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Is Federal 'Leviathan' Pushing This 'Mark of the Beast' on Christians?
Charisma News ^ | 10/14/2014 | Bryan Fischer

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.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichrist; beast; celebratesin; homofascism; homosexualagenda; martyr; religion; thepersecutedchurch; waronchristianity; wrongisright
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To: Seven_0

good explanation.


101 posted on 10/21/2014 5:21:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cva66snipe

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?


102 posted on 10/21/2014 5:32:56 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: xzins

bflr


103 posted on 10/21/2014 5:36:44 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: spacejunkie2001
seriously though, if God loves all of us (and He does) and He wishes for ALL to come to Him, then why would he remove all the believers and leave the non believers alone with the devil??

Not sure what you mean. God want's those who trust him. It is their choice.

104 posted on 10/21/2014 5:47:54 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner

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.


105 posted on 10/21/2014 5:53:23 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Karl Spooner
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?

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 :>}

106 posted on 10/21/2014 5:55:03 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: spacejunkie2001
It’s not what a loving God would do.

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.

107 posted on 10/21/2014 6:00:35 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: xzins

108 posted on 10/21/2014 7:16:26 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: xzins

LOL Thanks for the smile.

Fixing would take a LOT.


109 posted on 10/21/2014 7:19:27 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: lightman

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.


110 posted on 10/21/2014 7:36:37 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
We're billions of years old, mere cosmic accidents really. The universe itself is an accident, when "nothing" exploded for no particular reason. We've been fed this line our entire lives. Many of us repeat it as dogma, same as the medievals spouted on about crystalline spheres and geocentricity.

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.

111 posted on 10/21/2014 7:57:18 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: xzins

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?


112 posted on 10/21/2014 8:21:57 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: huldah1776

“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.


113 posted on 10/21/2014 8:41:24 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

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.


114 posted on 10/21/2014 8:44:19 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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To: xzins
It's amazing how some people simple "REJECT knowledge, and FORGET THE LAW OF THY GOD,"

But consider this:
115 posted on 10/21/2014 8:57:56 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: INVAR
Yes. This IS what constitutes ‘The Mark’ - not some bar code or implant. It’s obedience in thought and deed to the Government Beast’s ideology and religion - so that if you do not think and act as they demand, you will not be able to make a living or buy anything and you will be punished for refusing to comply (Matthew 24).

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.

116 posted on 10/21/2014 9:37:54 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: xzins; Safrguns
See #4

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.

117 posted on 10/21/2014 9:44:01 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Aurorales
Interesting take on the mark.

Thank you for posting as I have not seen this theory before now.

See #116

118 posted on 10/21/2014 9:47:17 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: CynicalBear

See #116


119 posted on 10/21/2014 9:48:08 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: xzins
Revelation 7:3 saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

The word used for seal is σφραγίσωμεν or sphragisōmen. It basically means to seal, as with a signet ring.

120 posted on 10/21/2014 9:53:18 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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