1. The mark goes "in" the right hand (not left) or forehead, not "on".
2. You will not be able to buy and sell unless you have the mark.
3. The people who take the mark are deceived.
4. The mark is forced on people by penalty of economic sanction, and finally by threat of decapitation/beheadings -- They are not gassed, shot, hung, electrocuted, or poisoned. They are Beheaded.
5. The people who take the mark eventually all get a grevious boil or sore on them.
6. Accepting the Mark is the same as worship of the Beast and his global government, which will result in eternal damnation with no hope for salvation.

1. The syringe inplantable transponder (see links below) is evidence of how close we are to the fulfillment of this Bible Prophesy!
2. There is a world government "new world order" movement happening and being supported by the media, movies, Nafta, Euro-union, Asian-union, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, The United Nations, etc...
3. This movement is based on evolutionary-humanism, embracing all religions, promotion of everyone having only "their fair share," liberalism/communism, government handouts, promotion of the idea that we must not tolerate intolerance, animal and people rights above property rights, etc.
4. Given Y2K, we may be mere months away from the beginnings of fulfillment of Bible Prophesy on this topic of the Mark of the Beast!
5. Major Banks plan to MASS MANUFACTURE and DISTRIBUTE the best of the syringe implantable transponders very soon, estimates range from 1999 to 2005!
6. Interestingly, a biochip implant would be both a piercing and a mark.

[Lev 19:28] Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
If you were thinking that a biochip implant might not be the mark of the beast, and it might be o.k. to take it, think again. God's word is clear. Even if a biochip implant is not the mark of the beast, you'd have to break God's commantments to take it.

1. The Rapture --Jesus Christ's removal of the saintly Church.

--Allows for:
2. The rise of the AntiChrist

--a charasmatic world leader (immune to the charms of women) who confirms a 7-year peace treaty with Isreal and allows the Jews to rebuild the Temple and begin daily sacrifices once again. The AntiChrist is the one who forces people to take the mark. He's the "he" of Rev. 13:16, "And he causeth all...to receive a mark..."
3. The rise of the False Prophet

--who aids the AntiChrist in his rise to world power and seduces/deceives the world with miracles and wonders.
4. The rise of God's two witnesses

--who preach the Gospel with supernatural powers for 3.5 years and cannot be killed, and who control the weather (stop rain), and who cannot be killed by any means, yet are killed by the AntiChrist at the end of 3.5 years, in the middle of the 7 years of the Peace Treaty with Isreal.[Revelation 11:3-7]
5. The death of God's two witnesses

--and the world throws a 3-day party while their bodies lie in the streets. The party stops when their bodies are brought back to life and rise up into heaven in the sight of all of mankind.[Revelation 11:8-13]
6. Angels preach throughout the earth to all of mankind to not take the mark. [Revelation 14:6-9]

More Scriptures, Re: The mark of God on the hand & forehead:

Deuteronomy 11:18: "Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes [your forehead]."

Deuteronomy 6:8: "And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes [forehead]."

Exodus 13:16: "And it shall be for a token [Hebrew: oth, meaning "sign"] upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes [forehead]: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt."

All seem to say that obedience to God's commands is what his mark represents.

Now, the way I see it, the taking of the biochip "merely for convenience sake" would violate a good portion of God's ten commandments.

1. It breaks the first, "worship only God", and have no God's above God.
2. It breaks the third, "making any images" or the worship of them.
3. It breaks the fifth, "honor your parents", as it is a violation of your natural body, as are tatoos and piercings.
4. It breaks the sixth, "thou shalt not kill", as people are routinely killed in the support of this world money system, and people will be killed/beheaded when they refuse to take the mark.
5. It breaks the eighth, "thou shalt not steal", as that's what inflation and personal taxation do, and taking the mark would be supporting both of those.
6. It breaks the ninth, "thou shalt not bear false witness", as people who use cash and do not accept the mark will be accused of wanting cash for illegal purchases and uses.
7. It breaks the tenth, "thou shalt not covet", as the taking of the mark will be promoted as a way to avoid having your neighbors covet your cash--you won't have any cash or credit to steal.

Finally, [Prov 22:3] A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. 

[Prov 11:4] Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

[Deut 7:25] The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that
is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

[Deut 17:17] (About making a King in Isreal) Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly
multiply to himself silver and gold.

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[Deut 6:6] And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

[Deut 6:7] And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

[Deut 6:8] And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes.

[Deut 6:9] And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
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[Mat 24:45] Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give
them meat in due season?

[Mat 24:46] Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
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[1Cor 7:23] Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

[Rev 18:4] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

[Rev 21:7] He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.