For a snack I was thinking potato chips. Regarding the micro-chips, my mind
wandered to cow chips. lol.

Brad



Vicki and The Rors wrote:
>And a good answer it was, Brad.  Gave me food for thought.
>
>Chocolate Chip Cookies anybody?  LOL!
>
>Vicki
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "BD" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 3:37 PM
>Subject: Re: The Future is Now. How we are becoming a microchip population.
>
>
> > 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!
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Carol
> > >[log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Carol
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Echurch-USA The Electronic Church
> > >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of BD
> > >Sent: 29 August 2004 05:31
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Re: The Future is Now. How we are becoming a microchip
> > >population.
> > >
> > >
> > >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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> > Brad
> >
> >    You are richer today if you have laughed, given, or forgiven
> >

Brad

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