Digital money and the anti-Christ

[Galaxy Hunter]

This digital money thing is starting to creep me out. Eventually there won't be any cash. The government will like that because they'll be able to check every penny you spend and tax you even with a purchase at a garage sale. They'll say they're going all digital to prevent crime and they'll be right. It will stop a lot of bad deeds. The Bible says we won't be able to buy or sell anything without the mark of the Beast and it will be on your hand and forehead. I wonder if this new technology will be what will be used. You take a picture of your head with the phone in your hand. It is the safest thing out there because you have to blink to prove someone is not taking a picture of your picture. Here's an interesting thought. I saw it more than 30 years ago. I'm not saying it's proof of anything but at the very least it is interesting. A=6 (as in 666.....the Beast's mark) B=12 C=18....Z=26x6=156. If you do the word "computer" using multiples of 6 it comes to 666. Try it! The younger generation will likely think my idea is insane and computers are sweet and innocent and we should love our smart devices as much as we would any friend but I think there's something more sinister going on with that object they worship so much.

 

[SkyWriting]

This digital money thing is starting to creep me out. Eventually there won't be any cash. The government will like that because they'll be able to check every penny you spend and tax you even with a purchase at a garage sale. They'll say they're going all digital to prevent crime and they'll be right. It will stop a lot of bad deeds. The Bible says we won't be able to buy or sell anything without the mark of the Beast and it will be on your hand and forehead. I wonder if this new technology will be what will be used. You take a picture of your head with the phone in your hand. It is the safest thing out there because you have to blink to prove someone is not taking a picture of your picture. Here's an interesting thought. I saw it more than 30 years ago. I'm not saying it's proof of anything but at the very least it is interesting. A=6 (as in 666.....the Beast's mark) B=12 C=18....Z=26x6=156. If you do the word "computer" using multiples of 6 it comes to 666. Try it! The younger generation will likely think my idea is insane and computers are sweet and innocent and we should love our smart devices as much as we would any friend but I think there's something more sinister going on with that object they worship so much.

1 Bitcoin today equals
$13,900 US Dollar

 

[2PhiloVoid]

This digital money thing is starting to creep me out. Eventually there won't be any cash. The government will like that because they'll be able to check every penny you spend and tax you even with a purchase at a garage sale. They'll say they're going all digital to prevent crime and they'll be right. It will stop a lot of bad deeds. The Bible says we won't be able to buy or sell anything without the mark of the Beast and it will be on your hand and forehead. I wonder if this new technology will be what will be used. You take a picture of your head with the phone in your hand. It is the safest thing out there because you have to blink to prove someone is not taking a picture of your picture. Here's an interesting thought. I saw it more than 30 years ago. I'm not saying it's proof of anything but at the very least it is interesting. A=6 (as in 666.....the Beast's mark) B=12 C=18....Z=26x6=156. If you do the word "computer" using multiples of 6 it comes to 666. Try it! The younger generation will likely think my idea is insane and computers are sweet and innocent and we should love our smart devices as much as we would any friend but I think there's something more sinister going on with that object they worship so much.

I don't think you're insane. I, too, bought the latest issue of Scientific American and found the cover story quite interesting. In fact, this probably is a part of it the "scheme of things." However, while I agree that you're right about the technological aspect of it, I'm more prone to interpret the number of the beast as a Jewishly veiled reference to the direct worship of Wealth, Sex and Power...y'know, those things that King Solomon ruined his reputation over before the face of God. And now we're all just in a fit to find out what Hugh Hefner's lifestyle and mindset was all about ...

 

[-Luca]

This digital money thing is starting to creep me out. Eventually there won't be any cash. The government will like that because they'll be able to check every penny you spend and tax you even with a purchase at a garage sale.

When you are paying with cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, it cannot be backtracked to you.

 

[Saucy]

I'm a Christian and I invest in cryptocurrency. There is nothing Satanic or evil about it. It cannot be tracked to you and is completely anonymous. It's simply a deregulated type of currency.

 

[Galaxy Hunter]

These last two posts missed my point. It's not the tracking that I view as sinister. It's the fact that we won't be able to buy or sell anything without this mark that being forced on us in slow motion.

 

[tampasteve]

Digital money is not necessarily the same thing as a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is digital money, but digital money does not have to be a cryptocurrency. Several countries are talking about going to a digital currency, but it is a stanrad currency made only digital, not a cryptocurrency.

I would not let the rise of cyrptocurrency think that it is a herald of "the beast", if anything the governments and treasuries of the world are more threatened as it is less traceable than standard transactions.

 

[tampasteve]

These last two posts missed my point. It's not the tracking that I view as sinister. It's the fact that we won't be able to buy or sell anything without this mark that being forced on us in slow motion.

Ah, then you are more frightened by the rise of smart phones and the like? Funny enough, it is not as pervasive globally as we in the USA or Europe might think. Many advanced societies are still very cash based. Take Japan for example, definitely an advanced society, but many transactions are still cash only.

 

[Galaxy Hunter]

Sorry, I didn't proof read that last post. I'm new here and can't find a way to delete it so let me clarify. I don't really want every penny I spend tracked. I realized Bitcoin was invented in 2008 to stop that. But if the government did track every penny I spent that would be bad but not necessarily evil. I'm not trying to get out of paying taxes for a shovel I bought at a garage sale. I just don't think it's the government's business I bought it (or the business of the hacker that breaks into my account). People should have the choice to use digital currency if they want but my choice to not use it will be taken away....and when it happens we'll see Biblical prophecy unfold. The mark of the Beast may already be with us. It just hasn't come to fruition yet. We haven't yet been forced to go digital but we will.

 

[1am3laine]

Personally I think the mark of the beast will be digital money put on to microchip implants. It's many people who are implanted in the head and hands already.
(revelation 13:16-18)

 

[Galaxy Hunter]

Personally I think the mark of the beast will be digital money put on to microchip implants. It's many people who are implanted in the head and hands already.
(revelation 13:16-18)

Good point. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[RaymondG]

I think the mark of the beast will be widely considered, by the religious, to be money, computers.....things that make sense to the carnal mind and things that you can see with your eye.

In the end, it will be something you cant see....let will me present in us all.....because we are steadfast looking without, when we should be looking within......

 

[revanneosl]

I'm old enough to remember when the "Mark Of The Beast" was scannable bar coding.

 

[Gell]

I was listening to a bbc news podcast and heard about news on cryptocurrency. Then part of the book of revelation suddenly hit me.
There are many speculations about this but those who are wise should take heed.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I personally think that the "Mark of the Beast" will be a silicon chip implant either in the back of the hand or the forehead, in a cashless society.

I've got a booklet "Towards a Cashless Society" put out by a committee set up way back in the 1980's by the then Hawke government in Australia to investigate future issues, and this was one of them ("Commission for the Future" if I remember rightly).

This particular report was chaired by an atheist, Phillip Adams (who has his heart in the right place), so it certainly wasn't a fundamentalist publication. At one point it noted that the easiest way for a government to keep track of all it's people would be the use of electronic cash-less banking, and this was mooted by a think tank of American lawyers way back circa 1975.

The following link isn't the booklet that I've got, but it does point to the fact the Hawke government was considering the issue way back in 1986. The booklet would have come out of this debate.

https://industry.gov.au/innovation/reportsandstudies/ASTEC/Towards-a-Cashless-Society.PDF

It gave an example of how this could be done using a a John B. Citizen, who was under surveillance, and the sort of assumptions and deductions a suitably programmed computer might make about the person's movements as he went about his daily life. The example given was actually based on an American example, and then modified into an Australia context.

Catholics don't talk about this much, but I think the Church is asleep when it comes to these sorts of developments.

There are already watch bands which can be used instead of credit and debit cards, and there's a company in Sweden where the employees have silicon chip implants to gain access to their offices, computers etc.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-microchips-skin-technophile-swedes.html

Personally I think such a chip would be allied with a means of punishment eg. a small vial of fatal poison which could be fractured by remote signal, in case you've been a naughty boy. All it would take would be a really major terrorist outrage (eg. nuclear or dirty bomb) to set the scene for the Western public in particular to cry for protection at the expense of their own freedom. The technology is already there.

If you want to go a step further, the familiar "www" of internet fame could be interpreted as "666" using the Hebrew alphabet, although I'm not much into codes and all the rest of it. I've long assumed the 666 is just short of 777, or perfection ie. the Anti-Christ would still be just a fallible man, despite his seeming insuperable powers. Whatever.

Is "www" in Hebrew equal to 666?

 

[FreeinChrist]

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[Douggg]

I'm a Christian and I invest in cryptocurrency. There is nothing Satanic or evil about it. It cannot be tracked to you and is completely anonymous. It's simply a deregulated type of currency.

Hi Saucy, I agree basically. But the bankers don't like it because they don't control it. And it is not the product they are selling. They want you in dollars and them holding them. It is the elite bankers is where the danger is.

btw, investing in crypto is not the same as using it. I don't use it, but I do the same as you.

 

[TribulationSigns]

Wow, many of you think the mark of the beast is a literal mark making of computer scan, chip, coins, etc. SMH. Sorry but that is NOT what God is talking about!

 

[parousia70]

These last two posts missed my point. It's not the tracking that I view as sinister. It's the fact that we won't be able to buy or sell anything without this mark that being forced on us in slow motion.

The point you seem to be missing is that if it can't be Tracked to you, then you are not MARKED by it at all.

 

[parousia70]

I personally think that the "Mark of the Beast" will be a silicon chip implant either in the back of the hand or the forehead, in a cashless society.

So since scripture says "the right hand", that would mean as long as we get the implant in our left hand, we should be good to go?