Well, isn’t this special. Subdermal RFID tags to replace cash and credit cards coming soon. Maybe. I want to know what happens if you’re, say, waving at a friend at the gas station and accidentally pay for someone else’s gas.
This is funny though:
“… keeps tabs on what many Christians believe are the signs of a coming religious Armageddon. His site is one of dozens that link VeriChip to the apocalyptic prophecy.
Applied Digital officials say such concern is unfounded because people are chipped voluntarily.
Yeah, and the bible says if you volunteer for the Mark of the Beast, you go to hell. Not that I’m saying this is or is not the Mark of the Beast, I’m just saying that isn’t the strongest argument against it being the Mark.
via Slashdot
Not So Fast 
The very fact that we have the technology for a subdermal chip for making purchases and is being tested should be enough to raise any biblical red flag! This prophecy in the book of Revelation was given 1900 years ago and here we are living in the generation that can make the claim of what that mark is. It is very simple to see. Just replace the debit card technology with a scaled-down version to go under the skin and then make the other methods of purchase obsolete and there you have your “Forcing” or “Causing” to receive the mark. People will be forced, not physically, but because all the other methods of purchasing will be made obsolete, so that the mark will be the only way to purchase. At that time people will either receive it to save their lives (here on earth) or deny the mark and take their stand for Christ and the word of God.