| The Trouble With Digital Angels Digital Angel Technology Institutes A System Of Buying and Selling Through An Antichrist Marking System As promised, a prototype of an implantable biometric chip capable of marking an individual's precise location and of monitoring his or her purchases and activities for life was unveiled in New York City on October 30, 2000, a Satanic high unholy day. According to a company press release the event was attended by "government officials, members of the national and international media, potential joint-venture/licensing partners and selected Wall Street analysts." U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta also attended the presentation and spoke of "the importance of greater 'digital inclusion' by spreading the benefits of the Digital Revolution to all segments of society." Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) received patent rights to the new technology named Digital Angel (TM) in 1999. What's bothersome is that Digital Angel is a miniature digital transceiver specifically designed for monitoring the banking and electronic puchases of microchip implantees (original patent info). According to ADS, "The implantable transceiver sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and actuation system are unlike anything ever created. When implanted within a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it can be activated either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring facility." In a company press release dated February 15th, ADS stated that "Digital Angel has generated a large and positive response from both the investing public and those who are interested in participating in the wide array of applications for this technology." ADS also claims that Digital Angel has "a variety of potential uses, such as providing a tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-business security, animal tracking, locating lost or missing individuals, tracking the location of valuable property and monitoring the medical conditions of at-risk patients." To further advocate Digital Angel technology, Applied Digital Solutions launched a website http://www.digitalangel.net where viewers can peruse diagrams and read summary information. Other manufacturers of sub-skin implants have quietly field-tested similar devices over the past few years. The London Times reported in October 1998, "Film stars and the children of millionaires are among 45 people, including several Britons, who have been fitted with the chips (called the Sky Eye) in secret tests." Due to civil liberty and privacy issues, the ACLU announced opposition to mandatory microchip implantation when applied to humans. The ACLU is certain to be a strange bedfellow of Christians and conservatives concerning this issue. THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY? Many Christians believe that Digital Angel-like technologies combined with recent United Nations support of a New World Order signal the beginning of an antichrist system. In the New World Order national boundaries dissolve, and ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and economics from around the world will orchestrate a single and dominant sovereignty. Such a system will supposedly be free of religious and political extremes, and membership will tolerate the philosophical and cultural differences of its constituents. Except for minor nonconformities, war, intolerance, and hunger will be a thing of the past. According to popular Biblical interpretation, a single personality will surface at the head of the utopian administration. He will appear to be a man of distinguished character, but will ultimately become "a king of fierce countenance" (Dan. 8:23). With imperious decree the Antichrist will facilitate a one-world government, universal religion, and globally monitored socialism. Those who refuse his New World Order will inevitably be imprisoned or destroyed, until at last he exalts himself "above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2:4).
For many years the idea that humans would somehow become little more than branded cattle, and that rugged individualism would thereafter be sacrificed for an anesthetized universal harmony, was repudiated by America’s greatest minds. Then, in the 1970’s, things began to change. Following a call by Nelson Rockefeller for the creation of a "New World Order," presidential candidate Jimmy Carter campaigned, saying, "We must replace balance of power politics with world order politics." During the 1980's President George Bush continued the one-world dirge, announcing over national television that "a New World Order" had arrived. Following the initial broadcast, President Bush addressed the Congress, saying, What is at stake is more than one small country [Kuwait], it is a big idea--a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children’s future! Ever since the President's astonishing newscast, a parade of political and religious leaders have discharged a profusion of rhetoric aimed at implementing the goals of a New World Order. In his Friday Fax, Austin Ruse of Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (www.c-fam.org) reflected: The 55th annual meeting of the UN General Assembly [went] by the name of the Millennium Assembly. The resolution calling for this special meeting of the Member States said, 'The year 2000 constitutes a unique and symbolically compelling moment to articulate and affirm an animating vision for the United Nations in the new era.' The Member States also look upon the new meeting as an opportunity to 'strengthen the role of the United Nations.' Austin continues: At the same time as the GA’s Millennium Assembly, Secretary General Kofi Annan [hosted] a shorter 'Millennium Summit' that [dealt] with a broad range of themes including 'the role and function of the UN,' 'towards a global society,' 'new challenges to multi-lateralism in the era of globalization,' 'international cooperation,' and 'promoting peace and sustainable development of mankind.' The Millennium Summit [dealt] with....radical notions of reproductive 'rights' and population control...through the concepts of human rights and 'sustainable development.' Developers of biometric implant chips employ similar language to announce compatible
global technologies, and many Americans consider electronically marking humans or
implanting a series of digital equations under the skin to be the natural progress of
advancing and necessary technologies.
IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE Some people believe implantable microchips are being developed as part of a larger UN vision and that such chips will ultimately become the Biblical Mark of the Beast. The fact is, a system of buying and selling based on implantable microchip technologies has been a goal of related science for decades. Consider the following:
"All buying and selling in the program will be done by computer. No currency, no change, no checks. In the program, people would receive a number that had been assigned them tattooed in their wrist or forehead. The number is put on by laser beam and cannot be felt. The number in the body is not seen with the naked eye and is as permanent as your fingerprints. All items of consumer goods will be marked with a computer mark. The computer outlet in the store which picks up the number on the items at the checkstand will also pick up the number in the person's body and automatically total the price and deduct the amount from the person's 'Special Drawing Rights' account."
[The ominous
Oregonian feature] Implantable microchips such as Digital Angel (TM) are currently introduced as a voluntary procedure. But a report written by Elaine M. Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law Center says, "A [mandatory] national identification system via microchip implants could be achieved in two stages: Upon introduction as a voluntary system, the microchip implantation will appear to be palatable. After there is a familiarity with the procedure and a knowledge of its benefits, implantation would be mandatory." Writing for WorldNetDaily.com (Concern over microchip implants, 1999), Jon E. Dougherty quoted George Getz, the communications director for the Libertarian Party: After all, the government has never forced anyone to have a driver license, [but] try getting along without one, when everyone from your local banker to the car rental man to the hotel operator to the grocery store requires one in order for you to take advantage of their services, that amounts to a de facto mandate. If the government can force you to surrender your fingerprints to get a drivers license, why can't it force you to get a computer chip implant? These are differences in degree, not in kind--which is why it's essential to fight government privacy invasions from the outset. As Social Security numbers were first voluntary, then mandatory, biometric chip implants are universally inevitable unless citizens rise up in immediate and national opposition. People like Mr. Getz may be on to something. Conservatives and liberals alike had better contact state and federal representatives as soon as possible and demand immediate protection. Laws preserving individual rights need to be enacted by Congress before Digital Angel and similar forces lead humanity down a high-tech path of no return. Note what the prophet said!
Did the prophet foresee a hypodermic needle injecting something under the skin? Time will tell. In the meantime... And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (Rev. 14:9-11) By Thomas Horn Copyright © 2000 Thomas Horn. Article reprinted with permission from the Author. Special Thanks from Worthy News to Thomas Horn for this excellent article. |
The Antichrist's
widespread power will be derived at the expense of individual human liberties. He will
force "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 [666]" (Rev. 13:16-18). 
A 1980 defense department cartoon showing a change taking place in
Defense Management. A runner hands over plans for national defense to another runner
with "666" on his track suit. 
As far back as
1973, Senior Scholastics introduced school age children to the concept of buying and
selling using numbers inserted in the forehead. In the September 20, 1973 feature
"Who Is Watching You?" the secular high school journal speculated: 
WILL
DIGITAL "MARKS" BE MANDATORY? 
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark [charagma;
from Greek charax meaning to stake down into or "stick into"] in their right hand, or in their foreheads....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 (Rev. 13:16-18)