Some Thoughts on the Mark of the Beast

I just had a view of how the Mark of the Beast could possibly come about. Perhaps some glimmering into the thoughts and justifications that may come about for it. Granted, this will take place in a society that has completely apostatized from any view of absolute truth - including and particularly the truths of Holy Scripture.

Check this story. It is very good, and a bit long:

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57517

Don't read it all if you don't want to. If you are gonna read it, ignore what I write below in italics:

The gist of the article is that Iraq is really dangerous just because nobody trusts each other. It is not Sunnis vs. Shiites, or whatever, but just that it is all total chaos and greed and envy and murder which are causing neighbors to murder neighbors' entire families and take their possessions, form street gangs and groups for protection and stability in the absence of any real legitimate police force.

Anyway, the US Military is getting in "buddy buddy" with all the neighbors, all the people, asking "How can we help you?". Intelligence is being gathered face to face, through tips and rumors and reports of suspicious activities and just people saying "there is a guy we do not trust". This has really led to a quell in the violence as the "Strongman", the military, is becoming ingrained into the society and is in a place to monitor and intercept bad-guys better. (Even though they are all bad-guys, really.)

So, what really got me in this article was this part:

"One day, there was a tip that a man driving a black BMW had a suicide vest and was threatening the residents. There was even a name attached to the possible attacker. So, the 1-4 Cav quickly found someone matching the description. They detained one man in a black BMW and checked him out through the database. He was clean, or at least never previously detained. The incident was noted and the man released."

Here's why this is important: They view that good was done because the incident was "noted and the man released". But now the man was in the system and that is where the key is. He is in the system. If he gets picked up for more things, they will be able to with some certainty begin to say that this guy could in fact be a bad guy. There will be "history" and "pattern" to this now "defined individual identity" because he is "in the system".

This is the key.

Now read the next part:

"At a joint security service meeting between the police, Iraqi Army, National Police and American soldiers, the head police pleaded with Americans that he could not process more detainees. He wanted a moratorium on arrests, but as suspects were detained and shuffled through the system, the violence went down – remarkably. Suspects, almost all men, had to be released within 48 hours, but they were now in the system, no longer anonymous."

Again, we see that any who "need to be released" are - but this is ok, because now they are "in the system, no longer anonymous". This is the key. You catch the fish, tag it, and release. It is now under control and can be "known" because it is now "interfaced with the system on an individual basis".

And now, the next part:

"It was the strangers who were not allowed into the neighborhood."

The anonymous need not apply. Those not in the system are not accepted.

Do you see where I am going with this?

Now this is not now, nor even very soon, I believe, but in the wake of whatever massive, unearthly chaos this world will yet experience - may we not think that such a logical solution as requiring every living breathing human being to receive some sort of permanent "mark", an "interface" into the system that completely, securely and certainly validates their identity for all methods of tracking and inquiry into their activities might not be introduced? This may ultimately be billed as the only solution to keep us all safe from the mind bending chaos and evil in the streets. All the deeds done in darkness, in the shadow away from the protecting eyes of the State could now have the light shined upon them all.

And we would all need the mark. Because we are all criminals now, aren't we? And if you aren't, what do you have to hide? Why is it that you do not want to take this mark?

Great in theory, but for one point. The "one" giving the mark is the biggest criminal of them all.

The murder of mankind is the warden of the prison. "The Prince of this world, the angel into whose hands the whole world is delivered."

Just a thought.