ARE CHRISTIANS BEING

GROOMED TO ACCEPT THE

COMING ANTICHRIST?

By Thomas Horn

Today I learned that Madras High School in the little town of Madras, Oregon
is the latest government institution to allow students to pay for their lunch
with the swipe of a hand.

Only yesterday in a related event, Chief of Police Jack Schmidig of Bergen

County, NJ, a member of the police force for over 30 years, received a
VeriChip implant as part of Applied Digital Solution's strategy of enlisting key
regional leaders to accelerate adoption of its product.

Kevin H. McLaughlin, VeriChip Corporation's CEO said of the event that

"High-profile regional leaders are accepting the VeriChip, representing an
excellent example of our approach to gaining adoption of the technology."
The new and aggressive indoctrination program - Thought and Opinion
Leaders to Play Key Role in Adoption of VeriChip - is intended to create
widespread acceptance and exponential adaptation of the company's FDA-
cleared, human-implantable RFID tag.

Earlier this year ADS provided testimony that safeguards have been
implemented to ensure privacy in connection with implantable microchips.
ADS received patent rights to Digital Angel (TM) technology on December 10,
1999.

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 What set Digital Angel apart
from the competition was the
innovative design--a miniature
digital transceiver specifically
created for human
implantation. According to
information released last year
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. http://www.digitalangel.com/

An Information Technology report 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 under the
new name VeriChip 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 VeriChip (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."

Following the Internet World Wireless award for "Best of Show: Client
Services," Mercedes Walton, President and CEO of Applied Digital Solutions,
said: We have always had high expectations for the Digital Angel products.
This award is truly a validation of our faith in Digital Angel's ability to capture
the imagination of the public. Consumer anticipation has translated into
accelerated interest from potential partners and allies. We are eager to bring
Digital Angel to the marketplace in a very timely manner...."
To further advocate Digital Angel technology, Applied Digital Solutions
launched a website 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 that, "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."

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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 conservatives concerning this issue.

THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY?

Many people believe that,

before long, an antichrist
system will appear. It will
be a New World Order,
under which national
boundaries dissolve, and
ethnic groups, ideologies,
religions, and economics
from around the world will
orchestrate a single and
dominant sovereignty. The
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, terrorism, and hunger will be a thing of the past.
According to popular Biblical interpretation, a single personality will surface
at the head of this utopian administration. He will appear as a man of
distinguished character, but will ultimately become "a king of fierce
countenance" (Dan. 8:23).

With imperious decree this Antichrist will facilitate the 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).

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). For many years the
idea that humans would somehow succumb to 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."

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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.

Developers of biometric implant chips employ similar language in announcing

compatible global technologies, and many Americans consider electronically
marking humans or implanting a series of digital equations beneath the skin
to be the natural progress of these advancing and necessary technologies.

IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE

Some people believe implantable microchips will become the Biblical Mark of
the Beast. These claim that acts of terrorism such as the ones in New York and
Washington, encourage microchipping humans for identification purposes.
Yet even before the New York and Pentagon tragedies, a push was being made
to brand and monitor humanity.

Consider the following:

1. As far back as 1973, Senior Scholastics introduced school age children

to the concept of buying and selling using numbers inserted in their
forehead. In the September 20, 1973 feature "Who Is Watching You?"
the secular high school journal speculated: "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."
2. In the 1974 article "The Specter of Eugenics," Charles Frankel pointed
out Linus Pauling's (Nobel Prize winner) suggestions that a mark be
tattooed on the foot or forehead of every young person. Pauling
envisioned a mark denoting genotype.
3. In 1980, U.S. News and World Report continued the warning, pointing
out that the Federal Government was contemplating "National Identity
Cards," without which nobody could work or conduct business.

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 4. The Denver Post Sun followed up in 1981, claiming that chip implants
could someday replace I.D. cards. The June 21, 1981 story read in part,
"The chip is placed in a needle which is affixed to a simple syringe
containing an anti-bacterial solution. The needle is capped and ready to
forever identify something--or somebody."
5. The May 7, 1996 Chicago Tribune questioned the technology,
wondering aloud if we could trust Big Brother under our skin?
6. Then in 1997 applications for patents of subcutaneous implant devices
for "a person or an animal" were applied for.
7. On April 27, 1998, Time Magazine ran the story, The Big Bank Theory
And What It Says About The Future OF Money, in which they opined
"Your daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop,
on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted
under her skin."
8. In August 1998 the BBC covered the first known human microchip
implantation.
9. That same month the Sunday Portland Oregonian warned that
proposed medical identifiers might erode privacy rights by tracking
individuals through alphanumeric health identifier technologies. The
startling Oregonian feature depicted humans with barcodes in their
foreheads.
10.And recently millions of Today Show viewers watched as the decade of
prophetic warnings materialized when an American family got
"chipped" with ADS's VeriChip™ live from a doctor's office in Boca
Raton.

Since then, it's been business as usual with the chipping mantra.
Meanwhile, terrorism has many people in the mood to sacrifice their
liberties... a National ID Bill Masquerading As Immigration Reform is moving
through the US Congress... and Digital Angel has expanded its mass
production factory in Palm Beach, Florida.

WILL DIGITAL "MARKS" SOON BE MANDATORY?

Makers of implantable microchips

claim the procedure will continue to
be voluntary. 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

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there is a familiarity with the procedure and a knowledge of its benefits,
implantation would be mandatory."

George Getz, the communications director for the Libertarian Party agrees,
saying: “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?”
People like Mr. Getz are correct. Conservatives and liberals alike need to
contact state and federal representatives and demand laws preserving
individual rights before Digital Angel and similar forces lead humanity down a
high-tech path of no return.

In the same way Social Security numbers were voluntary before becoming
mandatory, biometric chip implants will be compulsory in the future unless
citizens take immediate and national opposition. Even Applied Digital
Solution's chief executive officer Richard Sullivan envisions a scenario where
people [are] required to be chipped or [have] some combination of a device
requiring them to be scanned and monitored at all times.'' [Read]
Last but not least, note what the prophet said.

"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark [charagma; (Greek charax) meaning to stake into or "stick
into"] in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy
or sell, save he that had the mark…" -- Rev. 13:16-17a

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