This me super paranoid. Is it physical? Is it not? If the devil tricks me, even if it's only for a second to think evilly, am I doomed? How can I be sure I don't have the mark?
"fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
The "Mark":
◄ 5480. charagma
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Strong's Concordance
charagma:
a stamp, impress
Original Word: χάραγμα, ατος, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: charagma
Phonetic Spelling: (khar'-ag-mah)
Short Definition: sculpture, a stamp, sign
Definition: sculpture;
engraving, a stamp, sign.
The only people that will take the mark are the same people that will worship (follow) the beast. These are the same people from Revelation 13 who's names have NOT been written "before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain". We are NOT like these people.
These are the same people from Revelation 9 who do NOT have the Seal of God on their foreheads.
God's People will NOT be able to be tricked or coerced into taking the "mark". It will be impossible because we have the Seal of God on our foreheads, our names have been written in the Lamb's book of Life. Nobody can snatch us from His Righteous Right Hand.
We won't miss spotting the mark because it comes after the Antichrist causes fire to fall from heaven in the presence of men. Then his demonic angels will be given the power to torment the people who do NOT have the Seal of the living God on their foreheads. These are those who do Not have their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
"They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them".
Lucifer's angels will motivate the wicked to actively seek getting the "mark" of the beast so that they won't get stung anymore. Some of these people might sit around on their couch for weeks eating their cupboards bare before making their decisions. These locusts stinging the wicked will speed up the pace of events and by the time the 5 months are finished, the majority of peoples will find themselves in one of either two groups.
These demonic angels won't be able to come near us at all because we "have the seal of God on" our foreheads. Our names have been written before the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain. Otherwise we wouldn't even be here worried about it and talking about it on a public forum.
That's my read on it anyways.
“Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come, and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Peaceful Sabbath.
"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
