The Power of His Mouth?

The cold front the Weather Channel forecast arrived Tuesday evening. It's been a relatively pleasant week. Temperatures have been mostly in the lower 80s(26.67+C) during the day and down to 58F(14.44C) at night. Humidity has also been lower. Normally, it would be brutally hot and humid with the real heat coming in August. I was expecting a few days of lower temperatures, but the Weather Channel says temperatures will be lower until at least August the 4th. If this is climate change, I need to go burn a stack of old tires. I'll make it autumn all summer long.

Not too long ago I heard this television pastor talking about the mark of the beast. He said, "It can't be a tattoo, because I said years ago it would be about the size of a grain of rice." That's the quote as I remember it. Apparently, based on the power of his word and his word only, it must be an implantable microchip. The pathetic thing is that he was serious when he said it couldn't be anything other than something he said years ago, because he said so. He's not that old by the way, so it couldn't have been that many years. I hear other religious figures making grand statements about the Bible as if they were facts. If something sounds good and sells books, they'll say anything.

There's a problem with implantable microchips. According to an article I read a while back, they cause cancer in humans. The percentage is small, well below 1%, but would you want to gamble on not being one of the cancer victims? On a global scale tens of millions or more people would get cancer from being implanted. That's the size of however many U.S. states or however many small countries. This would include the people passing the laws to require it and their families. Is any politician going to pass a law that could give his own children cancer? I don't think so. Not unless there's a cure for all cancers by then.

A while back Somark Innovations invented an RFID tattoo that they claimed is 100% biocompatible and can't cause cancer. That link is an older one and not the best. They wanted to use it to tattoo cows to track disease outbreaks like mad cow disease, but it could also be used for things like military personnel in combat scenarios. A wounded soldier might be unconscious and not be able to give a medical history in the field. Scanning the tattoo would let a medic have instant access to drug allergies and things like that. The Somark tattoo can be colored or invisible.

The thing about Bible prophecies is that they have to occur in context of reality. Unless the Antichrist plans to go door to door healing people, something that causes cancer in humans is not very realistic. A safe, biocompatible tattoo is much more realistic, especially considering other factors. Microchips require a minor surgical procedure that takes about five minutes. The Somark tattoo takes about ten seconds. For a population of over 7 billion, five minutes takes forever compared to ten seconds.

A lot of pastors believe in the microchip hypothesis, but it doesn't match what the Bible actually says, and it doesn't match practicality. When the real mark comes out, all the Antichrist would have to do would be to say that everyone knows the mark of the beast is a microchip, and his new system has nothing to do with that. All the pastors railing against the microchips would turn out to be helping the Antichrist.

Have a great weekend.