agency.

Russia has said it will in January shut down two branches of the British Council, which promotes British culture in Russia.Moscow says the move is motivated mainly by alleged tax irregularities, but has also explicitly described it as retaliation for diplomatic sanctions imposed by Britain over the investigation into the London murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.Britain has rejected both motives.Despite the spat, Brenton said that London continues to support a new agreement between Brussels and Moscow.Britain has no intention of imposing a veto on the new talks, he said. We want a good, constructive, and forward-looking relationship between Russia and the European Union.

We've been very supportive of carrying forward the so-called mandate of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement to the stage that it is at now. It's blocked because of a separate bilateral dispute with Poland, he said.We really want to see those talks launched at the right time and in a way that strengthens the European Union's relationship with Russia, he said.The British Council has been in conflict with the Russian government for years over alleged irregularities in its legal status.It currently has two regional branches in Yekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg, down from 15 three years ago.Moscow claims that as a profit-making entity, the British Council is subject to taxes on its revenue. British officials maintain the council is a cultural part of Britain's embassy and as such has diplomatic immunity.

07:40 GMT, Dec 29, 2007
EU, NATO plans for Kosovo are abuse of power - Gorbachev

MOSCOW. Dec 29 (Interfax) - The intent of the European Union and
NATO to take charge of the Kosovo status definition is baseless, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said in an article published by the Saturday issue of the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.Representatives of the United States and certain EU member countries to the UN Security Council officially declared that all possibilities in the Kosovo dialog had been used and it would be senseless to carry on the negotiations.

They also said that the European Union and NATO would now be in charge of the Kosovo settlement. This is an unprecedented step; it is politically and morally baseless, he said. A precedent dangerous for international laws and international
security is being set at the end of the year. It may blast stability in certain parts of the world, he said.Kosovo is a part of Serbia by international law and resolutions of the UN Security Council, Gorbachev said.Never before two organizations have taken charge of the future of a country - Serbia - that is not a member of either of them, he said.

While toppling international laws and replacing them with the
poorly camouflaged abuse of power, the authors of this policy obviously neglect the possible consequences of their step, Gorbachev said.te

An idyllic venue for a tough rotating European presidency
Slovenia to host major EU events at Brdo Castle, one of Tito’s former homes EPA

Brdo Castle, some 25 kilometers from Ljubljana, where the Slovenian presidency of the European Union will hold its main political events, starting in January.

LJUBLJANA (AFP) – The Brdo pri Kranju castle, one of the residences of former Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito, will host most of the Eurpean Union’s meetings in Slovenia during the country’s presidency of the bloc, starting on January 1.Slovenia, a former Yugoslav republic that joined the EU in 2004, will be the first newcomer to hold the rotating six-month presidency and is expected to host about 150 meetings, including 14 ministerial ones, out of the 1,000 events EU officials usually hold in one semester.

The rest will take place in Brussels or Luxembourg.

Slovenia decided to hold most of their meetings at a single pleasant, accessible and easy-to-secure location and settled on Brdo pri Kranju, a Renaissance-style castle originally built in the 16th century, and which now boasts a stylish new congress center on its grounds to host the union’s meetings.Situated some 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ljubljana airport, the idyllic castle is surrounded by 500 landscaped hectares (1,235 acres) at the foot of the Karavanken mountains. The castle, which often changed hands in the last five centuries, has a rich history.It is believed to have been one of the favorite residences of Serbian, and later Yugoslav, Prince Paul Karadjordjevic, who bought it in 1935, and his descendants still lay claim to it.After World War II, the communist regime nationalized the castle, which became one of the preferred residences of Josip Broz Tito, who ruled Yugoslavia from 1944 to his death in 1980.When Slovenia declared independence from former Yugoslavia in 1991, the authorities chose Brdo Castle as their main official residence and in June 2001, it staged the first official summit between US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The Brdo estate is also part of a natural park, with a number of springs and streams, 11 ponds and a large variety of protected plant and animal life.Slovenia, which has a population of only 2 million, plans to spend some 60 million euros (86 million dollars) on the EU presidency, including the cost of construction for the Brdo conference center, which was inaugurated in December. Ljubljana has hired over 1,500 officials, a 10th of the country’s public servants, for the duration of the presidency, and they have been given language and negotiation courses.Slovenia’s delegation in Brussels, which will handle all presidency-related tasks, has increased in size to some 170 officials, almost as many as Germany – a country over 17 times the size of Slovenia – had when it headed the EU in the first half of 2007.

To Chip or Not To Chip
By Ray Gano

Dealing with Bible Prophecy, we as the watchmen and women on the wall continually keep our eyes and ears focused on events that take place around us and in the news. For the past 10 or so years many in the Bible Prophecy arena have been talking and speculating about a technology called the radio transponder Biochip. When this was unveiled everyone myself included said “This is it! This is the mark of the beast!

After countless hours of research, I feel that the implantable Biochip is NOT what the antichrist is going to use. But there is an upcoming technology which is related to the biochip that is taking the world by storm. So much so that superstore giant Walmart as well as the US Department of Defense have mandated that if you want to do business with them, you must comply with the new technology that they have just put in place. Enter RFID or Radio Frequency Identification.But before we delve more into RFID, lets look at what it says in scripture.

What is The Mark of The Beast?

The mark of the beast is referred to in scripture on eight different occasions. The place that draws the most attention is Revelation13:16-18,

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. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, of 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.(KJV)

For many centuries the meaning of these passages was veiled in obscurity. It's interesting that after almost 2000 years these verses, like never before in all of human history, have started to really come into focus.

This in and of itself is fascinating in light of Daniel 12:4:

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

To fully understand the meaning, you must remember that the New Testament was written in Greek. The etymology of the word mark will shed great light on the actual, intended meaning.

The word mark, as used in Revelation 13:16-17, is the Greek word charagma. The root word of charagma is charasso, which means to engrave. Now, charagma is a Greek noun in the accusative neuter singular and is preceded by the Greek preposition epee, which means upon.

According to Strong's Concordance, the Greek word charagma means a scratch or etching, stamp a badge of servitude, graven mark. Derivatives of the word are: charakter- a graver, the figure stamped, i.e. an exact copy or representation, express image; charax- to sharpen to a point through the idea of scratching.

In Revelation 13 we see three components of the future new world order working in tandem under this future 666 Antichrist and his world system. Jeff Baker, political analyst, researcher, and journalist, in his excellent classic book, Cheque Mate, (p. 203) comments on the meaning and significance of 666.

I believe that the 666 is actually a combination of three sets of sixes. The first 6 represents man's political system, the second 6 represents the economic system of man, and the third represents the religious system of man. A very astute observation and that is exactly the three headed structure we find in Rev. 13. The 666 referred to in verse 18 is very significant, because in ancient times a person's name had a fixed numerical value. The reason for that: the letters of the alphabet were used for numbers. In scripture, 6 is the number representing man. The number 6 is also considered sacred by many new age and secret society groups, a triad, or 3, is God's number. So, the triple 6 (666) is the symbol of man making himself God. See Daniel 11:36 and 2 Thess. 2:4.

The number 666 is also the Greek word chi xi stigma. (Rev. 13:18)

Now when one looks up stigma in Strongs, this is what you find…

Strong's Concordance stigma: G5516- stigma The 22nd, 14th, and an obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet, used as numbers; denoting respectively 600, 60, and 6; 666 as a numeral-six hundred threescore and six.

Strong's Concordance stigma : G4742 stigma --from a prim. stizw stizo ( to stick; i.e. to prick- a mark incised or punched ) for recognition of ownership i.e. (fig.) scar of service- mark.

What Is a Biochip?

A Biochip / Verichip is an implantable radio frequency device that is about the size of a grain of rice. It is implanted subdermally through an injection during an outpatient procedure. It contains information about the patient's medical history which can then be obtained by passing an eternal scanner across the area of skin where the biochip / verichip has been inserted. The biochip / verichip is dormant under the skin until this external scanner passes radio frequency energy to it energizing the chip, which then emits a radio frequency signal containing the identification number of the chip. This identification number is transmitted to an FDA compliant secure data storage site via the telephone or internet and the medical information is then provided, helping the medical professional. Right now it only holds a small amount of data. However, Applied Digital Solutions are planning on adding sensors that will read your vital signs and a satellite receiver that can track where you are, much like digital angel. (1)

Here is some more interesting information about the Biochip. Dr. Daniel Man was awarded a patent for developing a microchip to be placed under the skin. Back in the 1990’s Peter LaLonde, producer and anchorman for This Week In Bible Prophecy had a fascinating interview with Dr. Man. Dr. Man who is also a Jew, stated that it is his desire to see every Israeli Jew have the microchip transponder that he developed implanted under their skin. The stated purpose: the end of kidnapping and terrorism, as each individual could be precisely located instantly.No one questions Dr. Man's intentions for the good of his fellow Israelis.

It also must be emphasized that technology-- in and of itself --is not evil. However, imagine Adolph Hitler with similar surveillance ID microchip capability at his disposal. What would he have done with it?

Problems with the Biochip

The prior definition above gives a good view of what the biochip is, but I want to take it a bit further. You see, I believe that the Mark of the Beast is 3 fold instrument of the antichrist. It is the proof of economic, political and religious allegiance.

1. You give your allegiance and soul an economical system.

2. You give your allegiance and soul a political system.

3. You give your allegiance and soul a religious system.

When the mark of the beast is put in place, the individual will accept whole heartedly and with his or her soul an economical, political and religious system. The mark of the beast must meet all three.

For example in World Net Daily article, GOP star to get chip implant

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has volunteered to get an RFID electronic chip implant to show the world just how safe the new technology is.

The former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in President Bush's first term sees it as a potentially life-saving move because the chip will have details of his medical history should he ever be in an accident.

Thompson will be among the first humans to get the chip. Pets have been routinely chipped at pounds and veterinarians' offices in recent years. (2)

In having a biochip implanted, Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson did not take the mark of the beast. The reason is that it did not meet all the necessary requirements that are needed to be The Mark of The Beast. He did not pledge his allegiance and his soul to a political system, economic system or religious system. Now I think that he was rather foolish in doing this, but he did not receive the mark of the beast.

The reason that I say that the implantable biochip is NOT the mark of the beast is for several reasons

1.I feel that when the mark is taken, it is something that the people of that time and of that mindset are going to be very proud to do. Remember that this will be a very powerful thing taking place. There will be religious ceremony, political pride etc. These individuals are giving their allegiance and soul to the anti-christ. The mere narcissistic nature of the anti-christ will not allow for anything else. He will want to rub this in God’s face. I can just hear him say See God, See! These are MY followers! NOT YOURS! So this will be something of major importance to the world and to the people in that time who take the mark.

2.The implantable biochip is something that is just as it is called, implanted. Meaning; that it is going to be placed deep under the surface of the skin. There is no sign of one taking the mark, no way to recognize a person who has the mark and no unity just because of an implant. Only way one knows if they have received a biochip / mark is if their biochip is “read” from a sensor or reader someplace.

3.The biochip in and of itself is not tamper proof and also there is no means for true authentication of the person and the biochip. It is only the biochip. Just imagine someone who is living during that time, they could find someone who had a chip, cut it out and presto, they can now move around freely although they would still need the chip to buy and sell.

4.Lithium leakage if capsule were broken could cause serious sores.

If it is not the Implantable Biochip, What is it then?

I remember seeing my first RFID about four years ago when I purchased a computer manual at Barnes and Nobel. (To those who are reading this outside the US, Barnes and Nobel is a book superstore.) I actually discovered it while reading the book. I knew what it was then when I saw it, but I really did not pay much thought to it at that time. You see, Barnes and Nobles were one of the first companies to adopt a RFID inventory & theft system. How do you think they are able to maintain such a huge stock as well as maintain a fair price?

It is in the summer 2004. The RFID industry was starting to pick up speed. There were more companies entering the market, more companies utilizing the technology. We fast forward to today. Tracye and I utilize a news program to stay up to the minute on what is going on in the world. One of the areas that we have been keeping an eye on for the last month or so is RFID. In researching back to 2004, you would see an article here, a press release there. Today, a new article or press release comes out almost every hour, RFID industry advances in technology, new business solutions, network architecture, etc. The RFID industry is moving at a faster rate than the dot com industry did in the past and everyone knows how fast and how often dot coms were in the news.

On Oct 23, 2005, the public was informed that all new US Passports will contain a RFID tag. (Drivers licenses are next)

In May 2005 a military spending bill was passed that included a little known law that was pretty much buried called Real ID Act.

Real ID: Big Brother Could Cost Big Money

Buried in an $82 billion military spending bill and passed without any congressional debate in May 2005, the Real ID Act was touted as an anti-terrorist and immigration reform bill…

Two main forms of protection are being considered: Magnetic stripes or two-dimensional (2-D) barcodes; and contactless integrated circuits such as radio frequency identification (RFID) chips.

If the government opts to require RFID chips, more than 196 million U.S. drivers will be forced to carry a license that has the memory to store every detail about the person, including health records, family history, bank and credit card transactions. Another pitfall is that information on RFID chips can be remotely accessed by unauthorized persons. (3)

What Is RFID?

RFID or Radio Frequency Identification is a cousin to the Implantable Radio Transponder Chip. The difference is that the chip has to be implanted; an RFID tag can be placed on just about any surface or embedded just below. Where the older Chip was incased in glass, the RFID no longer needs that.

This is from RFID 101…

Unlike ubiquitous UPC bar-code technology, RFID technology does not require contact or line of sight for communication. RFID data can be read through the human body, clothing and non-metallic materials.RFID is in use all around us. If you have ever chipped your pet with an ID tag, used EZPass through a toll booth, or paid for gas using SpeedPass, you've used RFID. In addition, RFID is increasingly used with biometric technologies for security verification.RFID is all around you and many of us did not even know that it was there. Imagine in the very near future you walk up to the cashier at your favorite superstore and the person behind the counter tells you, that is $45.19 please. And get this you have not even taken the items out of your basket yet. But that is ok, you tell the person behind the counter, thank you and tap your wallet on a little pad next to the credit card/debit card keypad and presto, your bill is paid. How can this happen? All the items in the store have a RFID tag that has been printed on the container or package, when you walked into the RFID sensor / reading zone, your items were instantly scanned and totaled. You quickly and conveniently paid with your visa, mastercard, or debt card that has a RFID tag imbedded. The new buzz word for this is called, Contactless Payment

The New Wave

Just as with the EZPass toll system for highways and bridges, or Exxon Mobil's SpeedPass for gas, the new contactless system uses radio frequency waves, or RFID, to transmit encoded information. You have to be very close to the receiver, but there's no need to give up your card to a clerk or insert it into a machine to read the magnetic stripe. And there's no need to dig for cash or coins.
It is the new wave, said Dave Jentsch, senior vice president of card products for HSBC Bank USA. People don't want to have to swipe a card and then wait to either sign a receipt or enter PINs. They want to get in, get out and pay quickly.Such contactless payments are the newest effort by banks, credit card companies and merchants to extend the reach of plastic payments and reduce Americans' reliance on cash. The goal is to make it possible to pay for small-dollar purchases by using credit or debit cards where they haven't been used before, but without tying up the consumer and merchant.

Banks and merchants say the electronic payments are faster, easy, more secure and more convenient than cash, and they're cheaper for the business to handle. And by accepting fast plastic for purchases, merchants hope to bring in more business -- and larger purchases -- from consumers who are in a hurry or who don't have enough cash on them.Those merchants recognize that people don't want to stand in line, said Tom O'Donnell, senior vice president of marketing for JPMorgan Chase's Card Services division. Customers will keep driving if the line is too long, if there's too many sets of taillights, or if there's too many people parked at the convenience store.

Why RFID?

There are many problems in the world that RFID could be touted as the solution to the problem.

1.Terrorism / border control – as we all know terrorism is on the rise. The ability to keep track of who enter and exit borders as well as keep tabs on individuals is a very high priority right now and will continue into the future.

2.Criminals – Criminal activity is also at an all time high, if criminals had RFID tags, then tracking these individuals would be possible. Not to say also that this would help in the fight against the very high rate of child abductions. Have all the sex offenders in the RFID database and when the sexual predator enters an area near a school, the police are informed and the perpetrator is picked up.

3.Control of goods / inventory – RFID controlled stores, such as Walmart, are showing a substantial increase in profits due to inventory control and theft. If one takes this one step more and implement Contactless Payment, retail and grocery stores can save millions in employee costs. If there is no need for a person to check you out at the store, then the store saves money.

4.Contactless Payment also solves a lot of the counterfeit money problem that the US as well as many other nations around the world have. In fact just recently North Korea created / counterfeited $100.00 dollar bills and were starting to put them into the market. Even with all the precautions that our currency has, it is still not totally copy proof.I think if you would look at the applications, you to can come up with many other uses that RFID can perform. The use for RFID in controlling goods, services and resources is endless.

My Speculation regarding RFID

I have been actively keeping an eye on the RFID industry these last few months as I have stated before. I would like to point out some press releases and news articles that have come out of the industry in just these last few weeks. Conductive inks - Conductive inks are used to produce conductive tracks for the manufacture of printed circuits, membrane switches or printed wiring boards (PCB, PWB) and for a wide variety of other uses such as intelligent packages, circuit components and antennae for radio frequency identification solutions,RFID Powder – The newest form of RFID tag is Creo’s Traceless® taggant. Traceless® is a powder that is mixed with ink or other fluid and applied to product packaging during manufacturing. Suspending the powder particles in fluid allows them to form a random pattern known as the taggant image signature. A computer records/retains this signature as the item’s unique identifier, like the EPC of traditional RFID…What really distinguishes Traceless® is that it is undetectable, making it virtually impossible to counterfeit or tamper with. Using proprietary methods, Creo mixes a ratio of taggant in solution that is too small to be perceived visually or chemically, and is detectable only by Traceless® readers.Fluidic Self Assembly - Fluidic Self Assembly that floats RFID chips in a water-based slurry. When the slurry is passed over tag material, the individual chips automatically settle into position.

RFID tags on flexible substances entirely by printing - Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a technique to fabricate RFID tags on flexible substrates entirely by printing. It utilizes a pressure annealing method, which can decrease the electrical resistance of antennas, wirings, and electrodes formed by screen printing by more than three orders of magnitude, and enables the fabrication of highly sensitive RF tags without high-temperature baking.

DNA-Enabled Security Holograms - The strategic combination of DNA-Hologram technologies and RFID, available from Holomex and Applied DNA Sciences in a single device opens major new opportunities for the packaging industry, increased protection for brands and greater safety for consumers. We are in active discussions with several of the largest firms in the packaging industry and our new products are receiving an extremely positive reception. (10)

RFID Network Architecture - Cisco Systems recently announced an Intelligent Foundation for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to help enterprises introduce RF technologies into their supply chains to increase visibility into product information and optimize business flow for lower operating costs.

Central to Cisco RFID Solutions is the extension of Cisco AON to now include embedded RFID middleware functions into the network onto Cisco data center switches and branch office routers, leading to increased scalability, reduced deployment cost and more simplicity. The RFID-enabled Cisco AON modules can be installed throughout an enterprise's network. The AON modules can perform tasks like outbound encryption, digital signature and content-based routing when sharing data with external business partners. According to Cisco, by enabling localized event responses, customers can now optimize business application performance as well as maximize network value as they deploy current and future RFID applications across their enterprises.

First Strong Security Solution for RFID – WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2005--SecureRF Corporation has developed the world's first commercial-strength security solution to address both passive and active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Its solution is several thousand times more efficient than any currently available commercial security system and can also address other resource-constrained environments including smart cards and wireless devices. Initial target markets for SecureRF include applications for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, and high value supply chains.

By now I think that you can see where I am going with this. But first of all, I want to put a disclaimer here and say that the above press releases and their companies are not covertly working with some sort of secret organization to create the mark of the beast. These are all companies that are on the fast track implementing a new technology and I applaud that. As stated above, I see a lot of good in RFID and it would solve a lot of problems. In the wrong hands, I see a lot of bad as well.

The above articles are footnoted at the end of this article and I advise you to read all the articles. All these leaps in the RFID industry has taken place in just the last several weeks. That is a lot of technology moving in one direction really fast. If you take all these latest developments and put them together, it is my opinion that you have the technology and makings for the mark of the beast.

Let me review here.

We read in Revelation 13:16-18 that the word mark literally means to be engraved upon. When computer chips are produced, the process is called chemically engraving upon a piece of silicon. I speculate that the mark of the beast will be some sort of engraving, chemical or other process that will create and bond down to the DNA level a RFID chip directly into the skin. It will become part of the skin and be flexible. With current technology the RFID chip is tamper proof, highly secure as well as can possibly be printed / engraved / tattooed onto the skin with a hologram which also creates another level of security and authentication. The mentioned technologies, if taken further and as the technologies grow, technology can produce that very effect which I speculate and present in this article. With a chip that is engraved, and bonded at the DNA level, the chip itself can draw power strait from the electrical current flowing through the body, thus creating an Active RFID tag that can be read and can communicate with RFID reading / sensing devices over 100 feet and quit possibly from satellite. Everyone will literally be part of the network.

In presenting this model, it also meets all 3 of the points that I make which encompasses the mark of the beast. Again those points are an economical, a political and a religious system all wrapped into one. By having some sort of holographic image on the right hand or forehead, there is also recognition and unity of the masses who take the mark. This also identifies those who have not taken the mark. My earnest hope is that many of you that took the time to read this information won't just let all this fall by the wayside. Right now you have two options. You have an opportunity to freely receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, or someday face a global tyrannical dictator who will demand the entire world to worship him and show allegiance to him by receiving his mark. This mark will reveal that you are owned by him; failure to comply will result in execution by beheading-Rev 20;4. I believe the first option is by far a better decision, don't you?

Here is what God’s Word says…

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

I would encourage you to not delay in receiving Christ as you Savior today if you have not already done so. He died for your sins, and rose from the dead. He offers you eternal life, but that's your choice to make. I hope you will consider doing that today.

Sinners Prayer:

Father in Heaven, I know that I am a sinner in need of a savior. I need your forgiveness through Jesus Christ who died on the cross just for me to cover the sins that I have committed against you. Please forgive me of my sins and come into my heart. I want to live for you Lord Jesus and from this day forward be known as a Child of God. Thank you for forgiving my sins and coming into my life, in Jesus’ wonderful name. Amen

If you are a Christian, but have fallen away from the Lord, come back to Him. Our Heavenly Father is a good and loving Father. Just ask and commune with Him. You see, He never left your side, we just left Him. Reach out and renew your relationship with Jesus Christ our Savior today.I also ask that if you know someone who would benefit from this article, please freely share it with them.