(And that's a reflection on the _timing_. He said according to Biblical Principles TM, Jesus talking about the fig tree putting forth leaves was a type, for Israel becoming a nation. And "this generation" referred to a Biblical generation, 40 years. So we had until maybe 1988 until all of Revelation came true. So the Church kinda dropped out of trying to improve society, because Jesus was coming *right back*.)
See, I remember being at a Protestant Church who got all in a huff back in 1983 or 1984, when a local bank introduced a way to *gasp* pay your bills over the phone!
One of the people there literally said to beware, the next step was going to be an ad with someone holding out their hand with 666 on it, "There's a new and easy way to pay your bills."
...still hasn't happened yet.
You *gotta* stop falling for every Prottie fad, just because it gets wide promotion and airplay on Christian radio, mmmkay?
Most “protties” as you put them see these things mostly as a trend towards the world despotism the Bible prophesies about. The incrementals are kicks in the behind to remind us to “keep watching” as the Lord says. No there hasn’t been a 666 on the hand yet though there was a famous magazine cover in the late 80’s showing an infant with a upc symbol on its hand. We know already people are chipping themselves and various venues are experimenting with cashless commerce. Each one of these things by themselves have morally neutral purposes. It is when people in power who act to bring their personal biases to bear when they rope the masses into their schemes is when the manure hits the fan. No more using cash, have to be chipped for the good of the new order oh and you can’t be a Christian or speak out against first citizen “Nice guy”, we will curtail your economic participation privileges.
Even divorced from the Revelation stuff, you no doubt have already seen unfavored groups being deplatformed from social media groups and or their money processing privileges cancelled by banking firms. No doubt you’ve noted that even private citizens who may have run afoul of IRS(even if no evil has been committed) or other agencies may suddenly lose their bank accounts and credit cards and lose all means with which to conduct business.
So even if you are skeptical of “prottie” conspiracies, there are real life despots that don’t like web sites like FR and people like you and me who would really like us under their thumbs. They do plan to try to use social media and commerce to impress their views on what societal order should be. Oh they don’t necessarily want us dead right away...they want us humiliated and begging for their favor first!
...still hasn't happened yet.
Not yet....but it will.
And I am afraid a great number of Roman Catholics will fall for it. A good number have already fallen for the lies of the apparitions promising the avoidance of the eternal fire for wearing a man-made piece of cloth.
“One of the people there literally said to beware, the next step was going to be an ad with someone holding out their hand with 666 on it, “There’s a new and easy way to pay your bills.”
...still hasn’t happened yet.”
.....
Hmmmm....
(2 years ago, the technology was available and being implemented. Is that the mark? Maybe or maybe not. It is feasible.)
This Prottie eagerly awaits Vatican III!
Correct, the mark of the beast was the allegiance to Nero, the 666 was Nero.
This is in opposition to the mark or sign of the Lamb - the sign of the cross.