The ‘Mark of the
Beast’
Beast in Bible Prophecy are Kings, Kingdoms, Nations,
Daniel 7:17,23. Dan 7:17 “These
great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the
earth.” Dan 7:23 “Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth
kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour
the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.”
The fourth beast spoken of is Rome, check world History.
The Vatican is the smallest Nation State that sits upon seven Hills or
Mountains in Italy, see Revelation chapter 17.
Any Bishop, or Priest, and most Pastors know that the
Catholic Church Catechism states that they change the solemnity of Gods Seventh
Day Sabbath to Sunday. What human being has the authority to change Gods Law?
No One! Many of our Civil laws coincide
with Gods Laws.
Sunday Enforcement Coming!
Old Sunday Laws are still on the Books in most states, and
are soon to be enforced. When they
Are enforced in these United States, that will be the Mark
of the Beast. God does not force, so
The entity that forces its will upon society is not a Godly
entity, it is Satanic, and enforced by mans
devising. God allows
free will choice,
God asks for obedience.
A Mark in the Bible is an identifier, or an indicator, see Ezekiel 9:4
KJV
A Beast in Bible Prophecy is a Kingdom, or nation, see
Daniel 7:23 KJV.
Most people say they intend to go to Heaven, but in reading
the Bible, we can
Learn in Gods Word, and there are many lessons we should
learn to assist us in getting into
Heaven. God says He
requires what has already happened previously as history will be repeated, see
Ecclesiastes 3:15,& 1:9. In Noahs history, eight persons were spared out of the entire
world, at that
Time. In Lots
history, four persons escaped, but only
three survived the destruction of those
Cities of the plains.
At the End of the world, the
Bible states that Satans army is numbered as
the sands of the sea,
see Revelations 20:7,8. In these
histories, the Bible shows that only a
Few people will be on the side of right. We want to make sure that we are worshipping
as
God requires as He
asks for obedience.
A Mark-
A.
As object, thing:
Sign for preservation….. Eze 9:4 “And the
LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry
for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Sign of those following
antichrist…..Revelation 13:16,17 “Rev 13:16 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:
Rev 13:17 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 14:9-11 “Rev 14:9 And the third
angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and
his image, and receive his mark in
his forehead, or in his hand,” Rev 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the
Lamb: vs 11 “Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever:
and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and
whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”
Revelation 20:4 “Rev
20:4 And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for
the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his
mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with
Christ a thousand years.”
Revelation 1: 3 “Blessed is
he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein: for the time is
at hand.” , 15:1 “And I saw another sign
in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues;
for in them is filled up the wrath of God.” , 16:1,2 “And
I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your
ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the
first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome
and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.”
& Rev. 17 provides Great understanding!
GODS Word, the KJV Bible,
states GOD gives us six days to do all our work weekly, and that we are to rest
and worship Him on the seventh day, Saturday, the Sabbath.
The six days of work are
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the preparation day,
preparing for Sabbath Worship of God and rest from our weekly labors.
The ‘Mark of the Beast’ is
not any type of implant, chip, no type of injection, or tattoo.
It will simply be following
mans rules, laws above the Law of Jehovah, the Creator of Heaven and Earth when
the Sunday Worship Law is enforced by the USA first.
This will quickly be
followed by every other Nation, and it is being discussed Worldwide now.
God is very merciful and loving, and He desires to save all humanity. John 3:16 states “For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Then John 14:15 states “If ye love me,
keep my commandments.” Later, in first
John chapter five, the Word states in verses one through three “Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth
him also that is begotten of him.
1Jn 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep
his commandments.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we
keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”
We must all pray for
repentance, reformation, and forgiveness of sin which is simply the
transgression, the breaking of Gods Law. Angels are available to help us when
we ask in sincerity.
Angels Labor with Us in Presenting Jesus, July 28
Bless the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in strength, that
do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word. Psalm 103:20.
“In the presence-chamber of the King of kings they
wait—“angels, that excel in strength,” “ministers of His, that do His
pleasure,” “hearkening unto the voice of His word.” Ten thousand times ten
thousand and thousands of thousands, were the heavenly messengers beheld by the
prophet Daniel. The apostle Paul declared them “an innumerable company.” As
God’s messengers they go forth, like “the appearance of a flash of lightning,”
so dazzling their glory, and so swift their flight....
Angels are sent on missions of
mercy to the children of God. To Abraham, with promises of blessing; to the
gates of Sodom, to rescue righteous Lot from its fiery doom; to Elijah, as he
was about to perish from weariness and hunger in the desert; to Elisha, with
chariots and horses of fire surrounding the little town where he was shut in by
his foes; to Daniel, while seeking divine wisdom in the court of a heathen
king, or abandoned to become the lions’ prey; to Peter, doomed to death in
Herod’s dungeon; to the prisoners at Philippi; to Paul and his companions in
the night of tempest on the sea; to open the mind of Cornelius to receive the
gospel: to dispatch Peter with the message of salvation to the Gentile
stranger—thus holy angels have, in all ages, ministered to God’s people.”—The
Great Controversy, 512.
The Mark of the Beast 24a. What does the prophecy declare
regarding God’s faithful people, after the warning against the worship of the
beast? Revelation 14:9-12
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24b. Note: The keeping of God’s law, on the one hand, and its violation, on the
other, will make the distinction between the worshippers of God and the
worshippers of the beast. 25. What is the special characteristic of the beast
and of his image? Daniel
7:25___________________________________________________ “And Paul styled the
same power the "man of sin," who was to exalt himself above God. One
prophecy is a complement of the other. Only by changing God's law could the
papacy exalt itself above God; whoever should understandingly keep the law as
thus changed would be giving supreme honor to that power by which the change
was made. Such an act of obedience to papal laws would be a mark of allegiance
to the pope in the place of God. {GC 446.1} 26. Which two of God’s Ten
Commandments did the Papacy change
primarily?___________________________________________________ “The papacy has
attempted to change the law of God. The second commandment, forbidding image
worship, has been dropped from the law, and the fourth commandment has been so
changed as to authorize the observance of the first instead of the seventh day
as the Sabbath. But papists urge, as a reason for omitting the second
commandment, that it is unnecessary, being included in the first, and that they
are giving the law exactly as God designed it to be understood. This cannot be
the change foretold by the prophet. An intentional, deliberate change is
presented: "He shall think to change the times and the law." The
change in the fourth commandment exactly fulfills the prophecy. For this the
only authority claimed is that of the church. Here the papal power openly sets
itself above God. {GC 446.2} 27. How are God’s faithful people distinguished
from the people who have the
mark?_______________________________________________ “While the worshipers of
God will be especially distinguished by their regard for the fourth
commandment,--since this is the sign of His creative power and the witness to
His claim upon man's reverence and homage,--the worshipers of the beast will be
distinguished by their efforts to tear down the Creator's memorial, to exalt
the institution of Rome. {GC 446.3} 28. It is a well known fact that all
throughout the reign of the Papacy from 538 to 1798, she persecuted Christians
who honored God’s Sabbath and rejected Sunday observance. Which day does the
Bible call the Lord’s day? Mark 2:27,28; Isaiah
58:13___________________________ 29. What words of Jesus disprove the claim by
church leaders that Jesus changed the Sabbath to Sunday? Matthew 5:17,18
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30. What is a well-known
fact?________________________________________________________________________________________
“It is a fact generally admitted by Protestants that the Scriptures give no
authority for the change of the Sabbath. This is plainly stated in publications
issued by the American Tract Society and the American Sunday School Union. One
of these works acknowledges "the complete silence of the New Testament so
far as any explicit command for the Sabbath [Sunday, the first day of the week]
or definite rules for its observance are concerned."--George Elliott, The
Abiding Sabbath, page 184. {GC 447.2} Another says: "Up to the time of
Christ's death, no change had been made in the day;" and, "so far as
the record shows, they [the apostles] did not . . . give any explicit command
enjoining the abandonment of the seventh-day Sabbath, and its observance on the
first day of the week."--A. E. Waffle, The Lord's Day, pages 186-188. {GC
447.3} 31. What is another well-known fact? What then is the mark of the
beast?______________________________________________________ “Roman Catholics
acknowledge that the change of the Sabbath was made by their church, and
declare that Protestants by observing the Sunday are recognizing her power. In
the Catholic Catechism of Christian Religion, in answer to a question as to the
day to be observed in obedience to the fourth commandment, this statement is
made: "During the old law, Saturday was the day sanctified; but the
church, instructed by Jesus Christ, and directed by the Spirit of God, has
substituted Sunday for Saturday; so now we sanctify the first, not the seventh
day. Sunday means, and now is, the day of the Lord." {GC 447.4} As the
sign of the authority of the Catholic Church, papist writers cite "the
very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; . . .
because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the church's power to ordain
feasts, and to command them under sin."--Henry Tuberville, An Abridgment
of the Christian Doctrine, page 58. What then is the change of the Sabbath, but
the sign, or mark, of the authority of the Roman Church--"the mark of the
beast"? {GC 448.1} 32. When the Protestant Churches accept the first day
of the week and reject the Bible Sabbath what do they acknowledge; also what do
they ignore? Matthew
4:4_______________________________________________________________________________________________
“The Roman Church has not relinquished her claim to supremacy; and when the
world and the Protestant churches accept a sabbath of her creating, while they
reject the Bible Sabbath, they virtually admit this assumption. They may claim
the authority of tradition and of the Fathers for the change; but in so doing
they ignore the very principle which separates them from Rome--that "the
Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants." The papist can
see that they are deceiving themselves, willingly closing their eyes to the
facts in the case. As the movement for Sunday enforcement gains favor, he
rejoices, feeling assured that it will eventually bring the whole Protestant
world under the banner of Rome.” {GC 448.2} 33. When will people officially
receive the Mark of the
Beast?________________________________________________________________ “But
Christians of past generations observed the Sunday, supposing that in so doing
they were keeping the Bible Sabbath; and there are now true Christians in every
church, not excepting the Roman Catholic communion, who honestly believe that
Sunday is the Sabbath of divine appointment. God accepts their sincerity of
purpose and their integrity before Him. But when Sunday observance shall be
enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation
of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey
a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor
popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which enforces
the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshiping the beast and his image. As
men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His
authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of
her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to
Rome--"the mark of the beast." And it is not until the issue is thus
plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the
commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in
transgression will receive "the mark of the beast." {GC 449.1
The Great Day of the Lord
Mal 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all
the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch.
Mal 4:2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.
Mal 4:3
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of
your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Mal 4:4
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb
for all Israel, with
the statutes and judgments.
Mal 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD:
Mal 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and
the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth
with a curse.
Eze
18:20 “The soul that
sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father,
neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him.” Eze 18:21 “But if the wicked will turn from all his
sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is
lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.”
I pray that we all ask for
forgiveness, and turn from our evil ways before it is forever too late.
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