FOXNews Loves Microchips!
No other cable news network promotes the VeriChip corporation than FOXNews. The elites are determined to insert implantable microchips in every living being. They're already mandatory for all U.S. cattle, and the next step for humans is through the door of medicine.
The last few times I reported on the microchip phenomena, an influential colleague sent me stinging rebukes for even suggesting that microchips were a fulfillment of the "mark of the beast." Well, I wasn't saying that. What I was attempting to state was that the preterist hermeneutic is not offering much to help Christians understand the contemporary push of totalitarian control measures. Because of this, dispensational doomsayers are co-opting the examples of escalating despotism to support their theories of a soon-coming end of the world.
A proper use of the historical-grammmatical method to Biblical interpretation should not neglect the sense of idealism the Scriptures provide. The reason the beast images contained in John's apocalypse had meaning to first-century hearers--especially the Jewish ones--is that Israel's prophetic history was replete with all sorts of beasts and multiplications of the number six. The Book of Revelation, in this sense, serves as a sort of mini-pentateuch to which we consult in order to both beware of the warnings provided in the letters to the churches as well as take heed to the pictorial characteristics of beasts, harlots, and false prophets.
So, when I see modern tyrants seeking to "be as god" in controlling the population, I know this is nothing new. The Scriptures provide me clear illustrations that the world is filled with beasts that must be overcome by faithful and obedient Christians. The Book of Revelation is a book of victory; and like the beasts of Israel's past, and the beast that confronted the early church, John's vision provides us with the encouragement to defeat the present beasts that seek the eradication of Christ and His people.
The last few times I reported on the microchip phenomena, an influential colleague sent me stinging rebukes for even suggesting that microchips were a fulfillment of the "mark of the beast." Well, I wasn't saying that. What I was attempting to state was that the preterist hermeneutic is not offering much to help Christians understand the contemporary push of totalitarian control measures. Because of this, dispensational doomsayers are co-opting the examples of escalating despotism to support their theories of a soon-coming end of the world.
A proper use of the historical-grammmatical method to Biblical interpretation should not neglect the sense of idealism the Scriptures provide. The reason the beast images contained in John's apocalypse had meaning to first-century hearers--especially the Jewish ones--is that Israel's prophetic history was replete with all sorts of beasts and multiplications of the number six. The Book of Revelation, in this sense, serves as a sort of mini-pentateuch to which we consult in order to both beware of the warnings provided in the letters to the churches as well as take heed to the pictorial characteristics of beasts, harlots, and false prophets.
So, when I see modern tyrants seeking to "be as god" in controlling the population, I know this is nothing new. The Scriptures provide me clear illustrations that the world is filled with beasts that must be overcome by faithful and obedient Christians. The Book of Revelation is a book of victory; and like the beasts of Israel's past, and the beast that confronted the early church, John's vision provides us with the encouragement to defeat the present beasts that seek the eradication of Christ and His people.
