So apolcalyptic prophecy becomes "extremist" when it runs up against free market capitalism?

again.

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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, 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, verses 16 through 18



That prophecy is all about economics and capitalism. I'm also reminded about what Jesus said about the rich man and the needle in a camels eye. When the time comes will we worship mammon or will we worship yaweh?

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"If any man worships the beast and his image, and receives 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...And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever..." (Revelation 14:9,10)



That may seem like pretty stiff punishment for simply accepting a Mark that allows you to buy groceries. However, this prophecy indicates that receiving the "Mark of the Beast" is not merely an economic decision, but also implies acceptance and worship of the Satan-possessed Anti-Christ, and a pledge of allegiance to his anti-God, religious/political regime (no, that is not a contradiction).

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An Information Technology (1) report this week verified plans to study implantable chips as a method of tracking terrorists. After first pulling back from the implantable version of its Digital Angel, ADS foresees a unique use of its product in the wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

“We've changed out thinking since September 11,” a company spokesman said, “Now there's more of a need to monitor evil activities.”

ADS also claims the Digital Angel has a variety of other 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.”

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.
(well in this regard, the author got it wrong as the conservative right, which were the feircest critics of national ID's, are now the ones trying to legislate it)

Now terrorism has people thinking that everything from face scanning to implantable chips is not only inevitable, but perhaps a good idea.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=202



Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.