Hi Mike,

I recently read your response to a brother reference his question about receiving the mark of the beast:

… if there comes a time that our currency is transferred from paper to some form of implant to the right hand or forehead would you suggest I receive or reject it?

I see and agree with your response in that nothing outside of a man can defile us, but only that which comes from within. I agree that if our government does go to a cashless society and places chips in us in order to replace the current monetary system will have no affect on our endurance as a Christian until the end.
I am, however, concerned if this possible chip implantation comes with the requirement of us pledging allegiance with what may be called a new world order containing a new world church which welcomes all faiths and religions as valid but different roads to the same end (salvation). If this chip does come with these and other attachments, then would you advise refusing acceptance of the chip?
Thank you for taking the time.
Your brother,
S____

Hi S____,

It is good to hear from you.
Yes, if such a scenario would ever came to pass, it would be impossible for a Christian to pledge allegiance to anything but to God.
When I was 18 years old, I was drafted and was slated to go into the military. I told my draft board that I could not in good conscience kill my fellow man. The draft board suggested that I go in as a conscientious objector and serve as a medic or some other way that would not require me using a weapon. When I found that I would still be required to pledge allegiance to the United States, and I discovered that I was actually government property for the time of my service, I knew that I could have no other God before my God, and I simply refused to be drafted. I was applying for admission to college and I did get a ministerial students deferral, but I honestly thought I was on my way to prison before that was granted. Nevertheless I didn’t even consider going to Canada or in any way attempting to avoid prison. I was willing to go to prison if that was what had to be done to obey the first commandment, and to have but one master, Christ. I am bought with a price and I do not belong to anyone but the one who bought me.

1Co 7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Luk 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Having said all of that, it is still the beastly, man of sin within, who sits in the temple of God declaring himself to be God and demanding our worship. It is through worship of that beast that all men, including all saints, are first defiled, and then cleansed through the fire that is the Word of God cleansing the temple which we are.

Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Rev 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [ the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [ is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rev 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty [ and] two months.
Rev 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Rev 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

“They worshipped the beast”. There it is for all the world to see, but it is not given to the world to see that even the saints worship the beast and are overcome by the beast, before it is given to to them overcome him, his name, his number and his image. Concentrate on the worst enemy you will ever come to know. It is not anyone outside of yourself. Your worst enemy in the world is you and mine is me. That is what is meant by “They worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
The beast, the dragon, the false prophet and great Babylon are all within us. They are all implanted much deeper than a microchip, and our allegiance to that system is an integral part of our marred condition.
But through Christ coming into us and dethroning them all, we can overcome them all and stand on that transparent “sea of glass mingled with fire”, and be cleansed to become worthy through that cleansing fire to enter into the temple of God, which is us in Christ and Christ in us.

Rev 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

All things are ours. Things present and things to come (1Co 3:21-22). We will “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book… and the things written therein” (Rev 1:3 and 22:6-8) We will “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, and that includes all of this book of Revelation (Mat 4:4 and Rev 1:1).
I hope this has helped you to see that the implant we are afflicted with, and the one the scriptures tells us will overcome the saints, is far harder to detect or resist than even the scenario you paint in this e- mail.
Nevertheless we are straightly commanded to “Have no other God’s before Me” so the answer to your question is, Yes, we are to refuse to obey men whenever they require us to disobey God.

Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

There is a very good reason why we are told “Many are called but few are chosen”.<<br />
I pray that you and I are granted to be among those chosen few.
Your brother in Christ,
Mike