By 1 Cor 10:31

 

Well only this time I’m not going to pull up what I wrote – and the link to your response (only b/c my computer is super duper stinkin’ slow tonight!!)  and I don’t have time to sit here all night waiting for it to load…..

 

Anyway, when I suggested the ACTUAL “mark of the beast” could start soon after the rapture – and for someone to please prove me wrong Biblically – then Donna, you wrote a quick sentence about the time of the Gentiles taking 3.5 years to be fulfilled.

 

So I’m left wondering, I say this diplomatically & cordially, scratching my head, merely wondering: what does THAT has to do with the timing of the actual “mark”??   I’m pretty sure you’re suggesting the trodding down of Jerusalem (by Gentiles) will  happen in the FIRST half of the Tribulation.

 

I know many things can be interpreted different ways, and this is one of those in which – until we GET THERE (to heaven)  we’ll just have to agree to disagree on.   Because I am of the notion that the 3.5 years when Gentiles will be in the LAST half of the (7  year) Tribulation – yes, during the GREAT Tribulation.  

 

Why?  B/c the AC  (everyone:  that’s AntiChrist) will go in to the Holy City PEACEABLY at first!!!   He will start with a small number of followers & grow from there. I’m not making this up!!  Says so in Daniel.  But as the saying goes, “all bets are off” once he arrogantly goes into the Temple DECLARING HIMSELF TO BE GOD!!!!!   This is the abomination of desolation.  Where all in Judea are TO FLEE!!!!  Again:  BIBLICAL!! Don’t look back, don’t go into their homes to grab clothes, coats, belongings – but GOOOO, RUN!!!!   N O W!!!!!!    So it would make sense that from there (mid-trib) on out – this is when the Gentiles will tread down Jerusalem, gearing up for that FINAL fight at Armageddon!!!!!  

 

Well, this is my take on it.  And if you’ll scroll down about ¾ of the way on this site, he seems to agree with this:   The Times of the Gentiles | Bible.org

 

Even IF the timing of the Gentiles was the first half – and I full well can’t see how it is, but just saying even IF it was…… seriously what’s THAT got to do with the timing the False Prophet rolls out & insists, declares & COMMANDS everyone in the whole world take the mark of (his good buddy)  the AntiChrist??    This part’s conjecture of course, but the way things are moving along now sooooo fast, do you guys really think the actual mark is going to wait until MID TRIBULATION to get started???   Personally I don’t.

 

The set up which WILL BE NEEDED though (first) before the REAL DEAL “mark” (of the Beast)  is actually demanded to be engraved on everyone’s RIGHT HAND or forehead:    the rapture of course!! 

Then the False Prophet doing SIGNS AND WONDERS so momentous that folks will be deceived.  And ….. after he tells certain people to build an IMAGE (statue) of the AntiChrist – he amazingly is able to give it breath!!  So that it can talk.  Folks:  reality is even now – AI’s remember?  Keeping up?  Watching it on TV or computer?  So how hard will it be really?  How much time will it take?  Hardly any time at all!!

 

Furthermore, how long does it take for people to be deceived?  My SIL whom I’ve written about before, though I love her, yet she’s as liberal as they come, and when she starts a touchy subject with her brother (my DH) then she feels SHE has a right to express her opinion  (hah, does that sound so familiar??)  – but then, it’s like LA-DE-DAH time, cover ears, I ain’t gonna’ listen, I ain’t gonna’ listen to anything YOU have to say – b/c I’ve “already got my mind made up”.  And minds do get muddied up all right!!  Right before they turn into CONCRETE!!!!

 

Conjecture again:   but I personally think a year out at the most (after the rapture)  then everyone on earth will be REQUIRED – at the point of death – to take the permanent Mark.   Possibly as early as 6 months out.  I don’t know; I will admit perhaps that’s a bit early. Fact is, none of us know for sure this side of heaven. The world will have to go only through 4 seals first – and the first one is merely the AntiChrist taking the reins.  Some will hate it; some will love it….. that this man of sin is taking over the world, I mean.  Of course then WORLD WAR 3, and death by starvation & killed in an assortment of ways.  So MAYBE the required mark could possibly go a little past a year. (?)  Again I don’t know that for sure. Nor do I know for a fact it will be done by engraving (tattoo) though Revelation does say they will get the AntiChrist’s NAME or NUMBER or MARK  (THREE distinct choices – so seems obvious it will be a clearly VISIBLE mark!!!)

 

Revelation 13:17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,

or the name of the beast,

or the number of his name.

 

 

But also for consideration:  as things progress & move along – later on, the Daughter of Babylon will be completely annihilated!!  TOTALLY WIPED OFF the face of the earth!!  I’ve studied for a dozen years & am 100% convinced this is America.  The TIMING of it??  Will it be into the 6^th year of the 7 year Trib?  Not sure.  Some say right at the beginning – disagree, b/c America will have to experience some pretty rough stuff!!  E.g./ CHILD KIDNAPPING & forced into slavery!!  Jeremiah 50 & 51.

 

Point being:   SOME WHERE along the way – between (again/conjecture…. “puzzle pieces” remember?)  so somewhere APPROXIMATELY between when the mark is REQUIRED (guessing one year into the Trib) to the TIMING OF bye bye Miss America bye…..let’s just summarize & say approx.. 6 or 6.5 years into the Trib.  that would give only FIVE YEARS…… boy, sorry, TIRED tonight, realize I’m not making much sense.  Five years for the suffering/punishment of what Americans are going to have to endure.   Ugh, I’ve had too much sugar, computer’s slow, my eyes are bothering me (high pollen) and I’m tired—so MAYBE (Lord willing)  I can come back to this subject another time.

 

The UN leaders will RULE along with the AntiChrist!!  So there’s no way America can be wiped out at the beginning of the Trib. 

 

We really don’t know what all God is going to do during this time – I mean we DO know, we just don’t know every single detail.    So is it possible He could decide to slow down the progression?  Possibly.  For now, we do not know which day specifically the False Prophet & globalists will start requiring everyone to take the Mark.  It will be seal #5 when the Trib Saints (ones who become Christians AFTER the rapture)  start getting beheaded.  Now granted, some place seal #5 closer to mid trib.

 

Hmm…. I aim to study more, Donna.  You definitely gave me some homework to do this past week!!  Some mental work for sure.

 

But again and this is merely my own opinion – when NOW people are being forced into lockdown the world over, when they are threatened with being shot (already)  ….. that was by a dude running for Congress in CA – and he actually said they should have the right to shoot anyone who refuses to be vaxxed!!  And when GROCERY STORES are shuffling around to prevent people from even getting their daily necessities – then, unless God supernaturally slows it all down – I really don’t see how the MARK OF THE BEAST can wait till Mid-Trib.

 

We’ll see!!  Hopefully we’ll be in heaven before much longer!  Then we’ll find out for sure.

 

Even so, COME Lord Jesus!!!!

 

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