The mark of the beast

[rasell]

The mark of the beast and the seal of God relates to our characters. Those who receive the mark of the beast become beast like. Those who receive the seal of God are like the Lamb.

The Sabbath is a sign or pledge that those who keep it will become holy (Ex. 31:13). So those who keep the Sabbath are made holy by God's Spirit.

Those who break the Sabbath cannot be made holy because they have broken the covenant and the sign given by God.

The Sabbath is also the seal of God.
(I've just finished a new book entitled, "the mark of the beast and the seal of God" which is on Amazon, I can't post the link yet as I have only 45 posts, need 50 to post the link)

To keep the Sabbath means more than just attending church on Sabbath, it means becoming holy and living a holy life.

Those who receive the mark of the beast will persecute those who keep God's commandments and will blaspheme God like the beast.

Those who receive the seal of God are patient, keep the commandments and are without guile, they are like the Lamb.

 

[JohnMarsten]

The mark of the beast and the seal of God relates to our characters. Those who receive the mark of the beast become beast like. Those who receive the seal of God are like the Lamb.

The Sabbath is a sign or pledge that those who keep it will become holy (Ex. 31:13). So those who keep the Sabbath are made holy by God's Spirit.

Those who break the Sabbath cannot be made holy because they have broken the covenant and the sign given by God.

The Sabbath is also the seal of God.
(I've just finished a new book entitled, "the mark of the beast and the seal of God" which is on Amazon, I can't post the link yet as I have only 45 posts, need 50 to post the link)

To keep the Sabbath means more than just attending church on Sabbath, it means becoming holy and living a holy life.

Those who receive the mark of the beast will persecute those who keep God's commandments and will blaspheme God like the beast.

Those who receive the seal of God are patient, keep the commandments and are without guile, they are like the Lamb.

did sunday keepers who died lets say in the last century also receive the mark of the beast (technically they did, didnt they?)

 

[Stryder06]

did sunday keepers who died lets say in the last century also receive the mark of the beast (technically they did, didnt they?)

No, since the mark of the beast has not been yet established. It's been told that God knows His own and those among every denomination who are faithful to Him in the light they have, will be saved.

The mark is established when religious and civil powers unite to institute the Sunday law.

 

[JohnMarsten]

No, since the mark of the beast has not been yet established. It's been told that God knows His own and those among every denomination who are faithful to Him in the light they have, will be saved.

The mark is established when religious and civil powers unite to institute the Sunday law.

 

[rasell]

did sunday keepers who died lets say in the last century also receive the mark of the beast (technically they did, didnt they?)

I think Stryder06 answered the question well, that the mark is a future event.

In the past many were unware that Sunday was not the Sabbath, before I became an SDA I thought Sunday was the 7th day of the week.

When I became aware of the truth, I decided to keep the Sabbath (Saturday).

However, there is more to keeping the Sabbath than observing a day, as even the Pharisees did that, it means seeking to be holy by receiving God's righteousness, living a holy life during the week. Because those who have the seal of God have the Lamb's name in their foreheads - they have the character of the Lamb.

The Sabbath is a pledge that if we keep it properly, God will make us holy (Ex. 31:13).

If someone attends church on the 7th day, but is not reborn, it will not avail that person. Therefore the message about the seal of God calls for reform even for those already observing the 7th day.

 

[mrasell]

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[Cribstyl]

Stop, stop, stop your celebration.

The pen of inspiration has spoken.
"The keeping of the counterfeit Sabbath is the reception of the mark."

Ellen White, Great Controversy, p. 281.
"Sunday-keeping must be the mark of the beast." ... "The reception of his mark must be something that involves the greatest offense that can be committed against God." (The Marvel of Nations, Elder U. Smith pages 170, 183)

 

[Stryder06]

Stop, stop, stop your celebration.

The pen of inspiration has spoken.
"The keeping of the counterfeit Sabbath is the reception of the mark."

Ellen White, Great Controversy, p. 281.
"Sunday-keeping must be the mark of the beast." ... "The reception of his mark must be something that involves the greatest offense that can be committed against God." (The Marvel of Nations, Elder U. Smith pages 170, 183)

Stop stop stop your improper application of the words of Sr White. She speaks more on the mark of the beast, and you opt to use that as your final statement? Please.

 

[JohnMarsten]

Stop, stop, stop your celebration.

The pen of inspiration has spoken.
"The keeping of the counterfeit Sabbath is the reception of the mark."

Ellen White, Great Controversy, p. 281.
"Sunday-keeping must be the mark of the beast." ... "The reception of his mark must be something that involves the greatest offense that can be committed against God." (The Marvel of Nations, Elder U. Smith pages 170, 183)

good one...!

I always wondered about the sunday/mark of the beast thing...

I mean if the offense was so great, why then will it be important only during the last days... no matter how long that will be (I personally doubt more than a handful of years)...

sunday has been kept for millenia, and now we are gonna make such a big deal out of it?

 

[Stryder06]

good one...!

I always wondered about the sunday/mark of the beast thing...

I mean if the offense was so great, why then will it be important only during the last days... no matter how long that will be (I personally doubt more than a handful of years)...

sunday has been kept for millenia, and now we are gonna make such a big deal out of it?

In a time of ignorance, God winks at the transgressions of men. For millenia, people could only go off of what their priests told them. There have always been sabbath keepers. Just because God doesn't thunder down punishment and wrath doesn't mean that He is happy with the way things are going. It could be that He is trying to use people to reach other people with the truth, but since this truth is being ignored, God, at His timing, will set things straight, leaving now shadow of a doubt in regards to His day.

 

[Stryder06]

More on the issue

When Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome, and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshiping the beast and his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome,—“the mark of the beast.” And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive “the mark of the beast

 

[Cribstyl]

Stop stop stop your improper application of the words of Sr White. She speaks more on the mark of the beast, and you opt to use that as your final statement? Please.

Really ..Is Sunday worship the mark of the beast or not?...When? At some unknown time when the Sunday law kicks in? Well what wrong with Sunday worship now? Why are Sundayworshippers being condemn by SDA?

 

[EastCoastRemnant]

Really ..Is Sunday worship the mark of the beast or not?...When? At some unknown time when the Sunday law kicks in? Well what wrong with Sunday worship now? Why are Sundayworshippers being condemn by SDA?

Many have gone into their graves in full faith that Sunday was the Sabbath. Through his deceptive power, Satan made of none effect the fourth commandment, and men taught for doctrine the commandments of men. Sunday, the child of papacy, has been accepted and nourished and cherished by the religious world. They have looked upon Sunday as the Sabbath, the sanctified day of rest, when there is not a particle of Scriptural evidence to justify the claim of this spurious Sabbath. Through the agency of the man of sin, men have been led to exalt Sunday where the Sabbath of the Lord alone should be exalted. The Lord God of hosts is to be exalted, and his law is to be honored. In this day he has sent special light. The third angel is represented as flying in the midst of heaven, heralding to the inhabitants of the world the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. The third angel's message is to go everywhere. It is to be proclaimed by the human agent, and it becomes every one who hears to be attentive to the heaven-sent message, and in no case to be careless, to refuse to hear or receive it; for it is a message from God to man. If we are rational beings, and the light has come to us, we shall be held accountable for it. But those who have not had the light which is now shining upon the people of God concerning the Sabbath question, will not be accountable for the light; for it has never been brought before them, and they have died without condemnation. {RH, April 25, 1893 par. 8}

Hope this helps...

 

[Stryder06]

Really ..Is Sunday worship the mark of the beast or not?...When? At some unknown time when the Sunday law kicks in? Well what wrong with Sunday worship now? Why are Sundayworshippers being condemn by SDA?

What's with the use of the word condemn? Geez

Sunday worship is wrong now because it's usurped the place of the sabbath. It's like someone saying "what's wrong with polygamy".

Just because it's accepted by society, and God isn't raining down judgement currently, doesn't mean He accepts, or is ok with what is going on.

 

[Cribstyl]

What's with the use of the word condemn? Geez

Sunday worship is wrong now because it's usurped the place of the sabbath. It's like someone saying "what's wrong with polygamy".

Just because it's accepted by society, and God isn't raining down judgement currently, doesn't mean He accepts, or is ok with what is going on.

Most SDA have Wednesday service, and that's OK?

I'm taking a sabbatisimo from all this...........................

 

[ricker]

In a time of ignorance, God winks at the transgressions of men. For millenia, people could only go off of what their priests told them. There have always been sabbath keepers. Just because God doesn't thunder down punishment and wrath doesn't mean that He is happy with the way things are going. It could be that He is trying to use people to reach other people with the truth, but since this truth is being ignored, God, at His timing, will set things straight, leaving now shadow of a doubt in regards to His day.

Yep, our Jewish friends have always kept the Sabbath.

If worshipping on Sunday is the mark of the beast, how does that fit in with the Bible saying the mark is on their foreheads or hands? Not only the curious placement of the mark relative to a Sunday law, but the indication there are two places, or ways, to have this mark. I really don't remember the answer from my past indoctrination.

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

If worshipping on Sunday is the mark of the beast, how does that fit in with the Bible saying the mark is on their foreheads or hands? Not only the curious placement of the mark relative to a Sunday law, but the indication there are two places, or ways, to have this mark. I really don't remember the answer from my past indoctrination.

Revelation 14:9 is an allusion to Deuteronomy:

"And these words, which I command the this day, shall be in thine heart:
And thou [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write then upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."
Deuteronomy 6:6-9

"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes."
Deuteronomy 11:18

"And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt."
Exodus 13:9

So the Bible gives us a hint: whatever the mark of the beast is, it will involve the beast attempting to replace God's commandments with his own. God's people will know when the time comes.

 

[JohnMarsten]

In a time of ignorance, God winks at the transgressions of men. For millenia, people could only go off of what their priests told them. There have always been sabbath keepers. Just because God doesn't thunder down punishment and wrath doesn't mean that He is happy with the way things are going. It could be that He is trying to use people to reach other people with the truth, but since this truth is being ignored, God, at His timing, will set things straight, leaving now shadow of a doubt in regards to His day.

Even though its possible I doubt there have always been sabbath keepers, contrary to what egw claimed the vadensians for example didnt keep the sabbbath

 

[JohnMarsten]

Yep, our Jewish friends have always kept the Sabbath.

If worshipping on Sunday is the mark of the beast, how does that fit in with the Bible saying the mark is on their foreheads or hands? Not only the curious placement of the mark relative to a Sunday law, but the indication there are two places, or ways, to have this mark. I really don't remember the answer from my past indoctrination.

jews dont count in this regard, only christians... IMHO

 

[Stryder06]

Most SDA have Wednesday service, and that's OK?

I'm taking a sabbatisimo from all this...........................

It hasn't taken the place of the sabbath though. Not the same.