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I am aware of MacArthur's positionings after his religious statement in July (as opposed to a legal statement on COVID) that church attendance in his building is somehow mandatory.

For every thinking Christian the idea that a Covid vaccine may be used as a precursor to, or an embodiment of, the Mark of the Beast (which the Bible assures us will happen) every thinking Christian I know wonders aloud whether or not we will be able to participate in the market place or be able to “buy or sell” unless we are vaccinated.

... all of which bring to mind MacArthur's very serious apostasies regarding how he believes a Christian

“can repent after taking the Mark of the Beast”...

Will MacArthur then, because he has guilt-inflicted his flock and many outside of his flock into believing that their faith rests upon rebelling against Newsome’s admittedly insane restrictions on attending church... will MacArthur then say

“Hey, it's all okay... just get the COVID vaccine which may or may not be the Mark of the Beast because you can repent of it later... but you really HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH so therefore you really HAVE TO BE VACCINATED in order to go to church...!”

My beef with MacArthur is that he is right to criticize Pentecostals on their anti biblical excesses, but wrong when he tries to suppress the workings of the Holy Spirit for modern day Christians by saying the Holy Spirit is different for us now than it was for the early Church.

Isn't that just what Satan wants? The Church to be knee-capped by not having the outpouring of the Spirit as Joel and the Disciples said we would?

MacArthur's own apostasy about being able to “repent after you take the Mark of the Beast” may be even more dangerous thinking, though, considering what the Word actually says that John MacArthur is in abject apostasy for his statements:

“He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” (Revelation 13:15-18)

Now here is the real scary part. God Himself says in the Book of Revelation that none of His people are to receive this mark of the beast. If they do, they will end up coming under His wrath that will be released upon the earth during the latter part of the Tribulation.

God then pronounces what is the most dire warning imaginable if any of His people receive this mark. He flat out says that in addition to suffering His wrath that will be poured out during these last days – that they will also end up in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone where the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and Satan will eventually end up.

“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength 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. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:9-11)

This came from this website, where MacArthur's strange pre-Trib rapture teaching also positions his people for Hell, in case (and I believe that) he is wrong on the rapture:

https://www.bible-knowledge.com/mark-of-the-beast/

Here is some footage on CORONA virus being used as "a pandemic tabletop exercise" by John Hopkins back in October 2019. Though some have said that this enactment exercise was being played out with actors as early as 2018, I just don't remember where I saw the footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrBDP50pEU