You don’t think the Mark of the Beast will happen here? That they are going to go after the Christians in a very short time? Those who refuse the chip?
Someone recently said “The evangelicals are the problem.”
Oh hi. There we are.
Lies verses truth. Who finds it important to discern between them, instead of swallowing up who knows what based on consensus. One of the popular trends is to dismiss certain differences of opinions because they 'aren't matters of salvation'. Yet people will settle on an opinion and then nothing else gets through, or they will argue back and forth to the death over these opinions. The fact that people argue over them means that each camp is convinced it holds the truth of a matter, not just an opinion.
Well then, truth IS most certainly a matter of salvation. And so is how a person treats his fellow man. The character of the beast is often in plain view as people attack each other in their doctrinal battles.
Watch the 'chip' to turn out to be a chip on a shoulder.
Opinion A and Opinion B dual to the death, while the truth is camped out somewhere else entirely.
Truth is crucified at the place of the poll. It's even alluded to in the name of Golgotha (skull, head count, poll), if anyone wishes to track the meaning.