Revelation 13 - Mark of the Beast

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Revelation 13
13:1 And I stood upon “the sand of the sea” (Gen. 22:17), and saw a beast rise up out of “the sea” (Isa. 17:12-13), having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten crowns, and upon its heads the name of blasphemy (Rev. 17:8-12).
13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and its feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave it his power, and his throne, and great authority (Dan. 7:1-7).
13:3 And I saw one of its heads as it were wounded to death; and its deadly wound was healed (the Roman Catholic church ceased to exist briefly in 1798 when Napoleon sacked Rome and declared there would be no more popes): and all the world wondered after the beast (system).
13:4 And they worshipped the dragon (Lucifer/Satan - Rev. 12:3-4) which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war against it?
13:5 And there was given unto it a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto it to continue forty [and] two months (1260 “days”, each day for a year - Num. 14:34).
13:6 And it opened its mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His Tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
13:7 And it was given unto it to make war with the holy people, and to overcome them: and power was given it over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations (“waters” - ch. 17:15).
13:8 And all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship it, whose names are NOT written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 20:12-15).
13:9 IF any man have an ear, let him hear.
13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the holy people.
13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and it had two horns like a lamb, and he (Hitler) spoke as the dragon.
13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed (Hitler was blessed by the Pope and called “the envoy of God”).
13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men (aerial bombardment, e.g. “the blitz”),
13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the presence of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the Earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by the sword, and did live (the Roman Empire - eagle and swastika emblems).
13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark (Deutsch) in their right hand, or in their foreheads (Marx-ism):
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of man (created 6th. day); and its number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six (man, man, man).

In the wake of WW2, the United Nations was officially formed on October 24, 1945, when the UN Charter entered into force.

The Jewish-state of Israel in the Middle East was then established, in fulfillment of “the fig-tree prophecy” given by Christ in Matthew 24:32-34. The announcement first went out to the world on April 22, 1948, that the Jewish-state of Israel would become a nation 22 days later on May 14, 1948.

The “mark of the beast” that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark should be self-evident. It is buying into the Babylonian/Roman buy it and throw it away market system that is destroying the Earth (runaway consumerism).

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To better understand how the Babylon market system was brought/migrated to Rome:

The “beast system” manifests itself in this world in the mindset that everything is supposedly for sale.

If you want to just live and be left alone, you buy or finance a house through a bank, and pay income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, etc.

If you want to travel, you buy a car, or a boat, or an airplane ticket, etc., and pay the necessary license fees, registration fees, insurance fees, etc.

If you want protection, you buy it from politicians, by helping them get elected (through campaign contributions, canvassing or voting).

If you want salvation, you buy it from a priest, pastor, rabbi, imam, etc, through the various religious franchises.

If you want justice, you buy it from one of the Courts, by renting an attorney/barrister, etc.

If you want to be healed, you buy it from the doctors and hospitals, which sell “cures” in the form of pharmaceutical poisons, unnecessary surgical procedures, radiation poisoning, etc.

IF you buy into this beast system – believing that the FREE gifts of God are all allegedly for sale – then you have accepted “the mark of the beast” whether you realize that fact or not.

People spend their entire lives using their minds and their hands to slave away in this material world, so they can afford to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t know, in pursuit of happiness they will never find. All to supposedly enjoy a temporary human existence that they know ends in death.

No amount of money can EVER buy anyone eternal life. You CANNOT buy the stairway to heaven. God’s FREE gifts – Life, Liberty, Justice, Peace, Joy, Safety and Security are simply NOT for sale at ANY price.

Matthew 6:33-34
6:33 But seek ye FIRST The Kingdom of God, and His Righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient for the day [is] the evil thereof.

Anyone who still believes on the Last Day that this satanic, worldly beast system, that tricks people into believing they have to pay for the right to live here, has accepted the mark of the beast over the values of the Kingdom of God, and is therefore destined for The Fire. The highest achievements in this world are WORTHLESS. What is one’s soul worth (Mark 8:36-37)?

Revelation 19:17-20
19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
19:18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all [men, both] free and bond, both small and great.
19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the Earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse (Christ - Rev. 19:11-16), and against his army.
19:20 And the beast was taken, and with it the false prophet that wrought miracles before it, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped its image. These both were cast alive into a Lake of Fire burning with brimstone (sulphur).

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The deeper you look down the rabbit hole the more evil it becomes and it’s happening all over the earth. I cannot believe they have this much control. Everyone keeps on going along with it. There is no shortage of people willing to do their dirty work for money. They have their hands in everything.

What would they do if everyone from all sides decided not to fall for their propaganda and stop fighting in the wars that they create?

This deprived world society has been conditioned into being divided, apathetic and greedy. When there is a disaster there are people that help but it’s limited. All the charity stuff is conditional and money oriented, so they depend on poverty and disasters to profit. There is no real interest in correcting the problems because without them they cannot profit.

One great quality about the American Amish is that they unite to help their brother in distress when there is a disaster. The house burns down and the entire community comes together to rebuild, and whatever else is needed. They even help each other with medical bills. This world would be a much better place if everyone did this. Yet they’re still participating in the beast system, because they have to buy land, pay taxes etc. in order to live.

In one way or another you are forced to go along with this system in order to live here. I’m tired of it and do not want to participate. No matter how little or how much of their money you have there is no decent foundation on which to build on with this system. How can you be in the world but not of it if you are using any part of their system?

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We’re IN the world but that doesn’t mean we have to go along with it..:slight_smile:

“Don’t love the world or the things in it, otherwise the love of God is not in you” (1 John 2:15-17)
“A friend of the world is the enemy of God” (James 4:4)
“He who is of the earth speaks earthly things” (John 3:31)
“Jesus saved you from the empty way of life handed you by your forefathers” (1 Pet 1:18)
“Don’t conform to the pattern of this world” (Rom 12:2)
“As a soldier of Christ, please only God and not the world” (2 Tim 2:3/4)
“Set your mind on things above,not on things on the earth” (Col 3:2)
“You were bought at a price, don’t serve men” (1 Cor 7:23)
“You were dead when you followed the ways of the world” (Eph 2:1/2)
“You died with Christ from this world, so don’t keep submitting to its rules” (Col 2:20)
“For we look at things unseen rather than the seen,for the seen are temporary, but the unseen are eternal” (2 Cor 4:18)
Jesus said:- “The world wants you to dance to its tune…God has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners…to release the oppressed” (Matt 11:16/17,Luke 4:18 )

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Thank-you. Great reply and questions.

It would bring the entire system to its knees, and end these “endless” wars.

It’s allegedly “the most wonderful time of the year” where everyone is buying things they don’t need, with money they don’t have, to impress people they don’t know. And wrap billions of packages up in paper that gets shredded in seconds, to be thrown away with all of the X-mas trees that were needlessly cut down so people could waste a bunch of electricity for 3-4 weeks lighting them up.

The most materialistic day of the year (reportedly many stores rake in 40% of their annual gross receipts during the silly season each year), falsely promoted as the birthday of Jesus, even though Jesus said no one can serve God and mammon/materialism.

It’s its own self-perpetuated disaster every year, often promoted with all sorts of gifting to the needy, while everyone overlooks the colossal waste of time and money that probably could have fed and sheltered the needy for the entire year, not just for a couple of weeks. Of course that token gift helped the more fortunate feel a little less guilty about the less fortunate, which was probably the primary motivation.

They have separated themselves out from the rest of the world probably better than any other group, but unfortunately have brought with them into their community their own religious rites, rituals and superstitions (e.g. services spoken in high-German, which very few of them actually understand - much like the Roman Catholics and their dead-language Latin services).

One of the things that most people are doing, without realizing it, is building their own little kingdom. Instead of shelter, the house becomes something in need of constant updating inside and out, to keep up with the neighbours. The cars need to be upgraded every few years even if it requires financing them or leasing them, again to keep up appearances.

It’s like a never-ending race to see who can be suckered into buying the most unnecessary stuff before the body dies, in a vain effort to be fulfilled. The mark of the beast (serving the human beast, with its insatiable desires, instead of serving God).

Instead of individually spending all of the time building all of these separate little kingdoms, we could be working together to build Father’s Kingdom here on Earth, where EVERYONE would have everything they needed, so that no one lived in poverty, and no one became filthy rich at everyone else’s expense.

It could be so simple, loving, beautiful and perfect. And yes, knowing how it could be makes the confusion, hatred, ugliness and unsustainable greed that rules the world today almost unbearable.

But until someone KNOWS they are not of this world, i.e. KNOWS that they aren’t the human animal/beast they see in the mirror, they can never be in this world and not of this world.

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You have very interesting opinions (and questions I guess) concerning the mark of the beast. Many orthodox fathers have written about it. Maybe the most detailed descriptions about these days are those of a modern saint,the Holy Father Saint Gabriel, Confessor and Fool for Christ from Georgia. Unfortunately all the sources I have are in Greek language. He said about persecutions of the Christians, about fake miracles in the sky, about the mark of the beast on both the hand and the forehead etc. You might find more information in English if you search online in case you are interested.

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Matthew 23:9 And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

John 15:14 Ye are my friends, IF ye DO whatsoever I command you.

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The first sentence, Jesus said it not meaning that a christian cannot literally call anyone father (even his/her biological father?) but , as He was previously talking about the hypocrisy of Rabbis, he meant not to trust them as (and call them) ‘fathers’, since they were not obeying the Moses law.

In the second sentence, Jesus says ‘you are my friends if you do what I order you to do’. This doesnot mean ‘I hate you if you do not follow my orders’, because Jesus is only Love. It means ‘I do not consider you as friends if you do not follow my orders’. It is clearly different.

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The word “Satan” is Hebrew and means “the Opposer”. When someone claims Christ meant the exact opposite of what Christ actually said, who do you suppose they are listening to and obeying?

We are the children of Whom/whom we choose to obey.

If we obey Father and His Christ, then we are His Children.

If, on the other hand, we continue obeying Satan, then we are his children.

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Please dear AFreeman, put a laaaarge ‘grey zone’ in the interval. We are all God’s children, doing everyday lot of sins. God wants us to be with Him. When we do sins, we do not obey the opponent, we are instantly unable to follow Jesus commands. Even the Holy fathers or the Saints (recognised by the Church), sometimes they are being attacked by the opponent. Do they lose their holiness or obey the opponent? I don’t think so. It’s in our own hand to attrack the God’s favor and live with Him.

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1 John 3:4-10
3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also The Law: for sin is the transgression of The Law.
3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our (past) sins; and in him is no sin.
3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he (Christ) is righteous.
3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the Beginning. For THIS purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever DOETH NOT righteousness is NOT of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

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Sorry to mention, this is not the original text. John 3.4 is a dialogue of Jesus with Nikodemus about the human getting reborn after the baptism. It is easy to find in authentic Bibles.

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It’s John’s first letter (hence the designation 1 John), NOT the Gospel according to John (where Jesus spoke to Nicodemus about being reborn as one’s true, spiritual self). And yes, it is the original text.

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Sorry for misunderstanding. Concerning the text, it is John who explains the difference between good and evil and of course what he says is right. But doing sins is for all people. Church has the mysteries and Confession is one of the greatest. God is Love and Forgiveness. Dont stick to the details because the opponent hides behind the details. Stay with Jesus love and try to do the best for your soul, isnt it?

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1 John 2:1-7
2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2:2 And he is the atonement for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.
2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, IF we keep His Commandments.
2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth NOT His Commandments, is a LIAR, and the truth is NOT in him.
2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old Commandment which ye had from the Beginning. The old Commandment is The Word which ye have heard from the Beginning.

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What I am trying to say is that living your life as a Christian is an everyday race against your human nature. The only one who will decide for your soul is God. The Holy Fathers say: nobody knows for sure either he has already been saved or he has already been doomed to hell. We give our race and God shall bless us all!

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The following excerpt is from:

In the second chapter of the book of Daniel (Dan. 2), king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had a dream, the content and interpretation of which God revealed to Daniel, so that Daniel could make it known to the king. The dream was of a great image, describing Babylon and the successive empires that would rise and fall after it, before God would use His people – the true people Israel – to build His Kingdom here on Earth. The Kingdom of God, that is to be given to and ruled by Christ (Gen. 49:10; Gen. 49:22-24; Ps. 118:22-24; Ezek. 21:25-27; Matt. 21:42-44; Luke 1:31-33; Rev. 19:11-16).

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Please note well that the image above is of a MAN. This man is described in detail in Daniel 2, with the various body parts attributed to the dominant human empires that have risen up to form the basis for human traditions.

Namely: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. All of these empires have brought their particular cultural traditions and human pursuits for power together to form the world we live in today, which serves fleeting, materialistic human desires (wealth, power, pleasure, oppression and injustice) instead of the values of the Kingdom of heaven (love, sharing, kindness, mercy and justice).

We have a system of government today that is largely based upon the Babylonian/Roman model, with its rules and procedures, filled with terms in the dead language of Latin.

We have a legal system that is largely based upon the Babylonian/Roman model, with its rules and procedures, filled with terms in Latin.

We have a financial system that is largely based upon the Babylonian/Roman model, with its rules and procedures (e.g. fraudulent fractional reserve banking and autonomous institutions like the BIS), filled with terms in Latin.

We have a system of organized religion that is largely based upon the Babylonian/Roman model, with its rules and procedures. The Roman Catholic elements are filled with terms in Latin.

We have a chemical-medical-pharmaceutical industry that is largely based upon the Greco-Roman model, with its rules and procedures, filled with terms in Latin and Greek.

ALL of this serves the materialistic desires of man (humans). Man, man, man. Profits before Prophets. Mammon before God.

And most of the world has accepted these institutions and their mark, believing them to represent reality.

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Matthew 24:5-13

-For many shall come in my name, saying that I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
-And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
-For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places.
-All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
-Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
-And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
-And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
-And because inequity shall abound, the love of many shall grow cold.
-But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Matthew 24:13

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

I’m having a real hard time with this one right now. I’m tired, I want to go home…

This message goes to those who go along with the status quo, and to the few responsible for it. The evil just keeps going unabated. If you would only try to reverse this.

When I complain about how we have poisoned ourselves, some go on about how our life expectancy has risen. They have been conditioned into believing this. If I’m not mistaken Adam lived a total of 930 years. Noah lived a total of 950 years. Shem lived for a total of 600 years. Our life expectancy has been declining…

Can you imagine how pristine the earth was before the chaos that led to the flood? The way our Creator intended it to be? How wonderful it must have been to take a breath of clean air, to drink clean water, and to eat clean food? How healthy everyone was back then? It must have felt so good to be alive. So many today cannot imagine this to be true.

You must be so proud now. You are conquering the earth as you continue to destroy it. All you can do is double down with your insanity. What will you be left with after all this has been said and done? How can you have a so called Utopia when you continue to destroy the earth? This phoenix rising from the ashes nonsense will not work. It didn’t work then, it is not going to work now. This controlling and corruption of the population into doing evil will not work. When the Messiah returns he will not be happy with you. The results will be much worse than they were in the days of Noah. Make no mistake, our Creator is right and we were wrong.

Your comrade said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Yet you continue to do the same thing over and over again. What gives?

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What are the theories concerning “the mark of the beast?”. Is it a spiritual mark that only God can see, but is invisible to human eyes?