To my parents, Jack and Marilyn

Revelation 13:16-17 “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark.”
And so folks, here we see again the second option for the Mark of the Beast System, is to not only use your head, but what was the second choice there? Your hand, right? And again, I’m so glad we see no signs of people using their hand to buy and sell stuff in a biometric way. Yeah right folks! That too is already here. Let’s take a look.

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  Fingerprint scans are now being used in America to access computers.
  
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  Fingerprints are now required to enter certain parks in the United States. “City officials said the new security measure will allow law enforcement to determine who was at the park if something were to happen there, and help stop vandalism, drug use, and break ins.
  
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  A new company called IDair has developed a system that can scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away. IDair's 20-foot-range machine is currently in development, and is described as functioning similar to satellite imagery. Coupled with other biometrics, it could soon allow security systems to grant or deny access from a distance, without requiring users to stop and scan a fingerprint, swipe an ID card, or otherwise lose a moment dealing with technology. And IDair’s founder says that at some point his technology could enable purchases to be made biometrically, using fingerprints and irises as unique identifiers rather than credit card numbers and data embedded in magnetic strips or RFID chips. And the technology can be used in both in-store and online settings as well as to gain access to services.
  
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  Hand scanners are being used by businesses and airports to automatically identify travelers.
  
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  Hospitals are implementing Palm Scans. “Imagine going to the hospital and having your doctor or nurse retrieve your vital medical records simply by scanning the palm of your hand. It is happening now at a local medical center. Employees at Salem Community Hospital said they are the first in Ohio to have the new ‘Patient Secure’ system.”
  

Wow! Don’t you feel so much more secure? But you might be thinking, “Well, wait a minute Pastor Billy. That’s just using your finger or hand to link yourself to a database. So what? Nobody’s going to be using their hand any time soon to buy and sell stuff.” Really? Folk, I’m telling you, once again, it’s a step by step process! First get the database, then get the biometrics, then get specific with the head and now with the hand to make a payment. It’s already here! Both options are here!

Scene starts on Action News showing clip of minority Report movie.
“You have seen the science fiction in movies. Using unique biological characteristics instead of keys. A facial or iris scan to unlock doors and accounts. An electronic paperless society. Come summer that kind of technology with leap off the big screen, and one metro grocery store will make your identity be available right at your fingertips. Its sci-fi technology that is about to enter the checkout lane all in the name of speed and convenience. You will be able to buy anything from bread to beer if you agree to give the store your ultimate identity.”
Grocery store Manager “Walk in with just your fingers.”
Grocery store customer “It’s much easier to swipe your fingers than to go thru all the cards.”
Fox news Host “A new form of technology has made its way to the register. Ready for this? Payment by fingertip. In Florida coast to coast convenient stores have become the first to use such technology. It’s nothing more than converting your debit or your checking account to apply to your finger tip.”
CBS news host “The LA unified school district is pushing a program to finger print some kids before they can get their lunch. Digitizing lunch scans district wide has stirred a bit of controversy. LASD is the second largest school district in the school system across the country. There’s over ½ million meals served everyday. Students at Oshay Learning center are expected to be the first in the district that use a finger print like scanner to biometrically identify them from meals in the lunch room. Officials say the system poses no security or privacy risks to children or their families, and would help bring district cafeterias into the 21^st century.”
ABC news host “It looks and sounds like something out of the future, but a new palm scanner device will help schools keep track of what children are eating there. The electronic device will be implemented at all Bosha Parish schools. Workers are currently being trained on how to use it. A small infrared camera is used to scan the child’s hand. And because palm and finger prints are unique the system can keep track of everything to the tee, and even what they are not supposed to eat. Food allergies can also be listed as well as items you don’t want your children eating. If a student picks one of those items the system won’t let them buy it….. THE SYSTEM WONT LET THEM BUY IT….”
Concerned Christian “You know today is the fingerprint, tomorrow the microchip. Maybe that ushers in the mark of the beast.”¹²
Yeah, I agree. At least that guy gets it. Folks, here’s the point. Sure looks to me like we’re seeing for the first time in man’s history how people are starting to make payments using their hand, how about you? And did you notice it was specifically the right hand? I mean, gee whiz, what’s next? Some sort of chip implant in your hand to do the same thing? And folks, lest you think this won’t ever catch on worldwide, listen to this.

“Biometic ATM machines are starting to appear in Europe and there are now tens of thousands of them in Japan being used by millions of people. In fact, the machines are also dotted around parts of Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and even parts of Africa, where, according to banking analysts, they are preferred by rural workers living in remote areas, who are not accustomed to carrying bank cards.

And out of 900 consumers recently involved in a pilot scheme, 94% said that they were ready to use finger print based technology when purchasing goods and services.” In other words, I want to buy with my hand!
And for the first time in mankind’s history, we even have a new Global Biometric Payment System already in place. It’s called, World Pay and it’s, “The world’s first biometric payment system.”¹³
You can use your hand or head to make payment anywhere in the world. Folks, this is how close we are, and as always, the point is this. What more does God have to do to get our attention? This is not a game! This is real!

(BREAK: PART 47)

But that’s still not all. The 5^th way we’re being conditioned right now to receive the actual Mark of the Beast is the Convenience Proof. You see folks, the Bible is clear. You can expect to see in the Last Days not only a “push” for the Mark of the Beast, with this Biometric stuff, your body parts, but you can expect that people are going to somehow be “conditioned” to think that this is an awesome thing to do! And one of the biggest ways they’re doing that, is by selling this Mark of the Beast Systems as a convenience. And hey, who doesn’t want a little convenience in their life, right? And the problem is folks, it’s one thing to fall for this tactic, but it’s another thing to not understand its significance. You see, like that blonde lady, we too here today, just can’t seem to interpret this as an obvious sign from God, that we’re living in the Last Days. But don’t worry, this same attitude it happened at Jesus’ First Coming. But don’t take my word for it. Let’s listen to His.

Luke 12:54-56 “He said to the crowd: ‘When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does. And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?”
In other words, Jesus is saying here, “I am standing right in the midst of you and I’ve already done all these miracles right in front of you guys, I’ve demonstrated that I really am God in the flesh, and I’ve fulfilled tons of Old Testament prophecies showing I really am the Messiah, and you still don’t get it? And then you have the audacity to say you need more proof? What?” And what does Jesus say about these people and their skeptical attitude towards His First Coming? “You hypocrites,” right? He says, “You don’t need that much information to make a decision about the goofball weather.” In fact, He says, “With just a minimal amount of evidence, one simple fact, you make confident conclusion about the weather. You do it all the time. You don’t require a lot of information to make that prediction. You don’t need a TV weather guy. You don’t need a Doppler radar. You don’t need the Internet. You don’t even need satellites. You just look over here and you see a dark cloud coming off the sea and you say, ‘Hey, it’s going to rain.’ And you know what? You’re right. That’s how it works. It turns out that way.” In other words, with only a minimal amount of evidence you draw a confident conclusion about the weather, but when the actual evidence of the Messiah’s actual coming is staring at you right in the face, you still don’t get it! And that tells us their real problem was not a lack of information, it’s just they didn’t want to get it! And so Jesus calls them hypocrite! In fact, this isn’t the first time Jesus used this word hypocrite. He used it repeatedly over and over again in Matthew 23, which is right before Matthew 24, the classic passage dealing with His Second Coming.

Matthew 23:13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.”

Matthew 23:14 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.”
Matthew 23:15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.”
Matthew 23:16-17 “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?”
Matthew 23:23-24 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices – mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law – justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.”
Matthew 23:25-26 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.”
Matthew 23:27-28 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”
Matthew 23:29-34 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers! You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.”
In other words, Jesus says, “You didn’t want to hear the truth of His First coming, and when I send you in the future faithful Prophets to proclaim My Second Coming, you’re not going to hear it either! In fact, just like the First Time, you’re going to kill and try to shut up the messenger the Second Time!” And folks, it is my contention that this same hypocrisy demonstrated by the people of Jesus day during His First Coming, is the exact same thing we’re seeing today with His Second Coming! People are trying to kill the messenger! Shut him up! Don’t confuse me with the facts! I don’t want to hear this! And yet Jesus would say, “You hypocrites!” You can interpret the weather with a tiny little bit of information, and yet, out of love, I send faithful men to you to give you a ton of information about My next coming, which you should be excited about, so you won’t be caught off guard, and you either assassinate them or hide behind the accusation that you don’t have enough proof. Excuse me? Folks, I say this every week! How much more proof do we need? What more does God have to do to get our attention today? How much more information does He have to give us show us we’re living in the Last Days? Jesus Christ is about ready to come back! His Second Coming is approaching! Especially with this sign here of the Mark of the Beast! We’ve already seen, again, how they’re pushing it with the Media, the Matrix, the Quotations, the Biometrics, and if that wasn’t enough, they’re packaging it all up right now and selling it to us under the guise of Convenience so we’ll hurry up and accept it now? It’s that close folks! But don’t take my word for it, let’s look at the proof!

The 1^st way we know we’re being conditioned to receive the actual Mark of the Beast under the guise of Convenience is the Pampered Proof. I mean, come on folks, haven’t you heard? I mean, who wouldn’t want to get a chip, right? I mean, that would be convenient. If you would just get one, right now, your very own biometric implant, you would bring such great comforts to your life, beyond your wildest dreams! What’s a biometric implant you ask? Well, thanks for asking Wally. A biometric implant is a tiny little chip about the size of a grain of rice that is implanted just beneath your skin. And it’s benefits are that it can’t be stolen and you can’t lose it, because it’s implanted inside your body which means it’s with you wherever you go. Isn’t that great? Isn’t that convenient? And that right, for those of you who still might be a little bit squeamish, don’t worry. It’s already been approved by the FDA back in 2002. And we all know we can trust the Government with our lives. Yeah right! But that’s right, don’t listen to me, let’s look at the facts. Let’s see just how much our lives will become pampered if we’d only receive the biometric implant!

IMPLANTS WILL MAKE US MORE PAMPERED

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  You can have tiny cell phones implanted into your bikinis.
  
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  You can have T-shirts implanted with Internet links.
  
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  You can have an implant in your clothes that will tell you what clothes (shirt, tie, blouse, etc.) goes with what.
  
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  You can have an implant in your makeup to see what you’d look like before you put it on when you look in the mirror.
  
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  You can have implants that act like “intelligent shopping agents” who will know everything about you from personal quirks to shoe size and will search instantly anywhere in the world via the Internet to find you the best deal.
  
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  You can have implants in your house to customize anything from the temperature to even background music.
  
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  You can have an implant in your jacket to allow you to switch on the TV, check you phone messages, or even tell the oven to start cooking a meal.
  
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  You can have an implant in your refrigerator to tell you when you’re out of food and automatically order it for you from the store!
  
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  Or for those of you who still want to go to the store, if you get an implant, you could breeze through store and the check out lane without ever having to pull out a wallet, especially when those unexpected guests come over!
  

“Grandma” is sitting in her rocker knitting. Phone rings. Grandma picks up the phone.

Grandma: Hello?

Grandchild: Hi Grandma! We’re gonna come over for dinner Right now!

Grandma panics as she looks at a picture of her huge family. Grandma jumps out of her rocking chair.

Grandma is now seen running up and down aisle of the grocery store throwing various food items into her shopping cart. She is next seen standing with a fully loaded cart near the check out. She observes a pretty young women walk through a scanner without unloading her cart.   Grandma looks to the left and smiles at an elderly man in the “old style” check out line.
“Grandpa” smiles back. They both continue to give several flirty smiles back and forth as Grandma without moving proceeds to push her cart away from her and entire cart of food gets scanned all at once.

Grandma looks back at the elderly man an shrugs walk and grabs her receipt and leaves the store.  Grandpa looks down in sadness as he is still standing in line waiting with his one item.

Grandma is back home and plops back in her rocker and kicks her feet up

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  And even kids can get in on the action. You can have an implant in your candy bar to win free money.
  
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  Or for those of you who want to be more health conscious and stay away from those candy bars, you can have an implant in your food to help you control and monitor your food intake and lose weight. It’s called the smart plate!
  

Another part of this system is our Smart Plate. A plate that reads our food and works as an invisible diet management system. When a cupcake is placed on a plate, it is scanned by an RFID reader inside. The reader is programmed to monitor every product that is eaten from the plate. An LED light hidden under the veneer lights up to give a brief visual correspondent. Besides nutrition information like calories or fat, the user can also learn more about his food, about it’s food miles or it’s trading history. A Sushi roll could tell us about it’s heritage and it’s ingredients. For people with food allergies the Smart Plate can send hazard alerts about dangerous ingredients and stop us from eating things that may harm us.

This system aims to become the future medium between food intake and knowledge. It extracts data directly from food and creates a new perception of what we’re going to eat.

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  And for those of you who do not have a strong enough will to listen to your Smart Plate, you can also use this with another feature called, “The Permanent Companion.” This computer interface will not only control your shopping list at home but even on the road. “It can act as a real body coach which helps consumers keep a healthy diet and lose weight by keeping an eye on your weight and calories, and suggesting recipes for suitable meals, and sending you an alert whether or not you can eat a little more or should start exercising.”
  
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  You can have implants in your car to access the Internet and/or pay for toll charges, gas, or even food at the Drive Thru, that is, if your Perfect Companion says it’s okay!
  
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  You can have an implant in your carrying bag to track you and help you avoid pedestrian traffic jams.
  
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  You can have implants in your umbrellas to track your every move and let marketers know how well their advertising is doing.
  
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  You can have tiny implants in your magazines so that publishers not only how many people actually read their magazine, but even how long they spent reading the pages, if they skipped reading some of the pages, if they skipped some of the articles, whether to not they read it from front to back or back to front, and of course, if they looked at the advertisements in the magazine.
  
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  You can have implants in television sets that eject artificial scents when different advertisements or scenes are viewed. (I told you watching TV smells!)
  
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  You can have an implant in your fingertip that will transfer all your vital personal information with a handshake. (A digital authentication law has already been passed through Congress giving these “electronic signatures” the same legal status as writing your name on a document.)
  
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  You can have an implant in your hand that will unlock your car, start your car, open up doors, log on to your computer and so much more like this guy!
  

Amal Graafstra: I wanted a more convenient way that made more sense to me to get into my office.

IT professional Amal Graafstra, describes himself as a implant hobbyist. A do-it-yourself microchipper. He had a Radio Frequency Identification device, or RFID, inserted into his hands. It’s technology commonly used to identify dogs and cats.

Everyday after work, with the groceries in hand, I use it every day to get into the back door and it’s better than fumbling around for keys.

Does it seem like a dramatic thing to undertake just to be able to get into the house?

Graafstra: For some, probably. But for me, when looking at it, you know I said, “Well it’s just really moving that RFID card from my pant’s pocket to a skin pocket.”

It’s not as far fetched as it sounds. Given that people are already willing to insert microchips into their hands.
And notice it just happens to be in the right hand! Shocker! Huh? If you’d just get a skin pocket implant, your life would be filled with such great comfort. I mean, wouldn’t it be cool to have a microchip implant? Wouldn’t that be convenient? And people, that’s precisely what they want you to think! Getting you ready for the Mark of the Beast right now like this article shares.

“How’d you like to avoid waiting in lines for the rest of your life? Breeze through everywhere like you owned the place. Watch lights snap on, doors open automatically, money pop out of ATMs as you approach.

Never have to show an ID, buy a ticket, carry keys, remember a password. You’d leave stores loaded with packages and waltz right past the cashiers. You wouldn’t have to carry a wallet. Ever. Family and friends could find you instantly in any crowd.
These latest injectable devices have taken things a step further. What next?

I approach my car, which knows who I am. The door swings open and the driver seat and steering wheel adjust to my usual settings, the radio starts to play my favorite station and a speech unit offers to navigate me to Heathrow.

As I board the plane, a sensor in the aircraft door activates the chip which tells the on-board flight system who I am. ‘Welcome…seat 4a is ready for you. This flight is worth 450 air-miles.’
I arrive in New York and hire a car, which also recognizes me and adjusts accordingly. The hotel room unlocks and bills me as I enter. Room service arrives to stock the fridge with favorite…items plus the extras I usually order.
None of this is science fiction. All of this is possible using today’s tools. It is just a question of connecting them together.”¹⁴
And to so-called “good news” is they already have! What are you waiting for?

But that’s not all. The 2^nd way we know we’re being conditioned right now to receive the actual Mark of the Beast under the guise of Convenience is the Productive Proof. You see folks, if only you’d get an implant, it’d make your life so much more productive. Why, we would get a lot more done, and who wouldn’t want to save more time? Let’s take a look at that.