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.
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PC has become a religion even more dangerous than Islam to our survival as a free nation. Rather than a nation that worships GOD {by individuals freewill choice} and abiding in His laws, Laws written by man have become the god and demands by tyrants that we worship their greatness calling it wisdom.
It's Satan's deception upon man to provide an inferior copy of GOD's works to trick man into worshiping him rather than GOD. Political Correctness today likely has more followers than GOD's Word. The nation of my youth would not have allowed the bakers or florist to be done like this nor would the preachers been silenced or forced into homosexual wedding services. Some of the silencing of the church came about by a corrupt tyrants ability in a move to silence his political opposition amending the Tax Exempt Status for churches to silence the pulpit from making political speech. The man was LBJ while in Congress. Then came Madalyn Murray and again the nation allowed her to get her way. My generation was likely the last to start school days with devotion and prayer {voluntary and considered normal}.
PC which is the Demonic Tool being used today came into full play in the 1960's in our educational system. It began on colleges and universities. It was what was behind the campus protest and antiwar movements. That added with LBJ's Great Society his second attack on the church and family began the fast track spiral downward. Government replaced GOD, {they said He died}, mom, dad, church, grandparents, and morality.
Government is a bad master when allowed to become such and our forefathers even the Diest knew it and gave us warnings. Today the hamburger meat I had for supper can likely be traced back to the very head of cattle it came from. Today our government has reached the technology capabilities to do no less to keep track of us. Thus controlling trade, employment, health care, and now attacking religion all are possible to enforce.
Homosexuals are foolish to think this short term victory will be a Utopia for them. Several things come to mind. They are being deceived and used by demonic powers both here on earth and from hell using them to persecute the churches. The ones deceiving them will seek to destroy them as well and in a very real way unless they turn away and repent the demonic powers have succeeded in doing just that. The last thing is a certainty which is GOD's Judgment.
In our current fallen away state as a nation even far reaching into the churches it's not a matter of if but rather of when. The Mark of The Beast? Or the Mark of The Lamb of GOD sealing eternal salvation? There is a cure for The Mark of The Beast. It takes The Blood of The Lamb. Without it comes The Great Judgment.
As mortal carnal thinking humans seeing our nation falling away it's a scarey thought to consider the Mark Of The Beast. But our hope and our future for those whom Christ calls His Own our fate is paid for stored up in heaven in GOD's Book and sealed.
Galatians 5:14
Only God can tell you about that, since everyone believes it. I realize I won't change anyone's minds. Maybe a seed, but no more..
This is such an on-target paragraph, cva66snipe. Satan wants those homosexuals dead. And then they will be dead lost which is his plan.
He even destroys those who help him.
I’m trying to understand what you’re getting at, Karl, but you’re going to have to spell it out for me. I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying.
Let’s take a short cut. What do you not understand?
Wasn’t there some firemen who were forced to participate in or attend a gay pride parade a while back?
If I say it all, you'll be here a lifetime. LOL.
But (serious again) you said something about the rapture people. What did you mean by that.
I think you’re right.
Rev jesse be on the down low otherwise he be intolerant.
Basically I said they are looking for the easy way out. That is why they believe it.
So you see them going through some portion/all of the tribulation. My brother goes pretty deep into the tribulation, and I had a very good friend in chaplain days who had us going all the way through. Still a premillennialist, but he was a clear post-trib rapture kind of guy.
As 2 Thes. states, you aren’t going anywhere.
One problem with that. Ones believing in the rapture of believers as in accordance with the wedding/virgins waiting parable is the church is called up to Him rather than Christ coming down. If I see a man walking down the street claiming to be Christ? Nah! If a man tells me he is Christ? Nah. If it's a revelation given in spirit by The Holy Spirit? It's wise to listen and pray.
Scripture even by the best of scholars has three generally accepted possibilities all with scripture to support those theories. Pre-trib, mid tribulation, or post tribulation rapture. I believe personally both in the return of Christ unannounced with a trumpet blast {calling to the feast} unexpected to bring His Bride to The Father and I also believe in the Second Coming Of Christ before the world all eyes shall see. I believe they are two separate events to come.
People forget Christ has returned several times in The Bible but not to the world as a whole but to believers. Our personal viewpoints or beliefs on when end time events happen and sequence of events doesn't bring us salvation or take away from our salvation. Believers should simply be ready for what is asked of them.
agree that we are ALL here through the tribulation. read the parable of the wheat and tares. God says leave them all til the harvest. otherwise He would have said pull up the wheat 7 years early! LOL
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??
Which is his biggest deception of all. I can't understand a mindset that willingly and knowingly worships Satan but rejects Christ. Up I guess till in the late 1970's while I was on the ship I never knew a practicing Satan worshiper or heard of it for that matter. Guy gave me the creeps and he was in our berthing area in the Fire Dept. How ironic.
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