Microchip implants are now being used to monitor children, convicts, pets, Alzheimer’s patients, and others. A few otherwise ordinary people have also taken the step of receiving computer chip implants as pioneers of what they expect will one day be the worldwide norm.

Chipping of people began in the U.S. in May 2002, when several volunteers had 12-by-2.1 mm radio frequency identification (RFID) “VeriChips” inserted under the skin of their arms.

More recently, at the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain, customers began paying for drinks with the wave of their hand, having each received a microchip implant for ID and payment purposes. Chipped members are able to breeze past a “reader” that verifies their identity and links it to their current credit balance, and even automatically opens doors to exclusive areas of the club for them. They can then buy food and drinks with a wave of their hand and don’t need to worry about losing a credit card or wallet.

Palm Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) touts this application of the chip implant as an advance over credit cards and smart cards, which, without biometrics and appropriate safeguard technologies, are subject to theft resulting in identity fraud.

The hi-tech means of fulfilling the chilling vision that the apostle John received nearly 2000 years ago is rapidly developing!

Conrad K. Chase, director of the Baja Beach Club, calls the chip implant the wave of the future. “The objective of this technology is to bring an ID system to a global level that will destroy the need to carry ID documents and credit cards.” According to Chase, ADS’s goal is to market the VeriChip as a global implantable identification system.

The significance of this latest development is that the chips being used in Spain are a fraction of the size of the original VeriChip—small enough to be syringe-injected—and they are not being implanted in the arm, but the hand.

And at least one national government is now sanctioning microchip implants. Mexico’s top federal prosecutors and investigators began receiving microchip implants in their arms in November 2003. Since then, Mexico’s attorney general, at least 160 people in his office, and a large number of the Mexico police force have been chipped. Antonio Aceves, general director of Solusat, the company that distributes the microchips in Mexico, says key members of the Mexican military and the office of President Vicente Fox may be next.

The Bible’s book of Revelation states that the regime of the coming world dictator known as the Antichrist “causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17).

The hi-tech means of fulfilling this chilling vision that the apostle John received nearly 2000 years ago is rapidly developing! Now the question is how soon the Antichrist’s “666” credit system will become universal and mandatory.

Are you in tune with the times—the signs of the End? Read the news and study Bible prophecy, and you will see how current events confirm we are living in the Endtime.