It’s been making big headlines: The first American workers are getting injected with microchips.
The Wisconsin company that’s doing it says it’s the future, and it’s all about convenience. But the idea is sparking opposition from both religious and secular circles, from biblical End Times concerns to privacy rights.
Pastor Dave Doyle from Hope Christian Fellowship Church in Iowa says the microchips make him think about the “mark of the Beast” from Revelation 13:16, according to KCRG in Cedar Rapids.
“I take microchipping as a form of the mark. There’s many pieces of the mark, and then again, all these pieces of the mark is designed to control,” he said.
Doyle is referring to the news story about a company called Three Square Market that is giving their employees the option to get a microchip implanted in their hand. Read more here.
Employees can use these chips to enter their work building, login to a computer, or buy things from the company vending machine.
But Pastor Doyle thinks this type of technology could eventually be used by governments to abuse people’s rights. He believes the chips are something that will one day be forced on people.
“It will eventually become something that’s mandatory, and for those who refuse it, you will have to deal with the authorities who don’t appreciate your opinions,” he says.
The company says that the chips won’t have GPS tracking and that it is FDA approved.
But Doyle says he will tell his congregation to never get chipped.
“If I’m told I need to go against the Word of God, I would prefer to go to jail first. And Christians need to have that mindset because that’s what we’re going to go against,” he said.
There are plenty of concerns on the secular side as well. Illinois Institute of Technology professor Jeremy Hajek says the legal system needs to catch up with this new technology.
“So you’re opening up a much larger privacy issue of, well, who owns where you go? Who owns what you do? And who owns what you buy? Are you entitled to that privacy? Or does that privacy not really exist,” he questions.
“Do you own that data? Or does the company own that data? And I think the legal system needs to catch up a little bit to this because these are new questions that the current laws on hand may not quite accurately cover,” he added.
Three Square Market, also known as 32M, says more than 50 employees are voluntarily getting implants Aug. 1 and are calling implant day a “chip party” at its River Falls headquarters.
The chips are the size of a grain of rice and they are inserted underneath the skin between the thumb and forefinger using a syringe.
The technology is already available in Europe but this is the first time it’s being used in the U.S.
Promoters hope the $300 microchips will eventually be used on everything from air travel to public transit as well as storing medical information.
The company is partnering with Sweden’s BioHax International, where employees have been using the implants.
Three Square Market is paying for the employees’ microchips.
“It’s something about the nature of humanity here that you really need to consider internally. Who are you? And what are you? And I think that will determine each person’s answer in reality to this question,” Hajek said.
Receiving the Beast’s number, name or mark has to do with giving allegiance to the government this dictator will establish and to the false religion that will be an integral part of that system. The Bible uses the symbols of the forehead and the right hand to represent one’s loyalty by thought and work—mental and physical allegiance.
In Revelation 13:11-18 it say :
“Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
A question people bring up in regards to an implanted computer chip is whether this is the mark of the Beast. first time in American history, a company out of Wisconsin is voluntarily letting their employees have a microchip (the size of a grain of rice) implanted in their hands (in the skin between their thumb and forefinger), which will act as a credit card.So now, instead of paying for their break room snacks from a vending machine with a credit card or with their smart phone, the 50 or so employees who have agreed to have this microchip implanted can pay by just putting their hand up to the scanner.
When John wrote the book of Revelation 2000 years ago, he would have had no idea of the kinds of developments through the centuries, including this one, that many think points to a means by which his prophecies could be fulfilled.
Computer micro chip is made up of branding silicon iron alloy a very small scale. Microchips are made for program logic (logic or microprocessor chips) and for computer memory (memory or RAM chips).
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