The Number of His Name

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The Number of His Name

 

lots of interesting facts here. Anything to add? :-)......HenryTHE MARK OF THE BEASTThe Number of His NameThe Antichrist will use economic terrorism to force the people of the world to follow him."And he (the False Prophet) 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 and 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 13:16-18)"...If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God...And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." (Revelation 14:9-11)Many people believe that the number 666 will be his mark, but the Bible doesn't make itself clear on that point. Six is the number of man, because he was created on the sixth day, and given six "days" to live. The number 666 is the Satanic trinity, and will be the manner in which the Antichrist will be recognized.Iranaeus (140-202), Bishop of Lyons, a pupil of Polycarp (who was a student of the Apostle John), thought the number 666 was the Greek word "Lateinos": L (30), A (1), T (300), E (5), I (10), N (50), 0 (70), S (200), which adds up to 666. The word means "Latin kingdom," and it was later believed that this referred to the religion of the Vatican, because Latin is their official language, which is used in their canons, missals, prayers, and blessings.Rev. Jerry R. Church, founder and director of Prophecy in the News ministry in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, reported that the Sumerians of Noah's time, who lived in what is now southern Iraq, used a sexagesimal system of numerics, which means that their numerical system was based on the number six, instead of ten. He theorized, that since all language had a common base, and civilization's first numbering system was based on six, then a code could be devised to "count the number of the beast." The English alphabet is based on the root value of six: 6" X 2= 1 foot, 6" X 6= 1 yard, 6 "forties" = 1 section, 6 sections X 6= 1 township, 1 township = a 6 square mile area, etc. What he came up with, was an alphanumeric code: A = 6, B = 12, C = 18, D = 24, E = 30, F = 36, etc. Using this code, he discovered that various words, such as "Mark of the Beast,Computer," and "New York" were equivalent to the numerical value of 666.The number 666 has become quite prominent today, in order to get people familiar with it, and to eliminate the evil connotations that the number has. Listed below are only some of the areas where the number 666 has been used: 1) Koehring and Clark equipment companies used 666 as part of the product identification number on certain models.2) Stickers distributed at DuPont Co. plants said: "To be in the know, call 'Mom' (666)."3) Products of the Bliss-Hastings Co. contained the number 666.4) The 85th Annual Frontiers Days Festival, held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, promoted July 23, 1981 as "666 Rodeo Day."5) The logo of Australia's National Bank card contained a configuration of the number 666.6) In August, 1980, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia notified their customers that the telephone number of the U.S. Weather Service was being changed from 936-1212, to 666-1212.7) Men's dress shirts produced in China, and sold in the U.S., had the number 666 on the label, forming the trademark of Kerman Scott Ltd.8) At the official reopening of the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975, the first Egyptian warship entering it, which was carrying Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, had the number 666 on its bow.9) The World Bank code number was 666.10) Some credit cards in the U.S. had the numerical prefix of 666.11) The Olivetti Computer System P6060, used processing numbers which began with 666.12) Sears, Belk, J. C. Penney, and Montgomery Ward computers were prefixing their transactions with the number 666, as mandated by its computer programming.13) Shoes made in Italy had 666 stamped on the inside label. It consisted of a circle, divided in half; with a horned lamb (see Rev. 13:11) on top, and the number 666 on the bottom. It was later put on all Common Market products. 14) IBM computer equipment in supermarkets had the number 3X666 on them.15) Visa credit cards represent the number 666: the Roman numeral for 6 is "VI"; the number 6 in ancient Greek was taken from the sixth letter of their alphabet, the letter "stigma," which looks like the English "S"; and in the Babylonian sexagesimal system, and "A" represented 6. Thus the word VISA forms the number 666.16) Computers manufactured by Lear Siegler, Inc. in the U.S. and shipped to Israel, had a seal on the side stamped with the number 666, which was later discontinued.17) The Federal Government Medicaid Service Employees Division number was 666.18) The Internal Revenue Service's ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) Division had the number 666 on their employee's badges.19) In 1977, the IRS began requiring the number 666 as a prefix on forms for tax payments on Individual Retirement Accounts (form W-2P): Disability is 666.3, death is 666.4, etc. After a lot of protest, it was omitted in 1978-79, but resumed in 1980-81.20) IRS instructions for the 1979 non-profit Corporation Employee W-2 form, required the prefix 666.21) Some states had the number 666 on their requisition paperwork.22) President Carter's secret security force had patches with the number 666 on them.23) Chrysler Corporation manufactured tanks for President Carter's secret security force that had the number 666 on the side.24) A contest sponsored by the Israeli Dept. of Education in 1980, featured a tic-tac-toe game, that allowed you to win money if you scratched off the numbers 666.25) The McGregor Clothing Co. had introduced a "666 Collection" of menswear.26) A telephone company in the mid-west had its credit cards encoded with the number 666.27) Identification tags on Japanese-made parts for the Caterpillar Co. in Peoria, Illinois, had the number 666 on them as part of the product code.28) FLXO Mens Chore Gloves made by the Boss Clove Co., were stamped with the number 666 as a style number,29) The Crow's Hybrid Corn Co. of Iowa offered a "666" seed as its top yielding hybrid.30) Scotty had offered a new improved 666 fertilizer.31) South Central Bell's Telco Credit Union cards had the prefix 666, and then the person's Social Security number.32) Metric rulers which were distributed in 1979 throughout the country had the number 666 on them.33) I.D. tags on 1979 General Motor cars manufactured in Flint, Michigan, had the number 666 on them.34) U.S. Selective Service cards had the number 666 as part of its code.35) The overseas telephone operator number from Israel was 666.36) After 1973, Arab-owned vehicles in Jerusalem had the prefix of 666 on their license plates, for the purpose of being able to identify the enemy in case of war.37) An album by the heavy metal band "Black Sabbath" was called "666."38) There was an elementary grade algebra book published by the Thomas Corwell Co. in New York, titled "666 Jellybeans."39) Mastercard had started to use the number "66" on their statements in August, 1980.40) The formula for the NCR model 304 Supermarket Computer was 6 60 6(which is six, three score, and six).41) The "Sundial" style floor tile manufactured by Armstrong, were prefixed with the number 666-13.42) The cutter boom governing heads on coal mining equipment in Beckley, West Virginia, produced by the Lee Morse Co., were coded with the number 666.43) Financial institutions in Florida were using the number 666.44) Parent and Teacher Training books from the Channing L. Bete Co. in Greenfield, Massachusetts, were catalog coded with the number C-666.The mark may be some sort of identification number, such as your Social Security number, which will serve to identify everyone. In None Dare Call It Conspiracy, author Gary Alien wrote (pg. 13): "...his (the individual's) freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number... (until) his final retirement and death benefits." It could be that your Social Security number could be used for such a system, since U.S. law requires every citizen to have such a number by the time they enter the first grade.The move is on for everyone in the United States to have an identification card. A Special Presidential Commission on Immigration and Refugees had recommended a national identification card in an attempt to keep illegal aliens in check. The U.S. News and World Report, in their September 15, 1980 issue, ran an article called "A National Identity Card?" It reported that the Federal Government was planning an identification card that would prevent anyone without one from working or transacting any sort of business. This computerized system would keep track of every citizen, According to a 1994 proposal by the Congressional Commission on Immigration Reform, all American citizens and legal immigrants would be given a national identification card. The project was later shelved, but elsewhere the move is on. In 1995, the European Economic Community was to begin issuing identification cards to all the citizens of western Europe.In California, drivers licenses were to be issued that would contain a microchip with personal information, motor vehicle records, criminal records, a photograph, and fingerprints. The Department of Defense at the Pentagon issued the M.A.R.C. card (Multi-Technology Automatic Reader Card) to their soldiers. It contained a bar code, a magnetic strip, a digitized photograph, and an integrated circuit computer chip. An internal Pentagon memo stated that the card would encode all of a soldier's records. This "6.6 megabyte Laser Card" from Drexler Technology Corporation can store nearly 2,000 pages of information, which is more than enough for identification numbers, biographical information, school records, photographs, signature, voice print, fingerprints, medical and health care records, credit and banking information, job information and activities. This card is believed to be the prototype for the national identification card that will be issued to all U.S. citizens.A worldwide communications network has already been established, and is known as SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication). This system links member banks across the globe in a manner designed to accommodate any type of computer system. The Burroughs Corp. developed the data processing and communications system equipment that will be used as a private communications system for the transmission of payment and other international banking transactions and communication. It is made up of switching centers in Brussels (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands), which have been linked to Burroughs data concentrators in Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Milan, Lux, Montreal, New York, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, and Zurich. These data concentrators are linked to terminals in all the member banks of those countries. Brussels is the location of the Main Switching Center, which occupies three floors of the European Communities thirteen-floor headquarters. Dr. Hanrick Eldeman, Chief Analyst for the Common Market, said in a 1974 meeting of the Common Market leaders during the unveiling of the huge, self-programming computer known as "The Beast," that a computerized revitalization project is being prepared to "straighten out world chaos," and that the computer has the potential of "numbering every human on earth."This computer has since taken a back seat to the computer in the Monet Building in Luxembourg, which has been called the largest in the world. The building is almost a half- block square. Paul Peterson wrote in his book Sinister World Computerization: "I saw the center in Luxembourg that can compute facts and figures on everyone in the world." But do you know where the biggest concentration of super computers are in the world? At Fort Meade, Maryland, between Washington and Baltimore, at the headquarters of the National Security Agency, which is the most secret intelligence agency in our government. Occupying an area of a thousand acres, the NSA contains a $47,000,000 subterranean computer facility that stretches for blocks and has ten acres of Cray supercomputers. The supercomputers are tied into each other with 52 separate computer systems from around the world. According to the book SWIFT: Banking and Business, Dr. T. Hugh Moreton said: "In early 1982 we are ready to believe every country in the world will be connected in one way or another to SWIFT." The United States SWIFT Bank, built at a cost of $15 million, is located near the Federal Reserve Office in Culpepper, Virginia.Everyone living in the major industrial nations are tied into this system through Social Security numbers, Driver License numbers, Birth Certificates, Passport numbers, and Credit Card numbers. All financial transactions are on record, including taxes paid, and property acquisitions. Also in its memory banks are changes of address, and your employment record.In 1798, Adam Clarke, a Methodist Minister, said: "The Mark of the Beast will be an 18 digit number, 6 + 6 + 6." In 1977, Dr. Eldeman of the Common Market said that he was preparing to assign a number to everyone in the world, which would be a "three six-digital unit, 18 numbers." All other numbers, such as driver license numbers and credit card numbers would be phased out in lieu of your Social Security number, since it is already used in bank dealings, Medicaid, Medicare, Blue Cross, and various other identification methods. This number, most likely, will be used for the issuing of an International Card so that financial transactions can be accomplished electronically. Mary Stewart Relfe, Ph.D., author of the books, When Your Money Fails...The "666 System" Is Here, and The New Money System, believed that the code on an international card could be:666-110-202-123-45-6789666- (International Code to Activate the World Computer)110- (National Code to Activate Central U.S. Computer)202- (Telephone Area Code)123-45-6789 (Social Security Number)Christians who returned credit cards with a 666 prefix, were told that by 1982, the number 666 would be on all cards. If that was the case, the number encoded on the magnetic strip on the back could only be read by infrared scanners. Relfe believed that the Personal Identification Transaction Card (P.I.T.) may include a photograph, signature, and the identification number encoded on it with a magnetic strip and a bar code. The Cashless SocietyThe advent of debit cards may have heralded the coming of this type of card. Years ago, Gary Allen wrote in A Decade Left- Has Orwell's 1984 Come Early?: "Federal planners forsee the day when every citizen will have a money card instead of money to spend. The cards will be placed in a machine at each point of purchase, and the charge would be electronically subtracted from the customer's Federal Reserve Account." The November, 1975 issue of Progressive Grocer reported: "The day will come when one card will be good at any terminal, in any state..." In the September 21, 1976 issue of the Daily Oklahoman, was an article titled, "The Cashless Society Expected to Become Reality Soon," which said: "The long-talked about cashless society is almost here. Bank debit cards are expected to go into nationwide use soon." In the December 27, 1979 issue of Electronic Fund Transfer Report, there was an article titled "Electronic Money" which revealed: "A sophisticated point of sale system is quietly operated by the Chase Manhattan Bank in one of the banking industry's best kept secrets. Chase is now directly linked to hundreds of electronic cash registers or P.O.S. terminals in department and specialty stores...by offering this service to merchants on a nationwide basis, a network will be created that will allow the Chase Manhattan Bank to have a national E.F.T. present." On May 29, 1980, during ABC-TV's Good Morning America show, a Federal Reserve official talked about the existence of a new Federal debit card: "A thin piece of plastic which is to be inserted in automatic machines. One must then punch in his own secret code number...You are not to write your number down, tell it to anyone, or record it anywhere. It must be memorized." Giant Food, Inc. and the Safeway Stores were the first to install the Point-of-Sale computerized Electronic Fund Transfer checkout machines in their supermarkets to take bank debit cards. They were later joined by Mobil Oil who installed the system in all of its gas stations throughout the country. Since then, debit cards have slowly become assimilated into all aspects of the retail industry.The plan was to combine the credit card and the debit card into a single multi-use card which could be used to make deposits, pay bills, transfer money, make withdrawals, make purchases, and borrow money. On March 3, 1979, the Knight News Service in Miami, Florida reported: "By 1980, many bankers predict, most shoppers will exchange the wallet full of credit cards they now carry for a single, all-purpose card and number." In the September 17, 1979 issue of the Electronic Fund Transfer Report, in an article called "MasterCard," reported: "In a speech, John J. Reynolds, President of Interbank Card Association, said that 'the newly named MasterCard (formerly known as Master Charge) will be a full transaction card, rather than just a credit card." The article continued: "In significant ways, Interbank now had brought its EFT strategy in line with Visa's. The debit card will bear the familiar red and ochre logo, in the same way that all Visa cards are blue, white and gold. Even the magnetic stripe specification adopted for the new MasterCard now embraces an element introduced by Visa's three digit service code in the discretionary datafield of track two. With this code, it will be possible to determine if a card from one country many be used...in another country. D. Sean Miller, Interbank Senior Vice-President, told EFT Report: 'the real reason it's there is that it would be very difficult to put it in later.' " According to the October 26, 1981 issue of Business Week, Russell E. Hogg, President of MasterCard International, Inc. predicted: "Within five to seven years, there will be more debit cards in America than credit cards." An article in Time magazine, September 29, 1980 reported: "It looks and feels like a credit card, payment takes place instantly. A computer deducts funds from the shopper's bank account and transfers them into that of the store or restaurant where purchases have been made..." The cover of the January 18, 1982 issue of Business Week, depicted a single debit card for nationwide electronic banking. The accompanying article said: "One month ago key executives from a dozen of the largest U.S. and Canadian banks flew to a secret meeting at Chicago's O'Hare Hilton Hotel to form a joint venture that would create the first National Retail-Banking Network...the new networks should be far more powerful than Visa and MasterCard because they will operate with the debit card."One of the reasons being given to move towards the cashless society, is the effect it would have on crime. An attorney wrote in the American Bar magazine: "Crime would be virtually eliminated if cash became obsolete. Cash is the only real motive for 90% of the robberies. Hence its liquidation would create miracles in ridding earth's citizens of muggings and holdups." A cashless society would also eliminate extortion and blackmail for money; and the purchase of illegal contraband, such as drugs and untaxed alcohol. However, the real reason for going cashless, is that the population can be controlled and manipulated.The 1/2" X 3" magnetic stripe on the back of credit and debit cards have the potential to carry about 5,000,000 bits of information, or about 100,000 words. Which means that it could conceivably record your credit history, work history, medical history, or in short, the story of your life. However, technology is changing so rapidly, that the magnetic strip has been rendered obsolete by the 'Smart Card,' which has a 2 line display screen, yet is only slightly larger than a credit card. Instead of a magnetic strip, it is imbedded with an integrated circuit chip for the storage of information, and it can be updated each time the card is used. With this card, a person could shop, bank, and receive social services; and it could be used to store their medical history, Social Security records and other personal information. It eliminates credit card fraud because there is no number on it. However, since the chip card costs between $20-$50 to produce, and the magnetic strip only costs 60¢ to produce; and most electronic systems have already been set up for the magnetic strip, it is unlikely that the industry will convert.In the April, 1980 edition of Business Week, there was an advertisement for National Cash Register, for the financial (cashless) terminals, which featured a card called the "Worldwide Money Card" which they said will replace all the world's currencies. Another advertisement in the November 5, 1981 edition of the Wall Street Journal read: "A new banking era has begun and Citibank invites you to be in the forefront...A global system linking every major city in America to a bank with a financial service network that circles the entire world." Dr. Emil Gaverluk, President of Caleb Communications USA, said: "The next card beyond Visa's stage will be a universal card, and will probably be issued out of Europe. It will be issued to all industrialized nations and they'll tell you this is the best card you've ever had in your life...the next stage after that is the number on the forehead or hand."Paper currency and checks will be phased out in lieu of debit cards, and debit cards will be converted to the International Card, as all the nations do away with their monetary systems to do business through computers. But people will lose their card, or have it stolen, or accidentally mutilate it. You have probably noticed that the magnetic strip on your credit cards does not hold up well. The constant rubbing against each other, and against your wallet, causes scratches and drop outs on the strips which can not be read by scanners. These arguments will result in numbers being tattooed directly on the body.Professor B. A. Hodson, director of the Computer Center at the University of Manitoba, had recommended an identifying mark to be put on the forehead of every person. The cover of the September 20, 1973 issue of Senior Scholastics, a high school publication, showed a group of kids with numbers tattooed on their foreheads, and the feature article was titled, "Public Needs and Private Rights - Who Is Watching You?" An advertisement by the First Tennessee Bank, showed a man with his bank number tattooed on his arm, implying that this was the only way to remember your number. Initially, a process had been developed to create a permanent non-toxic fluid that could be invisibly tattooed on human flesh, until a particular light, such as infrared or ultraviolet, shown on it. The process was tested by tattooing Social Security numbers on babies. In 1974, a Washington State University professor, Dr. R. Keith Farrell, invented a laser gun, which he used to number fish, which accomplished the task in less than a second. When asked if the gun could be used to put numbers on people, he said: "It could indeed be used for such a purpose." The laser beam can not be felt, the number can not be seen with the naked eye, and it is as permanent as your fingerprints. Dr. Ray Brubaker wrote in his book, Is the Antichrist Now Here?: "In Cincinnati, Ohio, an experiment was conducted in which there was affixed on the back of each hand a number that was read by a scanner in the supermarket where these people did their shopping. As each item was checked out, the cash register simultaneously flashed it to the proper bank, where it was automatically deducted from that person's account." A full-page illustration which appeared in a 1993 issue of the London Daily Mail, showed housewives in Europe making purchases by putting their hands on a computer screen at the cash register.Another possibility has to be discussed here. Note that in Revelation 13:16, it says that the "mark" will be placed "in" the right hand or forehead, not "on" it. An article in the October 2, 1980 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported: "Race horses and house cats or other domestic animals may be injected with minute electronic wafers that will help owners trace their animals. Vern Taylor, President of Identification Devices, Inc., said that the wafer is printed with a serial number and injected into the animal, When an electronic wand is passed over the area, the serial number is displayed on a digital readout. He said that the microchip will be sold to vetinarians. A computer data bank, known as the Animal Bureau of Identification, will also help law enforcement officials as well as animal control officers identify animals." An article in the June 21, 1981 edition of the Denver Post reported that "a chip...about the diameter of the lead in an automatic pencil...can be injected with a simple insulin-type syringe into a human (or animal)...one wafer is encoded with a 12-digit unique number." It can also be placed on inanimate objects to electronically monitor the whereabouts of store merchandise and leased equipment. A Washington Times article (0ctober 11, 1993) contained a report by Martin Anderson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, concerning a solution for the problem of people losing their identification cards. He said: "You see, there is an identification system you can't lose. It's the Syringe Implantable Transponder, a permanent method of identification using radio waves. A tiny microchip, the size of a grain of rice, is simply injected under the skin." With this microchip, satellites can identify your location within 15 feet. Will this be the method used to give everyone a number? Since you can be injected with one of these wafers unknowingly, some researchers have suggested that the government may have already implemented this program by administering it during infancy with the mandatory immunization.The Universal Product Code SystemI am sure you have seen the horizontal scanners at the grocery stores which are used to read the UPC symbols off of the items you are buying, so that the computer will automatically print the price of that item. No doubt these scanners already have the capability of scanning your forehead or your hand. But have you seen the upright scanners? With a flat scanner, the cashier only had to slide the item across the scanning plate; but with the upright scanner, the cashier has to lift the item up in front of the scanner. I was amazed the first time I seen one, because right away I knew that its purpose wasn't to make things easier for the cashier, it was to make it easier to scan your forehead and hand. I haven't seen a lot of them, so it don't know if the retail industry as a whole is going to upgrade to this version of the scanner.We have been talking about future developments, so let's talk about the present. Do you realize that with the Universal Product Code (UPC), we are already buying and selling under the number 666.In 1970, the National Association of Food Chains, and five other major trade associations representing manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, met, and formed an ad hoc committee to set up guidelines for an encoding system that could be accepted by the entire industry. In 1971, a code management committee came up with the concept of a ten-digit numerical code: the first five to identify the manufacturer, and the last five to identify the specific item. In 1972, the Uniform Grocery Product Code Council, Inc. and Distribution Codes, Inc. (in charge of assigning numbers) was established, with thousands of companies invited to become members. On April 3, 1973, the ad hoc committee announced that they had selected a twelve-digit bar code that could be printed by conventional methods, and be scanned omnidirectionally by an automated system. By the end of 1974, the Uniform Grocery Product Code Council had changed their name to the Uniform Product Code Council, Inc., and had 21 representatives from manufacturers, distributors, and trade associations on their Board. Around 2,600 companies, representing a total of $70.7 billion in annual sales, had become members of the Code Council, and were utilizing the bar coding on their products.Left Hand Guide Bar (101, which represents the number 6, 2 black bars and 1 white bar) which tells the computer that information is coming.Center Bar (01010, which represents the number 6, 2 black bars and 3 white bars) which separates the design.Right Hand Guide Bar (101, which represents the number 6, 2 black bars and 1 white bar) which tells the computer that information is complete.The regular size of the bar code is 1.469" X 1.020," but it can be printed from 80% of that size, to twice that size. It must appear in a rectangular block on the bottom, side or back panel of a product, or anywhere it can be scanned. The bar code is a series of black and white parallel bars, 30 black and 31 white (for 10 digits), with white margins on each side. Each digit of the code is represented by two black bars, and two white bars, which is composed of seven data elements or "modules." A module may be white or black. A white or black bar can be made up of 1, 2, 3, or 4 modules. Modules are all the same width, being that they are the foundation of the system, and create the bars which are visible to the naked eye.If you look at the above diagram of the UPC symbol, you will notice that the symbol is split into two sides, a left-hand side, using an odd number of modules; and a right-hand side, using an even number of modules, making them opposite of each other. Thus, it doesn't matter if the symbol is entered upside-down. For each set of 7 modules is a number, and each number is represented by a field whose optical bars are broken down into the following binary codes, where 0 = a blank space, and 1 = a black bar:Set 1 (left side)0 - 00011011 - 00110012- 00100113 - 01111014 - 01000115 - 01100016 - 01011117 - 01110118 - 01101119 - 0001011Set 2 (right side)0 - 11100101 - 11001102 - 11011003 - 10000104 - 10111005 - 10011106 - 10100007 - 10001008 - 10010009 - 11101000 = Number System Character (to the left of the Left Hand Guide Bar)0 = Grocery UPC Code 1 = Unknown2 = Variable weight items such as fruit, meat and produce3 = National Drug Code and Health Related Items Code4 = Reserved for NDC and HRIC, if manufacturer identification code on left has to be expanded to 11 digits (1st five on the left side, 6th will be placed at the right of the symbol)5 = Reserved for use on coupons6 = Encodes a 12-digit code when the code must be expanded7 = Unknown8 = Unknown9 = Encodes a 12-digit code in stores where more information is needed on symbol77975 = Manufacturer Code02265 = Manufacturer Product Code8 = Check Character (to the right of the Right Hand Guide Bar)This is the last digit of the UPC bar code, and it is encoded in the last seven modules on the right-hand side. Sometimes the actual number may appear on the right-hand side of the symbol, just as the Number System Character appears on the left-hand side. The purpose of the Check Character is to check for errors, such as the unauthorized addition of lines that could result in the computer reading the wrong number. Going back to our diagram of the UPC symbol, here is how the Check Character system works:77975 022657 + 7 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 217 + 9 + 5 + 2 + 6 = 2950The top row of numbers are in the even positions, and the bottom row are in the odd positions. You add the two lines together as indicated, which gives you a figure of 50. Subtract 50 from the next highest number which is a multiple of 10, which is 60. So 60 - 50 = 10, or a Check Character of O, which is encoded at the end of the UPC bar code.U.P.C. Design VariationsThe Zero Suppression Method (Design # 2) of the UPC Symbol permits zeros to be eliminated from the ten digit code number, narrowing it to six numbers, which reduces the width of the symbol so it can fit on a product with a smaller package. Known as truncation, this method also reduces the height by shortening the length of the vertical lines; and reduces the computer's effectiveness in reading the symbol omnidirectionally. It is the second most commonly used UPC design.The intention of this alternate design was to insure that the general public would not crack the UPC code. It actually represents half of the regular symbol. The design incorporates bar codes from the first and second sets, and from a third set created from the second set. The regular, full-size design will never use any bar codes from Set Three; while Design #2 will never use the following bar codes from Set Two: 0, 4, 5 and 9. These bar codes from Set Two are used to represent the numbers 0, 4, 5 and 9 in Set Three. In addition, Set Three uses a completely different bar code for the number 6. Since the design is half of the regular design, it uses half of its center bar pattern to represent the number 6 in the third set of numbers.Set 2 | Set 30 becomes 55 becomes 04 becomes 99 becomes 4There is an extended version of the main design (Design #3) of the UPC symbol for use on magazines and books. While the main portion of the design will only use bar codes from the first and second sets; the extended area on the right side of the symbol will use bar codes from all three sets.The "666" SystemTo review, Revelation 13:17 says: "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." Incredibly, as you have seen, through the use of the UPC system of encoding products, we are actually buying and selling with the number 666. The left and right-hand guides, and center bar patterns in Design #1, is designated by the following binary codes:left-hand guide: 101right-hand guide: 101center bar pattern: 01010Now let's look at the number 6 when used as a Data Character. In the second set, the number 6 is encoded as 1010000. In other words, the only visible modules of the number 6, is the designation of 101, which is used in the left and right-hand guides, and the center bar pattern. Since the Data Characters use a seven module encodation, and the two guides and center pattern consist of three and five modules, it is obvious that the two numerical encodations are different. While the numbers at the bottom of the UPC symbol represent the Manufacturer Code, and the Manufacturer Product Code; the numbers encoded in the two guide bars and center bar pattern, represent the number "666." This "666" code can be found in every UPC symbol. In Design #2, which is half of Design #1, it incorporates a third bar code for the number six, which is represented by half of the center bar pattern, or a module pattern of 010. The number 6 is a prominent part of the UPC, symbol. In Design #1, there are six numbers on the left side, and six numbers on the right side. There are six numbers in Design #2. There are six different variations of the UPC symbol. Six is the perfect computer number, a fact, which, according to the Wall Street Journal (November 11, 1981), led Apple Computer, Inc. to introduce their Apple I units at a price of $666.66.Richard J. Mindlin, Executive Vice-President of the Uniform Product Code Council had said: "There are no unidentified characters in the symbol, as each encodation serves either as data characters or for information to indicate to the scanner to start or stop reading. These start and stop characters are not the same as the encodation for the digit '6'." However, the evidence is overwhelming to the contrary, Bible prophecy has been fulfilled, we are buying and selling with the number 666.The UPC system functions like this. The prices are marked on the shelf, and not the item (although some chains continue to put prices on the items). As the items are carried down the conveyer belt, the cashier pulls the item, symbol downward, across the scanner, then bags the item. The scanner contains a laser beam which emits a beam of light. The white bars or spaces will reflect more light than the black bars, which is measured by a light detector. A time measurement of how long the beam takes to move across the bar and space, is also used for decoding. The scanner reads the symbol, no matter what direction it is passed over the scanner, from several inches, to a foot away, decoding the number and sending the number to a computer. The computer transmits to the electronic cash register, the price of the product, which is indicated on a display, and printed on the receipt tape. Checkout time is speeded up by 60-70% over the conventional method, eliminating the need for as many employees. When the register totals the purchase, the printed receipt tape usually indicates the store name, number, and location, item name, item price, whether it is taxable, and the total. It allows for payment in cash, food stamps, check, debit card, or credit card; and deducts the coupons which are presented. It tells how much change is received, the date, time, and lane number, Besides the quickness and efficiency, another feature of the system is the ability to automatically keep track of inventory.Those stores who already have electronic fund transfer (EFT) capabilities, and are accepting debit cards, are pulling funds directly from a customer's checking account, and transferring it to the store's account at the bank. Needless to say, the system is also able to accept an international debit card. This same system can also accommodate the final step, or the "mark of the beast." In the October, 1980 edition of Advertising Age magazine, TeleResearch Item Movement, Inc. (TRIM) had a full page advertisement for their supermarket computer scanner, which featured the picture of a man with a UPC symbol printed on his forehead. Relfe believed that the UPC method of encoding will be used to invisibly place identification numbers on the forehead and hand with a laser. When the international debit card is phased out, the scanners now being used in stores will also be able to scan your forehead and hand.Besides the warning in Revelation 14:10 not to take this Mark; the Law of Moses in Leviticus 19:28 said: "Ye shall not...print any marks upon you..." Revelation 16:2 indicates that those who take the Mark will be stricken with a "grievous sore."Sen. Frank Church said in August, 1975, that "the government has the technological capacity to impose 'total tyranny' if ever a dictator came to power. There would be no place to hide." The Antichrist will be that dictator. The purpose of the Mark, is to serve as a surveillance tool, to make a person totally dependent on the government. Without the Mark, you won't be able to buy food for you and your family, receive medical treatment, buy clothing, or gas for your car. Your utilities will be shut-off, and you won't be able to get a job. Those who do not take the Mark, will be constantly harassed by the government; especially true Christians, who will become fugitives when their freedom of religion is taken away.