Teachinghearts	Technology and Prophecy "Explore the Word. Change the World"	Statistics: Time: 200 minutes Print: 25 pages

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Some prophecies described in Revelation require a certain level of sophistication and technology. The ability of Antichrist systems to effectively capture God's people or deny services can be easily achieved through current technology.

Prayer "Ask and you shall receive"

Father, may I understand the forces at work. May I see the developments in human history through your eyes. And may I be encouraged by the fact that you are still in control so that I may face the future with courage. Thank you.

The Final Frontier
In the days of Noah people used their technology to increase their wickedness. After the flood wiped out all scientific knowledge, they used the assets of common language and common community to set up a system to defy God. Today we have overcome language barriers and we have a common community of scientists and educators who have joined together to defy God in their theories of evolution and social reconstruction. The general public seem eager to accept any theories that do not condemn their behavior.

This section is dedicated to describing the use of the technology now and under a end-time scenario. As such, the precautions seem premature, the guidelines may seem extreme because you cannot see humans, governments and churches in such a vicious light. Therefore, I have included examples where the exact scenario has or is happening and show current laws that threaten to make the scenario a possibility.
I am using my education and expertise to describe the potential of these systems and to extrapolate about innovations in the future. I am surprised at how quickly some features are being deployed and I am reminded that the end will come rapidly and unexpectedly.

None of these systems are intrinsically evil, but evil men are now plotting to use them. They provide convenience, efficiency, safety and new answers to old problems. So avoid the prophetic paranoia, but embrace them with prophetic wisdom.
I believe the end time battles will be on such a scale of magnitude and horror that it will make Hitler's group look like Girl Scouts on a picnic. This is the final war where the evil forces will hold no barriers. So anything that is possible will be possible.
I must warn you that what I am about to present may be frightening - but God is in control. Remember this. So, instead of being frightened about the capabilities of the enemy, be happy that it shows that the coming of our precious Lord is closer than you believed.

Prophecies Related to Science and Technology

Technology Summary Spread the Gospel   • Printing   • Radio   • Television   • Video Recorders   • Telephone   • Computer   • Internet   • Satellites   • Solar energy Tracking   • Night Vision   • Thermal imaging   • Satellite Photography   • Traffic Cameras   • GPS receivers   • Pattern Recognition   • Vehicle Identification   • Data Networks   • TIA (Total Information Awareness)   • Mobile phones Identification   • Biometrics   • National Identification (Real-ID)   • Social Security Numbers   • Tiny GPS receivers   • RFID tags   • Face Recognition Cameras   • Gait Recognition (how you walk)   • Digital Angel Economic Boycott   • Bank records   • Tax records   • Social Security Numbers   • Direct Deposit   • Credit and Debit Cards   • Credit Verification services   • Know your Customer Law   • Driver's License Surveillance   • Traffic Control Systems   • Vehicle Recognition   • Remote Photography   • Parabolic receivers   • Body Scanning   • Public Cameras   • Government databases of habits   • Internet traffic and e-mail Listening Devices   • Carnivore   • Calea   • Echelon   • Oasis and Fluent   • Telephone off hook   • Electronic devices   • Baby monitors Interrogation   • Psychological techniques   • Personality evaluation   • The Lie Machine   • Body language analysis   • Coercive techniques Laws   • USA Patriot Act   • Know your Customer Law

Prophecy indicates the extent of technology at the end of time.

1. Creation. The final message urges the world to worship God as the Creator. This suggests that there will come a time when this is an issue for most people.
   Worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters. (Revelation 14: 7)
   In December 2009, God gave me the information to prove that Moses was given a pattern of the periodic table on Mount Sinai. The Periodic Table has the same structure and number of rows and columns for each of its four blocks as the structure and number of rows and columns (boards) in each section of the sanctuary.
2. Knowledge Increases. Although this refers primarily to an increase in spiritual knowledge, at the same time scientific knowledge exploded. It was as if the physical world benefited from the spiritual.
   "... conceal these words and seal up the book until the time of the end; many will go back and forth and knowledge will increase". (Daniel 12:4)
   Scientific knowledge began around 1700.
3. Communications. The people who were scattered by geography and language need to overcome those barriers at the end of time so that they can unite to fight God. A global communications system and fast travel network have eliminated these barriers.
4. Fast Travel. Passenger transportation speed suddenly changed from about 6 mph (10 kph) over the last 6000 years to within 1700 mph (2700 kph) in 100 years (Daniel 12: 4). In 1819 a steamship took 30 days to cross the Atlantic from New York to London. Now an aeroplane takes three hours.
5. Worldwide Economic Boycott. Those who do not accept the mark of the beast will be cut off from all trade. There must be technology that links the world instantaneously to transmit economic information.
   "And he provides that no one will be able to buy or sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. (Revelation 13: 17)
   • Banking systems and networks
   • Credit Bureaus
   • Point of Sale Terminals
   • Instant Verification: E-money, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Instant Check Verification
   • Card Technologies
   • RFID in merchandise, identification cards and implanted in people.
   • Use of National Identification like the United States Social Security Number by Financial Institutions.
   Businesses are punished because they become an integral part of the persecuting system.
6. Worldwide Economic Globalism. There will be a time when the world's economic systems will be so enmeshed that a collapse in the major economic center will have worldwide repercussions. But this is a prophecy for the very end. Current economic downturns are not the sign. However, as the economy keeps bouncing back it does give a sense of false security, luring more and more people from the world into these global investments. In 1929 the stock market crash in the United States triggered a worldwide financial crisis and led to the Great Depression.
   And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more. (Revelation 18: 11-20)
7. Gospel to the Whole World. Given the current population, secularism, and the physical impossibility of reaching all people, several inventions make it possible for spoken or written words to be seen by billions.
   The gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will come. (Matthew 24: 14)
   • Printing
   • Radio
   • Television
   • Internet
   • Computers and computer software that allows desk top publishing
8. Mark of the Beast. Since many Christian groups believe it to be only a literal mark, we will see how technologies can be used. But, while I believe it is more than a literal mark and may not necessarily include any such real marks, there is nothing that prevents the beast power from physically marking the people of God. Past persecuting powers have used marks to separate people. Jews were forced to wear outward signs in Nazi Germany and in the crusades. The Taliban forced people who were not of the Moslem faith to wear a sign on their forehead or on their sleeves.
   And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead. (Revelation 13: 16)
9. Persecution Technologies. Systems for tracking and finding people.
   ... And there shall be a time of trouble ... (Daniel 12: 1)
   A combination of technologies and laws will be used to harass, track and locate people.
   » Vulnerabilities. In the end, the technology cannot be used against us. During the seven last plagues the wicked will have a mounting series of problems. Satellites and electrical grids are vulnerable to military weapons, terrorism, sunspot activity and meteor showers. Satellites and digital technology are vulnerable to rain and atmospheric disturbances. Electrical systems are vulnerable to electromagnetic interferance. Relay stations and repeaters are vulnerable to earthquakes. Computer systems are vulnerable to hackers, fires and power outages. All systems are vulnerable to power outages. By the time of the seven last plagues, our technology may be reduced to the stone age. Short wave and analog signals may be the only reliable technologies but we are quickly replacing analog, and short wave is in too short a supply to mount a global persecution. But before then, we are vulnerable. After that the wicked have to personally get their hands dirty with the business of torture and murder which they have previously supported through slogans and silence.
10. Space Exploration. After the people built the tower of Babel, God imposed a limit because He foresaw greater rebellion when they settled in Babylon and reached outer space.
    One Language. Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. It came about as they journeyed east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
    Space Tower. They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth".
    One Global Community. The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.Then the Lord said, "Behold they are one people and they have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them." Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they do not understand one another's speech. (Genesis 11: 1-2,4-7)
    We have sent probes into outer space and landed on distant planets and plan on building a space elevator that will reach into outer space (Tsiolkovsky Tower). We already have a space station where astronauts live for several months. We have fulfilled the dreams of our ancestors at Babel. We are now Babylon the Great who will reach the skies (Jeremiah 51: 53).
11. Military Technologies. God comes to destroy those who are destroying the earth (Revelation 11: 18-19). We have the capability to destroy the earth within one week with nuclear weapons. Our biological weapons could destroy life in less than one month and our chemicals are slowly poisoning the environment. However, we are most capable of slowly destroying the natural systems of our planet with our industries and technologies within the next generation. We are being destroyed by our search for and use of energy through fossil fuels and our genetically modified farming technologies and poor harvesting of the land and its resources.
12. Biotechnologies. There will be famine and disease during the seven last plagues. These will be traced back to human activity so that God can mock our gods.
    Through a prophet, we suspect that the antedeluvians had superior technology. The destruction of the world by a flood followed immoral genetic experiments that seem to resemble the current cloning, gene splicing and recombinant DNA technologies that is crossing the genetic material of species that could never be combined naturally.

Key Technologies and Inventions
Several key technologies and discoveries have made these systems possible. Any changes in these areas will affect the future prophetic landscape.

• Electricity (1879). This is the single most important discovery that has made all other technology feasible and possible.
• Computers and Databases. It causes information to be organized and quickly analyzed.
• Telecommunications (Satellites and Phones). It causes communications to be global and instantaneous.
• Radio and Television. It is useful for information, disinformation and spreading the gospel.
• Miniaturization. It causes technology to be portable, ubiquituous and hidden.
• Wireless. It causes applications to be mobile.
• GPS. It causes identity applications to be mobile and global.
• Legislation. Laws and consumer-driven data can force interoperation and dispersion of technology.

Computers and Data Networks
Computer systems are the brains that drive all the other technological devices. With the advent of miniaturization, coupled with telecommunications a whole range of applications became possible.

Databases
Databases are files of related information residing on one or more computers. With a correctly organized database one can maintain all types of information that can be retrieved instantly. If a unique personal Identification number is attached to all these bits of information, then systems can start sharing information about you more readily.

Several important database systems from a combination of government and private sector systems are being used to collect data on citizens. In our times and the immediate future, these are some of the organizations responsible for collecting, organizing and implementing these systems:

Databases: Financial Institutions

• Banks. They are the crucial link between the government and the credit verification systems. They assist the government by reporting 'suspicious activity' as defined by the government. One 1996 law, used to monitor criminal activity, requires banks to report 'suspicious activity' by reporting any financial transactions that have a high probability in uncovering criminal activity, tax evasion or helpful in any regulatory or investigative proceedings. Financial transactions in excess of $10,000 and in some cases $5,000 must be reported. To further monitor these activities other methods have been proposed and some were scheduled to be implemented in 2001.
  
  One major regulation proposed on December 7, 1998 called the ' Know your customer' law extensively invades privacy. It requires banks to maintain a profile of all depositors, including average expected monthly deposits and average expected expenses. If a depositor exceeds the average (possibly by a reasonable percentage) then that person must be reported. This includes any increase in income or expenses. Here is what the original proposed laws requires banks to do specifically:
  • Identify their customers. This indicates how likely you are to engage in certain levels of financial transactions.
  • Determine the source of funds for each customer.
  • Determine the 'normal' and 'expected' transactions of each customer.
  • Monitor each account activity and measure it against historical patterns and report any suspicious activity that does not conform to historical patterns.

  Monthly Profile
  Source	Rich	Middle	Poor
  Income
  Job 1	500,000	8,900	200
  Job 2	0	0	350
  Job 3	0	0	700
  Interest	10,000	80	1
  Dividends	20,000	20	0
  Savings	0	0	0
  Income outside this structure is suspicious
  Total	530,000	9,000	1,251
  Expenses
  Mortgage /Rent	35,000	1,500	650
  Food	5,000	1,000	300
  Electricity	2,000	90	30
  Phone	1,000	120	50
  Gas	200	70	30
  Water	400	100	0
  Car	2,500	1,000	0
  Transportation	400	200	100
  Insurance	300	200	0
  Cable	200	80	0
  Education	500	0	0
  Clothes	5,000	500	20
  Entertainment	3,000	400	0
  Donations	1,000	500	50
  Cash	5,000	100	10
  Other	1,000	140	0
  Total	59,500	6,000	1,240
  Savings	470,500	3,000	11
  Think about how easy it is to develop your profile without your knowledge

  
  The law as first described to me requires that bank customers fill out a form that declares all of this information. Since there would have been a huge revolt by the public (before September 11, 2001), I submit that the banks can actually develop a profile without your knowledge, based on the historical patterns of your transactions.
  
  Income. Most people have direct deposit to their banks, these can readily be identified as income. Any other regular monthly deposits should be traceable to investments or trusts. Large, unexplainable regular deposits that are not from a financial institution will probably be investigated.
  
  Expenses. Similarly, expenses are predictable. And depending on your zip code and the agencies to whom money is transferred they can correctly guess that your expenses might be for rent, mortgage, taxes, utilities, food, transportation, education, entertainment and charity.
  Cash withdrawals might be identified as going to one of these areas and should be compensated for by an equivalent drop in one of the other expenses.
  
  MSB Rule. The 1999 Money Services Business (MSB) Rule appears to be an extension of the law to monitor and report suspicious activity in support of the 'know your customer' rules. This law defines the institutions that are governed by the MSB and requires each institution to designate personnel who will be available to investigators.
  
  What is interesting, is that the 1999 MSB Registration Rule banking laws that just went into effect seems to set up the administrative structure to report to the government in anticipation of starting this level of spying. Although the 'Know your Customer' regulations have not been openly adopted as of September 2001, they would only formalize what is already taking place in banks all across the United States, possibly under another name.
  
  Finally, because banks must know which institutions receive money from you, they can identify the church to which you belong. By looking at the frequency, amount or percentage of income that you give to a particular church they can accurately predict if you are a member or a one-time contributor. The insidious nature of this capability is that, unless you pay by cash, you cannot protect yourself by choosing not to report your charitable contributions on your annual Income Tax report, or by not having your name on the church books. They are identifying these donations at the source - your bank transactions and the charitable organizations who receive them.
  Love Offerings. Generally, a "love offering" is any cash donation taken on the spur of the moment. In July 2008, it was reported that churches can no longer give cash payments or "love offerings" to ministers. While this protects churches from fraud, it does close a cash loophole. Currently, people will not give cash because of the tax write-off benefits and less donations are in the form of cash which goes undocumented. Now, according to the new rules, ministers cannot receive cash and so potential crooks cannot loot the church by skimming all the undocumented cash offerings. Sooner or later, they might require that cash donations over a certain amount must be recorded with information about the contributor.
• Credit Bureaus and Verification Services
  These have the ability to deny access to credit and to enforce an economic boycott. They collect the following types of information:
  • Identification and employment information - name, birth date, Social Security number, employer, and spouse's name, employment history, home ownership, income, and previous address
  • Payment history
  • Public record information -bankruptcies, foreclosures, or tax liens
  • Inquiries
  • Credit cards and available credit.
  Currently, the three main agencies are:
  1. Equifax
  2. Trans Union
  3. Experian
• Payment Technology and Instant Credit Authorization, Identification and Verification Services
  These systems affect you at the point of sale. With the ability to deny credit, they will be able to enforce an economic boycott. These are mainly employed through major credit card companies.
  Visa's subsidiary Inovant, with offices on 3 continents, processes more than 35 billion financial exchange transactions annually.
  Electronic Clearing houses such as NCIS processes credit cards, debit cards, and checks. NCIS has a growing list of 12 million problem check writers and is a source of instant verification data.

Databases: Internet
The internet is like a fuzzy database hub that is a giant data wharehouse, global marketplace and virtual assembly. It was started by the USA defence department in 1969 and became available for public use in 1998.

• Internet Telephony. The computer speaker and camera cane be used to make telephone calls.
• Electronic Mail. This data service originated with the internet.
• Global Information Warehouse. Every commercial, government and private person can have a presence on the medium.
• Social Networking. People use it to exchange personal information.
• Data Searches. It can be used to search for information.
• Internet Root Computers. In 2005, the United States decided to indefinitely retain oversight of the thirteen main computers or "root" servers that control Internet traffic instead of turning over control into private hands. This enhances their ability to spy on Internet traffic and email. By installing packet sniffers and other technology at the thirteen computers they can monitor and intercept all Internet traffic. The goals of the Patriot Act and any subsequent plans to control internet traffic are best served by maintaing control over these critical computers. Any assurances that they will only monitor certain e-mail or certain phone calls or certain credit card purchases is a lie. Simply because of the logical reason that they do not know who to monitor until they cast a wide net and spy on everyone. So the government controls root computers, key telephone switches at the central office of all phone service providers and lists of all credit card purchases and personal banking transactions. In their wide net they look for key words or phrases (written or spoken), key purchases and payments. Failing to find any evidence, if they are suspicious of a person or organization then they will monitor all their contacts.
  » Internet Kill Switch. On 21 June 2010 the news reported that congress is considering legislation to allow an internet kill switch so that the government can shut down the internet in case of a cyber attack. Individual countries already have the laws and the means to shut off the internet to their people. One senator cited the protection of vulnerable electrical and military assets as the reason. In my opinion, electrical facilities have no business being on the internet. The military and these places need to use private networks.
  A kill switch would most likely affect financial transactions and the information of revolutionary movements. In a future, scary world where religious ideology is considered to be as hazardous as nuclear material, the future religious rulers could use this to cut off access to information at the height of an evangelistic movement. In such a hostile environment there would most likely be a ban on despised websites. Christians would have to use a distributed network to funnel information. They could set up temporary download sites in many places.

The vast amount of information stored and shared have become a treasure box of information for marketing and government interests. Your searches, sites visited, visitors, mailing lists and e-mail are stored. They give information about interests and connections and are used by others to gather personal profiles and to install spyware, malicious software.
If you believe in the future persecution, guard certain information carefully and beware of "free" services which collect this data.

• Personality Profile. They can be stored by dating sites, social networks and personality assessment applications.
• Photographs.
• Personal Information. Full name, address, school and financial information.
• Schedule. Robbers use this to know when to visit your house.

Databases: Government Agencies

• Big Brother is Watching. Around the world governments are monitoring and collecting private electronic information from their citizens. These databases will allow them to assess habits so they can monitor who visits certain websites. The European Union already wants to ban its citizens from visiting "hate sites" and make such sites illegal. These are not the traditional racist and violent organizations. These include religious sites that are critical of the state religion and any new definition of public decency on the theory that any expression of "hate" promotes violence and should be a crime. In Canada, you can be arrested for simply preaching in church that homosexuality is wrong.
  Religion. Such information can be used to determine your religious affiliation. They can store e-mail mailing lists coming out of religious organizations and individuals writing to these places. They can monitor who contributes, who makes these sites a "favorite" and who expresses affiliation and who visits regularly.
  Because these systems are software, if one government has it then all governments can have it in a day.
  » United States: Total Information Awareness. The new office of Homeland Security is creating a database that integrates all the information from law enforcement, financial systems and private databases to track every citizen. When I wrote this web page over three years ago, this database and this new government agency did not exist. The potential prophetic role of this system confirms and centralizes all the prophetic warnings.
  » British Database Wharehouse. On 16 October 2008, News sources reported that the British are building a giant 12 billion dollar database for the GCHQ (the eavesdropping center). It will store all telephone records, e-mail and every Internet visit (browsing habits). This is equivalent to opening and copying your private mail and photographing and bugging your home to see who visits.
• Border Crossings. This is a volunteer system normally used by frequent flyers with countries that participate in the program. People volunteer to have their hands and fingerprints scanned and encoded on a smart card. At the border, a hand reader is used to scan the hand, it is used with the smart card to access a database that positively identifies the traveler. One only has to trade international exchange of their personal information for the convenience of faster immigration processing. New passports will probably migrate to this system of identification.
  » International Watch Lists. Interpol and national databases are getting into the business of global biometrics and personal information. Europe and the United States have now agreed to trade personal information about airline passengers, even such information as sexual orientation. Now what does that have to do with terrorism? And do you think this will stop with airline security? Blackmail, tracking and trailing for persecution are the final outcomes.
  » British Travel Database ("E-Borders"). On 20 March 2009, the news reported a database of personal and financial information for travellers outside the country. It will be ready by 2014. It stores credit card information, indicating that in the future one might not be able to travel without having electronic financial accounts..
• Law Enforcement. (National Fingerprint) - Identification verification
  FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS and AFIS)
• Social Security, Tax collection Services, United States Internal revenue Service (IRS). Current addresses, jobs and religious affiliation. If you report large donations, you must name the organization receiving the gift. In this way they are also able to track religious affiliation. One important development in this area is the requirement for all citizens to receive this national identification from birth. Coupled with the practice of foot printing and hand printing babies, they could combine to be a powerful identification tool in this generation. Already, adults are required to submit finger prints to obtain a driver's license or for a job application and these biometric identifiers enter these systems through that route.
• Government Surveillance Agencies and Technologies.
  Many of these systems exist to monitor satellite, internet and voice traffic in order to protect national security. Some might even have been renamed because of public scrutiny but these systems exists through tapping into the telecommunications networks.
  • Tempest. A system designed to capture computer signals (such as key strokes or monitor images) from stand-alone computers. The information is captured through the walls from the radiation emitted by the computer through radio waves or any cables attached to the computer.
  • Calea. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, designed to conduct wire tapping by having the telecommunications company install special equipment to intercept the traffic.
  • Echelon. An automated global interception and relay system that can intercept and process many types of transmissions worldwide, especially private communications. It is operated by at least 5 governments - United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, but it uses satellites and a network of ground-based antennae located in many other countries. The system has also tapped into underwater transatlantic cables. There are even suitcase sized equipment and credit card sized antennae that can be used to tap into a system and relay the information from anywhere.
    Echelon uses a network of computers, databases and artificial intelligence software named Dictionary to process transmissions by searching for addresses, key words and phrases. Criminals have gotten wise to some of these tactics and have learned to use special code words in place of the actual words.
    In 2007 I met a man who accidentally saw the Echelon system in the 1960's! Since it is now public knowledge he felt that he could mention the fact. With such primitive computers one wonders what advanced capabilities the system now has.
    In college I learned that the government has a location in Maryland where they do keyword searches of words in phone conversations.
  • Oasis and Fluent - Used to enhance Echelon, it creates transcripts from television and audio broadcasts. Fluent allows English language searches of foreign language text and Oasis can also detect possible characteristics of the speaker, such as gender.
  • Carnivore and Enhanced Carnivore or DCS 1000. A system similar to Echelon, it intercepts e-mail and other internet traffic. Since the events of September 11, 2001, this once illegal operation has been officially blessed for use against terrorism.
  • Face Recognition and Pattern Recognition Technology. Already widespread in England and in Tampa Florida, security cameras constantly photograph everyone on the streets The image is then compared to a known list of wanted suspects.
    A similar process can be done with traffic control cameras, currently installed in many cities to control red light running. These cameras can be hooked up to a system that can process license plate numbers.
  Many countries use information gathered from these systems or their own versions. Nations such as Russia, China, Germany, Israel, European Union, France, India and Pakistan have similar capabilities.

Other Private Databases
There are many databases and systems in the private sector that capture information about you that can be used in tracking your habits or movements:

• Transportation. Commuter trains are now migrating to the use of permanent electronic access cards that can use credit cards or cash to add more fare. To issue these cards, your personal information is collected, as you enter the system your movements can be traced.
• Grocery Stores. These stores have also issued consumer cards that track what you buy. It is now the only way that consumers can take advantage of sales. No card, no sale price on items. Consequently, everybody signs up. Your personal information is also supplied when you apply for these cards.
  » Mobile Coupons. Some businesses are offering virtual coupons to internet ready cellular phones. You have to sign up for the program and give personal information.
• Memex. This company has a database that stores the entire life profile of any individual. The system can connect to many other databases to construct a real time picture of you and your activities.
• Cable Companies. The USA deregulated the communications industry in 1998, by January 2010 a tiny cable company named Comcast has made an offer to by NBC. Deregulation allowed all media companies such as cable, television and telephone to compete in each other's territory. The intersection of these services has created a privacy monstrosity. Cable companies offer telephone, Internet, internet searches, television, e-mail, answering services, video storage and on-line shopping. They also have a box in your house that could have all sorts of unknown intrusive applications. Since they keep the history of your activities, they are at a unique position in offering customized business services and using the same capacity to accurately profile your religious identity. They could probably become a de facto financial service provider by allowing media driven transactions to be billed to the phone number.
  Cable companies have also been known to set traps for customers by deliberately targeting your box for programming aimed specifically for you or your group. Just before the persecution begins, it is not unlikely to see these companies suddenly offer to broadcast a denomination's private satellite-driven programming which is typically subscribed to exclusively by church members. The church will of course jump at the chance to get their programming piped into every home, not simply every home of its members. This is of course a Trojan horse which is offered just for the purpose of identifying church members by identifying the most loyal users.

Spying: Science of Identification and Surveillance Technologies

The Technology Noose is Tightening
Law Enforcement Purchases Military (Government) License (Business) Sales Laws Databases   Purchases (Economic Systems) Credit Verification Property Private Security Employment

Recent trends and innovations which allow bugging, telephone monitoring, visual surveillance during night or day over large distances and the emergence of new forms of local, national and international communications interception networks, and the creation of human recognition and tracking devices are already available and in operation.

Systems that infringe on your rights have already been secretly and covertly deployed. This section covers only the surveillance, identification and networking systems. There are other good articles which examine the militarization of the police technologies and advances in the technologies of political control.

Several scientific discoveries or convergence of applications can be used to allow the technology related prophecies to be fulfilled
These technologies may include active or passive devices. The active devices will work with your cooperation. If you are always required to show identification or if you are using a device that is constantly communicating your location to a satellite or ground-based antennae, then your movements can be monitored.
But there are passive devices and other strategies that can be used without your knowledge.

• Changing the Laws. It forces the private sector to cooperate in the process of tracking and reporting. Laws are also being made to protect businesses from prosecution or civilian law suits if they assist the government in the data persecution.
  » Internet Searches and Website Visitors. February 2010 news report stated that the FBI is requiring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to keep a log of users. Companies like Google keep a history of searches, now ISPs will be logging website visitors who access a site directly without searching for it. The regulation may also be intended to gain access to draft e-mails, private directories and history of website maintenance and your private mailing lists and website passwords which are stored by the ISP.
• Economic Surveillance. Monitoring and denying economic activity.
  • Limiting Cash Transactions or requiring Identification for any significant transactions.
  • Store Cards (Loyalty Cards). These are generally used in grocery stores and pharmacies to monitor what you buy and when, they are insidious in that you cannot get sales discounts if you do not use them. So people subscribe to them. Similarly, in the end they could be required for cash purchases, thus again requiring one to show some form of ID to complete a sales transaction. They can be used to limit your cash transactions to a certain amount per month or to deny you services. Their primary advantage is that they can collect personal information from non-credit purchasers.
  • Wharehouse Club Memberships (Loyalty Clubs). Any system that discourages lack of anonimity will be dangerous. Sam's Club, Costco and BJ's are the three major stores in the USA which offer deep discounts on groceries, electronics, gas and all types of consumer products to members. This concentration of information in a few places makes it more possible to impose the economic boycott.
  • Denial of service in electronic transactions.
  • Tracking electronic transactions in real time.
  • Automatic Payments. Any system that automatically deducts payments or stores your financial information compromises your security for convenience. In crisis a government will have immediate access to all your financial information, but these systems give any business access to some of your information and a business could launch a denial-of-service attack to cripple you at a crucial time and then blame it on "computer error".

  Cellular or Mobile Services Theoretically, you could eavesdrop on any secret government phone call. Every cellular call is potentially ubiquitous (available everywhere). It is the network that determines whether or not your device will receive and decode a particular call. So an enterprising person can capture and monitor all telephone conversations from any location if they build the proper device. With the cooperation of the telephone companies all land line calls could also be broadcast. One could also tap into fiber cables near central offices or international nodes or intercept microwave signals.

• Communications Surveillance. Monitoring your voice or data communications can be done in real time or through a search of stored messages and emails.
  • Internet Root Servers. Owning or controlling all thirteen root computers allows the government to have access to all internet activity.
  • Wire Tapping and Intercepting Conversations. The ability to intercept voice or data transmissions was always possible from the telephone central office or using devices that were physically clamped on to the phone line.
    • Intercepting e-mail from miles away.
    • Intercepting phone calls and messages from miles away.
    • Planting tiny listening devices in a phone or room. Some spies event attach antennae to real cockroaches.
    • Data Transmissions when Connected. Your e-mail or internet activity can be monitored by systems such as Echelon and Carnivore or any of the hundreds of spy ware programs.
    • Data Transmissions when not Connected. Your computer key strokes, computer monitor images and other computer activity can be intercepted through the walls and windows from the radiation emitted by the screen or the electrical cables.
    • Other Listening Devices. There are short distance systems that can record conversations by picking up the vibrations from the walls and windows through powerful microphones. Distant laser beam audio sensors measuring window vibrations can operate from at least 3 miles away and detect movement in the vibration of the glass and convert these to sounds. Conversations can be intercepted through listening devices planted in your homes, or tiny devices that can be attached to cockroaches. A real live bug!
      Finally, a simple baby monitor or wireless handset will transmit sounds from within your house.
  • Stored Voice. Since disk storage is getting cheaper and faster, I would not be surprised if telephone companies cannot store voice also so that the information is available when computer assisted voice searching capabilities are better.
  • Stored Voice Messages. Telephone companies have taken over the function of answering machines, this allows your private messages to be heard and searched.
  • Stored Text Messages. Text messages can be searched because they are stored for an indefinite period. If I searched for the phrase "Sabbath school" I would probably get a lot of Adventists.
  • Unsecured Wireless Networks. Businesses that handle personal or financial information should never have unsecured networks. If you piggyback on an open wifi network, you are also exposing your information to public scrutiny.
    » Google Map Spy Cars. You should also be careful. A news report on May 19, 2010 on ABC said that while the Google map cars were driving around the neighborhoods photographing everything they were also spying on unprotected wifi networks. They scooped up email addresses, unsecured passwords, internet searches and other data then saved them. Google claims that it was an accident. However, looking at the data streaming from wirelessnetworks is not an accident. You have to take deliberate steps to look at it. In addition, storing the data is definitely not an accident it shows intent and planning. They were gathering pictures and data.
    If you hear a very personal wispered conversation while you are in a public space, that is an accident. If you stay and continue to listen, that is intentional eavesdropping. If you record the conversation that is not an accident. Shame on you Google for such a lame excuse.
    What Google did could easily be done by the post office, UPS, police and utilities companies as they legitimately drive by every home, every day.
    In fact, it is possible to wrap up a system in a box and mail it through the public or private postal system and scoop up data in strategic places.
  • Digital Copiers. Copiers built since 2002 have a hard drive which stores all copied materials. Therefore, church copiers are a good source of church activities.
    However, on the practical side, your personal information is at risk when you use library copiers or copy services or medical offices, banks or any businesses with sensitive information which do not dispose of their machines properly.
  • Malware (Malicious Software). The government may also be sending spyware and keystroke traps to obtain information about your site. In a planned attack, the government could mail messages to your group from your address to trap people into incriminating behaviors. You could get a plain or coded message saying that "all pastors will be arrested in the next two days so go to your designated safe houses". It is a Trojan horse message designed to see who responds and to follow where people go.
  • Spy Phone. Takes a phone 'off hook' and uses your phone receiver as a listening device.
    • Telephone in Use. When a telephone is in use, your conversations can be intercepted by equipment set up at the telephone company's office, or by tapping the wire directly connected to your home. Active mobile phones can be tapped into by small laptop or hand-held devices simply by selecting your phone number or by searching the network to see if your phone is active. A handheld device can detect phone transmissions anywhere in the world and can monitor thousands of phones simultaneously.
    • Telephone Not in Use. When a telephone is not in use, your conversations or your location can still be monitored. This technology is currently implemented in ISDN systems common in Europe and some American businesses. Upgrading the telephone office systems could make them available for all classes of voice communication. A telephone, when normally activated by taking the receiver 'off hook' becomes a microphone for you to speak to the other party on the line. There is now a new technology (1990s) that can send the signals to the telephone to take the system 'off hook' without your knowledge. This activates the microphone so that the conversations in the immediate area of the phone can be monitored from a distance. So, if you are having secret meetings unplug the wired phones and remove the batteries from the cellular or satellite phones. If you are travelling, turn off the phone.
    Never assume that a technology created for a more advanced system cannot be retrofitted to operate on older systems. If you ever hear of a persecution technology that "only works on" one system, assume that it is or will work on yours.
  • Spy TV?. Is the same application possible with digital television? I do not know.
    Since 1996 a telecommunications phone company is no longer limited to the phone company, it is television, cable, satellite and internet service providers. Since 2001, the government extended its tentacles more into the phone company, giving them immunity for spying. That umbrella may extend to all these other companies. In February 2009 the USA switches to digital broadcasting and it becomes much easier to install these applications. Can the new digital technology be used as a baby sitter and a spy?
    Cable and TiVo already have a feedback mechanism and deregulation allows cable and phone companies to carry both entertainment and telecommunications. Cable can send a signal to pirated systems to cause electrical damage to your equipment. They can also send special programming to individual boxes as part of a customer order or a government sting. So can television be used to transmit audio and video without your knowledge? Can they listen in on your private conversation or see inside your homes? Is the speaker also a microphone and is the screen a two-way camera? The advent of digital television makes these applications possible, not because of the features of the technology but because every house is being forced to swap old televisions for new ones which could have stealth capabilities.
    So, if you are having secret meetings about your persecution, unplug the television, the cable box and the satellite box. Do not simply turn them off. And never forget, even when turned off a backup battery and wireless capabilities could undermine your privacy and security.
  • Spy PC? China requires internet service providers and search engines to install spyware. Since the 1970's computer software already had the capability to access your disk, view your screen and keystrokes from a distance. We all know that spyware constantly searches through your hard drive. Software regularly sends information from your computer back to the manufacturer. Often, the information is saved while you are off line and immediately transmitted once you get back on the internet. One can only conclude that the government and the operating system vendors have been in collusion to have spyware built into the operating system. So, since computers are now functioning as telephones and video receivers, your computer can be used as a microphone and a camera into your home to spy into other places, even recording information for future transmission.
    » Smart Devices. I wrote about these capabilities as possibilities because I knew that all the parts were just waiting for a programmer to put them together. Now (2008), these smart devices and services do exist, taking advantage of the internet, GPS and wireless connections. Smart cameras can email pictures to you without your knowledge. Smart PC's can be found if they are stolen or take pictures of where they are.
    » Big Brother is Watching! A 18 February 2010 news report stated that a Pennsylvania school district had turned on the webcam video featue on their school issued computers and were spying on students at home. The capabality was installed as a security feature. My concern is that these features can be installed as spyware, malware and phone apps.
  • Spy Cell Phone? Since your cell phone has audio and camera features it is possible to remotely turn them on even when the phone is not in use. Be cautious of application down loads (ring tones, wall paper, apps, coupons). If you work in a secure location or with top secret and proprietary projects or are the potential target of persecution, it may be a wise policy to do the following.
    • Meetings. Remove all cell phones and electronic devices from the meeting room, especially those that have audio and video features.
    • Eavesdropping. Cover the camera eye and block the audio if possible.
    • Finances. Do not do financial transactions by phone.
    Even if you are in a secure and shielded location there is no reason why the phone app will not save the conversation and images until you regain access to the network.
    » Update. A recent report on ABC Good Morning America 8 March 2010 verified everything that I have speculated about. There is already cell phone spying and stalking software available for $50 that can turn your phone into a bugging device. People can remotely activate your speaker and camera even when you are not on the phone. They can listen in on calls or on conversation in the room, see you and your surroundings, read text messages and know your location.
  Rabbit Ears on Steroids. These are all immediately possible because of digital technology, wireless networks, wired networks, miniature devices, client-server programming, GPS and the internet. How much has been or will be implemented one can only guess. But they are definately possible with cable, satellite or any paid television service. So what is possible with those who have free television through the convertor box and the rabbit ears or free DTV? Big brother could be betting on the odds that any future leaders of a hated group would have the latest or some basic technology and that technology migration would fix their problems in ten years as analog televisions die. What could be possible is that the DTV or convertor boxes could passively transmit information from your house like RFID. At a minimum this could broadcast a unique serial identification and viewing habits. Since it has storage capability any store and forward application could be possible, especially if it has access to a camera and microphone. Some could have active applications that download changes to the box, making them current with the spy technology that they want to implement.
  In ten years, the government could be in bed with television and computer manufacturers as they are with the telecommunications companies. The 1996 changes to the telecommunications law already allows them to offer telephone services so they are protected by the same Homeland Security spy privileges. Such intrusion could be sold as a way to monitor piracy and copyright infringement as applications and products wirelessly broadcast identifying information through your digital devices.
  
  » Power Supply. Disengaging these services means much more than turning them off. As long as there is a supply of power they can be remotely activated, so a stealth application can activate its systems without your knowledge. Sources of power may be open or hidden. A device can be powered because it is plugged in, has a battery, solar panels or pizoelectric components which are powered by movement. So the "on" light may be "off", and the screen may be black but digital phones can go off hook and become recording devices and devices with cameras can become remote eyes. So your computer could be searched and your phone may be listening and your television may be watching. A device that has a secondary source of power can sabotage any efforts of privacy. So it is theoretically possible that you can turn off and unplug an appliance and still have it remotely engaged.
• Personal Surveillance. Human location networks and systems that are designed to be on your body but are removable.
  • GPS Ankle Bracelets. They are used by parolees. Just as Hitler required the Jews to wear the star of David. A population being singled out beforehand could be required to wear these monitors or to have implanted chips.
  • RFID. Tiny electronic tags that monitor items and cash.
  
  » Night Vision and Thermal Imaging Technology. Humans can be seen in total darkness by measuring any of these from a distance.
  • Thermal Imaging. The heat or infrared radiation from our bodies is usually much greater than other objects in the background. e.g. Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR).
  • Light Amplification. Any source of faint light reflecting from an object can be multiplied so that the object is visible (moon light, cigarette, flashlight, fireflies).
  • Radar. Bats use radar to see and radar is currently used for weather and highway safety. So there could possibly be radar in the future to recognize small shapes and movement for night vision use, but I do not know if radar night vision exists.
  
  » Tracking Movements and Location. Several types of activities can be tracked through the use of the GPS satellites or through cellular networks.
  • Communication Devices. Your location can be detected through your wireless phones. With older phones, you can be detected within your current cell site, with newer phones you can be detected within inches.
  • Face Recognition. Powerful artificial systems and databases are being used to process the photographic images to identify faces or vehicle licenses. These systems are capable of processing millions of records per minute.
  • Remote Photography. The ability to photograph objects from satellites. On October 6, 2001 a satellite was launched to join the other network of spy satellites. It is capable of photographing and identifying objects the size of a cigarette box from space. When combined with the face recognition technology, you could potentially be found anywhere in the world.
  • Vehicle Recognition. GPS technology can be used to track anyone and anything, as long as the transmitter is attached.
  • Traffic Control Systems. Many imaging systems are being installed under the guise of traffic control systems. When coupled with the pattern recognition technology, they will be used to identify faces, and license plates.
    
    It is therefore possible, that all pictures taken for drivers' license or for the new National ID card will be held in a system that encodes the faces so that they can be used by the face recognition system.
  • Automatic Electronic Toll Devices. Those who have convenient devices (transponders) that automatically deduct tolls and automatically bill credit cards allow the government to monitor their movements and to control their credit. A multi-state transponder system is being planned on the east coast and it is estimated that their will be a national electronic toll system in ten years (2019). Since the transponder service providers have standardized their systems so that they are interoperable, it means that you can be tracked anywhere in real time by toll usage.
  • Vehicle Miles Travelled Tracking (Mileage Tax). Governments are proposing a new way to generate taxes for roads in anticipation of less gasoline usage. The gasoline tax may be replaced by a tax based on the amount of miles a vehicle is driven. The model proposes that the change in mileage is logged at the gas station, and other methods for electric cars. This system requires that a new database will be kept which can store the miles used by time. Addressing privacy concerns, proponents claim that it will not be used to track where people go.
    But even with the most minimal system, certain types of tracking and control cannot be avoided. A person on the run can be tracked by watching where they obtain fuel, similar to tracking credit card usage or mobile phone pings. While it cannot determine your exact location like GPS, it can determine your general location. So that in a time of crisis, if church members go to camp meetings or a mass meeting, your vehicle location at a particular time can be flagged as an outlier. People who legitimately live in the area can be excluded, but all visitors during that time are logged. The government could impose a mileage limit in times of crisis so that different vehicles or people are restricted to certain miles each week. This could be enforced at the service stations. Since electric vehicles can temporarily avoid this system, these people will effectively be limited to the maximum charge that their batteries can hold, around 250 miles. Its not easy to flee persecution if you can only drive 250 miles.
  • Body Scanning. Devices, now installed in airports can see through your clothes from at least 12 feet away.
  • The Lie Machine. In January 2002, scientists at the Mayo Clinic announced the development of a lie machine that could be used without your knowledge. It does not require the experts and the physical links to your body like the old model. A heat sensitive lens records the warming around your eye sockets as blood rushes to your eyes when you are lying. This is an involuntary response that cannot be controlled. Since nervousness can trigger this response, the interrogator must learn to use carefully worded questions to obtain a true response.
  • Brain Scans: Magnetic Encephalogram (MEG). Introduced in 2009-2010, these brain scans can produce more detailed mapping that shows where brain activity is concentrated. These patterns can indicate when you recognize things.
  • Body Language. Behavior analysis which attempts to identify deception or other concealed actions and intentions through human observation.
  • Spy Garbage. Britain is placing microchips in garbage cans to monitor the garbage.
  • Spy Pets. Britain is requiring the microchipping of all dogs.
• Internal Surveillance (Spies). Private security companies and government agencies are planting spies in organizations that are against their policies. Oil companies, NRA (National Rifle Association) are spying on gun control organizations, environmental groups and peace groups. While in these groups, the spies work their way to the top and gather information including the names of members and could even commit crimes in the name of the group to tarnish its reputation. Some even appear to be so enthusiastic about the goals that they promote excessive actions. Churches and church schools are also being infiltrated to drive them into debt, sell off assets, strangle productive witness, change the emphasis from doctrine and evangelism and weaken the organization from within. These spies spend many years in the organization learning, promoting friends, making alliances that are against their policies and undermining the core principles. Soon, most of the scum rise to leadership positions.
• Passive Gathering. Identification databases are being passively built through hospitals, schools, work, financial institutions and social networking. Instead of openly requiring all citizens to submit, DNA, fingerprints and picture, the government and private businesses make them a requirement where they can, make it a desired convenience in other areas or a trendy feature.
  • Photographs. Licences, work or school ID.
  • Fingerprinting. School lunch payments, work, driver's license.
  • DNA. Identification kits. Arresting communities during DNA dragnets. DNA matchmaking, the newest junk science.
  • Numeric Identification. Social security number.
  • Financial Information. Convenient payment through automatic checking or debit deductions and credit charges or pay on phone bills. Use of checking and paying by mail is being discouraged. This is a huge mistake. This one feature is the one convenience to which I will never submit.
• Remote Surveillance (Active). Activity surveillance and monitoring your location through mobile services to which you have subscribed. GPS and wireless services have made this possible.
  • Cellular Phones. An approximate location can be obtained from the last cell tower used. Modern phones are also switching to GPS by law.
    » GPS system on every phone is used to locate you in an emergency. But it can be used to track you down. Otherwise, a combination of the closest cell towers and your phone will transmit your general location as long as your phone is on and ready to receive calls.
  • Vehicle Locators. They usually use GPS.
    » GPS system installed on every car supposedly to track mileage for taxation purposes only, not to track people (wink, wink). Of course it will be used to hunt and track you! Some states are already doing this and the Federal government is considering this also. I guess excessive tolls and gas taxes are not enough, Big Brother has to make up an excuse to have the capability to hunt you down.
  • Automatic Traffic Toll Payments. For the convenience, you submit your name, license plate, address, credit information and the chance to be tracked.
  • Embedded Chips in Animals or People
  • Medic-Alert Devices. They are based on cellular or mobile services.
  • Court-ordered Electronic Monitoring Devices. They are based on GPS.
  • Electronic Bugs. Secretly or illegally planted rice grain sized microphones.
  • Military Systems. Drones will be used to patrol the dense forests while satellite images are used to search for human activity in the wilderness.
• Remote Surveillance (Passive). These are short and long distance surveillance done or required by the government and promoted as public safety tools. These systems can indicate where you are or your last known location and actions.
  • Traffic Control Systems.
  • Terminals (Points of Entry and Exit). Any system that uses a fare card to enter and exit can become a passive monitor.
  • Public Cameras. Installed in many cities like London, Washington DC, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. They are now ubiquitous. At a 2008 cost of $17,000 per month per camera to operate, cities break even at five tickets per day. It is a money maker.
  • Searches. Google and other search engines store your searches.
  • License Plate Monitoring.
  • Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) - This is a military application that is being used by civilian systems to provide location services for all sorts of devices.
  • Military Satellites that take detailed pictures
  • Thermal imaging systems. These can be mounted on any type of vehicle or remote cameras or hand-held devices.
  • Night Vision Systems
  • Satellite photographs of human activity can find people in the forests.
  • Wildlife are often banded with a GPS device and tracked with a satellite or microwave station. Sometimes they are equipped with miniature cameras. The authorities could equip birds with cameras to narrow their search in forests.
  • Other Human Location Strategies
    • Controlled burning of forests - to "smoke out" people if they are in hiding
    • Confiscation of property or forced used of assets.
    • Rewards
    • Propaganda
    • Learn the lessons from the Nazi's persecution of Jews and how the citizens helped to enforce these policies.
• Remote Management. Many systems can be turned on and off remotely, and some are not under your control.
  • Homes. For years appliances like ovens could be turned on with a timer, but now they can be turned on remotely. You can also monitor your house remotely over the internet and open your door remotely.
  • Mobile Phones. Turning off a phone does not work on two levels. They can be remotely turned on and the phone may still be sending a signal to broadcast its location. GPS can be used to determine location and motion and the phone can be turned off remotely depending on information received. So a phone can be turned off if you are using it while driving or if you have just been put on a persecution list.
  • Vehicles (Kill Switches). Newer model cars can have their doors remotely opened and their engines can be stopped or started. You can voluntarily subscribe to all these available services which are valuable if you lose your keys or have an accident. Now they are being secretly installed by loan companies who will disable your car if a payment is late. So they can manage your car remotely because they have installed the technology without your knowledge or permission.
  • Vehicles (Bait Cars). Criminals who steal cars know that the doors can be locked and engines cut off and they are trapped in a temporary prison until the police free them.
  » Stealth Services. If a technology is available it can be installed on your property by a third party without your knowledge. If you can remotely access any of your property, any hacker can hijack your system and get in. So anything short of unplugging an appliance and removing backup battery supplies leaves you vulnerable.

Other Technology

• Non-Lethal Weapons. This arsenal of weapons have improved significantly and in my opinion are being overused. They include batons, tasers, tear gas and a ray gun that shoots concentrated radio waves over miles to produce a burning sensation in the skin. They are typically used for crowd control and the most common is the taser which is often used by the police when there is no active or passive physical resistance. Being uncooperative by talking back or not moving fast enough seems to be justification.

Most of the surveillance systems were created to target and track certain groups. If your group becomes a threat, then these systems can be targeted towards you.

Product Identification Systems
This intelligence is possible because of databases which work because of a unique identification system. Manufacturers have an identification system that identifies them as the maker, the type of product and possibly a unique ID for each individual product. These help to identify manufacturers and product sources such as manufacturing plant and date manufactured. These also help to identify the distributer who sold the product and the owner.

• Computer. Your computer has an "IP address" for use on the internet.
• Meta Data. Computer software has invisible data that is embedded in all files. This data identifies the computer, the user, the date and time. The owner or user is identified when the product is registered or personal information is filled in during installation. A logon also helps to identify a user.
  » Spyware. Since all software application has a standard method of communicating, spyware can search the files for the cookies that hold identification information. Your saved profiles, passwords and PIN numbers are all open for hackers in addition to capture of your logon key stroke information in real time.
  » History. Many applications are keeping a record of where you visited and the searches you made on your computer or on a remote site.
• Printers. Printer steganography is a color printer technology in use since the 1990s that prints a unique identification symbol on each page where tiny yellow dots are added to each page. The dots are barely visible and contain encoded printer serial numbers, as well as date and time stamps (Wikipedia). Earlier typewriters could be identified by unique qualities in the print caused by wear and tear and alignment of the letters.
  This knowledge is important for groups who distribute literature during the time of trouble. Even if you wear gloves to avoid leaving your fingerprint on paper, your printer is leaving a trail that will point back to you and the document software is also identifying you.
  » Watermark. Paper has an invisible mark embedded in it. This could be generally useful, but a spy could seed your paper supply with special paper with unique watermark that could be used to track your distribution.
• Telephones. Telephones have a "SIM" card (Subscriber Identity Module). It would be safe to say that all electronic communications devices have a unique identification module that is linked to your unique identification information and a phone number.
• Chemicals. Chemical manufacturers add an inert chemical to identify them as the source. Many bomb making materials probably have a chemical tag.
• Equipment (Data Dots). A new 2009 technology that is like DNA for equipment. They are tiny invisible particles the size of a grain of sand that can be painted onto any equipment. They hold a unique identifier that is registered to your name. Police can use a special black light to expose these particles then contact the manufacturer for the owner of that serial number.
• Automobiles. They have a "VIN" (Vehicle Identification Number) stamped on the dashboard, the engine and possibly other permanent locations of the frame.
• Device ID. Manufacturers rely on people signing warranty cards so that they can link serial numbers to individual purchasers. But there is no reason why the UPC or RFID tags will not link the item to a purchaser in the future.
• People. We all have a government identification that is used to collect taxes and monitor services.

Biotechnology: Medical Implants and Miniaturization

Biometrics It is the science of verifying a person's identity by comparing physical characteristics of his or her body with a stored pattern in a law enforcement or private database. It is an emerging technology destined to be the basis of information security technology, because it is well suited to replace passwords and smart card Personal Identification Numbers, because biometric data cannot be forgotten, lost, stolen or shared with others.

The science of identification is based on something unique that you have, or something that you know or what you are. Whereas cards or passwords or personal identification numbers can be forged or compromised, what you are is totally unique to you.

Identity Recognition and Biometrics. Biometric Identification methods consist of seven main groups:

• Fingerprint Identification
• Iris Identification
• Retina Identification
• Hand Identification
• Voice Identification
• Signature Identification
• Gait Identification (the way you walk)
• Automatic Facial recognition using the region of the face called the "golden triangle" - the region between the ears and the top of the mouth.
• DNA (genetic information). This is not instantaneous, but by 2010 analysis has been reduced to 36 hours, down from months..
• Medical Implants. All of the above are passive biological systems. They do not transmit data. There are active devices being engineered to become a permanent part of the body. Pets are routinely "chipped".
  Digital Angel. One of the most controversial recent developments in new technologies is a device called Digital Angel ™, it is a miniature digital transceiver designed for human implantation that uses the GPS network. It is powered electromechanically by the movement of the muscles and it can be activated by the user or from a remote monitoring station. Therefore, you cannot turn it off if you wanted.

Miniaturization. A cellular phone has become a de-facto detached personal identifier. Miniaturization has made the transmitters cheaper and easier to use. They also have the ability to make the system a permanent part of the human. Older systems are just identifying a device that is in close proximity to the human to whom it was assigned. So you could not be assured that the device was not lost or stolen and does not identify a particular user.

• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). RFID in miniature devices make it possible to permanently implant these devices inside the body. This has great advantages in controlling identity theft and guarantees a better application in security and medical technology.
  Tiny transmitters can be sewn into clothes, or product labels, or identification cards, or money or implanted into people. These devices transmit a unique identification code and any other information the designers require. This is all related to a class of identification methods that use a smaller, ubiquitous or more portable identification methods that take advantage of the tracking systems that already exist. What has changed is that the identification system is no longer external to the human. It is a permanent internal device.
  » Implantable RFID. These are no longer attached to products, these are now available for surgical implants. They are being used to identify customers in clubs so that people do not need to carry a credit card, purse or wallet.
• Electronic Product Code (EPC). Walmart, the biggest retailer, announced in June 2004 that all of its suppliers must switch to RFID technology. This technology is essential in implementing the EPC system. Customers exit the store through a special "portal reader" which reads the signals emitted from the product. Their account is automatically deducted.
  RFID is in money, clothes and other products. Now it is only detectable at short distances. But for people on the run in the woods it is as loud a beacon as thermal images because its presence in the wild indicates human activity.
• VeriChip. This is a rice grain sized chip that can store and transmit data. It is designed to be implanted under the skin. It can transmit and receive data through walls and is accurate to within five or ten feet. The company wants to see the chip used for identification and authentication in electronic commerce. It seems that banks are asking for legislation that will allow them to use this. With this use, it can be a very efficient method of enforcing the "buying and selling" laws of the mark of the beast.
  On October 16, 2004 the Food and Drug Administration approved this chip for human implant and Identification.
• Biometric ID Plan. By 2012, Israel will have a biometric identity card that has a microchip that holds two finger prints, a face and demographic information. If these are small enough they can be implanted.

Threatening Signs
So instead of chip implants, I see the following trends as more critical and ominous:

• National Identification. Every country is implementing some form of national identification. The United States is not an exception. Those concerned about civil liberties usually capture our attention for a while whenever a new law is introduced. However, the United States is implementing a national identification system, on law at a time, one system at a time which will shore up the Social Security system.
  • Social Security (Adults). It was a national ID for adults, that is not biometric.
  • REAL-ID (Drivers and Travelers). All government issued liscences and passports must have biometric information which is verified with a social security number.
  • BELIEVE (Workers). This is a proposed biometric ID for all workers.
  
  » Israel. In December 2009, Israel announced a voluntary program to microchip its citizens so that they can better identify citizens over terrorist. The microchip would contain at least two fingerprints and a picture and could also be implanted on an ID card, not on the body.
• Identification Dragnets. Any new program that attempts to capture photographs, fingerprints and any identification information for all citizens (adults, teenagers and children). e.g. employment, pension systems, driving, financial services, national identification registration or national healthcare identification.
  In addition, any attempts to update old programs with this new information. eg. driver's license and travel documents renewal, school and work identification and forced military registration.
  Work place policies store these in private systems which could be handed over to the government.
  » The Financial Dragnet. The government has taken steps to make sure that it has an electronic link to a bank account of every household. Beginning in 2013, for practical reasons the US government will no longer be issuing checks. This change will save over 303 million dollars in five years. Instead, tax refunds, veterans benefit, social security checks and unemployment payments will be issued by direct deposit to a personal bank account. If the recipient does not have a bank account, then a debit card will be issued through Mastercard.
  The government is merely doing what most businesses are doing by dealing only in electronic transactions. The key is that in a persecution the government has its own information without using the records of private businesses.
  I could tell you to make sure you have separate accounts in separate banks so that all electronic transactions will come through one account. However, they can use your social security number to find if you are the primary or secondary account owner in any bank. So the second account will quickly be found.
  All you need is time to gather some cash if your primary accounts are frozen. You can use a few methods to possibly give you that small window in time.
  » The Healthcare Dragnet. A national healthcare system is the best dragnet for the end times. They affect all people of all ages and have access to your biometric samples (blood, eyeprint, DNA, fingerprint) which can be converted to electronic data. These systems are necessary and humanitarian and are basically our only option as business profits trump humanitarian concerns, driving up costs and denying care. Most hospitals are operated by churches, making it easier for the church to exert control in the end times plagues.
  
  This is a perfect example of services that we desperately need being the perfect vehicles for great good or great evil. Therefore the result is that we will get to the environment of the final persecution making absolutely wonderful decisions because someone with an alternate agenda is already thinking how they can use these resources to their advantage.
  » Other Dragnets. School, work, memberships clubs (unions, retirement), communications services and financial services. Organizations like Google, Wal*Mart and AARP bother me because they are diversifing into so many different areas and have access to so much personal data.
• Child Identification. These are all the ingenious methods governments and private companies use to place younger children into the network because they already have a reasonable excuse to identify adults.
  • National ID. Social security numbers at birth and required for school enrollment.
  • Forced military registration gobbles up all teenagers into the identification network.
  • Promotional Gimmicks. I once read a newspaper article in the late 1980's or early 1990's about a promotion at a fast food restaurant. Children were asked to place a fingerprint on an application form and mail it in for a toy. The promotion was abandoned when it was discovered that a government agency was behind this - collecting the fingerprints of children! If they were at this task 20 years ago, they might be collecting prints from birth, or through school records. They now collect fingerprints on the job, what other institutions are feeding these databases? And why children?
  • Services. In 2007, elementary schools are using biometric information such as finger prints for school lunch programs as a method of payment. These systems are being introduced as cool, benign and convenient services.
  • Security. Even crime stopper programs are providing finger print and identification kits for children. While this information is valuable if your children are lost, it may be best to keep this information at home until it is needed instead of turning it over to a private database or centralized system.
  Collecting information from children means that at any time adults who are not on the grid can still be identified through this relationship. In fact, any established relationship in the system (such as joint tax records, bank accounts) allows any other family member to be identified or used for bait if one member of the family has biometric information in the system.
• Technology Innovations. The scariest innovations are those that promote electronic financial transactions and those that are used to track and locate.
  • Biometrics. Fingerprint and other biometric databases.
  • Electronic Transactions. If hard cash is outlawed or discouraged then this closes the net, whether or not we have systems such as Digital Angel™.
  • Ubiquitous GPS. Forced installation of GPS. They are in cellular phones and soon in automobiles.
  • Digital and Miniaturized Systems. All communications have become digital and it opens the way for massive spying.
• Private Organizations. The requirement by law or the ability of private companies to manage or supply financial information to the government. Partnerships for tax purposes are unavoidable, but we have entered a new cooperative era of data mining and reporting.
  • Travel. It is now virtually impossible to travel anywhere without a picture identification or to pay with cash. Every transactions seems to require that you leave an electronic identification trail.
  • Banking. The collection and storage of social security numbers and fingerprints by the government and private organizations (especially banking and communications companies). National identification numbers easily allow governments to link citizens with business activity other than income generation.
  • Credit. We have always had the capability to identify sellers through our businesses licensing laws, charity registration and other tax laws. Now we have the ability to completely identify buyers on an individual basis.
  • Grocery. The use of identification connected to a database about your history at supermarkets is most troubling. This could become a central point or system of managing an economic persecution. I have lived in the woods for 6 months. In the woodlands of the eastern United States there is no food to sustain a population of any size. We need supermarkets and grocery stores.
    I have added the following information as an update. These store cards have now expanded to pharmacies and other locations that supply food. Right now they are being used just to give discounts. It is possible that they could switch to making them a requirement for any purchases in one day. This closes the cash loophole. Anyone can be tracked with electronic cards, but only cash purchases can be tracked with these store cards.
    The government is now using this capability for home land security. Although one company had promised that the personal information collected would remain confidential, the company immediately turned over their information just it case it can help.
    I mention this not because I think the store was wrong, but to demonstrate that the information exists and the government has the capability to immediately analyze it and businesses and government are working out the technical and administrative problems of reporting.
    
    So the problems of tracking purchases and instant identification of buyers are solved.
    1. Credit and Debit Card denial has always been possible.
    2. Cash purchases can be denied.
    3. Government can analyze where and when you have made purchases. Now they can identify what you have purchased down to an item as simple as candy.
       
       They have surpassed the capability they need to fulfill prophecy. All they needed to do was to be able to identify the purchaser and stop buying and selling. But using neural network technology, they can identify the type of purchaser by looking for certain patterns in their purchases, so that if you are not on a list of people who are denied services, you can be treated as a suspect because of your habits.
       How does this work? By analyzing what you purchase, the amount and what you do not purchase.
       • Drug Dealers. They purchase large quantities of snack size plastic bags.
       • Vegetarians. They purchase soy protein but not meat products.
       • Adventists. They tend to be vegetarians and they do not purchase (cigarettes, beer and alcohol).
       • Campers. They purchase raisins, nuts, ziploc bags and toilet paper.
    4. Your profile and purchasing history can help them to guess your behavior.
• Public and Private Partnerships (State and Corporations or Church and State). The prophecy of Revelation 18 points to a virulent partnership of government, churches and private businesses. It appears that the motive for profit does more than escalate costs, it undermines moral decisions to corporate goals.
  • Citizen Corp. As of August 2002, the government has started using a network of citizen spies. They have the infrastructure and hot lines in place and they have formally recruited certain professions that regularly service our homes.
    Ordinary citizens are free to report any activities they see, but certain types of workers (mail men, meter readers, service men, and appliance repair men) are being trained to look for certain things.
    
    This sets up the mentality and network for individuals to start watching and reporting on each other. Now they are looking for terrorists. In the future they will be looking for signs of illegal and required religious activity.
    You should not be skeptical. This was done in the Spanish inquisition to identify Jews who were hiding. So, even if you are disguising your activity be careful of that pork dish and the beer that your neighbor is offering - just to see if you will eat it. Beware of the Trojan Horse.
  • Private Armies. It is alarming that private companies appear to be providing the bulk of services in government military operations. It is even more alarming that many of these top private organizations appear to be church owned or controlled by owners who have a strong religious agenda!
  • Privatized Prisons. Corporate profits mean that there are more incentives to incarcerate more people in less space with diminishing overhead and no emphasis on rehabilitation. It means overcrowded and dangerous conditions which lead to mistreatment and dehumanization of the prisoners. It also means that the staff is less qualified and more likely to resort to brutal and dispassionate behavior.
    For persecution, it means that the private sector and private citizens will more easily be caught up in the brutality that a church-state dictatorship demands as their livelihood in severe times depend on keeping such jobs.
    In October 2009 we learned of other corruption as a Pennsylvania judge was bribed into incarcerating more juveniles, denying them justice. Corruption of the justice system is the most troubling result of a for-profit prison system.
    » Convict Academy System. As a person of African descent it has been disturbing to watch a disproportionate number of blacks being incarcerated and being unevenly punished for the same crimes as other races. Blacks end up with criminal records that affect jobs, ability to borrow and right to vote. It leads us to think of convict lease system programs to incarcerate blacks for the purpose of turning us over for farm labor paid by the state after the emancipation proclamation freed us without any assets.
  • Privatized Public Schools. Such partnerships are used to further the goals of the church or the secular organizations which runs these schools. Some European countries whose public schools are run by the church have a six day schedule. School attendance is required on the Sabbath. These alliances which are supported by law tend to undermine the beliefs of other churches by setting standards which they do not allow to be accommodated in alternate ways. Churches might find that critical examinations are held on holy days, guaranteeing a major decision between what you believe God requires versus the demands of the state. Tactics like these destroyed the church in three generations. Be prepared to see them implemented in one generation.
• Private Inspections. Normally a warrant or now even suspicion and a security letter is enough to make government agencies invade private space. Now any reason can be invented to invade all personal space.
  » Home Invasion. In 2009 I learned that Britain will have the N.I.C.E. program which had announced that they plan to visit every British home to check for child safety concerns.
  » Home Inspection. I thought it could happen easily with rental property which have annual inspection rules, but much harder to justify with personal property. Since most homes have a mortgage or insurance, governments can make deals with these agencies to create a pretext for inspection of property for which they are responsible or jointly own. This has a better chance of being the most intrusive. Homes without mortgage and insurance are rare. Inspecting these properties involve inventing a reason based on the utilities, city ordinances, tax assessment, elderly or child safety or criminal activity.
  » Body Snatchers. Someone can create a new flu virus which requires mass innoculations.
  

Avoiding the Data Web

A Web of Suspects. The important point is that not only is your conversation vulnerable, the technology automatically has a link to the people with whom you are communicating and it knows who is communicating with them. So you have given your persecutors a list of suspects.
» Talking in Plain Sight. As a data specialist I am often thinking about ways to communicate to beat the system. Since this might help people with bad intentions I am only going to list techniques which the media has already divulged or things that are obvious.
• Coded Communications. Use a different word or phrase for the activity that must be hidden and use it in normal conversation. Since the Second Coming is a wedding, you can use items at a normal wedding to symbolize your plans. It would help if a real couple would use real wedding plans to give legitimacy to the process. By using misspelled words you can also avoid search traps. You can even use different words to symbolize the same item by being more creative. If you have a list of ten safe houses or meeting places to use in a persecution, give each one a different name alphabetically. You can refer to the names in conversation or you can use any word that begins with that alphabet. To be even more obscure, the last letter or the third letter in the word could indicate the location. You can even refer to the places by using the name of popular public places like restaurants and cinemas.
  So, "Let's meet at McBurgers for lunch on Thursday" could have any meaning.
• Web Sites. Any agreed upon changes to a web site can be used to signal phases of a plan.
• Obscure Languages. When a major plan is being initiated, coded communication can be done in a more obscure language or dialect.
• Draft E-Mails. All users have access to the same e-mail account and password at a popular free e-mail subscriber. They leave detailed messages by storing a draft e-mail. The message never gets sent so that it bypasses all the surveillance. Remember that draft e-mails can also be searched so that key words that identify your group or plan should be avoided.
• Looking For Zebras, Not Horses. You will be easier to find if you are the only one with technology in a technology-poor environment or a unique technology that is not common to the region.
  • Satellite Phones. They are expensive and used in poor places without public infrastructure. Since there are few devices because they are expensive, it will be easier to monitor a terrorist who needs to handle a large global network from a cave.
  • Wilderness Technology. RFID and mobile phone signals in a wilderness area points to human activity.
  • Libraries and Internet Cafes. The government probably monitors these networks more closely because a terrorist would be less likely to have an electronic link back to his own home or personal account.
    » Security. I use the library to access the internet and there is always a police officer posted at a desk by the door. I do not know why but I suspect homeland security, not library theft. I never saw this in Maryland as late as 2003, but at least in my location in Florida that is our reality.
  • Temporary Phones (Burn Phones). You will be less easy to find if you use a public phone with a phone card or a prepaid phone. I suspect that the government will soon regulate prepaid phones so that there is more information to identify the owner. However, for the persecuted, such phones have no purpose unless you are calling each other on prepaid phones paid in cash. The moment you call a normal subscriber phone, you open up the possibility that you could be identified and tracked because I would look for prepaid phones calling known members of the persecuted organization.
    » Phone ID. A news report on 8 June 2010 stated that congress is proposing a law to close this loop hole. Identification is required to purchase these phones.
  Your best way to avoid detection is to overwhelm the persecutor with information that must be manually analyzed. Use the technology that everyone else is using. Make it more difficult by using code words, obscure foreign languages, disposable phones, different phones and public phones. Separate your private life and conversation from your clandestine one. Never use your spy phone to phone home. Use no technology whenever possible.
  Don't be a Zebra.
  Think this is too much? Remember that when you are being persecuted, you will be treated like a terrorist, so as far as evasive tactics are concerned you have to think like the hunted.
• Living Off the Grid
  In 2006 I met someone who was living "off the grid", I never heard of the concept before, but I quickly realized that this could be useful for the persecuted church. This means living a lifestyle without any government issued or corporate issued identification. It means living with cash only and without identification or owning property so that there is little or no electronic trace of your activities or location.
  • Identification. All official identification are being switched over to interconnected biometric systems. Identification is increasingly being required for every transaction.
  • Income. This severely restricted his income to living by bartering for work in exchange for cash, room and board. It also limits his income to a minimum amount that does not require filing a tax return. It is a lifstyle meant for destitute, homeless, wandering people.
  • Services. He has no access to medical care, employment, banking or education.
  • Travel. Since September 11, he has found it difficult to even travel long distances by bus or train because identification is increasingly being required to purchase tickets. Air travel was impossible not only because of identification, but ticket purchases require the use of electronic money. When cash purchases of tickets become illegal or against company policy, then all long distance travel by public transportation will be eliminated.
  • Check Cashing. In December 2009 I received a $25 check for Christmas and I could not get it cashed by a third party because the banks are no longer accepting co-signed checks without the recepient having an account.

The restrictions that currently exist are enough to cripple a group of law-abiding, moral, persecuted people. However, individual terrorists can still get around the system with false identification and the network of people supporting them. I have problems advocating false identification because it is lying, but I have no problems breaking a law against evangelism where you cannot express your beliefs.

Recent Developments and Legislation
The following are legislation that I believe are significant laws that will affect end time activities. You might find laws buried into other laws which are totally unrelated. This is not a mistake. One wonders why law makers have to go to such subterfuge to hide these laws. Here is a list of United States laws (enacted before September 11, 2001) that can enable persecution.

Laws before September 11, 2001

• National Database. The Welfare Reform Bill, HR 3734 which became public law 104-193 on August 22,1996 contains provision for a national employee database.
• Terrorist Labeling. A law enabling the executive branch to declare various groups "Terrorists" - without stating any reason and without the possibility of appeal. Once a group has been so declared, its mailing and membership lists must be turned over to the government.
• Secret Trials. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; S 735; became public law 104-132 on April 24, 1996 authorizes secret trials with secret evidence for certain classes of people to combat terrorism.
• National Identification. Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, HR 2202 included a law requiring that all states begin issuing drivers licenses carrying Social Security numbers and "security features" (such as magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records) by October 1, 2000.

  By October 1, 2006, neither the Social Security Administration nor the Passport Office nor any other Federal agency nor any State or local government agency may accept for any evidentiary purpose a State driver's license or identification document in a form other than one issued with a verified Social Security number and 'security features'.

  » Real-ID. It is now 2005, four years after I wrote this article, and almost one year before the states must be compliant with the 2000 law. At this moment, the Real-ID driver's license was slipped into a bill to appropriate money for Iraq. Again, hiding laws in emergency bills, without debate or notification. This law actually takes advantage of the 2000 law. But it ensures that states can communicate with each other and the Federal government. I have no doubt that the information will be placed in the TIA database and will be used to verify TIA information. Real-ID will probably use RFID and microchip technology which matured during the last five years.
  » BELIEVE System. It is now 2010 and congress is passing a law to create the "Believe" biometric ID system (Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment). It requires every worker to carry a national identification card with biometric information within the next six years.
• Confiscation of Property. A health care crimes law named Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HR 3103 which became public law 104-191 on August 21, 1996 contains a provision for the confiscation of assets from any American who establishes foreign citizenship in sections 511-513.
  
  Could there come a time, when you will be forced to declare allegiance to Heaven (another country) and so have your property confiscated?
  
  Why does the government want to confiscate your assets if you move to another country? Unless you owe money this does not make sense.
  If we pledge allegiance to God only, as citizens of the heavenly country can we expect this law to be put into effect to confiscate our assets? Can we be declared 'persona non grata' then stripped of our citizenship and then our property under this law? The law makes no sense unless you believe that the vast majority of citizenship changes are done by terrorists and anarchists. It is also in direct violation of Amendment V of the Constitution.
• National Identification - Security Features . A national ID card started with the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, sections III, II 8, 119, 127 and 133. It later became part of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, HR 3610 and became public law 104-208 on September 30, 1996. See sections 656 and 657
• Eavesdropping. Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999, the Enhanced 911 Act was enacted on October 26, 1999. It is a good law that aims to assist emergency services personnel locate victims who are using mobile phones. The law requires telephone companies to have the ability to locate subscribers within 100 meters of their actual location. This automated location identifier went into effect October 1, 2001 with 95% penetration by December 2005.
  The significance of this law to the end time prophecies is that, the system will be able to accurately pinpoint your location through any type of mobile phones even when the phone is turned off or not being used.
• Financial Surveillance. The proposed 'know your customer Law' designed to enhance the powers of the Bank Secrecy Act.

Indefinite Detention. As of September 11, 2001 we have learned that people can be held indefinitely as 'material witnesses' without a charge and a trial. So much for your right to a speedy trial guaranteed by Amendment VI of the constitution, even Amendment V says you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. Indefinite detention seems to be designed to force people to 'talk'. It also assumes that they know something to 'talk' about. So much for the presumption of innocence.

U.S.A. Patriot Freedom Act
The government is now pretending to enact these kinds of laws for the first time, because it has overwhelming public support to do so. The fact that these provisions were made law without your knowledge during the last 6 years demonstrates that you cannot wait for official knowledge of these events before you realize that prophecy is being fulfilled. In every historical case that I have seen - such legal trappings were done in secret and it was too late by the time the victims realized it.