Posted on 10/21/2014 2:32:39 PM PDT by xzins
"And 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, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark" (Rev. 13:16-17, ESV).
A baker in Oregon is fined $150,000, told he needs "rehabilitation," and put out of business for declining to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. A baker in Colorado is fined, ordered to bake a cake in violation of his own conscience, and sent to re-education camp for the same offense. A florist in Washington is pursued by the state attorney general for politely declining to make a floral arrangement for a same-sex wedding. A photographer in New Mexico is fined $6,700 for declining to do a photo shoot for a lesbian wedding.
A T-shirt company is ordered to produce T-shirts to promote a message it finds morally objectionable. Jennifer Keeton and Julea Ward are kicked out of graduate school counseling programs because of their moral objections to homosexual conduct.
Chris Culliver of the 49ers is sent to re-education camp prior to the Super Bowl two years ago for laughing at homosexuality in NFL locker rooms. The special-teams coach of the Minnesota Vikings is suspended and nearly fired for a joke about homosexuality. A safety for the Miami Dolphins is sent to re-education camp for tweeting out his displeasure over Michael Sam's slobbery homosexual kiss on draft day. A Canadian broadcaster is fired for defending man-woman marriage. Craig James is fired by Fox Sports Southwest for defending natural marriage in a senatorial campaign.
What do all these victims share in common? Their ability to engage in commerce was brought to a screeching halt because they would not celebrate, endorse or promote homosexual behavior.
The book of Revelation, in speaking of the end of days, indicates that one of the goals of the anti-Christ in his campaign to establish his own twisted caliphate over the entire world will be to drive Christians out of business altogether.
In John's vision, any Christian who does not willingly accept the mark of the beast will not be allowed to buy or to sell. He'll be fired, or won't be hired, or will be drummed out of business entirely.
So what is this mark of the beast today? That's easy. It's the gay rainbow.
This is the rainbow Big Gay has stolen from the Bible and from the church and turned into its own twisted symbol of perversion.
Anyone who does not plaster homosexual rainbow stickers all over himself, his resume and the windows of his business will have his or her commercial interests terminated with extreme prejudice.
The mark is on the "hand," referring to what a man does, and it is on the "forehead," referring to the way he thinks. It will not be enough simply to do what the Gay Gestapo demands; men will be forced to think politically correct thoughts about sodomy or face termination.
Legislation is even now under consideration—the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)—which will codify the mark of the beast and use the power of the federal leviathan to impose it tyrannically on the populace.
The great need of the hour is for prophetic voices to thunder against this demonic oppression from the pulpit and for statesmen to thunder against this beast in the halls of Congress. "We the people" must insist on this. If the voices of truth are not soon raised against this abomination, we may find out it's a lot later than we think.
Bryan Fischer is the director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association and host of the talk-radio program Focal Point.
good explanation.
When the real Christ returns, your theory don’t amount to a hill of beans. The whole world will worship the anti Christ. What part of Gods word do you not understand?
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Not sure what you mean. God want's those who trust him. It is their choice.
I’m talking about the rapture and all the believers leaving earth and leaving the non believers to fend for themselves.
It’s not what a loving God would do.
Well Sir it's like this. No one understands any of GOD's Word without GOD revealing the meaning to the person. No one knows Christ without GOD's revelation to the believer. The confession of Peter and Christ establishing the new church order not upon mans understandings but by GOD's revelation to man. What we are having here is simply a theology difference of opinion that doesn't give to or take away from salvation.
I have faith to believe GOD in His own way and time will guide and teach me His will & His way. If it's in tribulation He is there. He showed me so almost 30 years ago in a quiet, calm, but orderly and powerful way in the presence of my then girlfriend who could not move and two pastors laying hands on her for healing. Had he not? My sanity may have been the causality in that place in time but not my soul.
BTW her movements were partially restored though I was given the clear message "It's going to be OK". My strength spiritually and mentally was renewed.
Now older with some nearly 30 years behind us indeed the message "It's going to be OK" was true. Some hard bumps in the road but the Lord is there also.
When Christ Returns is not what I base my relationship with GOD on. That's GOD's business. He tells us the season so to speak as being such as in the days of Noah meaning before judgment so shall be Christ return.
I'm not going to tear down anyone's faith over the timing of The Second Coming. None of us know and that is Christ Word and GOD's decision alone to make. I'm not flaming just explaining :>}
Some will come through the tribulations and be saved. Remember who was with Daniel in the lions den? His three students in the furnace? He is a very loving GOD. But our understanding capacity right now as to His ways and reasons are limited to what our minds can grasp. Many things in this world are not to be understood until GOD allows it to be. That includes our physical death and eternal life afterward.
LOL Thanks for the smile.
Fixing would take a LOT.
Don’t think I don’t think about it.
Uproots 3 horns....of the 10
Ever hear of the 5+5?
“The Five Plus Five group is a security club bringing together Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya from North Africa, and France, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain from the south of Europe, all members of the European Union. In the meeting in the Mauritanian capital, all but Libya were present.”
First, these are clearly 10 nations out of the HEART of the old Roman Empire.
Second, Libya and Tunisia have been uprooted/overthrown in the so-called Arab Spring that began with....Obama. Morocco almost, and their king keeps in close touch with Obama.
Probably not...but I’m keeping a close eye on it anyway.
Since we're mere accidents, there's no right or wrong. Since there's no right or wrong, no one can impose such.
It's high time we begin hacking at the root of the problem instead of the branches.
God made man in His image, prescribing His law, and promising at the very beginning that the serpent's seed would attack the seed of the woman, and that her seed would crush his head, fatally wounding him.
We're not told how God made us... or how long it took... or what mechanisms He employed. We are told, though, that He did make us, by volition and with purpose.
All of these lies fed us under the guise of "science" and "truth" are volleys in this battle. The haters of God have zero interest in actual observational science but rather use that as a cloak, a feeble attempt to inoculate themselves from all inquiry.
Re-establish truth, and all that it implies vis-a-vis homosexuality, abortion, theft, murder, and every other iniquity of man's heart will follow.
Now can a Jewish baker be forced to make a Klan Kake for the next cross burning? Or a Liberal Democrat Baker make a “We love the USA” Cake with a big American Flag? Or have an American Baker make a 9-11 Twin Towers cake with the Arabic symbol for “Victory” on it?
“The Hidden Dangers of The Rainbow” was a prophetic book by Constance Cumby in early 80s.
However that is not the mark of the beast, because it says it will be in the hands or forehead, it is an implant that has banking info and the ability to be currency free to buy and sell. Not complicated. God is usually clear.
I think it will come after the Rapture of the Church, when all holiness is removed, as some are saved during the Great Tribulation....however God will protect his own, I believe that.
There is a timeline in which to receive Christ, and plumbline that will be drawn, so the time to choose is now. It is man who is separating himself from God not the other way around.
It was for obeying God’s FOURTH Commandment—keeping the Sabbath—that millions were put to death. The local Council of Laodicea, about A.D. 363, passed this decree:
The church caused them to be killed. When the church branded one “anathema” (a heretic), the state police of the Empire began torturing him. Unless he recanted, he was tortured until he died!
Laws became so strict no man could hold a job, or engage in business, unless he worked on Saturday and rested on Sunday. And the world will be so geared that it will be almost impossible for one to “buy or sell” except he receive this MARK OF THE BEAST!
This is the ONLY COMMANDMENT which was altered by the Roman Empire! In Daniel 7:25 we read the prophecy of this BEAST and the little horn (the political government of the church) rising up, which was to think to CHANGE “times and laws.” That is, change God’s LAW in respect to TIME—the time for the Sabbath! ...
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God says the penalty for SIN is DEATH! Sin is the transgression of the law. If we break only this one commandment, we are guilty. The penalty is DEATH!
The Roman church caused people to receive the MARK of pagan ROME—the Sunday observed by the pagan Roman Empire—and the penalty for disobedience was DEATH! Fifty million or more were put to death—so says history.
The Sabbath commandment is the ONLY commandment the world will not accept in its MIND (forehead) and OBEY (by work, or rest, with the HAND). It is the ONLY commandment that can distinguish between those who have the MARK of the BEAST, or the SIGN OF GOD.
Now the book of Revelation is written mostly in symbols. The right hand symbolizes work or labor—the forehead, the intellect or mind. It has to do with what we BELIEVE, in the mind, and whether we OBEY, with the hand.
HOW ABOUT GOD’S SIGN? It also was received in the forehead, and the hand!
Regarding one of God’s annual Sabbaths, we read: “. . . it shall be for a SIGN unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes [forehead], that the Lord’s LAW may be in thy mouth” (Ex. 13:9).
Deuteronomy 6:1, 6-8: “Now these are the COMMANDMENTS . . . and these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart . . . and thou shalt bind them for a SIGN upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”
Deuteronomy 11:18: “Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a SIGN upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.”
Also see Proverbs 7:2-3 and Revelation 7:3-4; 14:1.
There is absolute proof! Yes, the truth is very plain!
The Sabbath is God’s SIGN, standing, more than any commandment, for OBEDIENCE. It was symbolically in the HAND and in the FOREHEAD, just as the MARK of the BEAST—the pagan SUNDAY—was in the right HAND and in the FOREHEAD!
SUNDAY observance—Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, etc.—this is the MARK of the BEAST!
The church did cause all under the “Holy Roman Empire” to receive this mark, during the Middle Ages. Not only were active church members caused to observe Sunday instead of the SABBATH, but it became a universal custom so that all the Western world—regardless of religious connection or belief, accepted Sunday instead of SATURDAY as the weekly day of rest. It has become universal in the Western world except for Judaism, Islam, a few sects in Christianity, and the comparative few whom God has called out of this world and into His true Church.
Has she stopped?
Just at present she has not the POWER to enforce this mark on everyone. But there will be a United States of EUROPE—a union of ten nations. It will be a UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE—and the church once again will sit astride “The BEAST.”
Now notice Daniel 7:21-22: “I beheld, and the same horn [papacy] made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of days came [Second Coming of Christ] and judgment was given to the saints of the most High.”
Yes, the MARK OF THE BEAST once again will be enforced! No one will be able to hold a job or engage in business without it. Those refusing will once again be tortured and martyred—probably by the secret police of the political state—but at the behest of the church!
Today, ALL NATIONS are deceived by this paganism masquerading under the name “Christianity.”
Might want to do a little research for yourself and quit listening to false teachers, or making things up as you go.
Revelation 13:16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Revelation 14:9 third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand,
Revelation 14:11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
Revelation 16:2 The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
Revelation 19:20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
The word for mark used here, in the greek is χάραγμα or charagma.
It is used 8 times in the Bible. 7 times in Revelation, as the mark of the beast. One time in Acts 17:29
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
The word graven is used, though the word χάραγμα is used.
χάραγμα or charagma means scratch, etching, sculpture. Comes from the same Charax or χάρακά. Both come from γέγρααπται or graphó, which means to scribe or write.
So far as biblical interpretation, the mark of the beast cannot be anything that can be forced on a person such as a tattoo, a bar code, an implant. The bible says we are able to refuse it.
So, those other things a person can hold you down and tattoo you, or skin implant you, or bar code you. They are not the mark of the beast.
It is something you willingly give your mind (forehead) and your service (hand).
You are wrong.
See #116
Words have meanings.
Thank you for posting as I have not seen this theory before now.
See #116
See #116
The word used for seal is σφραγίσωμεν or sphragisōmen. It basically means to seal, as with a signet ring.
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