Part 4 – 666: Mark Of The Beast

Equipping God's Saints (Believers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

Previously, we learned what the Bible says about the Mark of the Beast. Now we want to investigate how close we actually are to implementing the Mark of the Beast. We are going to find out that we are closer than most people think.

The prophecy foretells a time when each of us will have a mark or a number, without which we will not be permitted to buy or sell. It paints a picture of a system of total control. Let's look at the history of numbering people upon this earth.

Over the last 70 or 80 years most nations have implemented a system of numbering their citizens. Here in the United States of America the social security system was begun in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

There was opposition to this system because so many people knew their Bibles. They knew the bible talked about a time where everybody would be numbered. When the government began to talk about giving all of us a number, there was huge opposition about that. As a result, the government agreed to stamp on the social security cards, “Not to be used for identification.”

Obviously, that's a joke. They said it would only be used to administer the social security benefit program. Over time, because this number was available, little by little people have begun to use it for taxes, for retirement, for almost everything. You've got to give your social security number to buy a house, to get a loan ~ even though they had stamped on there, “Not for identification.”

It's become such a joke that in 1972 they said, “Look, there's no use pretending anymore. It is used for identification. We'll just take it away. So it's not on there anymore.

During the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler numbered the Jews and many Non-Jews that were imprisoned in his concentration camps. They were tatooed with a number in order to identify and track each individual. It was Hitler's way of keeping tabs on each person so that he could maintain control. The end purpose of numbering a population is always to control them.

You know as well as I do, control and freedom are opposite terms. If Fido's on a leash, he's under control, but if the leash breaks and he runs through the neighborhood, now he's free.

What do we want to do? Do we want to be on the leash of big government or do we want to be free? You cannot have freedom when the population is numbered. That's the reason that Americans have always resisted a national ID card.

Today over 100 nations have compulsory national ID cards because most governments are controlling. Most governments are socialistic. They believe the people are to serve the government instead of the government serving the people.

Most other nations besides these 100 that have the compulsory ID card, have some form of non-compulsory ID. However, these non-compulsory ID's have a way of becoming mandatory over time.

For example, here in the United States most of us use our driver's license as an ID card. Now, you can't fly without a driver's license or an ID card. You can actually go to the driver's license bureau even if you don't drive and they will give you an ID card. It's so necessary. It's almost compulsory now in the society in which we live.

A national ID system is required in order to implement a totalitarian form of government. When you see the trend toward all the nations acquiring a national ID, and even to the point where it soon could be a global ID, you know that you're in the process of the slide on the slippery slope into World Government. The principle reason for a national ID is control. Always remember, control and freedom are opposite terms.

Let's talk about some of the national ID systems around the world. There is no doubt about it the national ID programs that are set up are going to end up being the mechanism that will be used by the Antichrist and his religious partner, the False Prophet, to rule the world.

In India, on June 25, 2009, India announced it was pressing ahead with universal biometric ID cards to be completed by 2011. The plan was to register 1.2 billion people. That's the entire population of India. They were going to accomplish this, phenomenally, within just 18 months.

In 2007, China launched an ID card containing an RFID chip for all 1.3 billion of it's citizens.

Here you have 1.2 billion (India) + 1.3 billion (China). That's well over one-third of the world's population just in those 2 countries who already now have mandatory ID cards. That means they already are under the strong hand of government and under the strong hand of control.

Germany is implementing a biometric ID card to all of it's citizens starting November 1, 2010.

We can see this is a huge trend in the world. Almost every nation is moving in this direction now.

In the United States of America, fortunately, our forefathers had such a strong tradition of liberty that we've always said, “No. We're not going to have a national ID Card. We are men. We are not numbers. We're not going to submit to this dehumanizing of society.”

The ID card idea has been chipping away at us for a while. A lot of people think it all began on 9/11 with the terrorist attacks on New York City, but that's not true because Marvin Stone, the editor of US News and World Report, wrote in an editorial on September 15, 1980 an article entitled, “A National Identity Card?” His rationale for arguing for the establishment of a national ID here in the United States was to solve the problem of illegal immigration.

This was catching momentum back in 1980. It came to the desk of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. When it was proposed to him, he said, “What? Are you crazy? That's the Mark of the Beast.”

That was the end of the national ID idea here in the United States for a while, at least, until the Reagan administration was over. Ronald Reagan just happened to know enough about his Bible. He was actually a student of the Book of Revelation and he understood the Mark of the Beast.

We will never have a national ID in the United States of America as long as we have a Biblically literate society. But the further we get away from God's Word, the more likely we are to slide into the trap.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.