Hey JohnPaul,
As I wrote in the beginning of this thread, you must learn not to go beyond what is written. That is what God's apostle Paul wrote (1 Cor 4:6). It safeguards against human imagination and things that are clearly contrary to what is written.
As an example of a contrary thought, is the FFID that was just recently mentioned. Why would this be contrary?
Stick with what is written. This is what is written:
Rev 13:16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
God is telling us that it will be a mark, on. Not an object in or under, the skin. It is a mark, on.
That's very clear.
Next, and now I'm going off on a tangent that is not written, but helps to explain what God is telling us, which is this --
1) We are told that whoever does not take the mark of the beast will be beheaded. So it will be very obvious who is "an enemy of the state", and your neighbors will be able to call you in to the authorities, the nice tattletales they are. So they will be able to see immediately if you do or do not have a mark on you.
2) If you looked at the images I uploaded on page 1, and read the content, you will now understand that every single thing purchased at stores has a UPC barcode on it, and the UPC barcode has a Framework of 666 on it. This is no small matter. Why people, including on this forum, simply ignore this is beyond me. Christians have been on the lookout for anything having 666 on it for generations, and this UPC having 666 on it, is used explicitly in Buying & Selling. Hello? Read this verse:
Rev 13:17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
That's economics!
Is that not the most obvious thing in the world, or what? And yet people who call themselves christians are still in denial of what I am showing them.
3) We are told in the prophecy that it takes wisdom to understand the deciphering (actual Aramaic language into English) of the number of the beast. Read:
Rev 13:18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding decipher (or reckon in the RSV) the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
NOTE: In all the translations, the number was actually written 666. In most translations, though, they translate numbers into the verbal equivalent. So rewriting the verse and adjusting correctly, it would read like this:
Rev 13:18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding decipher the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is 666.
I uploaded the deciphering chart on post #1. The binary representations for the digits, that are then turned into dark and white spaces (1's and 0's), and then making the pair of lines for each digit.
I uploaded the chart to make it plain as day.
What boggles my mind, JohnPaul, is how not a single person on this site asked me the obvious and normal question(s) regarding the UPC barcode -- who ordered it? where did it originate from? and similar questions, that you cannot find any longer by searching the internet. You could find these answers prior to the year 2000, but since then all truth is being removed by the tech companies (which is clue about something else, too) and lies have been created to misdirect.
So then who ordered it and where did it originate from? Also, what are the tech companies a clue about?