In this fourth and final part of this article, we are looking at what this means for Christians today? Should a Christian be implanted with an RFID device? If a Christian is implanted before the establishment of a world government, are they accepting the mark of the beast? What does the use of RFID say about the nearness of the rapture?
So here we are: RFID tags, RFID ink, RFID implants, RFID tattoos, WiFi antennas, Enhanced Driver’s Licenses, Biometric Identification, what do these changes mean for Christians and the church? The church of the future will be very different from the churches we see today. Christians, authentic Christians, will behave differently than they do today. Please keep in mind, we are venturing into the area of things on a very practical and personal level. I will share my ideas and opinions but they are in no way intended to provide legal or medical advice. I share with you my opinion on these matters, but it in no way is to be considered an edict or a commandment.
It is entirely possible a Christian will be required to carry an Enhanced Driver’s License (EDL). When the need arises, I see no issues with carrying and using one. I fully expect to use biometrics, like a fingerprint, for identification and personal information access. I may also, one day, carry a card with an RFID chip or ink, for purchasing items or for identification. I have already been fingerprinted and I have identification linked to them through my service in the US Army. There are churches today using fingerprints as a way to check in or register children and for giving. For me, these too pose no threat.
I draw the line on the insertion, or the tattooing, of an identifier either under or on my skin, for any purpose. It is one thing when a hospital places an RFID band on my wrist, it is another thing when they want to implant an RFID chip under my skin, or tattoo a RFID code on my skin. Yes, I know we do not have the one world government in place. Yes, I know the Beast is not the ruler of the world, at this time.
I also know the solemn warning from Revelation 14:9-11: “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”
I hate Satan, the False Prophet and the Beast and I refuse to receive anything into my skin that might cause someone else to think I support the mark of the Beast. One day my doctor may say I have to be implanted to monitor a health issue. He may also say if I do not consent to being implanted I can not be covered by my health insurance. I have already determined not to have anything implanted in me or tattooed on me resembling the mark of the Beast, no matter the cost, period.
Our lives will be changed by the use of RFID and biometric scanning. Many of our purchases will become more convenient and our lives simplified. All of our credit, debit and identification cards will be reduced to just one card. I understand some of this must happen. I imagine someone with the right understanding could make money from buying stocks in companies supporting the Beast. I have determined to avoid financial involvement in stocks, like biotech, helping to develop the mark of the Beast. I don’t invest in or support RFID ink companies, RFID chip companies or donate to non-profit groups supporting implanting RFID chips into humans. As much as possible, I don’t want to help the world system prepare for the one world government or one world religion.
Not only will we be living in a different world, but we will be attending a different church. The authentic church, may find a greater advantage without tax exemption. It is likely the church of tomorrow will forfeit their tax exempt status in order to continue preaching the Bible. We know the government will determine many parts of the Bible to be “hate speech,” they already do. Teaching state defined “hate speech” from the pulpit, will engage stiff penalties. Church members will no longer be allowed a tax deduction for giving to an unauthorized church. I expect many so-called Christians will not give if they can’t take the deduction.
The authentic church may function without owning property. Their members will personally own many of the items and allow them to be used by the church for ministry. There is a distinct advantage to the lack of church owned property. If the church owns nothing, the state will find it hard to seize it. “Church” will once again be defined by the assembly of believers and not the address of the building. A church will identify who you are and not where you go on a certain day.
Authentic church members will become engaged in the ministry on a personal level. No longer will church membership be defined as a name on a list or by a place in a pew. The authentic will have no fear to engage church discipline for unrighteous behavior. If someone is looking for entertainment they will be attending the government approved churches along with the unrepentant abortionists, homosexuals and whoremongers.
Notice how Jesus shows a transition in Matthew 24:7-9. In verse 7 Jesus says nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. Then in verse 9 all the nations are together. No longer are they warring with each other, now they have a common enemy – The Christian. Jesus said, “and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.” The hate will come from governments and society at large.
Society will push authentic, sin hating, Christ honoring, neighbor loving Christians into the classification of terrorist. Not because of any radical actions, but because of “radical” beliefs. Beliefs that say Jesus is the only way to God, all other belief systems are wrong, the Bible is God’s Holy Word, sin is wrong, and salvation requires repentance will be labeled as dangerous and destructive. The teaching of these values will ultimately lead the state to remove children from a Christian home.
As we watch government try to “fix” society by buying parts of the major banks and businesses, we must wonder what the cost will be in the future. Government never gives money without strings being attached. Government money leads to government control. We are journeying ever closer to a one world government, just as God said in the Bible.
It won’t be long until we see the unity of governments and commerce into one, and the unity of religion into one, but also the marriage of religion to government. Remember, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 tells us the one world ruler will sit in the Temple of God and be worshipped as God. Even now our world is preparing for that day. Maranatha!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
How Bad is the Economy? Really.
The news of our terrible economy is everywhere. The economy is in such terrible shape some are even saying we are in a “free fall”. If you believe the reports, you might think millions of people are loosing their homes and jobs and dying of starvation in America. The hype started when President Bush was in office, and now, as of this writing, President Obama has declared there are “glimmers of hope” now visible. So how bad did it get? How bad is it?
I am not ignoring the Americans who have lost their jobs, but Americans are always loosing their jobs. Remember when we have a 5% unemployment rate we must also have a 95% EMPLOYMENT rate. If you examine the 5% called the unemployed you will find the temporary unemployed moving from one position to another. You also find people “working the system” who intentionally work just long enough to receive unemployment benefits.
Additionally there are those who are “looking for a job” of course only in those pay levels of an acceptable range. These people are not satisfied with a job, they want a specific job with a specific amount of benefits and a specific type of benefits. If you count only those who really want to work and really can’t find a job, the numbers go down significantly.
Now, back to the economy, I do not evaluate the economy by the newspapers, TV or even by the internet. I don’t like to have people tell me how bad it is, I want to see it for myself. I use a few practical gauges found in the way people spend money and the way companies price their merchandise.
First, I look at how the restaurants are doing. How many restaurants have customers? In the great depression, the REAL depression, people did not go out to eat, because they had little or no disposable income. What do the restaurants of today show about the economy? When was the last time you went out to eat? When was the last time you found an empty restaurant? We have found just the opposite. When we have gone out to eat, we never find an empty restaurant, to the contrary, we have had to wait over an hour to get a seat on a Friday or a Saturday. Does this sound like a distressed economy to you?
What about places like the Disney parks complex, Sea World parks, water parks and amusement parks? See any of them shutting down, limiting hours, laying off workers (except for seasonal people)? What amusement parks have closed during the “recession”? How many amusement parks were full during the Real depression? How many were even open? Still think we have a distressed economy?
I also like to look at how many people are customers of cable television, cell phones and internet companies. It seems strange how people, in our suffering economy are still able to afford cable TV, cell phones and the internet, even when there are ways to avoid the use of these items. Any cell phone companies going out of business? How about cable TV companies? Any internet providers closing their doors? Oh sure, there are claims of reduced PROFITS, but a profit, any profit, shows they are paying all their bills, people and costs and still have money left over.
So if the economy is not really so bad, why are so many sources saying it is? Is there a conspiracy? Is it a right-wing conspiracy or a left-wing conspiracy? I submit to you it is a conspiracy of a higher order. We are warned in Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Yes, there is a conspiracy to move the world away from Christ and toward the satanic goals of satanic rulers.
What is one of their satanic goals? Money. Remember the instruction of God’s Word in 1Timothy 6:8-10: “And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
Then in verse 11 of the same passage we read: “But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.” Jesus in Matthew 6:24 said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
In 2Peter 2:1-2 we are warned, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
This may leave some of you saying, “Yeah, so what?” But notice now the next verse: “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” A newer version says it this way: “In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!”
Notice how the world media drives the economy through fear. By fear people give up freedoms given by God. Through fear people invest, or refrain from investing. Fear is the overall motivational force driving our economy. Second only to fear is greed. The greed of man is only limited when his fear stands in the way.
But fear and greed are not the ways of God’s Kingdom. We walk in the ways of love and we know perfect love casts out fear as it says in 1John 4:18, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
Do you fear the news reports, the “economic turmoil” or the government? Are you gathering guns and ammunition for a war only won by the power of God? Do you find comfort knowing our King promised us, “Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
Matthew 10:31.
Have you forgotten the provision promised in Matthew 6:26, “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
Provision or no, the command from our King is clear: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33. If you believe it, talk like you believe it, live like you believe it.
“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:”
Ephesians 4:11-15
I am not ignoring the Americans who have lost their jobs, but Americans are always loosing their jobs. Remember when we have a 5% unemployment rate we must also have a 95% EMPLOYMENT rate. If you examine the 5% called the unemployed you will find the temporary unemployed moving from one position to another. You also find people “working the system” who intentionally work just long enough to receive unemployment benefits.
Additionally there are those who are “looking for a job” of course only in those pay levels of an acceptable range. These people are not satisfied with a job, they want a specific job with a specific amount of benefits and a specific type of benefits. If you count only those who really want to work and really can’t find a job, the numbers go down significantly.
Now, back to the economy, I do not evaluate the economy by the newspapers, TV or even by the internet. I don’t like to have people tell me how bad it is, I want to see it for myself. I use a few practical gauges found in the way people spend money and the way companies price their merchandise.
First, I look at how the restaurants are doing. How many restaurants have customers? In the great depression, the REAL depression, people did not go out to eat, because they had little or no disposable income. What do the restaurants of today show about the economy? When was the last time you went out to eat? When was the last time you found an empty restaurant? We have found just the opposite. When we have gone out to eat, we never find an empty restaurant, to the contrary, we have had to wait over an hour to get a seat on a Friday or a Saturday. Does this sound like a distressed economy to you?
What about places like the Disney parks complex, Sea World parks, water parks and amusement parks? See any of them shutting down, limiting hours, laying off workers (except for seasonal people)? What amusement parks have closed during the “recession”? How many amusement parks were full during the Real depression? How many were even open? Still think we have a distressed economy?
I also like to look at how many people are customers of cable television, cell phones and internet companies. It seems strange how people, in our suffering economy are still able to afford cable TV, cell phones and the internet, even when there are ways to avoid the use of these items. Any cell phone companies going out of business? How about cable TV companies? Any internet providers closing their doors? Oh sure, there are claims of reduced PROFITS, but a profit, any profit, shows they are paying all their bills, people and costs and still have money left over.
So if the economy is not really so bad, why are so many sources saying it is? Is there a conspiracy? Is it a right-wing conspiracy or a left-wing conspiracy? I submit to you it is a conspiracy of a higher order. We are warned in Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Yes, there is a conspiracy to move the world away from Christ and toward the satanic goals of satanic rulers.
What is one of their satanic goals? Money. Remember the instruction of God’s Word in 1Timothy 6:8-10: “And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
Then in verse 11 of the same passage we read: “But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.” Jesus in Matthew 6:24 said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
In 2Peter 2:1-2 we are warned, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
This may leave some of you saying, “Yeah, so what?” But notice now the next verse: “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” A newer version says it this way: “In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!”
Notice how the world media drives the economy through fear. By fear people give up freedoms given by God. Through fear people invest, or refrain from investing. Fear is the overall motivational force driving our economy. Second only to fear is greed. The greed of man is only limited when his fear stands in the way.
But fear and greed are not the ways of God’s Kingdom. We walk in the ways of love and we know perfect love casts out fear as it says in 1John 4:18, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
Do you fear the news reports, the “economic turmoil” or the government? Are you gathering guns and ammunition for a war only won by the power of God? Do you find comfort knowing our King promised us, “Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
Matthew 10:31.
Have you forgotten the provision promised in Matthew 6:26, “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
Provision or no, the command from our King is clear: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33. If you believe it, talk like you believe it, live like you believe it.
“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:”
Ephesians 4:11-15
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