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How should we appraise the arrival of technologies that seem to be tracking us in our every movement and every transaction of our daily lives? The Old Believers, as we know, refused to cooperate with registration and passport requirements altogether, because they believed that appearance of the Antichrist was imminent, and that the secular government, being a tool of Satan, would use every means sooner or later to seduce the world into accepting the so-called “Mark of the Beast” as spoken of in the Apocalypse. Today, however, we have the census and more: Our passports, our social security numbers, our REAL IDs, and our smartphones bearing all kinds of personal data regarding our whereabouts, our business conduct, and leisure activities, while even unguardedly sharing unbeknownst amounts of data here and there with various secular agencies. With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, there is even talk now about introducing universal contact tracing systematically in this country—something that has already been done by the internal security services in Israel, though not without controversy. At what point do faithful Christians refuse to accept these technologies in order to be numbered, not among those who will be made to drink “the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out” upon those who have received the Mark of the Beast (according to the Book of the Apocalypse [Rev. 14:9-10]), but instead, among the those who resisted, who Scripture reveals to be “the redeemed”, “without fault before God”, the “144,000” [Rev. 14:4-5]?