Subject: Re: Bo Gritz

From: [email-masked] (Steve Crocker)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:18:04 GMT

As to UPC bar codes, I am not myself a believer in end-time biblical
prophecy. However, a number of otherwise intelligent people accept
the book of Revelations as an accurate and God-inspired statement of
our coming history. It is a document obviously written in symbols, 
with a great deal of latitude as to how those symbols are to be 
understood. The "Mark of the Beast" is usually taken to have a numerical
significance, and to be associated with the privelege of participating
in a totally controlled economic marketplace. If one accepts the 
original premise of Revalation's validity for our time, then it
does not seem too unreasonable a stretch to consider UPC codes an
aspect of the "Mark of the Beast" symbolism. 

-Steve