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Link: Mark of the Beast, Preterist Viewpoint
Revelation 13:16 – Mark on hand or forehead, photo: Verichip
3 Maccabees 2:25 – Jews in Alexandria marked, photo: Ivy Leaf (Dragon’s
Claw)
Deuteronomy 6:4 – Words bound on hand or forehead, photo: child wearing
phylactery
Link: “The Holy Deed of Binding”
Smith’s Bible Dictionary – Phylacteries or Frontlets
Ezekiel 9 – Marked with a Tau (X)
Matthew 23 – Pharisees and wide phylacteries
Ephesians 1:3 – Marking of the Holy Spirit
Revelation 7 – The seal of the Living God
Mark of the Beast – cxV
Mark of Jesus – ihV
Article: “House Backs Electronic Ids”
Article: “Chip implant cash”
Article: “Nanotech,” photo: mercury dime
The Mark of the Beast – Preterist
Revelation 13:11.
Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns
like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. 12. It exercises all the
authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its
inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. 13.
It works great signs, even
 making
fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men; 14. and by the
signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it
deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the
beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived; 15. and it was
allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the
beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the
image of the beast to be slain. … 16. Also it causes all, both small and
great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right
hand or the forehead, 17. so that no one can buy or sell unless he has
the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18.
This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of
the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and
sixty-six.
3 Maccabees 2:25. When
[Ptolemy IV Philopator] arrived in Egypt, he increased in his deeds of
malice, abetted by the previously mentioned drinking companions and
comrades, who were strangers to everything just. 26. He was not content
with his uncounted licentious deeds, but he also continued with such
audacity that he framed evil reports in the various localities; and many
of his friends, intently observing the king’s purpose, themselves also
followed his will. 27. He proposed to inflict public disgrace upon the
Jewish community, and he set up a stone on the tower in the courtyard
 with
this inscription: 28. "None of those who do not sacrifice shall enter
their sanctuaries, and all Jews shall be subjected to a registration
involving poll tax and to the status of slaves. Those who object to this
are to be taken by force and put to death; 29. those who are registered
are also to be branded on their bodies by fire with the ivy-leaf symbol
of Dionysus, and they shall also be reduced to their former limited
status." 30. In order that he might not appear to be an enemy to all, he
inscribed below: "But if any of them prefer to join those who have been
initiated into the mysteries, they shall have equal citizenship with the
Alexandrians." 31. Now some, however, with an obvious abhorrence of the
price to be exacted for maintaining the religion of their city, readily
gave themselves up, since they expected to enhance their reputation by
their future association with the king. 32. But the majority acted firmly
with a courageous spirit and did not depart from their religion; and by
paying money in exchange for life they confidently attempted to save
themselves from the registration. 33. They remained resolutely hopeful of
obtaining help, and they abhorred those who separated themselves from
them, considering them to be enemies of the Jewish nation, and depriving
them of common fellowship and mutual help.
Deuteronomy 6:4. "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our
God is one Lord; 5. and you shall love the Lord your God with all your
 heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6. And these words
which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; 7. and you shall
teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down,
and when you rise. 8. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand,
and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9. And you shall write
them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 10. "And when the
Lord your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly
cities, which you did not build, 11. and houses full of all good things,
which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, and
vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and when you eat and
are full, 12. then take heed lest you forget the Lord, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13. You shall
fear the Lord your God; you shall serve him, and swear by his name. 14.
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are
round about you; 15. for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a
jealous God; lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you,
and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. (see also Exodus
13:9,16; Deuteronomy 11:18)
“The
Holy Deed of Binding the Phylactery”
Smith’s Bible Dictionary, “Frontlets,”
or “Phylacteries”
(Exodus
13:16;
6:8;
11:18;
Matthew 23:5) These "frontlets" or "phylacteries" were strips of
parchment, on which were written four passages of Scripture, (Exodus
13:2-10,11-17;
6:4-9,13-23) in an ink prepared for the purpose. They were then rolled
up in a case of black calfskin, which was attached to a stiffer piece of
leather, having a thong one finger broad and one and a half cubits long.
They were placed at the bend of the left arm. Those worn on the forehead
were written on four strips of parchment, and put into four little cells
within a square case on which the letter was written. The square had two
thongs, on which Hebrew letters were inscribed. That phylacteries were
used as amulets is certain, and was very natural. The expression "they
make broad their phylacteries," (Matthew
23:5) refers not so much to the phylactery itself, which seems to have
been of a prescribed breadth, as to the case in which the parchment was
kept, which the Pharisees, among their other pretentious customs, (Mark
7:3,4;
Luke 5:33) etc., made as conspicuous as they could. It is said that
the Pharisees wore them always, whereas the common people only used them
at prayers.
Please read
Ezekiel 8 for background to the following passage:
Ezekiel 9
(NJB): 1. Then he shouted loudly for me to hear, "The scourges of the city
are approaching, each carrying his weapon of destruction!" 2.
Immediately six men advanced from the upper north gate, each holding a
deadly weapon. Among them was a man dressed in linen, with a scribe's
ink-horn in his belt. They came in and halted in front of the bronze
altar. 3. The glory of the God of Israel rose from above the winged
creature where it had been, towards the threshold of the Temple. He called
to the man dressed in linen with a scribe's ink-horn in his belt 4. and
Yahweh said to him, "Go all through the city, all through Jerusalem, and
mark a cross on the foreheads of all who grieve and lament over all the
loathsome practices in it." 5. I heard him say to the others, "Follow him
through the city and strike. Not one glance of pity; show no mercy; 6.
old men, young men, girls, children, women, kill and exterminate them all.
But do not touch anyone with a cross on his forehead. Begin at my
sanctuary." So they began with the old men who were in the Temple. 7. He
said to them, "Defile the Temple; fill the courts with corpses; then go
out!" They went out and hacked their way through the city. 8. While they
were hacking them down, I was left alone; I fell on my face, crying out,
"Ah, Lord Yahweh, are you going to annihilate all that is left of Israel
by venting your fury on Jerusalem?" 9. He said, "The guilt of the House
of Israel and Judah is immense; the country is full of bloodshed, the city
full of perversity, for they say, `Yahweh has abandoned the country,
Yahweh cannot see.' 10. Then, I too shall neither give one glance of pity
nor show any mercy. I shall repay them for what they have done." 11. The
man dressed in linen with the scribe's ink-horn in his belt then came back
and made his report, "I have carried out your orders."
Matthew 23:1.
THEN SAID Yahshua to the crowds and to his disciples, 2. "The scribes
and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; 3. so practice and observe
whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not
practice. 4. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on
men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their
finger. 5. They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make
their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6. and they love the
place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, 7. and
salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. 8. But
you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all
brethren. 9. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one
Father, who is in heaven. 10. Neither be called masters, for you have
one master, the Anointed One. 11. He who is greatest among you shall be
your servant; 12. whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
humbles himself will be exalted.
Ephesians 1:3.
Blessed be Yahweh the Father of our Sovereign Yahshua Messiah, who has
blessed us with all the spiritual blessings of heaven in Messiah. 4. Thus
he chose us in Messiah before the world was made to be holy and faultless
before him in love, 5. marking us out for himself beforehand, to be
adopted sons, through Yahshua Messiah. Such was his purpose and good
pleasure, 6. to the praise of the glory of his grace, his free gift to us
in the Beloved, 7. in whom, through his blood, we gain our freedom, the
forgiveness of our sins.
Revelation 7:1.
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of
the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not
blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 2. And I saw another
angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he
cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt
the earth and the sea, 3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea,
nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads. 4. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there
were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of
the children of Israel.
The Mark of the Beast
The mark of the Messiah consists of the first and
last letters of his title from the Greek: χς, which stands for (CH)risto(S)
“Christ.” χ (ch) = 600 and ς (s) = 6. In the Greek language of the
Revelation, the number 666 is written out the long way, “six hundreds
sixty six.” The dragon or serpent symbol, xi (ξ), has a value of
60. If you put that in the middle, you have the mark:
χξς = six
hundreds sixty six = 666.
This is the mark of the false messiah, which is the
mark of Christ with the serpent interposed.
The Mark of the Master Iēsous
I used to think these letters on church windows and paraments meant “in
his spirit” before I studied Bible languages. However, these are the
first three letters of the name Yahshua or Jesus in New Testament Greek –
iota, eta and sigma, pronounced ee-ay-s (or ee-ay-sh) (yashð). You
see these letters in all churches and they stand for the name Yahshua or
Jesus. This is an ancient symbol, dating back to the Bible itself. And
it was a secret symbol in the days of the early persecutions. These
letters add up to 24: i = 10,
h = 8, V
= 6. John writes of this number in
Revelation 4: 2. I was in the Spirit, and
lo, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne! 3. And he
who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and round the throne was
a rainbow that looked like an emerald. 4. Round the throne were
twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders,
clad in white garments, with golden crowns upon their heads. 5. From the
throne issue flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of thunder, and
before the throne burn seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits
of God.
Bullinger[1]
says that twenty-four is the number of HEAVENLY GOVERNMENT.
House backs major shift
to electronic IDs
http://news.com.com/House+approves+electronic+ID+cards/2100-1028_3-5571898.html
Published: February 10, 2005, 5:46 PM PST
By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on
Thursday a sweeping set of rules aimed at forcing states to issue all
adults federally approved electronic ID cards, including driver's
licenses. Under the rules, federal employees would reject licenses or
identity cards that don't comply, which could curb Americans' access to
airplanes, trains, national parks, federal courthouses and other areas
controlled by the federal government. The bill was approved by a 261-161
vote. The measure, called the Real ID Act, says that driver's licenses
and other ID cards must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting
features and undefined "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum
data elements" that could include a magnetic strip or RFID tag. The
Department of Homeland Security would be charged with drafting the details
of the regulation.
Republican politicians argued that the new rules
were necessary to thwart terrorists, saying that four of the Sept. 11,
2001, hijackers possessed valid state-issued driver's licenses. "When I
get on an airplane and someone shows ID, I'd like to be sure they are who
they say they are," said Rep. Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican, during a
floor debate that started Wednesday.
States would be required to demand proof of the
person's Social Security number and confirm that number with the Social
Security Administration. They would also have to scan in documents showing
the person's date of birth and immigration status, and create a massive
store "so that the (scanned) images can be retained in electronic storage
in a transferable format" permanently.
Another portion of the bill says that states would
be required to link their DMV databases if they wished to receive federal
funds. Among the information that must be shared: All data fields printed
on drivers' licenses and identification cards, and complete drivers'
histories, including motor vehicle violations, suspensions and points on
licenses. The Bush administration threw its weight behind the Real ID
Act, which has been derided by some conservative and civil liberties
groups as tantamount to a national ID card. The White House said in a
statement this week that it "strongly supports House passage" of the bill.
Thursday's vote mostly fell along party lines.
About 95 percent of the House Republicans voted for the bill, which had
been prepared by the judiciary committee chairman, F. James Sensenbrenner,
a Wisconsin Republican. More than three-fourths of the House Democrats
opposed it. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat from Washington, D.C.,
charged that Republicans were becoming hypocrites by trampling on states'
rights. "I thought the other side of the aisle extols federalism at all
times," Norton said. "Yes, even in hard times, even when you're dealing
with terrorism. So what's happening now? Why are those who speak up for
states whenever it strikes their fancy doing this now?"
Civil libertarians and firearm rights groups
condemned the bill before the vote. The American Civil Liberties Union
likened the new rules to a "de facto national ID card," saying that the
measure would force "states to deny driver's licenses to undocumented
immigrants" and make DMV employees act as agents of the federal
immigration service.
Because an ID is required to purchase a firearm from
a dealer, Gun Owners of America said the bill amounts to a "bureaucratic
back door to implementation of a national ID card." The group warned that
it would "empower the federal government to determine who can get a
driver's license--and under what conditions."
Chip implant gets cash
under your skin
http://news.com.com/Chip+implant+gets+cash+under+your+skin/2100-1041_3-5111637.html?tag=st.rn
Published: November 25, 2003, 9:32 AM PST
By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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Radio frequency identification tags aren't just
for pallets of goods in supermarkets anymore. Applied Digital Solutions
of Palm Beach, Fla., is hoping that Americans can be persuaded to implant
RFID chips under their skin to identify themselves when going to a cash
machine or in place of using a credit card. The surgical procedure, which
is performed with local anesthetic, embeds a 12-by-2.1mm RFID tag in the
flesh of a human arm.
ADS Chief Executive Scott Silverman, in a speech
at the ID World 2003 conference in Paris last Friday, said his company had
developed a "VeriPay" RFID technology and was hoping to find partners in
financial services firms. Matthew Cossolotto, a spokesman for ADS who
says he's been "chipped," argues that competing proposals to embed RFID
tags in key fobs or cards were flawed. "If you lose the RFID key fob or if
it's stolen, someone else could use it and have access to your important
accounts," Cossolotto said. "VeriPay solves that problem. It's subdermal
and very difficult to lose. You don't leave it sitting in the backseat of
the taxi."
RFID tags are miniscule microchips, which some
manufacturers have managed to shrink to half the size of a grain of sand.
They listen for a radio query and respond by transmitting a unique ID
code, typically a 64-bit identifier yielding about 18 thousand trillion
possible values. Most RFID tags have no batteries. They use the power from
the initial radio signal to transmit their response. When embedded in
human bodies, RFID tags raise unique security concerns. First, because
they broadcast their ID number, a thief could rig up his or her own device
to intercept and then rebroadcast the signal to an automatic teller
machine. Second, sufficiently dedicated thieves may try to slice the tags
out of their victims.
"We do hear concerns about this from a privacy
point of view," Cossolotto said. "Obviously, the company wants to do all
it can to protect privacy. If you don't want it anymore...you can go to a
doctor and have it removed. It's not something I would recommend people do
at home. I call it an opt-out feature." Chris Hoofnagle, a lawyer at the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, said implanted RFID tags cause an
additional worry. "When your bank card is compromised, all you have to do
is make a call to the issuer," Hoofnagle said. "In this case, you have to
make a call to a surgeon. "It doesn't make sense to go from a card, which
is controlled by an individual, to a chip, which you cannot control."
ADS shares have slid from a high of about $12 in
2000 to 40 cents, and the company is now fighting to stay listed on the
Nasdaq. "Our common stock did not regain the minimum bid price requirement
and on Oct. 28, 2003, the Nasdaq Stock Market informed us by letter that
our securities would be delisted from the SmallCap," ADS said in a Nov. 14
filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company also
warned that its implantable microchips are manufactured solely by Raytheon
without a "formal written agreement," and any price increases or supply
disruptions would have serious negative consequences.
MasterCard has been testing an RFID technology
called PayPass. It looks like any other credit card but is outfitted with
an RFID tag that lets it be read by a receiver instead of scanned through
a magnetic stripe. "We're certainly looking at designs like key fobs,"
MasterCard Vice President Art Kranzley told USA Today last week. "It could
be in a pen or a pair of earrings. Ultimately, it could be embedded in
anything--someday, maybe even under the skin."
ADS is running a special promotion, urging
Americans to "get chipped." The first 100,000 people to sign up will
receive a $50 discount.
In the nanotechnology realm, pocket change figures
big. Dan Pickard, a graduate student at Stanford University's
electrical-engineering school, needed a diamond membrane for an e-beam
lithography system that can be used to help create nanotech products. The
slides in the accompanying photo gallery chronologically demonstrate how,
with the help of professor Fabian Pease and undergraduate Heyjin Park,
Pikard extracted the membrane from a diamond chip with a focused ion beam,
a probe and an electron microscope. The diamond chip is about a millimeter
in diameter and about 20 microns thick. The membrane is about 20 microns a
side and 200 nanometers to 500 nanometers thick.
An e-beam lithography system draws a pattern on
the surface of a semiconductor wafer that eventually becomes transistors
or areas where metals or carbon can be grown. The energy from the beam
imprints a copy of a mask--a sort of stencil--onto the surface of the
wafer, which consists of layers of silicon and metal. That imprint is then
exposed through processes similar to those used in photographic
development. In traditional chips, the result is transistors. In
nanotechnology, the result might be particles of iron, which can serve as
a catalyst for growing carbon.
Nanotech under a
microscope
http://news.com.com/Diamonds+Nanotechs+best+friend/2100-7337_3-5568299.html?tag=nefd.top
Stanford University scientists use the teensy technology to remove the
membrane of a 1945 Mercury
 dime.
The rise of nanotechnology has increased the importance of complex
electrons and probes and made equipment makers some of the first
beneficiaries of nanotechnology. FEI, which produced the equipment used in
the images, reported fourth-quarter revenue of $145.2 million, an increase
of 49 percent over revenue of $97.7 million a year ago. Net income rose to
$8.4 million, more than the $3.3 million reported a year ago.
Although the resulting membrane in Pickard's work
can be measured in microns, it's actually relatively large in nanotech
terms. E-beam systems, meanwhile, are expected to play a large role in
preparing surfaces for growing nanoparticles. And what's up with the
pocket change? It serves as a backdrop and workbench of sorts for the
process depicted in the photos.
[1]
Bullinger, Number in Scripture, 264.
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