Posted on 02/01/2021 9:12:33 PM PST by amessenger4god
BREAKING: The U.S. government is now pushing the idea that the current vaccines will need to be upgraded (source). The watchmen have been saying this would happen for most of this year. It's the final slippery slope leading straight into the Tribulation. Even now you cannot buy or sell without a mask. Expect that in 2021 you will not be able to buy or sell unless you can provide proof of immunization. This is not the Mark of the Beast, but is inevitably leading to the post-rapture Mark of the Beast. You would have to be blind not to see this now, and sure enough, most are blind. The readiness of the world to receive the mark and worship the beast is now apparent to the powers that be, so they are moving full speed ahead. And simultaneously, an unprecedented global media purge has been underway this past month in an effort to stifle and censor all opposition to the coming antichrist system.
Beyond the dystopian, post-apocalyptic reality that has been 2020, why do we know this is the time? There are a multitude of reasons and none of them stand apart.
1. First and foremost, we know because Jesus promised He would return quickly (Rev. 22:7, 12) and we know that His coming is near (Rev. 1:3). Soon to God is not necessarily soon to man, but it is soon. We are now just about one decade away from the 2,000-year anniversary of when Jesus literally ascended into Heaven, having promised He would return to receive those who have faith in Him (Jn. 14:1–6). God is never late, nor is He early. He arrives precisely when He means to. The One who promised is faithful, and since He Himself declared that His coming was near and would happen quickly, those who say His coming is delayed are mistaken (2 Pt. 3:3–12) and even wicked (Mt. 24:45–51).
2. We live during the unique period of human history in which the stage is set for events described in the Book of Revelation to unfold. According to the Bible, human beings have been on the planet for six or seven millennia. Secular estimates suggest we have been here much longer than that. Either way, for just the last 150 years or so—a small fraction of the time humans have dwelt on the earth—there has been an incredibly unique surge in technology, population growth, and religious apostasy, as well as an unprecedented march toward global government. It was just at the turn of the 19th century that the world population finally reached one billion, and now it stands at nearly eight billion—an eightfold increase in 200 years. Add to that the development of electricity, motorized transportation, air travel, space travel, telecommunication, computers, the internet, weapons of mass destruction, and bioengineering. Whether or not you believe in God, you can't deny that we happen to live during an extremely unusual, unprecedented, and narrow window of human history. That's not an accident.
3. The nation in focus throughout the pages of Holy Writ is none other than Israel. Israel ceased to be a nation in 722 BC, but was reestablished in our generation—in 1948 to be exact. That's also no accident. The Prophets of the Bible, including Jesus Himself, foretold that this would happen. Israel is a super sign pointing to the supremely unique time period in which we live.
4. Just as Israel is the nation central to the Bible's narrative, so too Jerusalem is the city at the heart of the biblical story. Jerusalem has been controlled by various Gentile empires since the 6th century BC, but in 1967 it fell back into the hands of the Jews. Again, it's not an accident this has happened in our time.
Now we're starting to zero in on the target. Major signs are happening this very decade. This should absolutely terrify you if you have not placed your faith in the Son of God.
5. Everything is now ready for the construction of the Third Temple. The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC and the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. The short-lived Third Temple will be erected during the seven-year Tribulation and will become the focal point of a global, apostate religious system wherein the antichrist is worshiped. Instead of turning to the all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ in the aftermath of the rapture of the predominantly Gentile Church, the Jewish nation will attempt to reinstitute the insufficient Levitical system of the Old Testament in a futile effort to atone for sin. At the time I write this, the cornerstones of the Temple have already been prepared, the blueprints completed, the Levites and Kohanim identified, and the priestly garments and vessels constructed. All that remains is the green light.
6. A prophetic sign that the Bible foretold would occur in the sky as a warning of the nearness of the rapture of the Church and the subsequent global judgment transpired with perfect precision in September of 2017. For those who would downplay the significance of this sign, the Bible itself calls it “great” (Rev. 12:1) and Jesus said that exactly such signs as this one would occur leading up to His return (Lk. 21:11, 25; cf. Gen. 1:14).
7. The biblical identity of Israel as the unique nation-state of the Jewish people was restored in July 2018 when the Jewish Nation-State Law came into force. The law also reestablished the biblical festivals, the Sabbath, and the biblical calendar in Israel. Hebrew became the official language and the official name of the country was changed from the “State of Israel” to simply “Israel.”
8. The technology and impetus for the Mark of the Beast are now here. As a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, draconian laws have been put in place globally, controlling who can buy and sell, who can travel, and even who can leave their home. Millions of people are being closely tracked and controlled like livestock. Megacorporations loyal to the premise of technocratic global government have suddenly become massively powerful. Whereas masks were required to enter most non-residential buildings and business premises in 2020, in 2021 it is widely expected that some sort of personally-transportable record proving immunization will be required to buy or sell.
9. A series of astronomical signs (note: not astrological) foretold in the Bible subsequent to the Great Sign in September 2017 seem to have occurred this past December, concluding as early as next month. These signs seem to portray Revelation 12:3–5, which pictures the casting down of Satan and his angels, followed by the resurrection and rapture of the Church. Before the Church is raptured, the enemy stands ready to devour God's people. We see the forces of evil getting ready to strike: millions of churches have been shuttered worldwide since the outbreak, and Christians are being threatened, jailed, and censored all over the world. The enemy doesn't want to stop there. He is planning to destroy the Body of Christ, but God has promised us a Red Sea moment—a death-defying escape just in the nick of time, when there is no visible way out and our fallen enemy is going in for the kill.
10. Simple arithmetic shows we're close. Jesus said that the end-times generation would live to see all of the events described in His Olivet Discourse fulfilled. That includes His physical second coming to the earth—an event that occurs at the very end of the Great Tribulation. His promise that “this generation” would not pass away comes in the context of His Parable of the Fig Tree. The fig tree is a national symbol of Israel. The withered fig tree, which had been proverbially “cut down at the roots” was replanted and began to put forth leaves in 1948. But how long is a generation? Psalm 90:10, which itself has end-time connotations, defines a generation as 70 to 80 years. Israel turned 70 in 2018 and turns 80 in 2028. Israel will be 80 until the Spring of 2029. Could The Parable of the Fig Tree and Psalm 90:10 be connected? It is plausible. Perhaps even probable. It is a simple and straightforward timing solution that adds weight to the convergence of all of the other signs we see. 2027, 2028, or 2029 are also the likeliest 2,000-year anniversaries of the initiation of Jesus' ministry when He was baptized by the Holy Spirit and declared a jubilee (Lk. 4:16–19). That means that if the departure of the Church were to occur this year, Jesus would return right around a jubilee, 2,000 years after He was anointed by the Spirit as the Messiah.
God has been screaming through everything for the world to repent (“repent” means to change your mind—to convert from unbelief in Christ to belief in Him for salvation). In His sovereignty He established Trump-Pence as the leaders of the United States—a clear testimony to the coming trumpet call of God that will awaken the dead and rapture the Church, as well as the subsequent trumpet judgments that will bring utter devastation upon the earth. Trump was born during a total lunar eclipse, 700 days before Israel was reestablished. That means he was 777 days old when Israel was 77 days old. Trump was inaugurated President when he was 70 years, 7 months, and 7 days old. Do you really think that's coincidence? No. It's the sovereignty of God.
And now we see the rise to power of one Joseph Biden. There has never been a president with the name of Joseph. Joseph became second in command of Egypt. He became as Pharaoh to the people. His life more closely resembled Christ's life than any other Old Testament figure. Just as an American Pharaoh has risen to power, so to the true King from Heaven—the heavenly Joseph—is about to reign with a rod of iron. But before He does, a wicked and counterfeit king, a master of intrigue, will rule the world as the Pharaoh from hell. The antichrist will be revealed after the Church disappears. Both God and the antichrist are biding their time—waiting for the right moment.
The time is near. Today is the day of salvation. You are not promised tomorrow. The world tells you to trust in anything but Christ. Progressive Christians tell you that Jesus was good, but not needed. Legalistic Christians tell you that Jesus is not enough. Both camps—the worldly, progressive Sadducees, and the legalistic, judgmental Pharisees—deny the gospel in the same place: they both deny the atonement. Salvation is a free gift, but it must be received. Jesus is the Way. Jesus is the Door. Jesus is the only Name given among men by which we must be saved. He took on flesh, lived a perfect life, died as your spotless propitiation, and then rose again. If someone offered you a million dollars would you say “no thanks?” Would you count yourself unworthy of such a great gift? The gift of salvation is much greater than a million dollars. As a matter of fact, a hundred million dollars is like toilet paper compared to the priceless gift of the Cross.
Don't say “no thank you” to such a great gift. Don't forfeit forgiveness, eternal life, and everlasting heavenly pleasure simply because of pride. How long does it take to call upon the LORD? How long does it take to believe? Ten seconds? Five seconds? Your pride and a brief moment of time are the only cost, yet billions—literally billions—refuse to surrender either. God loves the inheritance-receiving Jacob and despises the inheritance-rejecting Esau. Don't be an Esau. There is simply no time left.
Agreed. One is left to assume what the author is referencing.
Although I suspect it was this moving of the Bethlehem Star Conjunction out of the earth signs and into Aquarius. Although the author does make note it wasn’t an astrological sign.
So...the reader is left pondering to the reference that the rest of the world missed.
Metmom: Prove it.
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Revelation 14
6And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
9And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
It specifically has to do with the 4th commandment. Look at the language in v7 and compare it to Exodus 20:11
8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
You receive the mark of the beast if you WORSHIP the beast. Those who keep the COMMANDMENTS OF GOD will not receive the mark of the beast as Rev 14:12 shows, because they keep the 7th day Sabbath as the 4th commandment clearly commands of us.
“There is simply no time left.” See Revelation 3:10 then check out Rev 5 ... The Redeemed are in Heaven having been before the Bema Seat and wearing the rewards crowns BEFORE the Lamb opens the first seal of the seven sealed scroll.
Ah, so now you acknowledge there is a mark that one gets on their hand or forehead.
Of course:
On the hand: they go along with worshiping the beast so they can continue to buy and sell.
In the forehead: They know the difference and they do it anyway.
I’ve always believed this. Why would you say “now you acknowledge” ???
Maybe you meant to say “literal” mark?
Everyone will get a mark. It’s either the mark of the beast or the seal of God. And, they are not literal, physical marks, if that is what you were implying.
They have to be or there’d be no way to control a person’s ability to buy or sell.
How do you control who goes overseas and enters a foreign country? A passport. How do you control who gets to drive? A drivers license. There are many ways to identify who will be able to buy and sell.
The seal of God is a SYMBOLIC mark. The mark of the beast is as well.
If you didn’t have that SSN do you think you’d even have a bank account? A drivers license? ID of any sort? Any vehicle? Any job whatsoever? Think man!
Only in the US.
What are they going to use around the world?
Nope, nothing in the reading of the passage indicates it’s not literal.
Literal reading makes the most sense.
You are a false teacher from the seventh day Adventist cult.
I never needed a SS # to buy a car.
Ahhh but the passage doesn’t say that worship constitutes a mark as in some type of spiritual mark place on the soul when he bows down to the beast. A person actually has to get a mark on the RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
A person could bow down to the beast but then repent later. But if he receives a public mark on the right hand or forehead, then that person has “sealed” his fate!
It a reverse of the Christian salvation experience where a person publicly confesses Christ as his Lord and Savior and believes in his heart that God has raised him from the dead. He then gets baptized as a public affirmation that he is now a believer in Jesus Christ sharing in the belief of the burial of the old man and the raising up of the new child of God that water baptism symbolizes and the cleansing of one’s sins. Such a person receives the Holy Spirit and is indwelt by the Spirit. The Father can see the image of the Son in such a person having placed that person into the hands of the Son.
The receiving of the Beast Mark will be a person’s public affirmation that such a deluded person is now one with the Beast and with Satan. Such a person has rejected salvation for all time.
The mark isn’t just some hyper symbolized or spiritualized impression placed on a soul, obviously the taking of the mark does that and certainly open hearted embracement of the beast does damn you if you don’t repent. It is an actual mark; that is why there is emphasis on the placement of said mark on the RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.** I don’t think it is necessarily 666 for that is the calculated number of the beast’s name but it will be HIS mark just the same.
**It is silly to twist the language of Revelation to argue that the “mark” is the marking of a soul due to worship of the beast. An invisible soul mark would be on the soul not on the RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD! A visible mark would be placed on the right hand or forehead....where people could see it out in the open!
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/seal.htm
The issue is about AUTHORITY AND TO WHOM YOU GIVE IT TO IN WORSHIP. God says Saturday. The Catholic church says Sunday. Choose wisely because in the end your salvation will depend on it.
Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church:
“Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” (Source: Priest Brady, Elizabeth, New Jersey, News, March 18th, 1903.*)
“Protestants ... accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change... But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that ... in observing Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the Church, the pope.” (Source: Our Sunday Visitor, February 5th, 1950.)
“Of course these two old quotations are exactly correct. The Catholic Church designated Sunday as the day of corporate worship and gets full credit—or blame—for the change.”
Source: This Rock, a Catholic magazine of apologetics and evangelization, June 1997, page 8.
Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. “The Day of the Lord” (dies Dominica) was chosen, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church’s sense of its own power. The day of resurrection, the day of Pentecost, fifty days later, came on the first day of the week. So this would be the new Sabbath. People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.
Source: Sentinel, Pastor’s page, Saint Catherine Catholic Church, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.
So the Catholic Church considers it’s mark (!) of authority over the Bible to be Sunday worship! The Catholic Church claims responsibility for changing the day of rest from Saturday (the Sabbath) to Sunday, a change which is not directed by the Bible. Therefore the mark of authority of the beast is Sunday worship. Note that according to Revelation 13:16 this mark can be either the hand or the forehead. If the mark of the beast is in the forehead, you believe that the Pope is right and Sunday is the correct day to rest. You accept and believe the Pope’s authority to change the Law of God, the Ten Commandments. If you have the mark on the hand, you do not necessarily agree that the Pope has such authority, but because of fear of persecution or peer pressure, you continue to follow his dictates. By your actions you give your allegiance to the Pope and Catholicism.
I never needed a SS # to buy a car.
I never said you did.
IF that were true then neither you nor I are redeemed which goes against what Jesus taught
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