Quick response codes are popping up everywhere. The one to the right will take you I am told, as I don’t have one of those fancy phones, to the Tzedakah Ministries website.
I have been told that it works. And I will take their word for it because even while I am technologically savvy … I am cheap and don’t want to spend money on a phone!
So … is this “rorschach” splodge a fad or something that will be around for a while? Can this “new-fangled” thing be useful for more than just advertising acne cream? Ultimately, how can this tool be used for missions and evangelism … specifically Jewish missions and evangelism?
I asked this question to several of Tzedakah Ministries’ friends and I thought a sampling of their answers might prove interesting …
If, and only if, I am forced to get into techonology, I will get into it. I always wondered how the whole world was going to observe the two dead prophets, and now everybody has an Iapple or a blackberry. I am sure if your targeted audience will favor you on QCR or another advanced technology, you shall enter it, by all means! — Maria
What is QCR? — Frank
Hmmm would there be a demand for it? — Karen
One of the marks of the beast in Revelations — Anonymous
Well … and obviously … the last response did indeed get my attention. Therefore, I went to the “repository of evil” (sarcasm noted) also known as the internet and did a quick search. And there are those out there who believe this could very well be a opening of the door for the Mark of the Beast of Revelation 13 (see below the posting).
Therefore, I have a follow-up question for you — is it good, allowable, profitable to use what might or might not be a tool of Satan as a means for sharing the Gospel of Messiah Jesus with a technologically driven world? One answer might be found in the words a friend of mine from Jews for Jesus told me a few months ago that the “splodge” they used on the back of their t-shirts had driven over a half a million people to their website! Truly, God only knows how many of that 500,000 read enough to have the Gospel presented to them. Even if the answer is only one … it would have been worth it all.
So my answer is the same as my dad’s message that is over a decade old. We must never change the message of the Gospel but we must always examine the world to see if we need to change the method we use to make the Gospel available and relevant.
However, I promise you that I will never get the Quick Response Code above tattooed anywhere on my body! Shalom.
i have worked with difference bar codes. 1D, 2D
there are new bar codes, 3D hologram, it can contain more information
It is easy to assume this to be marked of the beast. as someone who
worked on barcode technologies, I would like to differ.
this is not the marking of the beast.
you will be surprised if I tell you there’s another form of biometric devices that
can serve as a mark of the beast purpose, but again its not also.
grace and peace
Not saying QCR is or is not a precursor to the Satanic mark, but I have lived long enough to hear Christians say the Social Security absolutely was the mark or the precursor… so my philosophy is to be cautious about mixing world views into the message but use whatever delivery system that works. We need to worry less about some things and focus more on spreading the Gospel.
I think Satan giggles with glee when we get so focused on issues other than the Gospel.
Brian — I agree 100%!