And a good answer it was, Brad.  Gave me food for thought.

Chocolate Chip Cookies anybody?  LOL!

Vicki

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From: "BD" <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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> >
> >--
> >Carol
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> >
> >
> >
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> >[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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