Is this story related to the Mark of the Beast?

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Hammster, the beast person will be destroyed when Jesus returns
The beast was Nero.
The requirement to have one of the three identifiers (to buy or sell) does not go into effect until the last 42 months before Jesus's return. (1) the beast's name (2) the number of his name (3) the mark of his name.
The beast was Nero.
Since Jesus did not return in the first century, the 42 months were not in the first century, and since the three identifiers in Revelation 13 don't take place until the 42 months - the requirement is still future.
The 42 months are first century.
Not distant future as we are living in the parable of the fig tree generation.
You aren’t the first person who has made that claim. It’s been made through the centuries. And all because of a misreading of clear teachings of Christ.
 
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I’ve never said that He did. But the Mark of the Beast™ is first century.
Let me ask you this though. If globalism took over sovereignty of nations and they opposed Christians telling them they have to deny Christ or the Christian faith AND....there was a marking system of not being able to buy and sell would you not come to a place where to start wondering that maybe, just maybe the futurists were correct?
 
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The advocates of global government found below are not from the first century.

At one time CBS newsman Walter Cronkite was considered "The Most Trusted Man in America".
In the video below he said he would gladly "sit at the right hand of Satan", in order to bring about world government.


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What does a global government have to do with anything?
 
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Let me ask you this though. If globalism took over sovereignty of nations and they opposed Christians telling them they have to deny Christ or the Christian faith AND....there was a marking system of not being able to buy and sell would you not come to a place where to start wondering that maybe, just maybe the futurists were correct?
Not at all. Why should I think Jesus got it wrong?
 
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The beast was Nero.

The beast was Nero.

The 42 months are first century.

Not Nero. Nero did not meet his end by being cast alive into the lake of fire.

The 42 months end with Jesus's return. The 42 months have not happened yet.

You aren’t the first person who has made that claim. It’s been made through the centuries. And all because of a misreading of clear teachings of Christ.
You are making a generalized statement,
Who are the other persons during the centuries are basing their claim on Jerusalem being back in the hands of the Jews in 1967?

No one predicted Jerusalem being back in the hand of the Jews in 1967. How could they, they had no basis.
 
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The beast was Nero.

The beast was Nero.

The 42 months are first century.

You aren’t the first person who has made that claim. It’s been made through the centuries. And all because of a misreading of clear teachings of Christ.

Generation of the fig tree. A generation is 40 years. Nero emperor of Rome 54-68 AD. The destruction of Jerusalem by Rome 70 AD.
 
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Not at all. Why should I think Jesus got it wrong?
So your Reformed theology is so absolute in this matter of 666 that you'd do what if they DID bring in a mark? Go ahead and take it? And if the mark WAS somehow strangely something to do with 666 or even 616 you'd just go ahead without giving it a second thought? I'd hope at least it would cause you to pause and re-evaluate.
 
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No one in this forum, in any post, in any thread, is saying Jesus got anything wrong.

I don't know about Hammster, but if everything that's described before the mark of the beast had taken place first in the present, I'd know by then that I was wrong. That's how we know the vaccine isn't the mark of the beast, because the stuff proceeding it hasn't happened yet or it already happened around 70 AD.
 
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Search for Mandatory Small Pox Vaccinations under US Law and relieve your superstitions.

Uh oh, that vaccination actually left a mark on my arm. But wait, the Bible says the mark will be on the forehead or on the hand. Unless by hand it meant shoulder.
 
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Not Nero. Nero did not meet his end by being cast alive into the lake of fire.

The 42 months end with Jesus's return. The 42 months have not happened yet.

You are making a generalized statement,
Who are the other persons during the centuries are basing their claim on Jerusalem being back in the hands of the Jews in 1967?

No one predicted Jerusalem being back in the hand of the Jews in 1967. How could they, they had no basis.
I hope that this isn’t too much of a shock, but 1967 isn’t in the Bible.
 
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Generation of the fig tree. A generation is 40 years. Nero emperor of Rome 54-68 AD. The destruction of Jerusalem by Rome 70 AD.
Okay. Is there more?
 
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So your Reformed theology is so absolute in this matter of 666 that you'd do what if they DID bring in a mark? Go ahead and take it? And if the mark WAS somehow strangely something to do with 666 or even 616 you'd just go ahead without giving it a second thought? I'd hope at least it would cause you to pause and re-evaluate.
The real mark of the beast is the counterfeit mark of the Lamb. It’s not any more literal than


“You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
— Deuteronomy 11:18
 
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I just didn’t understand your point.

You asked me if there was more. Which I figured meant is there more to it than what I said. My reply was that there most likely is more to it. But what I said is all I can think of about it off the top of my head. Nero and the destruction of Jerusalem took place within a generation of Jesus giving the parable of the fig tree. So I think the generation of the fig tree already took place around 70 AD.
 
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You asked me if there was more. Which I figured meant is there more to it than what I said. My reply was that there most likely is more to it. But what I said is all I can think of about it off the top of my head. Nero and the destruction of Jerusalem took place within a generation of Jesus giving the parable of the fig tree. So I think the generation of the fig tree already took place around 70 AD.
Gotcha. :oldthumbsup:
 
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FBI vows to track down those who lie about being vaccinated.
See the link below.

FBI Promises To Hunt Down Anyone Who Lies About Taking COVID Vax As Vaccine Passports Loom - National File


Rev_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 his name.


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Immunization has been with us for two centuries. They are also required in order to attend school. Vaccination policy in the United States - Wikipedia
 
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