| IV. | Abstract |
| Posted: August 22, 2003 |
| The major portion of this document tracks the use and spread of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) microchip implants, tags, and readers. RFID microchip implants and tags are designed to identify vehicles, pets, humans, as well as most other commercial products and services globally. |
| This document addresses various topics related to microchipping humans including, though not limited to, crime, potential markets, government, technology, identity theft, security, medical uses, commerce, terrorism, societal evaluation, legal matters, and theology. |
| The spread of RFID tagging of pets, humans, and all commercial objects on earth is leading to a blanketing of the earth with RFID readers. |
| Humans interface with these ubiquitous RFID readers by means of RFID chips in contactless smart cards, consumer electronic devices such as cell phones, and implants in humans themselves. |
| Identification microchips implanted in humans are a strong candidate for the Biblical mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead needed in order to buy and sell. It is suggested that humans will be increasingly exposed to commercial coercion to accept an RFID microchip implant in either the right hand or forehead in order to buy or sell. |
| While secular privacy concerns focus on protecting privacy in relation to retail items with embedded RFID microchips, Christians concerned with the mark of the beast may well observe that the spread of RFID microchips in retail items means the spread of RFID microchip readers. These ubiquitous microchip readers then set the scene for a next step of commercial coercion. Individuals will be pressured to accept human microchip implants, read by the ubiquitous microchip readers, for various reasons, including that of strengthening financial transaction security. |
| Two scenarios relevant to Christians are explored. First, any excess accumulated money will have been wasted if Christians are raptured at a time before RFID human microchip implants are required in order to buy or sell. Second, if RFID human microchip implants are required in order to buy or sell before Christians are raptured, Christians' excess accumulated money will become worthless, and for all practical purposes be stolen, if Christians opt not to accept the mark that becomes necessary in order to buy or sell. |
| The Christians' response to these possibilities and future developments should be increased obedience to Jesus Christ now. Such increased service to Jesus Christ, in this Age of Affluence, should include a focus on giving our stored time and talent, that is, our money, on behalf of others' needs via word and deed mission. |