Identification of population is not new idea, it has its own history.
For example, very first census was conducted in Exodus 30, to redeem those who was 20 years old and up. After follows many other censuses, mostly for the same males of the age of 20 and up, most of them for army service.
As usual, in Israel, censuses had been conducted on the request of GOD, but I remember that one was conducted by David himself without permission of GOD and it had disastrous consequences.
Censuses had been conducted and during Roman domination in order to know how many people and nationalities Roman Empire has. Similar censuses were conducted all over the world and in our modern days.
When I live in NJ, census was conducted too, it was somewhere in 1980's or 1990's I do not remember exactly, and my parents and me have to fill up certain forms and mail them to the government office.
But today we have much more sophisticated tools to know much more not only about population number and nationalities, but about each and every individual private life. This is done not only for commercial purposes in order to know our habits and to sell to us merchandise, but also to know our location, our movements, and personal preferences and views.
From a simple census we involved to a total surveillance control of everything we do on the daily bases. Our electronic devices tracking us wherever we do and go, and this is exactly that the Bible prophesied about and predicted.
We already have microchips implanted in animals, next will be humans, and it will be mandatory for all without exceptions. The technology involved to the point that the microchip will be small as a grain of rice and most likely will contain all the information about individual, from the date of birth to the date of death, included bank accounts and all transactions.
Bible does not lie, and this particular subject became reality since it was mentioned in the Bible some 2000 years ago. The mark of the beast is a microchip in form of tattoo or implant.
I actually saw in the news, about 7 or 8 years ago about one company that developed a small microchip that was installed in the finger ring and a guy tested it by scanning it at the store and buying produce like with regular debit or credit card. I am also believe that the microchip will also work as a tracking device, just like our cell phones and cars.
This technology indicated the beginning of total dictatorial, totalitarian, and tyrannical one global regime as the Bible described it, in which there is no place to hide, everyone counted and entire life of every individual on Earth is known to authorities.
I only hope and pray that it would not happen in my life time, but I think that the next generation may face this global dictatorial regime and will be microchip despite their objections, simply put it, everyone will be microchip by force or face penalty of death.
While politicians always reassure us that they work very hard for the bright future of our children, this kind future I would not wish to my worst enemy.