So, I have Crohn's Disease and a low immune system. My doctor strongly recommended me to get the Covid Vaccine along with the flu shot and various other vaccines because of me being at high risk with my immune system. With Covid he said that he's seen people on their death beds saying that they should've listened to him when he told them to get the shot and that worried me a bit when I heard that. I've seen mixed opinions about Christians taking it. People saying that it's the mark of the beast, etc. I thought that the mark of the beast was received on the right hand or the forehead so wouldn't a shot in the arm not be the mark or am I misunderstanding something? I know it's a touchy topic but I was just wondering if there was anyone here that took it and to get more peoples opinions about it being the mark.
Revelation 13:15-18
15 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
Revelation 14:9-11
9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
10 he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
It's not the Mark. The Mark is taken in association with worship of the Beast; the Mark is a way of identifying with the Beast and worshiping it. Obviously, this is not what is going on with the vaccines - though one can probably twist things around in some extraordinary way to create a link between the vaccines and the Mark of the Beast. Think Occam's Razor: Don't multiply entities (explanations) unnecessarily. A simple theory in explanation of a thing is generally to be preferred over one that is more complex. With the multiplicity of wild, convoluted theories about the Mark of the Beast, prefer the simpler theories of explanation, not the ones that take you through a long series of leaps of logic and ad hoc gyrations of reasoning to arrive at the strained conclusion that thing-x (vaccine, subcutaneous RFID chip, debit card, etc.) is the Mark of the Beast.
What if you're held down and given the Mark against your will? Would God hold you accountable for the Mark given to you by force? Obviously not. No, it is because people willingly choose to take the Mark,
knowing that doing so is an act of worship of the Beast, that condemns them eternally. Otherwise, the devil could simply Mark everyone, saved and unsaved, and have them all end up in hell regardless of their allegiance to the Beast. I don't think God's left such a huge, obvious vulnerability in His plan, do you? This is a vulnerability the devil could easily exploit in such a way as to cause all the saved to be damned along with the unsaved!
Concerning the mRNA spike-protein vaccines, you would do well to consider the following:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOlnsoB5tcLM7TILShPVxixSJJp37sdT
www.brownstone.org
www.bird-group.org
www.covid19criticalcare.com
www.pandata.org
The DarkHorse podcast with Dr. Bret Weinstein recently interviewed the Christian apologist, Liz McGrew, who has been vaccine-injured. They have a very...enlightening discussion about the suppression of vaccine-injury data and what the suppression does to the medical and political Establishment's claim of "following the science."