When I came home from Washington, D.C., with a new passport February 23, 2015, I discovered that my passport has a biometric chip embedded in the book cover. No wonder the covers seemed a bit stiff. The back leaf of the last page says:
“This document contains sensitive electronics. For best performance, do not bend, perforate or expose to extreme temperatures.”
In addition, on the front of the passport cover is a rectangular symbol near the bottom. That symbol means the passport has an embedded chip inside the book cover, probably both covers. There is no perceptible “bulge” that you’d expect from a credit card with a chip, so I suspect that a type of semi-rigid flex circuit is used.
Passport with the rectangular symbol indicating it has an embedded chip inside. A clip is used to hold the book covers closed.
The fact that this passport has a chip embedded chip makes it (and other similar technologies) a precursor to the mark of the beast. I said precursor–it is not the mark of the beast. That means the return of Jesus Christ is nearer than we first believed.
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