Carol,
I suppose you did invite the bab abab abab bab
babababababababababling Brad to ebaborate the answer lol.
Babbling Brad
At 09:51 AM 8/29/2004 +0100, Carol Pearson wrote:
>Well, Brad, I asked for that response, didn't I! There's nothing like
>our "babbler"!
>
>Thanks. Scarey feeling to think that it will gradually creep up on us,
>and I think you're right there.
>
>We just have to watch and pray and leave all of the rest to Him! Oh,
>and while we're at it, we just go on preparing for His coming and get
>those candles filled up with oil time upon time and brightly shining!
>
>Thanks for your input. You've helped to give me some food for thought
>there!
>
>Now I'll be getting long-winded if I continue so I'll stop!
>
>
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>Carol
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>Sent: 29 August 2004 05:31
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>Subject: Re: The Future is Now. How we are becoming a microchip
>population.
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>
>Carol,
>
>You asked why I thought the chip was the mark. Ever since I heard of the
>Digital Angel a half a dozen or better years ago or so, and all it could
>do I've not just thought, but have what I believe to be a prompting of
>the Holy Spirit that this will be it. I have no super formula for
>thinking this, just basic scripture regarding the last days as you've
>mentioned as well, and a very real prompting I feel from God. For
>sometime my wife and I have been watching old reruns via DVD of a TV
>show here in the states called Little House on the Prairie. The actual
>place in which the real people on which the TV show was based upon took
>place here in Wisconsin only about 45 mins from here as well as a couple
>towns west of here , one of which loving Pat lives. My wife and I are
>both drawn to this show as it is a bit of a relief from the day to day
>hub-bub of today. In looking back at how people lived only a 100 years
>or so and looking at the enroads and changes that have taken place,
>especially after the implementation of computers it is staggering. We
>have technology that will read these notes on your computer right
>through the walls of your house from the street via magnetic frequency
>sensors, of course the RFID in which the article was written, and so
>much more we likely do not even know. With the reliance of credit cards
>and other electronic money in this day and the power of companies like
>Walmart and etc. I believe it could happen within my lifetime yet in
>which it be mandatory to have a chip implant to buy or sell. You can
>see this by Walmart's demanding that their suppliers have RFID or they
>will not buy the products from them. I see similar electronic money in
>the vending industry I'm in where in Japan they use Electronic Wallets,
>cell phones with electronic money in them where you wave the phone at a
>vending machine and make your selection. This chip technology could well
>be imposed upon the general public. I'm fourty years old now, I plan to
>live at least another of or 50 years, and when you look back at what
>things were like 40 or 50 years ago and see the advancements,
>impositions and etc. it is plain to me this mark can be upon us within
>the next handful of decades. Look at how quickly the security measures
>have changed since 911. Much can be accomplished if they wish it to, and
>all it takes is a good reason to mandate it in the name of safer kids,
>less crime, more efficient disbursement of food in a growing world or
>perhaps with the continuation and likely never ending war on terrorism,
>a better way to monitor that situation. Of course you and I know
>terrorist will find a way around it and leave the imposition of a mark
>upon those who are innocent. I agree things will become much more
>reliant upon god's intervention to allow his people to survive. I think
>of David when Saul was planning to pin him to the wall for the attention
>he got for killing more enemies. David found himself in a survival mode
>yet relied on God. I believe that is what will occur when the mark is
>imposed on people. Of course it will not brought into place by
>mandating it right off. It will be brought in as we have seen over the
>past years, little blips of it here and there to get people warmed up to
>the idea it is coming. Then a slight use of it such as we seen in this
>article, or as here in the USA, you cannot buy a dog from a breeder or
>from a pound without that pup having a chip in it's ear. After people
>have been warmed up to it, they will create an incentive for people to
>get it, after an incentive, it will be made much harder and more of an
>inconvenience for anyone to get along without it, and finally then they
>will mandate it. I am not speaking prophetically as if sent from God, I
>just know human nature from living long enough in this world, and
>believe God has given me some ability to read the writing on the wall as
>it were. I was pondering on this whole idea earlier and I heard or felt
>a prompting to say that this mark, will not be like it was with Y2K with
>many people, it will not be a big emergency scare, nor a big after
>thought of what to do with all the extra stuff bought in preparation. It
>is not something temporary in which we can rely on computers to fix the
>problem as in Y2K although it was the computers that were meant to be
>the problem, but rather this will be a way of life and will continually
>be harder to get along as time goes on. Just as anyone, I have no idea
>when any of the end times things will take place, and we need be careful
>to not falsely proclaim the wars we hear of are the rumors of war talked
>about in scripture as wars have taken place since time began. There are
>so many things that can be made to fit Scripture's description of latter
>days, and we are no doubt in the latter days as was Jesus when he was
>here, but we need be watchers as he has said, because he will come
>seemingly very fast to those who have not been paying attention. I am
>not an alarmist, I am not one given to paranoia, or to get excited about
>things at their first appearance as most things in the world are
>temporary or will adjust or people make adjustments to and so anxiety
>is of no use. But this chip I feel in my heart, is the mark which
>Scripture's talks. The size of these chips have gone down over the years
>I believe and will be able to be injected. Just think, even going to the
>doctor for a shot of meds could risk getting the mark without even
>knowing it. None of our governments are past doing so without it's
>citizens being aware. Things definitely will get interesting when that
>day comes upon people. What then will we , as Christians do and ought we
>prepare for such a day if we see it coming? And what preparatins might
>we do to protect our families and fellow Christians.
>
>Brad
>
>
>Brad
>
> Strive to be insulated, not insulated
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