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RACING TOWARDS THE MARK
"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"
Rev.13:16,17
Revelation About “Digital Angels”
David Kupelian, WorldNetDaily
“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, 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.”--Revelation
13:16-18.
I have always wondered about this passage in the biblical Book of
Revelation. How would people ever be made to accept such a “mark of the
beast” or to accept the implantation of some sinister computer chip in
their bodies?
If and when such a terrifying future scenario would begin to unfold, I
figured--when the “antichrist” and his operatives would try to mandate
the mass acceptance of this “mark”--there would be massive rebellion.
Everyone would just say, “Hey, dude, didn't you ever hear of a little
thing called the Bible? The Book of Revelation? So get out of my face,
'cause I'm not interested in obtaining eternal damnation. Have a nice
day.”
Ah, that was then. Little did I know the day would come when traditional
Christianity would be under such severe assault, its basic precepts so
maligned, its adherents so demonized that the nightmarish scenario
predicted in Revelation could not only come about, but be welcomed with
open arms.
Little did I know that the once super-secret Echelon surveillance
network would be capable of monitoring any e-mail and phone conversation
anywhere on earth, and that soon people's location will be trackable
through their cellular phones.
And now, here comes the Digital Angel--the new, dime-sized implantable
transceiver whose manufacturer, Applied Digital Solutions, intends its
global use for the tracking and monitoring of humans. Emitting a homing
beacon that can be tracked by global positioning system satellites, it
is being marketed as the ultimate, tamper-proof means of personal
identification. When implanted in your body, the device is powered
electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it can be
activated either by the “wearer” or by a monitoring facility.
“A few years ago there may have been resistance, but not anymore,” Dr.
Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development of the implant and president
of ADS subsidiary DigitalAngel.net Inc. told WorldNetDaily. “People are
getting used to having implants. New century, new trend.”
Zhou compared Digital Angel to pacemakers. Pacemakers used to be seen as
bizarre, said Zhou, but now they are part of everyday life. Digital
Angel will be received the same way, he added.
“Fifty years from now this will be very, very popular. Fifty years ago
the thought of a cell phone, where you could walk around talking on the
phone, was unimaginable. Now they are everywhere,” Zhou explained. Just
like the cell phone, Digital Angel “will be a connection from yourself
to the electronic world. It will be your guardian, protector. It will
bring good things to you.”
In a spine-tingling comment on mankind's future, Zhou added, “We will be
a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own soul.”
Now I am not claiming Digital Angel is the tool of the antichrist. But I
am saying emphatically that, if it is, the world is just about ready for
it.
A few years ago, could you have predicted that in the year 2000 a major
Republican presidential candidate would call two of the best-known
evangelical Christian ministers in the country--Pat Robertson and Jerry
Falwell--“agents of intolerance”? Would you have believed that the White
House press secretary, Joe Lockhart, would publicly equate Christians
evangelizing people of other faiths with perpetuating “ancient religious
hatred”? Would you ever have thought that “new research” would show, in
the biblical story of David and Goliath, that it wasn't David's faith in
God that won the day. It was the fact, as Vladimir Berginer, professor
of neurology at Israel's Ben-Gurion University argues, that Goliath was
actually suffering from a disease of the pituitary gland called
acromegaly, which caused a tumor to swell against Goliath's optic nerve.
Poor Goliath, it turns out, was vision-impaired.
If the unproven and fraud-ridden theory of evolution can be used so
effectively to undermine the first book of the Bible; and if a
university professor can claim without evidence of any sort that Goliath
couldn't see well--and the international media report this as news; then
the dark, foreboding and allegorical last book of the Bible should be
child's play to discredit.
And whereas a generation ago Christianity was the dominant culture in
America, and the homosexual world a seamy subculture, could you have
guessed that today the homosexual activists' political agenda would have
become accepted and supported in almost every sector of society, while
Christianity would be openly and freely demonized?
But the blame for all this does not rest on homosexuals or those hostile
to Christianity.
Many nominal Christians of today have the appearance and words of faith,
but deep down are no different than the “heathen” they wish to
evangelize. Many Christians have become so shallow, so worldly, so
self-satisfied, and so corrupt that they have long ago lost the original
innocence and brightness they had as children.
They embrace the practice of abortion, viewing it as a necessary health
procedure, a fundamental right, an equalizing factor between women and
men, even an advancement in their quality of life. They don't see that
it perfectly parallels the satanic ritual of sacrificing an innocent
child on the altar of selfishness and lust. They've lost their spiritual
discernment, and all they have left is the outward appearance of being
religious.
Their belief system, instead of upgrading their lives, justifies their
sin. They see themselves as having a sort of spiritual “diplomatic
immunity.” They are saved, after all, and therefore can do what they
want with impunity, with no fear of spiritual law enforcement
authorities.
They are saved, so to hell with everybody and everything else. They're
waiting for the rapture, and enjoying God's piecemeal judgment of the
world. They have almost completely lost the ability to recognize evil as
evil, and to oppose it--not with anger, but with love and strength, as
Jesus did. Without real virtue, all that's left is hypocrisy, and
Christianity in America today is full of it.
Yes, the truth is, when the terrible time foretold in Revelation comes,
most people probably won't even notice this manifestation of ultimate
evil. After all, we've had a lot of practice.
[end of article]
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