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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: mountn man
Might want to do a little research for yourself and quit listening to false teachers, or making things up as you go.

My understanding comes from God, not from men who push doctrines du jour.

The study and research of scripture I have undertaken over the years does not jive with what you understand in terms of what this mark means.

121 posted on 10/21/2014 10:23:35 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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