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Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:23 AM

Is President Bush Ushering In The Mark Of The Beast?

 

 

Is President Bush Ushering In The Mark Of The Beast?

 

 

 

By Chuck Baldwin

October 21, 2004

 

Many conservative Christians regard President G. W. Bush as a political messiah,

however many of his policies more resemble a personality at the other end of the

theological pendulum. For example, the Associated Press reported last week that

Bush's Food and Drug Administration has approved computer chips for humans.

 

According to the AP, " Medical milestone or privacy invasion? A tiny computer

chip approved Wednesday [October 13] for implantation in a patient's arm can

speed vital information about a patient's medical history to doctors and

hospitals. But critics warn that it could open new ways to imperil the

confidentiality of medical records.

 

" The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that Applied Digital Solutions

of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip, an implantable computer chip

about the size of a grain of rice, for medical purposes...

 

" With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a

procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. Silently and

invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific

information when a scanner passes over it. "

 

For students of the Scriptures, this sounds eerily familiar to the prophesied

" Mark of the Beast. " This mark is to be given to followers of the Anti-Christ

during the coming Great Tribulation. According to Scripture, such a mark is to

be placed in or under the skin of a person's forehead or hand.

 

Could Bush's approval of Digital Solutions' implantable computer chip be the

harbinger of the coming " Mark of the Beast? " And if so, where does the President

fit in regarding the fulfillment of Bible prophecy? Could President Bush

actually be instrumental in starting a prophetic chain of events that will

ultimately lead to the rise of a global evil empire opposed to the Lord Jesus

Christ? Obviously, these questions, and the very premise of them, are open to

wide speculation among Christians and Bible scholars.

 

However, one thing does appear clear to me: again and again the policies and

practices of President G. W. Bush seem to be diametrically opposed to his

Christian rhetoric. Furthermore, it is also obvious that there are very few

Christians who even seem to notice. Then again, perhaps they, too, have found

their place in prophecy.