1. Elevating beast.gov to supreme moral authority - e.g. debasing individual and societal values to conform with government's illegitimate power to redefine and remake the foundations of marriage, family, charity, love, etc.
2. Loving, embracing, and making lies.
3. Choosing to be deceived and then being "shocked" and angered that reality couldn't be manipulated and crafted into one's own image. No change of heart, but rather a doubling down on arrogance and falsehoods.
These are fundamental character traits. Obama is making sure nobody is left on the fence. Most have chosen up sides and are already marked as to whether they default to loving lies or loving the truth.
Ezekiel 9:3-6
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
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.
5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
Perhaps a mark of the beast is simply empty space, a big fat zero, a stamp to stamp *out* information, a dead zone. Sterile, devoid of life.
Like the wheat and the tares:
Matthew 13:26-30
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Empty Heads Held HighA person in whom there is arrogance will ultimately be diminished.... "They will wither like the tops of the ears of grain" (Job 24:24)..... It is like the man who enters his field and picks the tall ones. (Sotah 5a)
A father and son were walking through a field of golden wheat at harvest time. "Father" said the boy, "why do some of the stalks stand tall and straight, while others bend their heads?"
"The bent stalks" replied the father, "are full of ripe, healthy kernels, the weight pulls them down. They are like humble people full of wisdom and good deeds. The stalks that hold their heads high are empty, like worthless people who act superior."
Our Gemara, too, likens the arrogant to tall stalks of grain. A farmer walking through a field of full, bent stalks will uproot and discard any tall, empty ones so that they will not be harvested together with the rest.
http://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2010/10/empty-heads-held-high.html
Lying, Empty Head Held High
The stalks that hold their heads high are empty, like worthless people who act superior.