To: Elaine- The Mark of the Beast is designed to deceive
Christians
Six years ago when studying the Sermon on the Mount I made the same
conclusion as you have . When I tried to present the idea it was considered
almost blasphemous because of Revelation
14:9-10:
“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man
worship the beast and his image, and
receive [his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of
the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup
of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb”
Notice that there is an “AND” in those verses concerning
the mark.
So I put the idea away waiting for someone else to confirm that it was of
God, and you have done that.
You are correct in your posting of
October 6, 2008
that Jesus has indeed prescribed an
anti-dote to the mark of the beast. This anti-dote is prophesied in the sermon
on the mount in chapter 5 of Matthew as Jesus is defining what adultery actually is. Jesus
tells us that long before we actually commit adultery with our bodies the sin of
adultery itself begins in our mind. So after Jesus tells us what adultery is he
tells us in Matthew 5:29-30
"If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it
out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of
your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from
you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for
your whole body to go into hell.”
Well, that will not prevent us from committing adultery will it? Because even we were to remove our sex organs
Jesus just told us that adultery was a sin that originates in the mind,
therefore removing any part of our body would not prevent adultery according to
Jesus definition. Therefore He cannot be talking about physical adultery when He
prescribes the removal of the RIGHT HAND or RIGHT EYE.
What Jesus is talking about is IDOLATRY which is spiritual
adultery.
Remember we are the Bride of Christ, Satan’s goal is to seduce Christians in any way he can in order to have
us be unfaithful to Jesus.
Jesus will have none of Satan’s attempts to remove us from Him and if we
repent He will accept us back.
Rom.
8-38-39 “For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”
Hosea 4:6
“I beheld, the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed
against them”,
Daniel
7:21
“…and he shall wear
out the saints of the Most High…”; Daniel
7:25
“ and it was given to him to make war
with the saints and to overcome them”,
Revelation 13:7
The Mark of the
Beast is designed for Christians, Satan does not need to deceive the lost,
they are already deceived, Satan just needs to keep the lost where they are.
Christians on the other hand need to be deceived.
Be alert, don’t be deceived, DON’T TAKE THE MARK