(Editor’s Note: This was a prophetic dream that was given to Maurice Sklar)

This week I had a dream.  It was a terribly frightening dream.  In it, I saw a huge angel standing suspended in the air over New York harbor.  It looked so large that it covered the night sky.  His body was clad in golden armor as if he was going to war.  His face and entire being were so bright that I could not gaze up at him for long.  White beams of light seemed to radiate outward from him in all directions. He was standing over the Statue of Liberty. It was night, but I could hardly see the lights around him coming from New York City as he blazed so brightly with divine light.

He reached for his belt that was covered with a red sash around his mid section, and drew out his sword.  It was so massive! It blazed with light and fire all around it.  It looked at least 100 feet long!  I have never felt such fear when I saw an angel before.  I just knew this mighty warring spirit had authority from the very throne of God.  He had a grim expression as he held this mighty sword over his head with both hands.  I could see that he was poised to hit the Statue of Liberty and cleave it in two!  I trembled and tried to hide, but the angel was looking directly at me, and I knew there was nowhere to go that he would not see me.

Then he spoke! His voice was like thunder and echoed throughout the whole harbor.  He said,

“How long will you refuse to humble yourself, O America!  You have been weighed in the balances of God and found wanting.  Your beginning was great and noble, but your end shall be disgrace and destruction!  

Thus saith the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the LORD of Hosts,

‘Time is running out.  The bowls of My wrath are full of My fury and judgment.  They shall be poured out upon you.  You shall drink them down…to the dregs…every drop! I have come to you day and night pleading with you to return to Me for over one hundred years.  I am merciful and long suffering.  It brings Me no joy to judge you. But, you have hardened your hearts, scoffed at My warnings through My prophets, and my holy servants.  I brought you from nothing and exalted you, O America, higher than any other nation!  But now you have fallen lower than Sodom.  You have sinned greater than Egypt.  You have become prouder than Babylon and Persia.  You have become more selfish than Rome.  You have exalted yourself in your own wisdom higher than Greece.  You have more idols and high places of idolatry and luxury than any Gentile kingdom in history.  Your beginning was pure and great, butnow the stench of your sin and filth fills My nostrils!  I shall cut you in pieces and you shall reap the harvests of wrath from what you have sown!  You shall no longer be the Queen of nations.  Now you shall bear your shame and become the lowest of the heathen nations! Now, as Agag, you shall be hacked in pieces!  O EARTH, EARTH, EARTH, HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD!”
Then, to my horror, that massive sword came smashing down on Lady Liberty.  When it hit the top of her head, there was a blinding flash of light and that sword split her in two – right down the middle!  Then the sword came again and again against her.  It divided her in pieces.  As the sword would finish each strike, fires would burst forth.  I heard terrible explosions.  The vision of the Statue ended with an earthquake as it was hacked into pieces and sunk into the harbor.

I was weeping and crying out to God for mercy.  Never had I seen this side of God before.  I had only really known the love and goodness of Him, never had I seen the Wrath of the Almighty!

Then, as if I was watching from a zoomed-in close up…the dream shifted and I started to zoom outward from New York harbor and started traveling in the air over America.  What I saw was horror beyond anything I have ever seen!  I saw the United States seem to crack in two with a giant earthquake – right down the middle!  I saw the Southeastern United States covered with a giant wave of water from the ocean.  I saw a massive earthquake that just seemed to crack off the coast of California.  It reminded me of a Saltine cracker that just cracked in two!  The great cities along the West coast just fell into the ocean, all the way from Mexico up to Alaska and giant waves flooded inland until much of the West Coast just wasn’t there!  It had disappeared into the Pacific Ocean.

Then I saw three giant rocket missiles that took off into the air.  Two came from out of the ocean waters, and one came from land and traveled a great distance.  All of them blew up in the air one, two, and THREE in the upper atmosphere within five minutes of each other.  It was out near space.  They were terrible nuclear bombs.  But the last one was the biggest and it created a huge mushroom cloud over the Midwest part of America.  Then the ground shook and everything just went black.  There wasn’t any electric light coming out of any homes. Then candles began to be lit and fires, and a little light was seen.  There were other nuclear explosions, and many people perished throughout the nation.  There was just twisted metal and charred debris in cities that once were tall and majestic.

There was widespread looting and gangs roaming about everywhere with guns, stealing whatever food and supplies they could find.  Then I saw what looked like elite riot police by the thousands go into communities and even cities, force the people out of their homes, and brought into what looked like concentration camps.  Some, but not all of these “police armies” had light blue helmets on.  Hundreds of thousands of people were arrested in this way.  Many would not “cooperate” and were just shot and left dead in their homes.

But, there were millions of hidden groups that escaped the first wave of these terrible disasters. Revival broke out, and great evangelists and prophets and apostles rose up and began to preach to thousands out doors, and many were saved and were born again.  Miracles of provision, multiplication of food and water, and astonishing healings occurred.  Millions of people cried out to God andhe heard and answered.

I knew that this was not just happening in America, but the Great Tribulation was upon them, and all over the world these calamities were also taking place.

I saw multitudes of Tribulation saints refusing to renounce Jesus as LORD.  They were starving, many of them, but still refused to take the stamp on their bodies so they could eat and live.  There was what looked like kiosks that were in every little town.  They advertised food and water, only if you went inside them and took the electronic mark.  Some went in, bowed down to a holographic movie images of the Antichrist and were branded in their hands and foreheads with a electronic tattoo-like stamp.  When they came out, if they came out, they had a zombie-like look.  Their minds and souls were gone.  It looked like they had a spiritual lobotomy.  Then these immediately joined the armies of those police units, and were given weapons after they were fed and drank and rested in the kiosk.  They were like robots doing the Antichrist’s bidding.  I knew that they were lost forever.  But, quite a few did not make it out.  They were tortured mentally and physically inside the kiosk thing, but, if they still refused the mark of the beast, there was a laser that shot through their brain and heart, and sliced their heads off.  Then they were immediately incinerated.  Nothing but ashes remained.  This was the most horrifying of all.  It made the Nazi death campslook like a picnic, it that is possible. Millions of people were executed in this way via computer systems automatically with such precision and efficiency that I marveled that something like this was even possible and could take place on such a large scale.  The technology was more advanced than I had ever seen.

Then, I was back looking at that terrible angel of the LORD, and he said,

“Warn everyone!  Flee from the wrath to come.  Repent and turn to Jesus while you still can.  Pray that you may escape these things that are shortly to happen, and to stand in the Presence of the LORD.  These things are about to take place!  Turn to God and cry out for mercy.  Come into the ark of Salvation before the doors of grace close and it is too late!”

Blessings,

Maurice Sklar

For years there has been a raging debate among Christians who study Bible prophecy.  Many have believed that the coming Mark of the Beast will be an implantable microchip that is inserted into the right hand or the forehead.  Many others insist that the coming Mark of the Beast will be a tattoo of some sort.  Well, perhaps it may be a tattoo that utilizes RFID technology.  A start-up company developing “chipless RFID ink” has already tested its product on cattle and laboratory rats.

Now, it is important to state at the outset that this is NOT the Mark of the Beast.  However, this may represent yet another step towards the technology that someday will be used in the Mark of the Beast.

The name of the company developing this process is Somark.  The RFID tattoo is applied using a geometric array of micro-needles and a reusable applicator with a one-time-use ink capsule.

It takes approximately five to 10 seconds to tattoo an animal (or a human), and there is no need to remove any fur or hair from the recipient of the tattoo.  Once it is applied, an RFID reader can detect the tattoo from up to four feet away.

Somark co-founder Mark Pydynowski says that the ink does not contain any metals and that it is 100% bio-compatible and chemically inert.

He also claims that is is 100% safe for animals and for people. 

Initially, the executives of Somark hope to market this technology to those who wish to track cattle.

However, it does not take a lot of imagination to think up many other applications for this technology.

Once again, it must be stressed that this is NOT the Mark of the Beast.

However, this is a disturbing development.

The Scriptures tell us in Revelation 13 that someday all of humanity will be forced to take a “Mark” on the right hand or on the forehead by the Antichrist.  Nobody will be allowed to buy or sell without it.

So could this “Mark” end up using RFID tattoo technology?

Perhaps.

We will just have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, for those who want to learn much more about the Mark of the Beast, we encourage you to check out this article: “What Is The Mark Of The Beast?”

Years ago, spreading rumors about RFID microchips being implanted in humans would be enough to get you branded as a wild “conspiracy theorist”. Those days are long gone. Now the microchipping of humans with RFID chips is so mainstream that television commercials touting the benefits of the technology are being produced. As you watch the super creepy television ad posted below, ask yourself this question: Could this technology one day be used for the Mark of the Beast?

Specifically, the television ad is for an implantable RFID chip known as Health Link. It is about the size of a grain of rice, and it is inserted just under the skin and it enables medical personnel to pull up medical information quickly during an emergency. This technology is especially being touted for elderly people who live alone or for those who suffer from dementia or other mental illnesses.

While those purposes may sound quite noble, the reality is that implantable microchips also have the potential to be radically abused by tyrannical governments who wish to track, trace and control their populations. Many Bible prophecy scholars have speculated that this type of technology may one day be used for the Mark of the Beast.

In any event, if the following recently discovered television commercial showed up on my television I would find it more than a little creepy. What do you think about this video?…..

An implantable RFID microchip implant that can detect the swine flu or other bio-threats in your bloodstream? That is the ambitious new goal of VeriChip corporation.

VeriChip currently markets RFID microchips that patients can have implanted under their skin that contain a link to their medical records so that doctors with a special reader can access their medical information even if the patient is unconscious or unable to be identified. So far VeriChip is the only corporation to have such an implant approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

But now VeriChip is seeking to expand their technology in dramatic new directions. The goal for this new chip is to develop an implant that can not only recognize the presence of a bio-threat, but that can also diagnose what virus is infecting the host.

The plans for this new chip are documented in a white paper entitled “AN INTEGRATED SENSOR SYSTEM FOR THE DETECTION OF BIO-THREATS FROM PANDEMICS TO EMERGING DISEASES TO BIOTERRORISM”. You can read this white paper for yourself right here:

http://www.receptorsllc.com/documents/Virus%20Sensor%20White%20Paper.pdf

Now, many Christians may overreact to news such as this and declare that the Mark of the Beast is at hand. 

But this is most definitely NOT the Mark of the Beast.

But it is another step in the development of the technology that could eventually be used for the Mark of the Beast.

In any event, as the public acceptance of implantable RFID technology increases, the reality is that it will begin to be used for more and more applications.

Someday you may be faced with the choice of having to take an RFID chip to keep your job.  It may not be the Mark of the Beast yet, but are you willing to take a chip under any circumstances?

There are tough decisions ahead for all of us.  Each day brings us closer to the time when the Mark of the Beast will be implemented.  For more information on the coming Mark of the Beast, please read this excellent article that we put together some time ago:

http://signsofthelastdays.com/archives/the-mark-of-the-beast

Is it wrong for Christians to fear that the “Mark of the Beast” could be implemented in our lifetimes?  Is there any reason to believe that mandatory microchipping of the population is on the horizon?

Well, although there are no known plans by any government in the world to microchip their populations, the technology does exist, and several recent trends seem to indicate that the day when we will see mandatory microchipping of the population is closer than ever.

For example, a shocking new U.S. government plan would embed an RFID chip in all driver’s licenses. Just when privacy advocates thought that the REAL ID program was dead, the federal government has come up with something far, far more sinister.

If this proposal is implemented, the U.S. government would be able to electronically track nearly every adult citizen wherever they go. The possibilities for abuse of such a system are endless. For example, the government would be able to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies just by walking through the crowd with an ID reader.

This very disturbing proposal actually has the support of Janet Napolitano, the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. Instead of calling them REAL IDs, these new licenses would be called “enhanced driver’s licenses”.

The Department of Homeland Security even has a web page up about these “enhanced driver’s licenses”. On that page they even admit that these new licenses will contain an RFID chip that “will signal a computer to pull up your biographic and biometric data” and could tell a government agent all of your personal details.

Do any of find this disturbing yet?

Of course this is not the Mark of the Beast yet, but it is another step in that direction.

As you read this, RFID chips are being implanted into humans with alarming frequency. For instance, RFID implants are being implanted in older Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease who are at risk of wandering off. RFID human implants are also being used in some areas to store the medical records of patients who are chronically ill so that doctors can get their information quickly in an emergency.

While those uses may sound “good” or “reasonable”, the truth is that the primary use of this technology is to create a “Big Brother” society where everything that you do is tracked, traced and watched by the government. Every time this technology expands, it brings us closer to that day that we read about in the book of Revelation.

PC Magazine is even advocating the microchipping of humans.  In a recent article, one of their writers stated this: “It’s high time we embraced RFID technology in all its permutations, even personal implants.”

The author of that article even advocated the microchipping of our children.

Chip implants can even manipulate human emotions and feelings.  In fact, in one very bizarre application of this technology, scientists in the U.K. are developing an electronic “sex chip” that can be implanted into the brain to stimulate pleasure.

Other more sinister microchip experiments by scientists around the world involve mind control.  Do any of you find it disturbing that the majority of the population could one day be “mind controlled” by the government through mandatory microchip implants?

The use of microchip technology in humans could open the door to abuses that we could hardly even imagine right now.

The reality is that microchipping is becoming commonplace in the United States.  Hospitals, private corporations and security firms are increasingly viewing human microchipping as the most foolproof form of identification.

In particular, financial institutions are eyeing microchip technology as a key to fraud prevention.

The biggest credit card provider in the U.K. says that the plan is for everyone to start paying for their purchases with a microchip instead of a credit card very soon.

“In time you won’t have to carry a plastic credit card around with you if you don’t want to, although some people will chose to for nostalgic reasons,” Barclaycard Chief Executive Officer Antony Jenkins stated recently.

This is just another small step towards the day when everyone in society will be forced to get chipped.

While we are not forced to be chipped yet, the same is not true for some animals in the United States.

Under the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), the FDA is going to start requiring the microchipping of certain types of farm animals and livestock. The homeless, hospital patients and employees of certain corporations are being microchipped in some areas of the United States. This is a technology that is spreading and is not going to go away.

Will you take a microchip someday when the government requires you to do so?

Will you willingly take the chip when they come for you?

It may be really easy to resist it when they introduce it on a voluntary basis at first.

But will you resist it when you cannot have a bank account without it?

Will you resist when you cannot buy or sell without it?

What will you do?

Where will you live?

How will you buy food?

Will you resist when they start putting people without the chip into camps?

Will you resist when they start waterboarding you?

What about when they threaten to put a nail through your eye?

What about when they put you in a cramped, windowless cell and they turn out all the lights and they let dozens of hungry rats in?

What about when they start torturing your children right in front of you?

Will you still resist then?

Will you still resist when they threaten to burn all of your skin off with acid and then throw you into a blazing fire?

Would it be worth it for you to resist?

Why not just make things easy on yourself and take the chip and then you can stay in your house and buy and sell and you can go to work and live normally and the new world order will get of your back?

Perhaps you think that you will never have to face such a choice.

But the Scriptures say that everyone will face this kind of a choice in the last days.

It will be known as “the Mark of the Beast” and we don’t know exactly what form it will take, but Revelation 13:16-17 tells us that if you do not have it on your right hand or your forehead you will not be able to buy or sell without it…..

He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Revelation 14:9-11 tells us the ultimate destiny for ANYONE who takes the Mark of the Beast:

A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name.”

Will you have the power to resist the Mark of the Beast in the last days?

There are some who will.

Only those who have given their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ will have the power to resist when that day comes. We urge you to invite Him into your life today.