We have written previously about companies around the world creating chips that can be embedded in people’s hands, allowing them to open electronically controlled doors and to even purchase items in lieu of using an actual credit card.

Now for the first time, a company based in Europe, Walletmor, is commercially selling a computer chip, the size of a rice grain, that can be embedded in people’s hands. It allows the individual to make purchases by simply waving their hand over electronic payment systems.

The cost for the chip and insertion into the area between the thumb and index finger is $299US.

The BBC reports:

And when it comes to implantable payment chips, British-Polish firm, Walletmor, says that last year it became the first company to offer them for sale.”

The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut in Paris – or at your local grocery store,” says founder and chief executive Wojtek Paprota. “It can be used wherever contactless payments are accepted.“

READ: The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand

For the past few decades, those studying Biblical end-times prophecy have been warning about the emergence of such technology that would eventually be incorporated into the Mark of the Beast and used to prevent people from buying and selling.

¹⁶ Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. (Revelation 13:16-17 ESV)