We are very very close.
When Bill Gates put the Patent 2020 060606 which can be read in full at the World Patent office,
he left a big, wide opening to how this would be implemented.
It is not yet well-known if they have created the way for each person to be monitored.

These are the integral parts of the Mark of the Beast:

 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;
saying to them that dwell on the earth,
that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
that the image of the beast should both speak,

The Beast has power to deceive.
The Beast has the ability to do miracles.
He will recover from a deadly wound.
He will cause those to make an image of the Beast,
which will speak and cause those who refuse to worship him to be killed.

and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
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. 
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:
for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Revelation 13:15-18

Those who receive the Mark of the Beast will be cast into the Lake of Fire.
There is no coming back once the Mark has been accepted.

Jesus liked to take natural things and show the parallel to the spiritual.
He even did that in the Lord’s Prayer: Give us this day our daily bread.
More than one meaning, bread to sustain us while we live on Earth and He is the bread of life.
The parables were the way He explained what He was saying. We can ask God for understanding.
Jesus does not give spiritual understanding to everyone.

Since this writing is mainly about the leaven which is so prevalent in the gospel right now.
It likely was prevalent throughout history which is why we know about the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
There are those who doubt the works of God, there are also those who add to the works of God.
They give credit to themselves for hearing and acting upon the word of God.

Revelation gives a stark promise to those who add to that book and similarly remove the words that are written in that book.

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book.
If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city,
and from the things which are written in this book. Revelation 22:18-19

God also has expressed anger for those who have taken and proclaimed God said
or promised something when He did not.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you:
they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
They say still unto them that despise Me, The Lord hath said,
Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart,
No evil shall come upon you.
For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord and hath perceived and heard His word?
who hath marked His word, and heard it?
Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind:
it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
The anger of the Lord shall not return, until He have executed,
and till He have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 23:16-21

It is up to us to seek the Lord, to let Him hone our skills in His word.
To follow hard after Jesus and love the truth with everything within us.
The deception coming will be very persuasive and that deception is already here.
Many are already falling for it because they do not elevate God’s word above their own perceptions and opinions.
They add to it and twist it, just like Satan did in the Garden.

There are many different religions, some mention Jesus. Some pray to the dead Saints or Mary. There is only one mediator between God and man, that is Jesus Christ, the Messiah. He’s the only one.

There is much deception and there are many types of deception. It seems the more that time passes, the more deception is around. The closer we get to The End, there will even be more choices as who knows what will happen with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The programmers are programming it to take the place of God. They want full control of the people and those who serve the Living God do not bow to AI, but to Jesus the Christ. I suppose some who worship other gods may also be loyal to their gods. AI will try as hard as it can to gain the trust of all and add a mixture of all that is the best of all religions to one center religion where all can worship.

The ground work is being laid for the Antichrist and there will be many before he shows up that people will learn to follow the new way, the one world religion way that combines all the main attributes of all religions into one place.

While people consider the tenets of the new religion, it may work for some. That is why our relationship with Jesus is of utmost importance. Not just any god will do. We serve the Living God, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega. There is none who can be compared to Him. If we are not in close relationship with Jesus, we may not understand the difference between Him and the sweet talking AI or the Antichrist who is a counterfeit Christ.

Learn all you can about the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

He is the most wonderful God and Savior we could ever serve
and every single thing He has said is the truth.
He is the truth and none can compare to Him.

Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen:
that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He:
before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me.
I, even I, am the Lord; and beside Me there is no saviour. Isaiah 43:10-11

The glory of the Lord is wonderous. It’s the same glory that made Moses’ face to shine.
The same glory that Moses could not look upon lest he die.
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand,
when he came down from the mount,
that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him.
 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone;
and they were afraid to come nigh him. 
And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him:
and Moses talked with them. 
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh:
and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 
And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. 
But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out.
And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone:
and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him. Exodus 34:29-35

It’s the same glory that made the people see that Peter and John had been with the Lord.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13

We might even have some of God’s glory that remains on us when we have spent some time with God.
If that is true, you might feel unusual rejection or acceptance. Some sort of a reaction from others.
While God’s glory is from the spiritual, it has a natural effect.
This can be true when you spend time with the Lord and in His word, praising or speaking in tongues.

The glory of the Lord is not what everyone experiences. Some people flee from it or try to extinguish it. Paul when he was Saul, before he encountered the Lord. He saw the glory of the Lord and hated it, but then Jesus revealed Himself to Paul and then he repented.

The glory of the Lord can cause submission and awe of the Lord. Those who resist God may have a completely different experience when they encounter God’s glory.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God,
and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him:
and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. 
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice,
Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Acts 7:54-60

In the 1980s, there were people who sought God’s glory, not necessarily God. They were called Glory Seekers. They were looking for the experience, the feelings, the miracles, signs and wonders. We must be careful not to seek those, but to seek Christ Jesus who gives the miracles, signs and wonders. The wonder of Christ is knowing Him. If we seek after what He gives, that is a sort of idolatry, even though those miracles, healings and signs and wonders follow Him.

There were a lot of people in Jesus’ day, while He walked on the Earth, that followed Jesus to see what He was going to do. That is remarkably different from following Him and wanting to know Jesus the Messiah. Be careful and check your heart. Ask the Lord God to check your heart and to help you not to get sidetracked from following Christ Jesus the Lord of all things great and small.

When we think we know it all, there is always more to know.
We can never rest on our laurels with God. Never.
What we know can have a different angle, a different perspective.
Maybe God will take the idea, smash it and give us a new revelation,
or maybe He will add to the knowledge He gave us by giving us a new idea,
something we never thought of that compliments or expands what He has already taught us.

Each word of God is alive. The Bible is not stagnant. A bible teacher I know is really good.
He has many revelations and thoughts and understandings of the word. His are not wrong.
Neither are those who see things from a different angle or perspective.
We learn great revelations from the Word of the Lord as we study it.
There are not any that are not worthy of consideration.
As long as they do not get twisted by deception,
or are not against the truth presented in whole word of God,
we can just keep sitting at His feet to learn more.

There is more than one way to look at mercy.
There was a mercy seat even on the Ark of the Covenant.
Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. Matthew 5:7
In Lamentations, we read: His mercies are new every morning.
He teaches us the same idea in many different ways. God does that with everything.
There are no wrong answers, really. What He teaches us is fullness and life.
The richness of how God sees mercy will take many years to fully comprehend.

God is never boring. Those who think that do not know Him and may hear those most frightening words when they meet Him face to face: Depart from Me, I never knew you!

Learning God’s ways takes much humility and yielding.
We have our own ways of thinking that can get in the way of learning God’s ways.
That is where the yielding and humility comes in.

Scriptural References:

 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23

And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him,
then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat
that was upon the ark of testimony,
from between the two cherubims: and He spake unto him.
Numbers 7:89

And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? Genesis 4:6

Cain gave God what he wanted to instead of what God asked of him.
It’s easy to do that. We must be careful because even if what we give is a sacrifice for us,
God requires what He requires and He wants obedience rather than sacrifice.

Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven. Matthew 7:21

We serve God on His terms, not ours. He requires much of us.
A half-baked life toward God is not going to cut it.
We must love Him and love His word of truth. We must follow Him whole-heartedly.

And why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Luke 6:46

Genesis Chapter 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

John Chapter 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
2 The same was in the beginning with God. 
3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. 
4 In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. 
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The First Day: Light

Genesis Chapter 1
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The Second Day: Firmament

Genesis Chapter 1
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters. 
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

The Third Day: Dry Ground

Genesis Chapter 1
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good. 
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, 
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

The Fourth Day: Sun, Moon, Stars

Genesis Chapter 1
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:
He made the stars also. 
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness:
and God saw that it was good. 
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

The Fifth Day: Fish and Birds

Genesis Chapter 1
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 
22 And God blessed them, saying,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

The Sixth Day: Creatures on Land

Genesis Chapter 1
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, 
I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The Seventh Day: God Rests

Genesis Chapter 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made;
and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. 
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

Hebrews Chapter 4
4 For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise,
And God did rest the seventh day from all His works. 
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into My rest. 
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein,
and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, He limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said,
To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day. 
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 
10 For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His. 
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Exodus Chapter 16
28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

Since God’s word is God, and Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life (from John 14:6)
We know His word is Truth.

in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. John 1:1
Sanctify them through thy truth: Thy word is truth. John 17:17

We must allow ourselves to be sanctified by the Truth.
That means to be cleansed from deception. To accept the truth above our own thoughts.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9

God’s ways are higher and when we acknowledge that, He will expose the deception.
If we value the truth, if we love the truth as the Bible admonishes us to, we will be searching for the truth.
We will be following the truth, we will recognize the truth.

Cast down those lofty thoughts that make humans think they are smarter than God.
It truly takes humility to do that. To admit your opinions are faulty.
The battle is mainly in our minds:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:4-5

… and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ…

I am there, at the fork in the road.
I heard, “It is time.” twice. Meaning time to leave my present job.
There is another job I can take with fewer responsibilities and much less stress and also less money.
But still, I want to make sure it is God. I want to make sure it is really Him.
How can I know?
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: John 10:27
I don’t feel like fasting, but I think that might be the best idea at this point.
I have asked for wisdom and prayed and read His word.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him. James 1:5

Since I’ve asked for wisdom, maybe I have already been given wisdom?

I help a lot of people at my present job.
I am oppressed and stressed there.
I have done my best to work under difficult authority respectfully.

Sometimes, we walk forward and see if the door opens up for us.
I’m almost positive this door is open, so I must make the choice.

And the key of the house of David will I lay upon His shoulder;
so He shall open, and none shall shut; and He shall shut, and none shall open. Isaiah 22:22

I could cast lots. That’s what they used to do. Flip a coin. Or create a fleece like Gideon.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs 16:33
I’m going to see how it goes and maybe walk and see if the doors truly do open.

I’m going to walk slowly and trust that God is giving me the wisdom I asked for
and that He will make His voice clear to me as this is a complex decision.
I’ll let you know how it goes.

Why, O Lord, do I need to have the most unpleasant people in my life?
It seems if it’s not one, it’s another.
Willing subjects who want to rule me.
She wants me to bow to her and do what she commands.
Yet, she is not my boss.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. Luke 4:8

Satan knows what gets to us.
He knows what bugs us more than anything.
Mine is an inner turmoil.
I can be polite, but on the inside, I struggle.
I fail to love in the face of her control tactics.
I don’t quite hate her. I don’t wish her evil. I just wish she would stop badgering me.
She never seems to get it. It’s the way she operates.

She told me of her last job and her boss got so mad at her that she screamed at her and lost it.
I feel bad for her boss. Though I have not screamed and lost it, I can understand how her boss felt.

The spiritual battle is alive.
We do not war in the flesh.
We battle unseen enemies who influence those who dwell on the Earth.
The second we stop yielding to the Spirit, we can open ourselves up to the devices of the enemy.
We have to always watch and pray
and make sure we are in God’s good graces and not sinning in any way.
If we remain in Him, He will fight for us and we will see the enemy defeated.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 2 Corinthians 10:4

People often think they need to war in the battle with their prayers and loud commands to the devil.
Maybe that can help, but I have found that as long as my hands are clean and my heart is pure,
the Lord Jesus fights for me and causes my enemies to leave me alone.
When a man’s ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7
He prompts me to be obedient to His word which is my haven.

In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:6

If I fail to forgive, seek retribution, am passive-aggressive, wish unkindness or any other bad attribute,
then, from experience, I can tell you, God is not on my side. As long as I am pleasing the Lord,
He fights for me and puts my enemies in their place.

Abide in the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:2
By abiding in the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, we can be set free from the Law of Sin and Death.