The Future is Easy - The Mark of the Beast is Here

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The mark of the beast is here and it has been here for a long, long time. However most Christian denominations and most theologians teaches the mark of the beast is yet future. Since the mark is in the future you do not have to take any action. Therefore it is easy to preach a futuristic mark of the beast. It is even easier to believe in a futuristic mark of the beast, since it does not require you to take any action. However the mark of the beast commands the wrath of God and demands that the children of God do something to avoid the taking of the mark of the beast. If the mark of the beast is future you do not have to do anything at this moment but just sit back, relax and wait when the mark is enforced then the true Christians will put up a resistance.  

Everyone is being confronted with a choice of whom to obey either God or the Beast. 

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been gradually sold to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." 

For generations theologians have been selling this futuristic mark of the beast to a present world. The world in which the beast exist and is functioning. To many Christian it is ridiculous to conceive that the beast is in existence and has been functioning for over two centuries. Most Christians cannot and will refuse to recognize that the beast has perform all of the signs described by John in Revelation 13:11-18.

To place the beast in the future, these theologians and Christian denominations had to device cunning interpretations that is acceptable to their hearers, and since their hearers do not have to do anything right now that is just comfortable to them. Christians view the mark of the beast as something futuristic. The receiving of the mark of the beast commands the wrath and indignation of God; and the consequences are severe. Many Christians has already accepted the mark of the beast; unbeknowst to them. They do not have a clear vision as to whom or what is the beast.  Each Christian denomination has their interpretation of the beast and how and when it will manifest.

Many Christian denominations believe the prophecy points to the papacy as the beast. However, in scripture, the Papal system has never been a beast, is not a beast and will never be a beast. To call that system the beast is to take the word of God on a very long stretch. Theologians has been able to go that distance and the masses of Christian denominations believes it. Those who adhere to the National Sunday Law Theory point directly to the Pope the head of the Catholic Church as having the number of the Beast and therefore the Roman Catholic system is the beast. Since Sunday worship is the mark of the Church – then Sunday worship will be enforced on all mankind they say. They believe since Sunday Law is not enforced then the mark of the beast is not yet a reality. Therefore sit down relax and wait, that is easy to do, no effort on the part of the children of God is needed at this moment is implied.   

Many others are more subtle with their theology. They do not go directly at the Pope the head of the Catholic Church yet they mean the same thing when they say the Antichrist. Using the word Antichrist make the application more nebula and farther into the distant future. They point to a system they know not what; but it will appear sometime in the future. When it appears it will go here and do this and that. However, for now sit back relax and do nothing until it appears. Realistically there is nothing you can do until it comes, so relax, they say, to the children of God and many believe them while the beast is left alone to do its awful work unchecked.   

Then there are those who theorized the bar-code is the mark of the beast. That theory is also futuristic. This is where biblical theorists often make a jump into logic that this refers to an RFID chip, as this technology is currently the only kind that can be implanted in the human body.

Again that is easy; I do not have to do anything right now. The government has not started implanting microchips into people as yet to identify them. Therefore all I have to do is to sit back and relax until the government start implanting microchip then Christians will put up a resistance.

Many Bible scholars believe the tribulation spoken of in Matthew 24 is connected to the Mark of the Beast and will occurs just prior to the return of Christ.  The majority of Christians have been taught that they will escape the wrath of God in what is called the rapture. 

There are three basic theories among believers of the rapture.
 1.        Pre-Tribulation Rapture

2.         Mid-Tribulation Rapture

3.         Post-Tribulation Rapture

Though they all believe in the rapture, they cannot agree on the timing of the rapture. 

The Bible talk about a persecution such as never was nor never will be.
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Matthew 24:21-25”

The Christian church mounted a persecution  against the Christians, a tribulation such as never was. The church persecuting the saints and they were winning, they persecuted and killed any Christian who disagrees with their dogmas. The word says the Saints shall be given into the hand of the church until a time and times and the dividing of time and he would come to his end unto the end. Nowhere in scripture is it indicated that this persecuting horn power of the church will regain its dominion to persecute the saints of God as it did from 538 A.D. to 1798 A.D., for over twelve hundred years.

Again connecting this tribulation with the mark of the beast and with the return of Christ, it put the mark of the beast sometime in the distance future. The saints are not being persecuted in a manner such as never was as yet and there have not been a rapture from the earth therefore the mark of the beast is not yet an issue to concern yourself with. Sit back, relax and do nothing until such time, then Christians will put up a resistance against the mark of the beast.

These and many other such teachings are perpetuated by scholars and theologians of the word and many Christians are influenced by these futuristic views of the mark of the beast. This is easy! I do not have to do anything right now. I can serve my God and do not have to worry about the mark of the beast since it is a future event.  

 According to Scripture, the mark is something that will involve the vast majority of people as “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond” will receive it. It is of such great importance that “no man will be able to buy or sell” if he does not have it. The beast has been in this present world for over 200 years and have been exercising its power of not buying and selling for over fifty years.

However, this not buying and selling is not happening to a small number of a particular Christian sect; therefore according to each of the denominations which it is not happening to, the mark of the beast is not yet taking place.  This is the consensus among all Christian denominations today. The theologians has taken out Nation from the beast and replaced beast with a nebula spiritual something to come in the future. It is not something you have to deal with now they imply, relax the mark of the beast is not now.

God never leaves His followers in the dark about matters He wants them to understand. Observe the first chapter of the book of Revelation: “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass…  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” Revelation 1:1, 3

Careful Bible students never forces conclusions. Instead, they allow the Bible to interpret itself. Simply breaking down these two terms, “forehead and right hand” reveals the actual meaning of the verses. The frontal lobe of the human brain is the area where a person makes decisions. With his hands, he performs actions, deeds or works. Through the “right hand,” a person acts upon choices made in his “forehead”—the mind.

It is easy for theologians to theorize the spiritual, Satan, and the Dragon somewhere in the distant future. It is easy for pastors and ministers to preach about the mark of the beast in a spiritual context, than to identify the Nation referred to as the beast since it is a present Nation. The Nation found in Revelation 13:11-18 has done all that the scripture says it will do.

1)      The Nation/Beast has two political parties functioning at the same time and it command other nations forcefully. “It has two horns like a lamb, and he speak as a dragon.”  

2)      The Nation/Beast is today the world super power. It took the power the European nations once has and force the world to recognize the European nations after they came out of World War II. 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.”

3)      The Nation/Beast cause fire to come down from heaven and devastated/destroyed sixty seven cities with no regards to human life or infrastructure in the presence of the whole world.  “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.”

4)      After the Nation/Beast devastated/destroyed the sixty seven cities by fire, he said to the nations of the world to make an organization that look like the European Nations without borders that all the world may have membership into it, to secure peace and security among member states. “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight 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 a sword, and did live.”

  

5)      The Nation/Beast gave life to the organization that look like the European Nations that anyone who disrespect the organization will be killed. When the United Nations take a resolution against any nation, it has the power to back that resolution with force. 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.

6)      The mark of the Nation/Beast is democracy. It is forcing all nations to accept some form of democracy.  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

7)      If any nation refused to be democratized in some faction that nation and its leaders will face economic sanction. Economic Sanction is the modern English word for not “buying and selling.” And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

8)      This beast/nation is the only nation in the world that has 666 people governing the nation among its three branches of government. All of the power of the 666 heads is vested in one man the head of state “The President.” Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

For generations theologians have been selling this futuristic mark of the beast to a present world. The world in which the beast exist and is functioning. To many Christian it is ridiculous to conceive that the beast is in existence and has been functioning for over two centuries. Most Christians cannot and will refuse to recognize that the beast has perform all of the signs described by John in Revelation 13:11-18

It is so much easier for theologians and pastors not to antagonize this beast/nation. Therefore it is much easier to project the beast/nation into the future and characterize it in spiritual clothing. Therefore they can speak about the beast freely without incurring the wrath of the beast. They are misleading the children of God to believing that the beast/nation is yet future and allowing the Nation/Beast to function at full strength unimpeded by the Christian world.

Christians view the mark of the beast as something futuristic. The receiving of the mark of the beast commands the wrath and indignation of God; and the consequences are severe. Many Christians has already accepted the mark of the beast; unbeknownst to them. They do not have a clear vision as to whom or what is the beast.  Each denomination has their interpretation of the beast and how and when it will manifest. The word says, And 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, the 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. Revelation 14: 9, 10.

The mark of the beast is here and it has been here for a long, long time. However most Christian denominations and most theologians teaches the mark of the beast is yet future. Since the mark is in the future you do not have to take any action. Therefore it is easy to preach a futuristic mark of the beast. It is even easier to believe in a futuristic mark of the beast, since it does not require you to take any action.

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"The Mark of the Beast" by Ezra Celestin