This is to make sure you sheeple consume only government approved food, plus banking, driving and breathing.
Posted on 12/13/2010 3:18:31 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
On December 8, the House of Representatives passed the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act which is the vehicle for Fiscal Year 2011 continuing appropriations and food safety legislation. This legislation puts the federal government and the World Trade Organization in control the nation's food supply from growing your own food to selling or trading it among neighbors or friends to roadside stands to large processing plants that import or export food. This bill establishes a "Surveillance System" that can spy on farmers, gives the government authority to collect fees and requires reports from those growing food. This is essentially a food IRS putting the government between citizens and their ability to survive.
Sold as a mandate to protect the food supply from contamination, the bill contains in it the language which passed the Senate on November 30 by a 73-25 margin. It will be sent back to the Senate for approval because all appropriations bills must originate in the House. This is a lame duck tyrannical power grab by the very people Americans voted out of office on November 2. These people at the very least should be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors and tried for their insidious attempt to exercise federal and international control over the food supply of this nation. It is written as a measure of protection for the people, but language is open to absolute federal and international authority over the food supply.
Many wonder how Americans could be forced to take the mark of the beast as described in Revelation 13:16-17,
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
This legislation sets the stage for the Revelation prophecy to be carried out legally in the United States. There will now be a system established that could incentivize turning in you neighbor for growing food, allows international authority over your land, and provides a fee system that can increase food costs at will.
Revelation 14:9-11 says,
"If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb."
No matter how hungry you are remember the promise of Jesus Christ in Matthew 6:31 and 33,
"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink?, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?...But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
The moonbats screamed 'Fascists!' for the whole 8 years of the Bush admin, but cheer the current fascist congress. They are truly dangerously ignorant.
Is this the literalist interpretation of Revelation?
The meaning of Revelation 13:17 has to be found contextually. Like much of Revelation, its familiar symbols are meant to represent familiar concepts to its first readers. This is why Revelation must be read against the backdrop of the Old Testament and the contemporary historical context. As Ferrel Jenkins writes: “The book of Revelation is the most thoroughly Jewish in its language and imagery of any New Testament book. This book speaks not the language of Paul, but of the Old Testament prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel.”[1] The beasts, both sea (Rome) and land (Israel), the mark on the hand or head (Deut. 6:8), and the number 666 should be interpreted in light of the Old Testament (1 Kings 10:14), similar to the way Sodom (Rev. 11:8), Egypt (11:8), Jezebel (2:20), Balaam (2:14), and Babylon (14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2, 10, 21) are interpreted in Revelation. By understanding the way the Old Testament uses and applies marks and the significance of 666 (spiritual adultery with the nations: 1 Kings 11), it is not that difficult to determine what John is describing in Revelation 13....
Buying and selling, properly understood, are worship-related rituals (Isa. 55:1–2). “This is established in [Revelation] 3:18 (and compare 21:6). When those who refuse the mark of the Beast are not allowed to buy and sell, it means that they are expelled from the synagogue and Temple. The merchants of the land in Revelation 18 are those who worshipped at the Temple and synagogue.”[4] “Babylon the Great,” described as “the great city” (18:2, 10, 21) is Jerusalem (11:8; 16:19). Jesus foretold that this would happen: “They will make you outcasts from the synagogue; but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God” (John 16:2). Keep in mind that it is the “beast coming up out of the land” that is involved in these events. The land beast is most certainly associated with first-century Israel, especially the priests who control the temple. ( Is a “Cashless Society” a Sign of the End?)
Prophetically speaking, why would it matter?
In an attempt to make the Bible conform to the latest advances in technology, modern-day prophecy writers look for anything that will support their view of the end-times, even if it means reading things into the Bible that aren’t there. For example Peter and Paul Lalonde misrepresent what Revelation 13:16–18 says about the mark of the beast. In an advertisement for their This Week in Bible Prophecy television program, the prophecy authors wrote, “The Mark of the Beast—it’s one of the clearest and most dramatic prophecies in the Bible. It states simply that in the last days[1] that no man will be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark IN his right hand or forehead.” According to the Lalondes, the “IN” refers to an embedded microchip or something similar placed under the skin; they emphasize the word IN....
When it comes to prophetic speculation, there’s nothing new under the Sun. Chuck Smith was warning against credit cards in a sermon delivered to his Calvary Chapel audience on December 31, 1979, and Mary Stewart Relfe was warning against the “New Money System” and the UPC Symbols (Bar Codes) in 1981.[3] Some have speculated that the UPC Symbol has three sixes imbedded in its design. Of course, so far, except in the case of George Washington, UPC symbols have not been tattooed to our foreheads.(Are Embedded Microchips the Mark of the Beast?)
You have the choice to have them implanted if you want. No one is stopping you. The choice is yours. I most certainly won’t be.
“Should we be concerned about imbedded microchips? Yes. Should we be wary of civil government when it says “Just trust us”? Yes. Does everything that happens in the world today have to be tied to some prophetic text before we can determine its virtues? Absolutely not. Let’s begin to think biblically without always having to think prophetically.” (Gary DeMar)
I’m starting to think you are well entrenched in the Reformed Church. That’s the Church I ran from.
We all make mistakes.
Thanks for the ping!
Revelation is one of the most densely "hyperlinked" books of the Bible, rather like a visual index to the rest of the Bible. Fittingly, placed at the end of the Book. FOR EXAMPLE: a "lectionary" version of Revelation, one divided into 50 or so chunks so as to be read through in a year's worth of public worship, precisely echoes the lectionary readings of Ezekiel.
Biblical illiterates and sensation-mongers, "prophecy pimps," have to ignore most of the Bible in order to read today's lamestream media headlines back into Revelation.
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No more calls, please. We have a winner.
This is to make sure you sheeple consume only government approved food, plus banking, driving and breathing.
Throughout the Bible God has attempted to warn, teach, and prepare His people. He used prophecy as a means to instruct His followers about how to prepare and be ready. The prophecy deniers have always tried to thwart that effort. God used prophecy consistently throughout history to allow those faithful to His word to prepare for coming judgment. Noah, Lot, and Joseph are examples of those who listened and understood. God has never left His faithful without knowledge of what was coming and how to prepare. Each of those believers was mocked and ridiculed but were proven correct and saved from God’s wrath.
Today we have those who would have us believe that sometime in the past God stopped giving us information of what to prepare for. Somehow they would have us believe that He did not instruct us about what was coming and how to prepare. They use the same mocking tone as Joseph’s brothers and people in Noah’s day. Peter and other’s warned us to “be mindful of the words which were spoken before” and that there would be “scoffers”.
2 Peter 3:2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
There is a force in this world that would have us not believe or be prepared for coming judgment on this world. Just as with Noah, Joseph, and Lot, I believe the prophets have given us information of what is coming. We were told it would not be easy to understand.
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
I believe that God HAS given us information about what the future holds and has told us how to prepare. He used the prophets to inform the people of what was coming throughout history and He has not abandoned us to guess about what the future holds. Just as in Noah’s day we have been information about what is coming and the same force that caused people to scoff at Noah is at work today to keep people from being prepared for what is coming.
I, for one, would rather ere on the side of being over prepared then to suffer like those who scoffed at Noah, Lot, and Joseph or those who will suffer for scoffing at us who would be prepared today.
“Prophecy pimps” - sad but true, like the author of this article. He’s just a small fish compared to the Lindseys, LaHayes, and Hagees of this world. Hal Lindsey is the consummate prophecy pimp. Too bad there are so many that just like to mimic him with their sensationalism. One guy with a newspaper trying to outdo the next.
It's interesting, but gypsy fortune tellers refuse to have their own fortunes told. They know, from routine contact with their customers, that the lust to peer into the future is an addictive, and debilitating poison. Those who seek prognosticators are losers. Fatalistic. Failures in their own minds, who seek external forces to blame for their own shortcomings.
This is true even if the fortune tellers are using God's Word for their cracked crystal ball. In fact, since they are dealing with God's Word, they have even fewer excuses for their evil acts than those pagans who tried to read steaming entrails. And fortune-telling is a profoundly evil act. The "prophecy teachers" unanimously predict a global triumph for the other team, and assert, in a vile and pernicious libel against God's goodness and power, that the gospel is inadequate, not good enough, to measure up to the demands of our age.
I think it's past time for us to tolerate these doomsayers as Christians who are attempting to preach God's Word in good faith. Their reaction to the fall of the Soviet Union indicts them forever in the eyes of those who have eyes to see. Rather than giving God glory for His great mercies -- they frantically tried to find another cosmic boogyman to blame all the world's problems on. We who take the work of God seriously, what He achieved through the death, burial, resurrection, and enthronement of the Lord Jesus Christ, need to shake off our reluctance to call bovine feces by its true name: a slander against the God of Heaven.
This claim is so hollow as to be laughable. You have no clue what you are preparing for. Is it next week or in a hundred years? Will the US be involved or no? Will it be a microchip under the skin, a credit card with 666 imprinted, or a tattoo on one’s backside? Will it involve the Arabs or the Russians? What about the EU? Or the Chinese? Or the North Koreans? How many Israelis will be slaughtered while the Church hangs out on their cloud somewhere? The story changes every time a new edition of the newspaper gets printed. Truly the stuff of prophecy pimps.
And to shamefully hide behind a verse like 2 Peter 3:3 is a true indication of desperation. You confuse the scoffing against biblical truth (Peter’s subject) with folks who simple question the laughable exegesis of modern literalist futurists. The real scoffers of God’s truth are the modernists who need to reinvent their interpretation every time events change.
I recall one of those crazy novels (anyone remember prophecy "expert" Salem Kirban?) that helped to abort the Jesus Movement of 1970. The A.C. character changed the placard on his desk from displaying "Prayer changes things" to "Things change prayer." The man who marries the spirit of the age is soon a widower.
I love your use of the word Modernist. That's gotta make an impression, if these folks are at all teachable. Fundamentalism preened itself on its opposition to "modernism," then promptly began prostituting its message to dance attendance on lamestream media headlines.
I think I saw it here .
>> I think I saw it here .<<
No, actually you can find it here.
The Obama Health care bill under Class II (Paragraph 1, Section B) specifically includes in it’s lists of things that must be registered in the NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY: ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable.”
Then on page 1004 it describes what the term “data” means in paragraph 1, section B:
14 ‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to in
15formation respecting a device described in paragraph (1),
16 including claims data, patient survey data, standardized
17 analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of
18 data from disparate data environments, electronic health
19 records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the
20 Secretary”
Approved by the FDA, a class II implantable device is a “implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information.” The purpose of a class II device is to collect data in medical patients such as “claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary.”
Interesting how that scoffing thing carries over into other areas of ones life isn’t it?
So you heard wrong. This section does not state, “ within Obomacare there was a mandate that anyone who signed up for government assistance had to have a chip implanted in there right hand.” You couldn’t find it because you didn’t read it in the first place.
Perhaps this is the way the futurists fairy tales get started. One misreads or mishears something and then tries to piece it all together with their errant futurist theology. The next thing you know the Martians are landing in Grover’s Mill.
Interesting how that scoffing thing carries over into other areas of ones life isn’t it?
Pointing out that you are wrong is not scoffing, my friend. Don’t try to hide behind 2 Peter again.
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