Why the mark of the beast will probably NOT be Hi-Tech

[George Antonios]

It's always tempting to interpret the Bible through the lens of current events, but the idea that the mark of the beast will be a vaccine or a microchip faces some major Biblical objections.
Don't get me wrong, I believe the whole world lieth in wickedness and these projects are the pets of some evil men who imagine a mischievous device. Nevertheless, to live in a state of fear and of judgment towards other Christians is unwarranted, and too many videos on the subject aren't aware of the Bible's very specific teachings on the mark of the beast. This video won't get the clicks because it tones down the sensationalism but it will help and comfort you while also exhorting you to be circumspect.

1. People will have a choice between a mark, a name, or a number
2. Hi-tech will be destroyed by the preceding tribulation judgments (the mark shows up only in the 2nd half of the tribulation)
3. The mark will be visually communicative
4. The mark will be a stigmata in identification with the antichrist's wounds

 

[com7fy8]

Have 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.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

And here I thought the Mark had already been around since at least the 1st century A.D.

 

[JohnDB]

Tech costs a lot of money.

To have it installed on some 3rd world ne'er-do-well so he can buy his next bottle of liquor is really dumb.

 

[Littlek]

Have 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.

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. My husband just read about employers may be able to make the vaccine required. I don’t think this is the mark...but I do think we are headed in that direction even more than 10 years ago. (Quickly to me)

 

[JohnDB]

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. My husband just read about employers may be able to make the vaccine required. I don’t think this is the mark...but I do think we are headed in that direction even more than 10 years ago. (Quickly to me)

The Vaccines and quarantines are the compliance with what God has decreed...

You want to go against that?

 

[Littlek]

The Vaccines and quarantines are the compliance with what God has decreed...

You want to go against that?

I don't follow you?

 

[JohnDB]

I don't follow you?

The Vaccines are safe despite the fear Mongering of them.
Millions have been vaccinated.

Those who have truly quarantined are safe and sound. Those who haven't are filling the hospitals.

 

[Littlek]

The Vaccines are safe despite the fear Mongering of them.
Millions have been vaccinated.

Those who have truly quarantined are safe and sound. Those who haven't are filling the hospitals.

How do you know they are safe?

 

[2PhiloVoid]

The Vaccines are safe despite the fear Mongering of them.
Millions have been vaccinated.

Those who have truly quarantined are safe and sound. Those who haven't are filling the hospitals.

Well, here's something further for all of us to think about:

COVID-19 Vaccine and Your Health

 

[ViaCrucis]

How do you know they are safe?

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.

Are there people for whom vaccinations or at least some vaccinations aren't safe? Yes. Which is why for such persons it is necessary that the rest of us be properly vaccinated, that's what produces herd immunity; and is necessary so that those who can't be properly immunized because of some particular medical condition are also safe.

There is absolutely no reason, based upon objective science and fact, to doubt the safety and legitimacy of vaccination science.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[JohnDB]

How do you know they are safe?

The millions of people who have taken them already and are protected.
The 100's of thousands who have tested them to prove they work according to the plans that they would.

 

[JohnDB]

Well, here's something further for all of us to think about:

COVID-19 Vaccine and Your Health

Incidence of anaphylaxis are extremely rare.

I really don't think that it's anything to worry about... unless you regularly carry an epi pen. Then you just need to quarantine from life completely.

 

[Broken Fence]

You will not be able to buy or sale worldwide without the mark. That is a simple fact.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Incidence of anaphylaxis are extremely rare.

I really don't think that it's anything to worry about... unless you regularly carry an epi pen. Then you just need to quarantine from life completely.

Yes, that's true. But on my part, I'll probably "wait and see" before getting 'a' vaccine rather than march out and proceed to take it simply because someone tells me I must.

 

[Littlek]

The millions of people who have taken them already and are protected.
The 100's of thousands who have tested them to prove they work according to the plans that they would.

Okay, and did you hear there is another strain out already? Does this vaccine help against that one, or just the first? How many more times will this virus change..and how many more vaccines will come out?

 

[JohnDB]

Yes, that's true. But on my part, I'll probably "wait and see" before getting 'a' vaccine rather than march out and proceed to take it simply because someone tells me I must.

I benefit greatly from those who are willing to wait. I move up in line because of those who are shy about it.

Thanks for helping me "line jump".

I'm more than willing to get my life back. I get to go to church, have an immunity throng, and get to go back to work.

You can do as you please. But it's apparent to the medical professionals that having coronavirus doesn't keep you from getting it again and again.

 

[JohnDB]

Okay, and did you hear there is another strain out already? Does this vaccine help against that one, or just the first? How many more times will this virus change..and how many more vaccines will come out?

YES...it helps with the more contagious version as well because the spike proteins are the vector they have taken against this virus.
Those spike proteins are what gives it it's name corona.

 

[ViaCrucis]

It's always tempting to interpret the Bible through the lens of current events, but the idea that the mark of the beast will be a vaccine or a microchip faces some major Biblical objections.
Don't get me wrong, I believe the whole world lieth in wickedness and these projects are the pets of some evil men who imagine a mischievous device. Nevertheless, to live in a state of fear and of judgment towards other Christians is unwarranted, and too many videos on the subject aren't aware of the Bible's very specific teachings on the mark of the beast. This video won't get the clicks because it tones down the sensationalism but it will help and comfort you while also exhorting you to be circumspect.

1. People will have a choice between a mark, a name, or a number
2. Hi-tech will be destroyed by the preceding tribulation judgments (the mark shows up only in the 2nd half of the tribulation)
3. The mark will be visually communicative
4. The mark will be a stigmata in identification with the antichrist's wounds

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

 

[2PhiloVoid]

I benefit greatly from those who are willing to wait. I move up in line because of those who are shy about it.

Thanks for helping me "line jump".

I'm more than willing to get my life back. I get to go to church, have an immunity throng, and get to go back to work.

You can do as you please. But it's apparent to the medical professionals that having coronavirus doesn't keep you from getting it again and again.

And neither does a vaccine.