Exactly, I do not trust in "man" God is ultimate control, but satan is working OTNot trusting in man, and trusting only in the Lord seems scripturally sound to me. Especially in a period where they'd be "deceiving and being deceived"
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Exactly, I do not trust in "man" God is ultimate control, but satan is working OTNot trusting in man, and trusting only in the Lord seems scripturally sound to me. Especially in a period where they'd be "deceiving and being deceived"
The first are medical staff.Jump away..I guess you are confident you are first.
The first are medical staff.
They have already gotten their first doses. They all got the Pfizer vaccine.
Moderna's is arriving Monday with an even larger shipment than the 10,000 doses of Pfizer already distributed.
My wife is getting the Moderna Vaccine most likely...she has a reservation already..but I gotta wait for mine.
Pfizer's is at Walgreens already at a few select locations. Moderna's will be more widely available soon.
I'll likely get my initial injection in January.
Tennessee is so full of fear Mongering over the Vaccines and anti Mask crowd it's unlikely I'll have to wait long.
Of course the hospitals are full past capacity.
My son just tested positive but isn't sick yet. I hope he doesn't need hospitalization. There's no room for him if he does.
The first are medical staff.
They have already gotten their first doses. They all got the Pfizer vaccine.
Moderna's is arriving Monday with an even larger shipment than the 10,000 doses of Pfizer already distributed.
My wife is getting the Moderna Vaccine most likely...she has a reservation already..but I gotta wait for mine.
Pfizer's is at Walgreens already at a few select locations. Moderna's will be more widely available soon.
I'll likely get my initial injection in January.
Tennessee is so full of fear Mongering over the Vaccines and anti Mask crowd it's unlikely I'll have to wait long.
Of course the hospitals are full past capacity.
My son just tested positive but isn't sick yet. I hope he doesn't need hospitalization. There's no room for him if he does.
I agree with this. I mean, we should be taking proper precautions. I don't go out unless I have to...but to say I'm going against God if I don't take the vaccine? I don't agree.
ones who are part of Satan's kingdom, it seems to me, are planning to refuse it. How can Satan have followers who refuse what really is his mark?
Thank you for making yourself clear. Yes, I have said people of Satan have refused the vaccine, but I do not mean that all refusers are children of Satan. I am just making a point, that . . . if I understand correctly . . . the mark will be received by all children of Satan, not only certain ones. So, if ones are refusing it, in even maybe great numbers, the vaccine can not be the mark if not all Satanic people receive it.I believe in God and accept his son as my savior. I am very hesitant to take the vaccine, does that make me one of satans followers? No, I wouldn't think so. I have a big trust issue in this world today...sometimes I don't know what to believe anymore.
The Vaccines and quarantines are the compliance with what God has decreed...
You want to go against that?
There are Bible claiming people who understand that Romans 13:1-7 says God wants us to be subject to secular rulers, because "he is God's minister to you for good".I don't follow you?
First, of course, you are right to be concerned about being spiritually safe!How do you know they are safe?
But the whole world is under the sway of Satan > 1 John 5:19 >Decades upon decades of medical science, study, testing, and observations have demonstrated clearly, beyond any reasonable doubt, that vaccinations are safe for the vast majority of people.
Yes, there is gradual deception . . . including of our attention.All this in a way smells of an attempt to show up God by science and government. Over the years an occasional chipping away at people slowly moving science and government right in there.
You assume these people will be alive , while because of famine and fires everywhere they will be first to dieHave fun putting a high-tech item on every back jungle person and ones in various villages where they live in huts and hunt and gather. And there is some issue about if everyone will accept the vaccine > ones who are part of Satan's kingdom, it seems to me, are planning to refuse it. How can Satan have followers who refuse what really is his mark?
It seems to me that a number of political leaders of this world's system are unable to get the cooperation of their own voters, to get ones to keep small holiday family groups, among other things. People are not planning, also, to take a vaccine. There are plenty of ones not Christians, as far as I know, who are complaining against the tech surveillance items.
So, there are tech and medical things which are not uniting Satan's people.
Or, conversely, the mark isn't supposed to be literal at all, in anyway.
The concept of a mark or seal is found in several places in Scripture. For example in the Torah God commands the Law as a mark on the forehead and upon the right hand; this gave rise to the tradition in Judaism to wearing tefilin or "phylacteries" small boxes containing Torah passages (such as Deuteronomy 6:4) strapped on the forehead and right hand by leather straps. But this is really only a visible expression of the fact that God's Law, His Torah, was supposed to be the mark and seal of His covenant people, Israel. The forehead and right hand indicative of the mind and of action--to keep God's commandments in one's heart and mind, and to do as He commands.
In Ephesians St. Paul says that we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit through faith in the Gospel.
Even in the Apocalypse itself, we see the people of God sealed by God upon their foreheads, marked as God's in Christ.
What a mark or seal means in a relevant way is to whom or to what a person belongs.
Whom do we confess as Lord? Caesar (the Beast), or Christ? There can be no compromise, one cannot confess Caesar is lord if Jesus Christ is Lord, or vice versa. And we, the Church, confess the one Lord Jesus Christ, true King and Lord, indeed, He is King of kings and Lord of lords. And thus we belong to Christ, having been sealed by the Holy Spirit, through faith, which we have received through Word and Sacrament. Thus we can boldly confess that we are baptized, we belong to Jesus, and if we belong to Jesus, we belong to God. And if we belong to God, then no earthly or diabolical power has power over us, for we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Christos Nike.
Christ has conquered.
-CryptoLutheran
See #2 in my signature.
- Just because a table leg is a figurative expression doesn't mean a man's leg is also figurative.
- Also, the spiritual seals are literal in the spiritual world.
- Also, figurative seals don't display a number, like 666, which can be calculated, and can't be said to be limited to a particular body part.
1) Unless what is happening is a table leg being compared to another table leg.
2) I don't know what "the spiritual world" is.
3) The text doesn't say the mark "display(s) a number", the number is the number of the Beast's name, that is the Beast's name has the numerical value of six hundred and sixty-six. In languages such as Hebrew and Greek the characters of the writing system were used as numerals, and so words could have numerical value by adding the value of the letters together. So for example the Greek word ώρα (hora, "hour") is numerically 800+100+1, or 901. John tells us the numerical value of the Beast's name as a clue to his readers (which means that his readers most likely would have been able to understand who he was referring to at the time). Having the mark, or the name, or the number of the name all point toward being in allegiance with, on the side of, or loyalties too the Beast. Not some literal mark. Also, figurative marks are said to be limited to particular body parts, as I pointed out in my earlier post.
"And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes." - Deuteronomy 6:6-8
-CryptoLutheran
I didn't, but then I don't usually watch YouTube videos posted on here.
-CryptoLutheran