Digital Angel

In the year 2000, Worldnet Daily news reported that Digital Angel, a minuscule, subdermal microchip implant designed for widespread, worldwide use in tracking human beings, had been unveiled. Since that time other such devices, such as the Verichip, have been approved by the FDA and marketed mainly for medical applications.

The implanted microchip works like a UPC code we see on products but it has special features. It can relay important personal medical information in an emergency, or even perhaps while a person is at a routine visit to a doctor. In an instant you could give someone access to your name, emergency contact, medications being taken, blood type, any recent medical proceedures or needs.  Such an item could be used at the bank to transfer funds, purchase grocery store or check out library items as well. It’s a simple procedure to insert the chip and for many people, it seems to have practical applications. Some people see it as the passport of the future.

The microchip is gaining popularity for use in livestock, and microchip implants have become almost routine in vet clinics and puppy pounds. It is not science fiction from an Orwellian tale to think about using these devices on human beings as they could be effectively used as a means of identification or financial transaction; and they are already being used in various capacities.

The scripture writer, John, banished to the island of Pathmos had written a long, long, long time ago, these words: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads; and that no man might buy or sell, save he 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 13:16-18) Such forthtelling of future events, of a mark used for buying and selling, could refer to something as simple as a tattoo, to as sophisticated as a micro chip implant.  We do not know exactly what it is or will be, but we know that it has been forthtold by God that this is how it will someday be. 

As for the microchip being used as a mark in the hand or on the forehead and being unable to buy or sell without it, many Christians speculate that this description sounds remarkably akin to these new microchip implants.