Revelation About 'Digital Angels'

By David Kupelian for WorldNetDaily

Monday, March 20, 2000



"He causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count
the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and
his number is six hundred threescore and six." -- Revelation
13: 16-18

I have always wondered about this passage in the biblical
book of Revelation. How would people ever be made to accept
such a "mark of the beast" or to accept the implantation of
some sinister computer chip in their bodies? It sounded like
science fiction.

If and when such a terrifying future scenario would begin to
unfold, I figured -- when the "antichrist" and his
operatives would try to mandate the mass acceptance of this
"mark" -- there would be massive rebellion. Everyone would
just say, "Hey, dude, didn't you ever hear of a little thing
called the Bible? The Book of Revelation? So get out of my
face, 'cause I'm not interested in obtaining eternal
damnation. Have a nice day."

Ah, that was then. Little did I know the day would come when
traditional Christianity would be under such severe assault,
its basic precepts so maligned, its adherents so demonized
that the nightmarish scenario predicted in Revelation could
not only come about, but be welcomed with open arms.

Little did I know that the once super-secret Echelon
surveillance network would be capable of monitoring any
e-mail and phone conversation anywhere on earth, and that
soon people's location will be trackable through their
cellular phones.

And now, here comes the Digital Angel¨ -- the new,
dime-sized implantable transceiver whose manufacturer, the
NASDAQ-traded Applied Digital Solutions, intends its global
use for the tracking and monitoring of humans. Emitting a
homing beacon that can be tracked by global positioning
system satellites, it is being marketed as the ultimate,
tamper-proof means of personal identification. When
implanted in your body, the device is powered
electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it
can be activated either by the "wearer" or by a monitoring
facility.

"A few years ago there may have been resistance, but not
anymore," Dr. Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development of
the implant and president of ADS subsidiary DigitalAngel.net
Inc. told WorldNetDaily.com. "People are getting used to
having implants. New century, new trend."

In a spine-tingling comment on mankind's future, Zhou added,
"We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own
soul."

Now I am not claiming "Digital Angel¨" is the tool of the
antichrist. But I am saying emphatically that, if it is, the
world is just about ready for it.

* A few years ago, could you have predicted that in the year
2000 a major Republican presidential candidate would call
two of the best-known evangelical Christian ministers in the
country -- Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell -- "agents of
intolerance"?

* Back in the days when Pat Buchanan was spokesman for
Ronald Reagan, would you have believed that just a few years
later, today's White House press secretary, Joe Lockhart,
would publicly equate Christians evangelizing people of
other faiths with perpetuating "ancient religious hatred"?

* Could you have guessed churches around the country would
be denied the right to conduct weddings and funerals because
they might be "disturbing the peace"?

* Would you ever have thought that "new research" would
show, in the biblical story of David and Goliath, that it
wasn't David's faith in God that won the day. It was the
fact, as Vladimir Berginer, professor of neurology at
Israel's Ben-Gurion University argues, that Goliath was
actually suffering from a disease of the pituitary gland
called acromegaly, which caused a tumor to swell against
Goliath's optic nerve. Poor Goliath, it turns out, was
vision-impaired.

If the unproven and fraud-ridden theory of evolution can be
used so effectively to undermine the first book of the
Bible; and if a university professor can claim without
evidence of any sort that Goliath couldn't see -- and the
international media report this as news; then the dark,
foreboding and allegorical last book of the Bible should be
child's play to discredit.

* And whereas a generation ago Judeo-Christianity was the
dominant culture in America, and the homosexual world a
seamy subculture, could you have guessed that today the
homosexual activists' political agenda would have become
accepted and supported in almost every sector of society,
while Christianity would be openly and freely demonized?

But the blame for all this does not rest on homosexuals or
those hostile to Christianity.

Just as America has the noble tradition of liberty, but not
nearly the substance it once had, so do many nominal
Christians of today have the appearance and words of faith,
but deep down are no different than the "heathen" they wish
to evangelize. If you disagree, tell me how, with something
like 80 million evangelical Christians in the United States,
an immoral, lying sociopath like Bill Clinton could have
been elected president -- twice.

The Clinton presidency -- by all accounts the most corrupt
in American history -- is proof positive that millions of
"Christians" are capable of looking evil straight in the eye
and thinking it is good.

And good evil. After all, it was the religious people of the
day, those who thought they were "approved of God," that
hated Jesus and wanted him crucified, not the pagan Romans.

If Christians can accept a Clinton presidency, the horrific
results of which America will be dealing with for a
generation, they certainly can accept a little chip designed
to make life better, can't they?

Many Christians have become so shallow, so worldly, so
self-satisfied, and so corrupt that they have long ago lost
the original innocence and brightness they had as children.

They embrace the practice of abortion, viewing it as a
necessary health procedure, a fundamental right, an
equalizing factor between women and men, even an advancement
in their quality of life. They don't see that it perfectly
parallels the satanic ritual of sacrificing an innocent
child on the altar of selfishness and lust. They've lost
their spiritual discernment, and all they have left is the
outward appearance of being religious.

Their belief system, instead of upgrading their lives,
justifies their sin. They see themselves as having a sort of
spiritual "diplomatic immunity." They are saved, after all,
and therefore can do what they want with impunity, with no
fear of spiritual law enforcement authorities.

They are saved, so to hell with everybody and everything
else. They're waiting for the rapture, and enjoying God's
piecemeal judgment of the world. They have almost completely
lost the ability to recognize evil as evil, and to oppose it
-- not with anger, but with love and strength, as Jesus did.
Without real virtue, all that's left is hypocrisy, and
Christianity in America today is full of it.

The truth is, Christians have been powerless to stop the
spread of evil throughout America, even within their own
churches. I always thought good was supposed to be more
powerful than evil. Maybe there's not too much good in
today's Christians -- not enough, anyway.

Yes, the truth is, if and when the terrible time foretold in
Revelation comes, most of us probably won't even notice this
manifestation of ultimate evil. After all, we've had a lot
of practice.

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