I got a question for my Christian Brothers and Sisters i wanna see what you guys got to say Who do you guys believe the Beast is? and Who you guys believe the Mark is? Any opinions or interpretations are accepted God bless
The beast is a description name for the arch villain of the end times, after he goes through a series of other functional roles. The person has not been identified yet.
As the beast, he will be the prime figure over the rule of the world for 42 months before Jesus returns, and his particular kingdom will be the EU, with it's ten leaders.
The mark of the beast, it is actually more specific as the mark
of his name Revelation 14:11.
To buy/sell, the three id's a person must display, at least one of them, are: his
name, the number of
his
name 666, the mark of his
name.
Currently, no one for certain knows specifically how the 666 and the mark apply to the person because he has not been identified yet.
To positively identify who the person is, the EU will have to be restructured with ten leaders, and with one overall leader, the little horn person.
The little horn person following Gog/Magog will be the prince who shall come;
Then after arriving in the middle east, the Jews will perceive that he is the messiah, and the person anointed the King of Israel, coming in his own name, that is the Antichrist;
Then after 3 years, thereabouts, he commits the transgression of desolation act, claiming to have achieved God-hood, revealing himself as the man of sin and not the messiah after all. It ends his time as the King of Israel, and thus his functional role as the Antichrist;
God has the person killed for his act, and then in disdain for the person brings him back to life to be part of the closure of the end of this age, which Satan and his kingdom will destroyed as well as a packaged plan.
Come back to life, the person will be possessed by the spirit of the original serpent (beast) of the garden of eden ordeal. Thus the person is referred to as the beast, and as well as because of the beast-like nature of the person.