"Most people today are familiar with biometric identification technology that is increasingly expanding within public and private firms as a method for verifying and tracking people. Yet how many know a plan exists for widespread adoption of human microchipping beginning in the year 2017? Students of eschatology (the study of end-times events) find it increasingly difficult to dismiss how this all looks and feels like movement toward fulfilling Revelation 13:16–17: “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.” As newer versions of RFID-like transmitters become public knowledge and even more sophisticated (adding “prophetic” components such as merging human biological matter with transistors to create living, implantable machines), the authors of this book—a former police detective and a bestselling prophecy writer—document how the MARK of the Beast Is just around the corner"--Back cover.