"Plastic" can lead to overspending. So many people in debt these days. When I reach in my wallet and there's little money, I know I have to lay low until the next pension check. Unfortunately, many businesses have stopped accepting paper checks and once you shell out cash, there's no guarantee you'll be credited with it. I ran into this at a doctor's office recently. The practice is under new management and they want their money up front. I didn't expect this and hadn't brought my checkbook. I paid with cash, then a few weeks later started receiving dunning letters from them. I called the office and they said there's no record of my paying! Now I'm not sure what to do. It is against my financial and religious beliefs to get a credit card and a fear of identity theft increases, also.
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.
Revelation 14:9-12
Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. “And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
