Ha ' Nevi'im Ministry ( The Prophets Ministry) presents   The Watchman          

The actual "Mark" is Antichrist's NAME or NUMBER, not ours.   It is "worn" as a symbol of worship on the right hand or on the forehead. However,    national or international ID numbers are also significant because at the time the   Mark is instituted, Antichrist will control all buying and selling, which obviously                    requires personal numbers for all people.      Microchip advances pave way for anywhere, anyhow links       July 12, 2000 - "Technology Forecast," a report from consulting firm      PricewaterhouseCoopers, indicates that computing devices will continue to shrink, soon      heralding the end of the personal computer era and ushering in the age of "pervasive      computing" - invisible computers in almost everything.            Transistors are shrinking so much that every 18 to 24 months, the number that can be           squeezed on to a semiconductor doubles. This pattern has held true since the early           1960s - so long, in fact, that the smallest features on semiconductors are now           measured in atoms instead of microns.       Source: South China Morning Post  Animal implants to start Aug. 1       July 12, 2000 - All six Los Angeles animal shelters will start implanting all animals under their      control with electronic ID devices.       Source: Daily News Los Angeles  Mission Impossible Film Promotes Digital Angel Technology       June 9, 2000 - By Thomas Horn       Excellent article about the new Digital Angel implantable microchip and other recent      technologies leading to the Mark of the Beast.       Source: Worth News/ from Raiders News Update  Big Brother gets under your skin       Mar. 20, 2000 - Commentary by Julie Foster about how people will be willing to accept a      trackable identification like the "Digital Angel®" from Applied Digital Solutions.       Source: WorldNetDaily       See also: Revelation about 'Digital Angels' -by David Kupelian, managing editor of      WorldNetDaily       See also: Applied Digital Solutions Announces $130 Million Proposed Merger of Its Digital      Angel.net Subsidiary With Destron Fearing Corporation  Russia: Tax ID Numbers Stir Fears of Antichrist       Mar. 11, 2000 - The Russian government is planning to give every citizen a tax identification      number. There is also consideration of introducing social security cards with bar codes. In      recent years many writers have suggested that bar codes contain Antichrist's number - 666.      This has caused alarm by some Christians in Russia.            This week, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church broke new ground with a           rare public policy statement addressing their fears and aimed at calming the waters.            The document, titled "To Respect the Feelings of Believers and Maintain Christian           Sober-mindedness,"calls on the government to reconsider its plans for tax numbers,           while urging church members not to read too much into the numbers.       Source: The Moscow Times  Electronic Tagging: A Virtual Prison?       Jan 7, 2000 -       Source: BBC E-cyclopedia  Personal Tracking and Recovery System Patented       Special Report- Digital Angel™ E-Business Security, Emergency Location and      Medical Monitoring       Dec. 15, 1999 - On May 13, 1997, United States Patent Number 5,629,678 was granted      for a "personal tracking and recovery system," consisting of a miniature digital transceiver --      implantable in humans -- with a built-in, electromechanical power supply and actuation      system. These features enable the device to remain implanted and functional for years without      maintenance. This transceiver sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by      Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology. Source: Applied Digital Solutions  Packer sets up big brother data store       Nov. 30, 1999 - Acxiom, a U.S. company, claims that they operate the world's largest      database, with personal details on 95 per cent of all US households ( 330 million people).      The company is in the process of setting up a similar service in Australia which will be      operational by Christmas.       Acxiom's clients are able to access a vast information reserve on a person in seconds.            For example, if a customer called an insurance company, the company's computer           system would recognise the incoming telephone number, query InfoBase, and provide           a full profile on the customer before the call was answered.       Source: The Australian  Cash and the 'Carry Tax' .       Oct. 28, 1999 - Marvin Goodfriend, a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of      Richmond has proposed that the government use new magnetic strips on currency to track      money, and discourage hoarding of cash by taxing each bill according to how long it has been      since it has last been through a bank! In other words, "The longer you hold currency without      depositing it in a bank account, the less that cash will be worth."       Source: Wired News - Article by Declan McCullagh       See also Expiring Currency- by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (Source: WorldNetDaily)  Why you should get a chip implant       Sept. 28, 1999 - By Paul Somerson, PC Computing       Many people already have electronic devices implanted in their bodies: from pacemakers to      tracer-type chips supposedly placed in some executives in case they are kidnapped. RF      transponders are regularly placed in pets now for easy identification, and British professor      Kevin Warwick had one implanted in his forearm last year to demonstrate the advantages.       The writer of this article imagines the reasons people will accept this implanted technology.      Here are just some of them:            How'd you like to avoid waiting in lines for the rest of your life? Breeze through           everywhere like you owned the place. Watch lights snap on, doors open automatically,           money pop out of ATMs as you approach. Never have to show an ID, buy a ticket,           carry keys, remember a password. You'd leave stores loaded with packages and           waltz right past the cashiers. You wouldn't have to carry a wallet. Ever. Family and           friends could find you instantly in any crowd.       Source: MSNBC / ZD Net  Method for verifying human identity during electronic sale transactions       Sept 22, 1999 - U.S. Patent # 5,878,155, dated Mar 2, 1999, was granted to Thomas W.      Heeter for the technology of a tattoo of a bar code or other design on an individual which      would identify him and facilitate electronic debits and other transactions. Source: JVIM News Your License or Your Life       July 22, 1999 - The House Immigration subcommittee is debating a bill for a modified driver's      License which will include one's Social Security number and a microchip. The proposed      license is being called a "national ID card" by opponents of the bill. Opponents range from the      ultra liberal groups like the ACLU, to very conservative groups such as the Eagle Forum.       Source: Wired News  Motorola announces BiStatix 125KHz RFID tag       March 2, 1999            Motorola's Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division (WSSD) today announced its           BiStatix(tm) smart label technology, a powerful new solution that allows the creation of           cost-effective "smart labels." Utilizing BiStatix technology, radio frequency identification           (RFID) antennas now can be printed on materials including paper with conductive           non-metallic ink. These smart labels contain information that can be both read and           modified through a wireless interface, making the BiStatix technology an ideal solution           for the tracking and efficient routing of potentially billions of objects, including airline           baggage, packages and parcels.  The Three Marketeers       Feb. 8, 1999 - Time Magazine       This article chronicles the quick action by three key men during the Russian financial collapse      last year. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve System, cut interest rates to      stimulate our economy and keep people from fearing the worst, while Robert Rubin and Larry      Summers representing the US Treasury and the International Monetary Fund, practiced      monetary diplomacy to keep us from suffering a financial meltdown.       Our question about this is: If a hand-full of people have such power over the economy, what      would happen if they decided to assist the future dictator of world commerce?  Is human chip implant wave of the future?       Jan. 14, 1999 - Last August, Professor Kevin Warwick, director of cybernetics at the      University of Reading in the U.K., had a small glass-encapsulated device implanted in his left      arm. It contained a coil and several microchips which were able to identify him to a variety of      computers in the school building. As he would walk into a room it would greet him, tell him if      he had Email, and other tasks. He had it removed after nine days.    National ID card challenged       Jan. 12, 1999 - Representative Ron Paul from Texas has introduced the Freedom and      Privacy Restoration Act of 1999 into the House of Representatives. This bill seeks to avert      plans by the federal government to issue national ID cards or numbers to all americans by      Oct. 1, 2000. If passed, it will repeal provisions of the 1996 Immigration Act which call for      federal standards for state driver's licenses, and sections of the Insurance Portability and      Accountability Act of 1996 which mandate a uniform health identifier.            "The Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act halts the greatest threat to liberty today: the           growth of the surveillance state," said Paul. "Unless Congress stops authorizing the           federal bureaucracy to stamp and number the American people, federal officials will           soon have the power to arbitrarily prevent citizens from opening a bank account,           getting a job, traveling, or even seeking medical treatment unless their 'papers are in           order.'"       Source: WorldNetDaily       Ron Paul's introduction of the bill  Microchip Implants To Foil VIP Kidnaps       Oct. 6, 1998 - A new microchip, originally developed by Israeli researchers for intelligence      use, is being implanted into the bodies of Italian dignitaries who fear being kidnapped. The      device was developed by Gen-Etics, and is called "Sky-Eyes." It is an addaptation of the      Global Positioning System which is already employed to track stolen cars.  "Fight The Fingerprint" Web Site       Sept. 1998 - Interesting site dedicated to opposition of government identification cards and      supporting devices  Another Contender for A National I.D. Number       July 15, 1998 - This CBN report is entitled "A National ID Card: Is Big Brother on the      Way?" Reporter Melissa Charbonneau describes the movement toward using your Social      Security number on your Driver's License. The article says:            Congress passed the 1996 Immigration Reform Act. Under that provision, U.S.           citizens will soon be required to submit their social security numbers when applying for           a driver's license. That number, the statute recommends, could be "read visually or by           electronic means."            That's the start, some say, of a national identity card.       See the next article also.  Health Care I.D. Number       July 13, 1998 - The Department of Health and Human Services has a plan to create a "unique      health identifier for individuals." This number was mandated by the Health Insurance      Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.       The report on this development in the "Federal Computer Week" publication states:            But opponents of the identifier see something potentially sinister in trying to link patient           records through a single identification code. Critics believe the identifier could supplant           the Social Security number as a means of tracking all types of data on citizens.

     

This is definitely the age of the computer. Computers do all kind of wonderful things, but, because of the way they work, everything they do must be converted to numbers. Every letter on this screen, every colored pixel, every tone produced by the computer (including your favorite music CD) is saved and processed as a number.  Now that modern technology has reached the stage where it is truly feasible for Antichrist to exert economic dictatorship it is increasingly important for everyone to have a distinctive number. Most of us have several numbers already: our Social Security number, drivers' license number, phone, FAX and pager numbers, credit card numbers, and so on. See Modern Technologies.  What does Antichrist's personal number, 666 mean? Please notice that the Scripture says plainly that it is "the number of his name." This is significant because the issue in this future story is that of worship. People must vow their devotion to this worst of all the false Christs by allowing either his name, or else the number of his name to be placed on them in a prominent place as a symbol of their allegiance.  There are many possible ways of converting a name to a number. Here are some of them:       Assignment            This is how you received your Social Security number, or credit card numbers. When it      was time to be "numbered" the next number in a sequence was assigned. Some systems pick      numbers randomly instead of sequentially, and check to make sure no one else has that      number before issuing it.       Choice            This is the process if you, or someone else, should choose a number to represent you.      This is sometimes done for jerseys of famous athletes. Other examples of this are when you      order a personalized license plate for your car or pick your own phone number.       Conversion            Returning to the fact that our lives are run, or at least monitored, by computers, there is      another way of deriving a number from a name. There are several different numbering systems      used by computers to convert any given letter to a number. One of these is the ASCII code      (A=65, B=66, etc.) Using this system, and adding up the total of the values of the letters, it is      interesting that some names do add up to 666. Some famous names produce this result.       Another type of conversion is based on the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc.) Such a system would      not produce a number as big as 666, so some have suggested converting this way and then      multiplying by the "number of man", which some suppose is 6 - one short of the number of      completion. Again, some notable people's names produce 666 in this way.  There are also various techniques for coding this number. These include:       Printing            Checks, Invoices, and many other documents which need to be recognized and      handled by people simply print the number. Data processing clerks or scanning devices      convert these numbers back into the numbers needed by the computers.       Magnetic strip            Credit cards and debit cards (and a host of other identifying devices) use these little      strips of magnetic tape to store your number and other information.       Transponders            A tiny electronic chip which may be injected into an animal or a human will respond to      the stimulus of a certain kind of scanner by transmitting your numerical data.       Bar Code            Laser scanners use the bar codes on products to print your sales receipt. The number      on the package is converted to a name, a price, and at the same time it is subtracted from      inventory and placed on the store's next re-order form.       It has been noticed by some that the UPC bar codes are generally divided into two parts by      three bars, one at the beginning, one at the end, and one in the middle. These marks may be      longer than the numbers, but they may look the same as one of the codes for the number six.      Thus, some bar codes do have the number 666 built into it. This may or may not have any      significance in future understanding of prophecy.  We have been warned that we can not know who Antichrist is until he is revealed, after the Restrainer (ARCHANGEL MICHAEL, see teaching on the RESTRAINER) is no longer holding back the Anti-christ (2 Thessalonians 2:1-11). But those who are alive during that time might recognize him partly by this number. It will be wise and proper for those living during that time to "calculate" his number (verse 18).  It should also be noted that, even though it is logical for us to have our own numbers, and that, for security reasons, these numbers might even be tattooed on or implanted in us, the number that will be displayed on the hand or forehead will not be our number, but Antichrist's. Those who are more bold in their devotion to him will not have his number, but his actual name!

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