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rsr

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Wonder what the map would have looked like in A.D. 1000 if the technology had been available.
 
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windcatcher

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Ed Edwards said:
tee hee! the Volcano in Yemen (Saudi Pen. in Asia) is shown in the middle of North Africa, some 1200 miles away.
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Yes....that was funny..... some boo row crat error no doubt;
The following is an interesting account about the 666 Mark o f the Beast:

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In the book, Creating a Government that Works Better & Costs Less, by Vice President Al Gore. Vice President Gore, (p.114), calls for ". . . the rapid development of a nationwide system to deliver government benefits ELECTRONICALLY. . . develop an implementation plan for electronic benefits transfer by March 1994." According to Gore, the process is well under way (p.114), "There are test sites in Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming."

The acceleration of these technologies and communications are swiftly taking us into George Orwell's "1984" "Big Brother government" scenario. Mr. Orwell was right... only he was off a few years. Incidentally, Hilary Clinton's favorite books are "1984" and "Brave New World", where the government controls all facets of society through technology.
The Implantable Biochip/Identification Transponder

There is a biochip now in the hands of the government that has the potential of becoming the "mark of the beast" where you can not "buy or sell" without it. Carl Sanders, was a top electronics engineer and inventor for the U.S. government, who worked with the FBI, CIA, IRS and other government agencies designing spy technologies and surveillance equipment. He holds several patents and has been presented with the President's and Governor's Awards for Merit and Design Excellence.

Carl Sanders sat in 17 New World Order meetings with heads of state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the CIA to discuss plans on how to bring about this One World System. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a biochip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world— a biochip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick/convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).

Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by our tax dollars, took on this project and designed a biochip which is powered by a lithium battery rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Bro. Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one and half million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the biochip inserted. Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand is not just the most convenient place but is also the only viable place for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The biochip is approximately 7mm in length, .75 mm in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, crime record, health history and financial data can be stored on this chip.

The sending unit of the biochip puts out a digital signal and consists of bursts of 85 data bits. It also puts out a digitally created analog signal at specific intervals. Used as a transponder this signal gives out vital information and also serves as a location marker. These ID biochips are therefore much more effective and efficient than any previous method of verifying one's identity. In fact, biochip transponder technology is the only viable means of identifying living creatures. ID implants will eventually replace all existing forms of identification devices for people.' Once they have been injected under our skin, we will have been ELECTRONICALLY BRANDED for life! It is already being tested and implanted in military personnel, government couriers and corporate personnel. It was used in the Gulf War and the technology was featured on 20/20 in August of 1991.

These biochip implants are designed to become our passports, driver's licenses, health care cards, social security cards, etc. In other words, they will become our UNIVERSAL ID and ATM /DEBIT CHIPS all in one. One World, One Biochip. Presently, AT&T advertises it's new contactless, electronic smart card as, "One World. One Card." Simply pass your right hand over a radio-frequency (RFID) scanner and you will be identified instantaneously and processed automatically wherever you are. A radio wave will pass through the skin of your hand, activate your ID transponder, and transmit your unique ID number back outside the skin to the scanner. This entire process of identification will require only about two seconds. Computers in the new, digitized, fiber-optical Information Superhighway infrastructure will do the rest. It looks like that in the very near future, all buying and selling will be controlled. Scan your hand, and debit your account. How wonderful...

Bro. Sanders believes that this biochip which he regretfully help design may be the "mark" spoken about in Revelation 13:15-17. The original Greek word for "mark" is "charagma" which means a "scratch or etching, i.e., a stamp or badge of servitude, a mark". It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is "Chi Xi Stigma", the first part denoting the number 666 and the last part "stigma" meaning "to stick or prick, a mark incised or punched (for recognition of ownership)". Look it up yourself, it's exactly what it means! In light of these definitions, implantable biochips could very well be the physical "mark" spoken of in the book of Revelation!

Is The Smart Card The Stepping Stone To The Mark?
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ReformedBaptist said:
It's only signs depending on one's eschatology...lol
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Amen, Brother -- Preach it! :thumbs:

IMHO Matthew 24:4-14 is the signs that the Church Age (AKA: Time of the Gentiles, Age of Grace, etc) continues. Those signs include earthquakes. These signs include the expansion of the Gospel to the whole world. This sign was first been reported in the New Testement.
 
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Magnetic Poles

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rsr said:
Wonder what the map would have looked like in A.D. 1000 if the technology had been available.
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I'm guessing about the same. We live on a dynamic planet that is shaped by many forces, including gravity, radiation, solar energy, plate tectonics, meteor and comet collissions, tidal forces, etc.
 
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windcatcher

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ReformedBaptist said:
It's only signs depending on one's eschatology...lol
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That's a mighty big word. I'm sure I could look it up in Websters but not certain that I have the degrees to make it worth while.

And does this mean that what God wrote in his word is only for those with degrees?

If so, then why aren't those who shepherd over us and have those fancy degrees bringing us studies or encouragements regarding the prophetic present/future or recent past..... Seems, I've read "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." Rev. 1;3 It says we are blessed in reading..... we are blessed by hearing. I don't think it is implied that we will have a clear understanding as prophecy unfolds.... but that the Lord will bless those who gain a familiarity and comfort from the prophecies.... I can know that the Bible speaks that some of the prophecies are bound from understanding until the time and events have ripened so that what once had seemingly no meaning or possibility become plausible within the reality of evidence which exist to support the possiblities:

I think sometimes that the prophecies are like a lady and her suiter: He has promised to her that he will come to her and take her away and while he is gone, she must prepare for his return. He does not schedule it on a calendar or in a year or at an hour, but he tells her that certain signs will be present on the day or the approach of the time when he returns. He leaves her in love and pinning for his presence and the fullfillment of their love and relationship together. Each day she wakes and thinks of the skills she may need which will bless their future together, and sets herself at the task of developing her maturity and discipline.

She meditates on the letters he has written and tunes in to those qualities which he has and which she knows he admires. She considers those tasks which he has asked of her and makes them part of her life and allows her love for her beloved to give energy to her motive and strength to her actions to attempt the development which he has asked of her in preparation for his return. As each day passes, she looks for the signs of his return: Some seem to appear which she thinks 'this may be the time'. She runs to the window and gazes down the road to the point where she might first see his appearing, her heart beating fiercely in anticipation, thinking 'this could be the time'.

Each sign she looks for and believes the shadows are lessening, make her seek him more and make her work at preparation become more fervent: She must be prepared. She desires as much perfection as she can become for him. The anticipation of his return is such that she is always rising to perfect her best appearance and her skills and the fruits of her garden in readiness for his arrival. She prepares her house for a receptive welcome. She reviews her attitude throughout the day's experiences to meet and see past the challenges to be receptive to the expression of joy. Each time she is reminded by a shadow of one or several signs which her beloved left to her, she finds herself feeling his presence is closer than it was the last time of her anticipation. She knows her beloved is faithful and will come as he has promised, and she knows that she doesn't know when....... but each sign which suggest his appearance is near is an encouragement to renewed hope and joyous anticipation of that time when she will be forever with her beloved.
 
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