[WellsFargo94]

Naw, the mark of the beast has got to be in your very forehead or in your hand (Rev 14:9), not your billfold.

"Not trying to over think this, but couldn't a first century prophet describe a credit card held in the hand as the mark on the hand?"

This is a good question. Any Theologians out there???

[steve50]

Incrementalism guys. Version 1, we'll have the upgrade for ya soon

[B.R. Burton]

Hmmm. I do not think that a chip on a credit card would count as your hand. In biblical terms, hand can be the entire arm, and I believe that this chip is a MOCKERY of the Jewish Tefillin. ASk any Orthodox Jew here where the Tefillin go: On the forehead (at the top), and on the hand. lol, most are probably wondering what tefillin are! They are like little black boxes, that contain scriptures, and is based on the scripture in the Law (Torah) where it says to bind these words between your eyes, and on your hands, etc.

It is satan's mockery of the tefillin, and God Himself will put His Mark, quite possibly a Shin, on the foreheads of His believers. Some have interpreted this as viewing the forehead as the mind, and the hand as the actions of your life, which I do believe is valid in terms of a eisegesis level of interpretation, but that does not negate the very real possibility of the actual event of a chip being the mark of the beast, literally.