Evidently you are unaware of the tried and true method of the frog in the bucket.
Evidently you are unaware of creeping incrementalism as a major tool of tyranny.
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As I understood it then, Fifteen or 20 years or so ago in Taiwan, Taiwan's Nobel Laureate stopped the efforts to put all medical records, passport, ID, driver's info on one comprehensive smart card. This plan has been in the works for decades.
Okay. Then you go on and worry about that for me ...
For me and mine, I’ll worry about things that I have a chance of influencing. Seems to me if God has ordained that the Beast WILL come and WILL impose the MotB as a prelude to the Second Coming/Rapture/Armageddon, there is NOT ONE THING I can do to change that. I also do not recall that God commanded me to to be overly worried about it, or any of it’s precusers! Instead I should rejoice in the knowledge that HIS time is coming! When the appointed time comes, we will recognize the mark and can refuse to bear it. Of course that will mean that those which refuse the mark will be persecuted or outright killed. But that is the choice we have - accept the mark and the reign of the beast, or remain faithful.
Hyperventalating about it is counterproductive. We were commanded to spread HIS word - not to try and prevent HIS will from being done ...