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TheresJustNoMoney

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If you make a transaction with a virtual credit or debit card on a smartwatch by waving your smartwatch over a payment terminal, would that constitute "using the Mark of the Beast?"

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. — Revelation chapter 13:16–17

So if I load my credit and debit card numbers into my smartwatch, wear it on my right hand, and wave said smartwatch over a payment terminal to make a sale or purchase, would that be considered "using the Mark of the Beast?"

Well, what if I put that transactable smartwatch on my left hand and then use it to transact?

 

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[–]emzirek 1 point 5 months ago 

The mark of the beast is not possible because the beast is not visible at the moment ..

You might be using or worried about the technology on your wrist before the mark of the beast is established and they might actually use that technology but you are not using the mark of the beast so to speak

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[–]Yiskas_mama 3 points 5 months ago 

You will not get the mark of the beast without knowing and accepting that you are taking the mark of the beast.

So, no.

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[–]Jehu2024 1 point 5 months ago 

no, but this does raise an interesting question. What does it mean to worship?

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[–]StephenDisraeli 2 points 5 months ago 

There's a simple way of finding out. Check the terms and conditions. If one of the clauses says, "By using this technology, you are expressing your willingness to support the world-ruler who is persecuting the Christian church to the point of death", then that is the mark of the beast. Otherwise, no.

The mark of the beast can be identified quite easily. All you have to do is to identify the beast FIRST. Not by anagrams of his name or by how attractive he is, but by the persecuting behaviour. Once you have identified an active beast, the mark is whatever symbol his followers are wearing on their armbands.

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[–]halbhh 2 points 5 months ago* 

No.

Now just to try to imagine any possible scenario that could happen anytime soon, it might be a lot closer if....say, for example, Trump followed through on his words about Bitcoin, and first made made it the official reserve currency.... and then suppose Trump didn't stop there.....

....suppose that next he outlawed using dollars, and made Bitcoin itself the only legal tender currency....so that literally you could not any longer buy or sell with physical dollars....

...ok, then next perhaps since your Bitcoin account is electronic of course, it would be made easy to use like having something on your hand and head to easily be rapidly scanned to buy and sell.... and Bitcoin even has a symbol -- ₿ -- and then maybe a thin electronic token (maybe with that symbol ₿) would be printed on your hand and head for some that liked to follow Trump in a more full way...

Well, then we'd be fitting the text a lot closer, and it would be concerning...

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