Once the "beast" from the "sea" [Revelation 13:1 KJB, etc.] is identified from scripture [KJB], then it's "mark" is also able to be identified, with clarity.
In short (details upon request), the "beast" from the "sea" [Revelation 13:1 KJB, etc.] is Papal Rome. It's "mark" (identified from scripture [KJB], history and their own official proclamations), is that of it's blasphemous claim to
"think" that it could, through human "reason" (which they erroneously claim is unfallen), be able to
"change times and laws" [Daniel 7:25 KJB] of the Most High God (The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:1-17, especially in that singular and Holy commandment, the fourth, dealing with God's Holy law of time, the 7th day the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, Exodus 20:8-11), and thus its stated prerogative of,
"... The [Roman Catholic] Church is above the Bible; and this transference of Sabbath observance from Saturday to Sunday is proof positive of that fact. ..."(1.)
(1.) The Catholic Record of London, Saturday, September 1st, 1923 edition, Ontario, Canada, Volume XLV, #2342, appearing on page 4, section "Sabbath Observance", Column 2, -- Editor -- Rev. James T. Foley, D.D. ... The CATHOLIC RECORD has been approved and recommended by Archbishops Falconio and Sbaretti, late Apostolic Delegates to Canada, the Archbishops of Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, and St. Boniface, the Bishops of London, Hamilton, Peterborough and Ogdensburg, N.Y., and the Clergy throughout the Dominion.", Column 1 -
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Therefore, Roman Catholicism's
"mark", is their claim to such authority as to legislate, to the world, its own law of morality,
Sunday being it's utmost symbol (identifying
"mark", found in the actions (hand) and thinking/teaching (forehead)) of it's blasphemous claim.
The Papacy ties it's Sunday morality to the natural disasters (today called
"climate change",
"global warming", etc.), and blames the desecration of Sunday for the increase of such things. Read the Papal encyclical,
"Laudato Si", for direct evidence (to be cited and highlighted later, as God's providence allows).
Sister Ellen G. White (the messenger of the Lord) shewed these things over 100 years ago, even of which, the scriptures [KJB] already said. Notice, from the book. The Great Controversy:
"... [Page 589] Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields his creatures, and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer. But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of Jehovah; and the Lord will do just what he has declared that he would, he will withdraw his blessings from the earth, and remove his protecting care from those who are rebelling against his law, and teaching and forcing others to do the same. Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard. He will favor and prosper some, in order to further his own designs, and he will bring trouble upon others, and lead men to believe that it is God who is afflicting them.
While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and [Page 589-590] desolation. Even now he us at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hail-storms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. "The earth mourneth and fadeth away," "the haughty people ... do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant." [Isaiah 24:4,5.]
And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God's commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity. Thus the accusation urged of old against the servant of God will be repeated, and upon grounds equally well established. "And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim." [1 Kings 18:17,18.]. As the wrath of the people shall be excited by false charges, they will pursue a course toward God's ambassadors very similar to that which apostate Israel pursued toward Elijah. ..." - The Great Controversy, pages 589-590
Think it impossible? Think no such 'rain' would come? (As it was in the days of Noe ...), brothers and sisters, it is already upon you, as foretold:
"SABBATH-BREAKING 'CAUSED TSUNAMI'
Christian minister calls disaster 'divine visitation' on Lord's day -- Published: 02/13/2005 at 4:00 PM [photo: Rev. John MacLeod (photo Grampian TV); of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland]
"... A Christian minister claims the tsunami of Sunday, Dec. 26, killing at least 160,000 people, was directly result of "pleasure seekers" breaking God's Sabbath. ..."
"... It has to be noted that the wave arrived on the Lord's day, the day God set apart to be observed the world over as a holy resting from all employments and recreations that are lawful on other days. ..." -
Sabbath-breaking ’caused tsunami’
This is not isolated, see for yourself, through several years of documented news archives (the end of all things is upon you brothers and sisters. Do you reflect the lovely image of Jesus? John 14:15; Exodus 20:6 KJB) -
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They call it 'climate change', 'global warming', 'market collapse', 'terrorism', but it is Biblically [KJB] called
Luke 21:25 KJB - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:26 KJB - Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
What is that 'mark' of antichrist [[Greek] Anti Christos - [Latin] Vicarivs Christi]]?
"...
Sunday as a
Mark of Christian Unity ...
... In order to fully appreciate
Sunday as a mark of Christian unity we must expand our definition of unity." -
Sunday as a Mark of Christian Unity
Again:
"... Keeping stores open on
Sunday is not beneficial for society: Pope Francis
Pope Francis says opening businesses on
Sundays is not beneficial for society because the priority should be 'not economic but
human,' and that the stress should be on families and friendships, not commercial relationships. ..." -
Pope Francis: Take Sundays off
Again:
"... You need & deserve
a secular sabbath ...
... on
Sunday afternoon ...
... Perhaps it’s no surprise that more and more people, whatever their religion — or lack of religion — are turning to the ancient
idea of the Sabbath. Even
God, after all, rested on the seventh day. ...
... But perhaps the best luxury of all is
one day off every seven. ...
... The only word
in the Ten Commandments for which the adjective “holy” is used, let’s not forget,
is the Sabbath. ..." -
Pico Iyer: You need & deserve a secular sabbath