Here's how to "discover" the "hidden 666 in the UPC barcode".

You may have noticed that this bar code, known as the Uniform Product Code System, has 3 unnumbered bars or lines at its beginning, middle & end which are slightly longer than its other bars. All these other lines correspond to a different number. Pay attention to this particular line, it is designated as corresponding to the number six. And as you can see, it is exactly the same as the 3 unmarked lines that are also sixes. So every bar coded item is in fact marked with a 666.

(For a complete technical examination of the barcode and its connection to the mark of the beast please click here)

The 666 bar code system of identification is the basis of other trends and technologies that are rapidly leading us towards the one-world credit system described in Revelation chapter 13.

At present, in a supermarket there are a number of ways we can pay for our shopping--We can use cash, or write a check, or pay by credit card ...

Debit Card
Another way that is being promoted so much today is using a debit card. When we give our debit card to the cashier the card is run through a scanner which is electronically linked to the bank & the money is immediately taken from the bank account and placed in the store's account-.-All in a split second.

Debit cards have already been introduced in many parts of the world & are extremely popular with stores, banks & customers.

IC Card
The "IC Card" or the "Smart Card," which actually has a little computer chip embedded in the card not only gives access to the bank account, but also contains passport information, medical record, driver's license, photographs, welfare eligibility and all kinds of other data. These are already being tested in various parts of the world.

There is little question that we are rapidly moving on to eliminate cash--and there are many compelling reasons why. Cash is the very mother's milk of drug smugglers, who often deal in cash a suitcase full at a time. With no cash the sale of illegal drugs would cease. In fact to eliminate cash would eliminate almost every kind of criminal activity, from theft to terrorism, and be an instant cure-all for many of the World's most desperate social & economic ills. No wonder governments are pushing towards the cash less society with unrestrained enthusiasm. Another reason given is that this would also give a better way of controlling the flow of money that is fueling international terrorism.

The problem is that before cash, cheques & credit cards can be phased out completely, they have to develop an identification system that is absolutely foolproof & will ensure that a person presenting a card for a transaction is actually the owner of that card.

Various foolproof ID systems have already been developed, like fingerprint readers. However a problem with these machines is that they are extremely expensive. For a completely cash less society to work, there would have to be one at every little shop & retail outlet where anything is bought & sold.

Whereas these identification terminals cost many thousands of dollars each, the little micro-chips embedded in the plastic "smart cards" cost only a few dollars each. So what if you took the chip out of the card & placed it under the skin?

Once the chip has been implanted it can be read by an inexpensive scanner, much like the one in your local grocery store. So, we now become our own smart card!--And the very expensive problem of making sure that the owner of the card is who he says he is, has been solved.

In the U.S., the Department of Health and Human Services says that full-scale implantation of the new Microdot Identification Project is already underway in Washington and several other test cities. These tiny computer chips, no larger than the head of a pin, cost less than 25 cents and are injected approximately ¼ inch under the skin. They are activated by a small hand-held scanner and provide flawless identification of the person in whom it was implanted.

So as we can see the technology & the public acceptance to make the Mark of the Beast system work is rapidly falling into place ... Already we are constantly hearing about the "New World Order," or "global community," & these buzz slogans are slowly sinking in as the world heads towards an international financial and political system, a cash less society controlled by a computer data base that covers the entire globe, keeping track of every man, woman & child, where they cross borders & when they buy & sell--exactly like the one predicted in Revelation chapter 13 nearly 2,000 years ago!
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