(USA Today) You will get chipped. It’s just a matter of time. In the aftermath of a Wisconsin firm embedding microchips in employees last week to ditch company badges and corporate logons, the Internet has entered into full-throated debate. Religious activists are so appalled, they’ve been penning nasty 1-star reviews of the company, Three Square Market, on Google, Glassdoor, and social media. On the flip side, seemingly everyone else wants to know: Is this what real life is going to be like soon at work? Will I be chipped? “It will happen to everybody,” says Noelle Chesley, 49, associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“But not this year, and not in 2018. Maybe not my generation, but certainly that of my kids.” Gene Munster, an investor, and analyst at Loup Ventures, is an advocate for augmented reality, virtual reality, and other new technologies. He thinks embedded chips in human bodies is 50 years away. “In 10 years, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Tesla will not have their employees chipped,” he says. “You’ll see some extreme forward-looking tech people adopting it, but not large companies.” READ MORE
It WILL NOT happen to me in my lifetime. They will have to slaughter me. I am THE LORD’S and no one can take that away from me. I am ready to die for it.
No one can force anyone to take the chip..This is not the Mark of the Beast..After the people take them there’s a good possibility their bodies will reject them..Either way I’m not taking it..We seem to be catching up to Technology..
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I belong to God Almighty and One will will ever put anything like that in or on my body no way no how I serve the Lord of Lord’s Jesus Christ Amen.
All of us should search the Scriptures (Acts 17:11) on this topic. There is much we need to understand going forward. Failing to study leaves us at of risk confusing truth with error, which plays right into the hand of the enemy of souls who “deceiveth the whole world” (Rev. 12:9) “that they should believe a lie” (2 Thess. 2:11). Remember, we are admonished: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
Revelation 13 tells us that a “beast” which comes “up out of the earth” (verse 11) will force all “to receive a mark” (verse 16). This second beast, for there is a “first beast” in the chapter which rises “up out of the sea” (verse 1), will cause “the earth and them which dwell therein to WORSHIP the first beast” (verse 12).
The obvious question at this point: What does all this mean? Prophetically speaking, what is a beast? The answer is found in the book of Daniel, chapter 7. In chapter 7, Daniel has a dream from God, which reveals coming human history. In the dream, Daniel sees “four great beasts” come “up from the sea” (verse 3). Wow! The same language found in Revelation 13!
In Daniel 7:17 an angel explains to Daniel the mystery of the beasts: “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.” So we now know that a beast represents a kingdom or a nation. We use the same imagery today: USA=an eagle, Russia=a bear, England=a lion, etc.
But what about the sea? What does the sea represent? In Revelation 17 John paints a picture of “the great whore that sitteth upon many waters” (verse 3). In verse 15 an angel explains to John: “The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” So “waters” or “the sea” represents people.
We now understand that a beast represents civil government, and if you study Revelation 12 and compare it with chapter 17 you will find two very different women. One woman (chapter 12) relies on God, the other (chapter 17) on “the kings of the earth” (Revelation 17:2). Women represent those who worship in prophetic language.
At the end of time, one of these women (a church) will mingle herself [“spiritual adultery”] with and control a beast [civil government]. Through the government, the church will mandate a religious law in violation of God’s law. This will be the mark of the beast. Do you see these players world anywhere in our world today?
The Bible is consistent. To understand the book of Revelation you must look for the prophetic symbols in the other books. Without the keys of understanding from the other books in the Bible (and of course wisdom from the Holy Spirit – 1 Cor. 2:13) you will never correctly understand Revelation.
My friends, the mark of the beast is about WORSHIP, not an electrode placed in your hand or forehead. This may be a method to facilitate the prohibition against buying and selling (Rev. 13:16), but the mark is placed on whoever refuses to worship God in the manner He has revealed to us through his word, the Bible.
Consider the story of Cain and Abel. Abel worshiped God according to God’s instruction. Abel, on the other hand, worshiped as he saw fit. However, God rejected Cain’s worship, and Cain killed his brother in anger. God placed a mark upon Cain for his rebellion.
In Ezekiel 8 God calls Ezekiel as a witness for Him as He leads the prophet through an investigation of the behavior of the leaders of Israel. Their behavior (“works”) was reprehensible. As the story continues in chapter 9 “a mark” is placed by an angel “upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst” of the land (verse 4). These who are faithful are spared, but the others are slain.
Revelation 7:3 tells us that God’s people will receive a mark in their foreheads, which will be placed there by an angel.
The two different marks are placed by heavenly agencies to designate the lost and the saved. Men will not be aware of these marks until Christ “shall separate them one from another” at His coming (Matthew 25:32). The mark is an acknowledgment of the master you have chosen to obey (Romans 6:16). The issue is allegiance and worship. Who or what do you worship? Your lifestyle, your money, your addictions or Christ? Who has your best thoughts? Self or Christ?
Revelation is a highly symbolic book which uses imagery we can comprehend to explain the concepts and details while protecting the truth from the enemies of God’s word. But, as I mentioned earlier, without persistent study and Divine guidance you cannot understand its message.
Jesus said: “If you love me KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS” (John 14:15).
Speaking of God’s people, Revelation 12:17 says: “And the dragon [Satan] was wroth with the woman [God’s true church], and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (see Revelation 19:10).
Revelation 14:6-9 describes three angels who give a warning to mankind, while verses 10 and 11 describe the results of ignoring the warning. Verse 12 describes those who listen: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, and the faith of Jesus.”
It is also important to understand that a person can know all the Bible teaches and still be lost. Knowledge alone does not save us. We are saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8). But if all we do is believe (“the devils also believe” – James 2:19), our faith is dead (James 20) and so are we.
Salvation comes through allowing the Holy Spirit into the heart and committing our entire being to loving service for Christ. Solomon summed it up this way: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: FEAR [obey] GOD, and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).
Finally, we are called to follow the example left by Christ. Matthew 4:23 tells us: ” And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.” Are you interested in the welfare and eternal interests of others? How do you treat them?
Jesus told “HIS DISCIPLES, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Matt. 16:24). May you be so close to the Master that the dust from His steps falls on you.
Blessings
Well said, Gary!
Three beast related seals in Rev. 13:16-17 —
i) Mark of the beast
ii) Name of the beast
iii) Number of the beast
Some will go for chipping, some will take bismilla, some will take the number 666
Amen Gary! Best comment I ever read! If you’re not saved through Jesus Christ or think you’re saved, you need to read Gary’s comment right there. I thought I was saved my whole life until I was 38 years old and finally went searching the bible to really know God and 2 months later I had my born again experience and God delivered me completely from 22 years of alcoholism. You don’t know what saved is until you’ve been Born Again and now that God opened my spiritual eyes and I got filled with the Holy Spirit I know even though I believed in Jesus for 30+ years, I hadn’t surrendered my life to him or went seeking to really know God with all my heart until I was 38 and now I’m writing a book of testimony about it. So many people “think” they’re saved and they’re not at all.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
Chips can be electronically controlled. They also can carry a tiny device that controls the brain. The results are in medical jourmals. They are made of metals some people react badly too. These three are bad enough to cause me to consider their use is not safe yet.