The “All Seeing” Phone (Number)

“Just enter your phone number.” That’s all it takes to get the grocery discount, the rewards at the hardware store, or the new social media account. 10 digits later, your transaction is finished to your satisfaction. Maybe you even have a smile at the size of the savings.

However, nobody questions handing over their phone number. It’s an acceptable requirement these days. Phones used to be for the sole purpose of communicating with others. However, it seems that’s the least common use for our phones now.

Almost everyone has heard of the coming “mark of the beast” as mentioned in the Bible. Without this mark, living in society is impossible. You will not have access to a normal life, to food, or to anything.

There’s been a lot of speculation about what this mark will be and how it will be manifested. Not too many years ago, it was hard to imagine how it could happen. Now we are entering a digital age where everything is connected with our phones.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that we are headed exactly that way. Things are falling into place to set us up for that situation. And our phone number is the doorway.

Almost everyone has a cell phone. We are even giving them to our children so we can be in constant connection with them. There are government programs to be sure everyone has access to one.

Do you think it’s a coincidence that almost everyone asks for your phone number to identify you in their system? People are super cautious with their social security number (as well they should be), but they never think twice about giving out their phone number.

Places we shop want phone numbers to give us discounts (and sign us up for marketing.) Grocery stores, hardware stores, and many others sell us on the idea of lower totals if we only sign up for their reward program with our phone number.

You can’t create a new social media account without a phone number to identify you as a unique person. Household and landline phones won’t work because you need a unique phone number for each account.

Furthermore, people don’t pay enough attention to how much information our phones collect and share about us. Even if you turn them off, the camera and microphone are always aware of our surroundings. And we have seen in the past how many times companies lie to us about what they are collecting about us.

It’s no longer “tin foil hat thinking” to believe that all of these connections are creating a profile on each of us with our phone numbers. They can tell …

Who our contacts are and how often we stay in contact

Where we shop, how often, and what we purchase

(From our purchases, that paints a picture of us too)

How much money we earn/spend and where

Where we go and how often

… and so much more.

I’m certainly NOT going to say our phones are the mark of the beast. They aren’t. I am also going to say that we can opt out of this particular profiling by not having or using a cell phone. However, there is a lot you cannot do without a cell phone number.

Grocery discounts? Enter your phone number

Social media account? Sign up with a valid phone number.

(and they make sure it’s valid because they use the number to send a verification code to be sure it’s you.)

Much of this is sold in the guise of “safety.”

And, in the current society, safety is important. But it seems that we are willing to hand over our safety to the very people who will enslave us in the end.