Approximately five hundred end times Bible prophecies remain to be fulfilled. You’d therefore expect there to be news, and trends, that anticipate their fulfillment.
That’s why each week we present what we call a Prophecy Update.
In Wisconsin, a tech company held what they called a “chip party,” at which their employees could voluntarily be microchipped. Let me read from the article:
A brief sting is all employees of a Wisconsin technology company said they felt Tuesday when they received a microchip implant in their hand that will allow them to open doors, log onto computers or buy breakroom snacks by simply waving their hand.
Three Square Market [Company] said 41 of its 85 employees agreed to be voluntarily microchipped during a “chip party” at company headquarters in River Falls.
Melissa Timmins, vice president of sales, said she was initially apprehensive but decided to give the chip a chance.
“I planned for the worst and it wasn’t bad at all,” said Timmins, who received a microchip in her left hand on Monday. “Just a little prick.”
Company leaders said this is the first U.S. appearance of technology already available in Europe.
Officials said the data in the microchip is encrypted and does not use GPS, so it cannot be used to track employees or obtain private information. The company hopes the microchips eventually can be used on everything from air travel to public transit and storing medical information.
… Noelle Chesley, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said she thinks implanting microchips into employees – and all people – is the wave of the future.
Many of those at the edge of developing those technologies “believe we are going to be combining technology in our bodies,” Chesley said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/ct-wisconsin-company-microchips-workers-20170801-story.html
Meanwhile an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is arguing that most humans will receive a microchip implant in the future. “It will happen to everybody,” says Noelle Chesley, associate professor of sociology.
“The time is now” for chips to be more commonly used, says Amal Graafstra, founder of Dangerous Things, a shop supplying “custom gadgetry for the discerning biohacker.”
“We’re going to start to see chip implants get the same realm of acceptance as piercings and tattoos do now.”
“It becomes part of you the way a cellphone does,” Graafstra argues. “You can never forget it, and you can’t lose it. And you have the capability to communicate with machines in a way you couldn’t before.”
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/10/usa-today-everyone-will-have-a-microchip-implanted-in-them-someday/
A recent USAToday article was titled, You Will Get Chipped – Eventually.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/08/09/you-get-chipped-eventually/547336001/
The prophetic interest in this is obvious. In the first century, the apostle John, while writing the Revelation, saw a future in which all business would be conducted by what he called a “mark” in the hand or forehead. Microchipping humans sounds eerily similar.
BTW – Technology is not the mark of the beast. Having a Social Security number, or a credit card, or even an implanted chip, does not damn anyone.
The mark of the beast will be a pressured but still voluntary swearing of allegiance to the world leader we know best as the antichrist.
The believers of the church age need not fear technology; we won’t be here when the antichrist makes his diabolical move.
We are not looking for any particular sign, or prophecy to be fulfilled. Jesus promised He’d return to rapture His church – which entails the resurrection of the dead in Christ of the Church Age, then the translation from earth to Heaven of all living believers.
It is presented in the Bible as an imminent event.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!