- ... the inevitable and plain conclusion is that the mark is something enforced by the church ... '
Not today. Not deep back in history. Not in the future."
Have you not studied the Council of Nicea in CE 325 ? Have you not studied The Inquisition ?
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| Torture during the Inquisition - instruments like those above were used to elicit "confessions" from "heretics" and backsliding "converts." |
Auto da Fe - Inquisition victims being led to their doom in procession. After the "act of faith," the victims were burned to death. |
Do you even know what the word anathema means ?
Have you not studied Blue Laws ?
Just how young are you?
- The local Council of Laodicea, about A.D. 363, passed this decree:
- "Christians must not JUDAIZE by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, resting rather on Sunday.
But, if any be found to be Judaizing, let them be declared anathema from Christ."
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!
