” ability to buy and sell”
Ya baby ... here we go ...
When I was young I wondered how that could be possible ..
AS we played pong , watching a light bounce back and forth .. I thought some day in the distant future.. maybe
When I saw web pages loading in just minutes ... I thought ..someday ..
When I saw shopping on line and next day delivery ... I thought ... someday
Now I see total data collection ... brain implants ...AI ...
I think ... soon ... very soon.
Interesting time to be alive.
What does the World Health Organization know about peoples Health ? nothing
Brilliant. So HIPAA is made irrelevant by this act.
“Some, myself included, are calling it a forerunner to that ignominious marking spelled out in Revelation 13 as the mark of the beast.”
If you take the mark of the beast literally, then you also have to take the other remarks of the writer literally, such as giving life to an image so that it speaks, etc. The mark of the beast is as much an act of worshsip as an act of obedience, according to the context.
Buy and sell mark? We already have that in paper money, Social Security numbers, email addresses, etc.
The mark of the beast as you understand it is already operative in China. Do you find the false prophet there, the antichrist? These regimes don’t really care about worship, they care about control and enslavement.
The Roman emperors required documents of allegiance from each person in order to do business, which is where the idea in Revelations comes from.
They couldn’t get their “vaccine passport”, so they changed the name and the scope. Same goal: total control of all aspects of each person’s life.
Of course the illegal third world immigrants won’t need this “passport” because that would be racist or something.
Later statements in Revelation make it clear the mark of the beast is not something taken by accident, those who accept this mark do so knowing that it means worshipping the beast and rejecting God. Those who refuse to take this mark - such as Christians - will be unable to buy or sell anything, and many will be executed.
The mark of the beast is not some hidden concept forced upon us in secret. Those who take it will know they are rejecting God by doing so.