JOHN BRADSHAW - It Is Written

42 BABYLON RISING
But in today’s electronic age, it would not be hard at all.
I remember a young lady attending a seminar I held in
Iowa years ago excitedly explaining to me how the last-days
crisis was going to play out.
“There’s a company,” she told me sincerely, “that has
developed a tiny silicon chip that can actually be injected
under the skin of a human being. That chip can contain
every bit of information about you that there is, and it’s only
with that chip under your skin that a person is going to be
able to buy and sell.”
And then came the kicker: “And you know what this
is called?”
I didn’t need to be told. I knew exactly where she
was going.
“It’s going to be called...the Beast! See?”
I have to admit I did see, only too clearly. What I could see
was what happens when people seize half-truths and marry
them to whole errors. The last great deception to face the
Earth revolves around whether or not you’re unfortunate
enough to get an injection in your hand? I don’t think so.
One thing we can know for sure: whatever happens to
the economies of the world, and whatever innovations are
introduced in the area of buying and selling, these things are
not the mark of the beast.
Contrary to the insistence of some of the speculators that
move among us, a “cashless society” or a “smart card” is not
the mark of the beast. Remember, a prohibition against
buying and selling is not the mark of the beast, but a means
of coercing people to receive the mark of the beast. The two
ideas are related, but decidedly different.