Wearables? Another ‘666’ prelude? The Mark of the Beast?
Wearable Health Tracking Watch (Pixabay source)
Estonia seems to have taken the lead in digitizing its residents:
How Estonia outpaced the rest of Europe at digitalization
18 July 2025
Germany has been described as an analogue country in a digital world. Meanwhile, Estonia has digitized all of its government services, …
Luukas Ilves, until last year the Estonian government’s chief information officer … is the author of a recent study titled “The End of Bureaucracy,” which he compiled in collaboration with the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, which is affiliated to Germany’s Free Democratic Party. The report highlights the differences in digitization policy and what Germany can learn from the more advanced Estonia.
Currently, about 62% of Germans use digital service in administration, while Estonia has an uptake of over 90%, the report said. …
Electronic identity verification, for example, is a major issue in the report, as 90% of Estonians use national e-IDs to access government services, compared with less than 10% of Germans. The reason for that is simple, Ilves said. The Estonian software is more user-friendly and provides access to both public and private sector services, including retail banking. https://www.dw.com/en/how-estonia-outpaced-the-rest-of-europe-at-digitalization/a-73098771
Yes, if it is simple and easy, more people will end up digitized.
That article brought the following to mind:
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. (2 Peter 2:19)
Although there can be numerous advantages of digitalization, it will one day lead to more totalitarianism, particularly in Europe.
That said, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants Americans to all wear health tracking devices:
RFK Jr. Wants All Americans To Wear Health-Tracking Devices — Security Experts Have ‘Concerns’
July 12, 2025
During a House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d like all Americans to use wearable health products, such as Fitbits, Apple Watches, Oura Rings, WHOOP and glucose monitors, to “control” their health and “take responsibility” for it. …While this remains just a suggestion and not a mandate, it’s been announced that the Department of Health and Human Services will launch a campaign to encourage Americans to wear these devices.
Wearables can track your heart rate, menstrual cycle, fitness regimen, blood sugar levels, sleep patterns, location and more. … While they can be helpful for the average person, these devices store lots and lots of our data — is it safe for all of this information to be out there? And what happens if this data ends up in the wrong hands — including the government’s? …
Kevin Johnson, the CEO of Secure Ideas, a security testing and consulting company, has concerns about the government’s ability to protect any data that is gathered through the use of wearables. …
“There are always security concerns when it comes to connected technology,” said Dave Chronister, the CEO of Parameter Security.
And your wearable device is most likely connected to your smartphone — meaning it has access to lots of your personal data, according to Johnson.
“No device or platform is completely secure,” Chronister noted. “Attackers often target the backend systems, such as cloud servers, via compromised employee credentials or software vulnerabilities.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-health-tracking-devices-goog_l_6870142be4b09b00d72b3963
Well, technology can help some, but yes, it does allow for data collection and monitoring. Wearables look like another ‘666’ prelude.
What actually triggered this post was the following article:
The Wearables Trap: How the Government Plans to Monitor, Score, and Control You
July 15, 2025
Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing.
The debate now extends beyond forced vaccinations or invasive searches to include biometric surveillance, wearable tracking, and predictive health profiling.
We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts, moods, and biology are monitored and judged by the state.
This is the dark promise behind the newest campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, to push for a future in which all Americans wear biometric health-tracking devices.
Under the guise of public health and personal empowerment, this initiative is nothing less than the normalization of 24/7 bodily surveillance—ushering in a world where every step, heartbeat, and biological fluctuation is monitored not only by private companies but also by the government. …
Surveillance has always arrived dressed as progress.
Every new wave of surveillance technology—GPS trackers, red light cameras, facial recognition, Ring doorbells, Alexa smart speakers—has been sold to us as a tool of convenience, safety, or connection. But in time, each became a mechanism for tracking, monitoring, or controlling the public.
What began as voluntary has become inescapable and mandatory. …
Once biometric data becomes currency in a health-driven surveillance economy, it’s only a matter of time before that data is used to determine whose lives are worth investing in—and whose are not.
We’ve seen this dystopia before.
In the 1973 film Soylent Green, the elderly become expendable when resources grow scarce. My good friend Nat Hentoff—an early and principled voice warning against the devaluation of human life—sounded this alarm decades ago. Once pro-choice, Hentoff came to believe that the erosion of medical ethics—particularly the growing acceptance of abortion, euthanasia, and selective care—was laying the groundwork for institutionalized dehumanization.
As Hentoff warned, once the government sanctions the deliberate ending of certain lives, it can become a slippery slope: broader swaths of the population would eventually be deemed expendable.
Hentoff referred to this as “naked utilitarianism—the greatest good for the greatest number. And individuals who are in the way—in this case, the elderly poor—have to be gotten out of the way. Not murdered, heaven forbid. Just made comfortable until they die with all deliberate speed.”
That concern is no longer theoretical. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_wearables_trap_how_the_government_plans_to_monitor_score_and_control_you
The above mentioned cell phones. They are a surveillance tool now as well.
Back in 2012, I wrote:
The ability to control buying and selling, etc. would be vastly aided by modern technology. (Thiel B. Writer claims cell phone is “mark of the beast.” COGwriter, April 11, 2012)
Since then, cell phone technology has gotten faster, more wearables have been developed, and AI has been unleashed. 98% of Americans have cell phones, with 91% having smart phones. A decade ago, 95% of Europeans had mobile phones, and that percentage has likely also increased.
5G on these phones can speed up attaining knowledge. There is also something called 10G:
5G stands for next-generation wireless; 10G, on the other hand, connotes cable’s ramp up to 10 gigabits-per-second speeds. And while overlap and competition exist between these two approaches to broadband – the former is wireless tech, the latter wired – the technologies are also complementary. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2019/01/09/5-g-10-g-cable-industry-makes-case-keep-broadband-your-home/2514506002/
Consider that faster development of knowledge was also prophesied in the Bible to occur during the time of the end:
4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel 12:4)
What is called ‘artificial intelligence,’ along with technologies like 5G (and even 10g) is consistent with that prophecy. Not all increased knowledge is good as humans often do bad things with knowledge.
In additional to wearable health-trackers, we have also seen the ‘Digital Wallet’ and more and more ways to make purchases over cell phones. There are already AI wearables as well as implanted chips that some have used to buy and perhaps sell (see Wearable AI, QR codes, implants, and 666).
We see several marks of digital technology.
Bible prophecy shows that a militaristic European dictator will arise and his supporters will apparently use digital tech. Mobile telephones, artificial intelligence, and other technologies may well be utilized.
Notice what is coming with the European dictator Beast of the Sea and his Beast of the Earth Antichrist ‘partner’:
1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:1-18)
Notice carefully verse 16–the MARK OF THE BEAST WILL BE SOME TYPE OF A WEARABLE,! An implanted chip is a type of wearable.
The ability to control buying and selling, forced worship, etc. will be vastly aided surveillance by modern technology. The type of control that was written about in Revelation 13 was not possible over 1900 years ago when Revelation was written–but in the 21st century it is.
While cell phones and wearable health trackers are not the mark of the Beast, they and related technologies are making it easier for the Beast to gain control once he rises up.
Related to mobile phones and 666, we put together the following video:
Mark of the Cell Phone?
How common are mobile telephones? With their sophisticated algorithms can they read your mind? Can governments monitor you, your location, and even purchases through modern technologies like cellular telephones? Could a cell phone be the Mark of the Beast of Revelation, the 666 of Revelation 13 ? Did Russian Patriarch Kirill warn that people are “falling into slavery” from technologies that collect data on “location, interests and fears”? Did he specifically point to the Antichrist using such technologies? Did Patriarch Kirill state, “if we don’t want to bring the apocalypse closer, there should be no single [control and access] center”? Can computers, Artificial Intelligence, and cell phones help fulfill prophecies about knowledge increasing in the end times? What about the ‘666’ control of buying and selling by the Beast and the Antichrist? Dr. Thiel addresses those issues and others related to the ‘mark of the cell phones.’
Here is a link to our sermonette video: Mark of the Cell Phone?
While cell phones are an issue, they cannot read our minds, but wearables do read a lot about our bodies.
Mobile phones, AI, implants, and other technologies will work to put in the coming ‘666’ controls the Bible has prophesied.
The mark of the beast will include some type of wearable.
Modern technologies are already setting the world up for the coming European Beast to use ‘666’ controls.
If you see this, hopefully you have taken steps to be a true Philadelphian Christian in these end times.
Some items of related interest include the following:
The Mark of Antichrist What is the mark of Antichrist? What have various ones claimed? Here is a link to a related sermon What is the ‘Mark of Antichrist’?
Mark of the Beast What is the mark of the Beast? Who is the Beast? What have various ones claimed the mark is? What is the ‘Mark of the Beast’?
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is are links to related videos: European history and the Bible, Europe In Prophecy, The End of European Babylon, and Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European? Here is a link to a related sermon in the Spanish language: El Fin de la Babilonia Europea.
The European Union and the Seven Kings of Revelation 17 Could the European Union be the sixth king that now is, but is not? Here is a link to the related sermon video: European Union & 7 Kings of Revelation 17:10.
6. The Philadelphia Church Era and Remnant Though the era was predominant circa 1933 A.D. to 1986 A.D., but some few faithful are still in it as a remnant has continued. The old Radio Church of God and old Worldwide Church of God were part of the era, and now the remnant of that era is basically the most faithful in the Church of God, like who hold to the beliefs and practices of the Continuing Church of God. Here is a link to a related sermon: Philadelphia Church Era: History & Teachings.
7. The Laodicean Church Era has been predominant circa 1986 A.D. to present.–and most end time Christians are part of it. The Laodiceans are non-Philadelphians who mainly descended from the old WCG or its offshoots. They do not properly understand the work or biblical prophecies and will face the Great Tribulation if they do not repent. One video of related interest is 50+ Laodicean Prophetic Errors. See also Do You Hold to Any of These Laodicean Prophetic Errors?
Why is there a Philadelphian remnant of the true Christian Church of God? Did the old Worldwide Church of God essentially predict a Philadelphian remnant? Is a Philadelphian remnant needed for end-time prophecies to be fulfilled? Here is a link to a related sermon: The Philadelphia Remnant.
How Do I Become a Member of the Continuing Church of God? This article has scriptures, links, and other information for those interested in being part of the CCOG. Here is a link to a related sermonette: 10 Steps to Be a Member of the CCOG.
Unity: Which COG for You? Why so many groups? Why is there lack of unity in the Churches of God? Has it always been this way? What can/should be done about it? Here is a link to a related sermon: Church of God Unity. Here is a related article in the Spanish language: Unidad: ¿Cuál Iglesia de Dios para usted?
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