Frank,

 

This is in reply to your 11/22 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2013/frankm1122-3.htm in which you stated about your 11/12 post, "What I said was just a guess, I did not say it was a fact.  But I will say this, when the judgment comes and people realize what was said about the mark is actually true, then I do believe that many will try to remove that sin, even to the point of cutting off ones hand or gauging out ones eye. How do you think people will react when they see the horrible judgments with their own eyes?"

 

Frank, in your 11/12 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2013/frankm1112-2.htm you stated, "There is only one way not to receive it's curse if you have taken the mark.  That would be to remove it.  Perhaps this is alluded to in the scripture that says it would be better to lose your eye or arm if it is leading you to hell."

 

Frank, what if someone unfamiliar with the Bible reads your 11/12 post and decides to worship the beast and his image and take the mark of the beast with your thought in mind that they can always cut off their hand with the mark of the beast in it so they escape the wrath of God, when the truth is that after a person receives the mark of the beast in the forehead or in the hand, they can't escape the wrath of God according to Rev. 14:9-11 which is what I discussed in my previous post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2013/donnad1118.htm  Even if a person were to cut off their hand or forehead that has the mark of the beast in it, they still are going to receive the wrath of God. 

 

Also those who received the mark of the beast end up with a grievous sore, and none of these people repented according to Rev. 16:1-2, 8-11 so it would be wise to not worship the beast nor his image nor to receive the mark of the beast and to die for your faith in Jesus according to Rev. 14:12-13.    Please read the following verses about it.

 

Rev. 16:1-2, "And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

 

Rev. 16:8-11, "And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.  And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."

 

Also if you go back to Rev. 9, those men which didn't have the seal of God in their forehead are tormented by the locusts for five months, and Rev. 9:6 says, "And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."  These men didn't escape the judgment of God either.

 

In Rev. 9:18 a third part of men are killed by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of the mouths of the horses of the 2,000,000 horsemen.  Rev. 9:20-21, "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts."

 

Also we know from reading Rev. 22:18-19, that no one should change the book of Revelation by adding to it or taking away from it.  If the Bible says that the men that took the mark of the beast and ended up with grievous sores and didn't repent, we can't change the Bible.

 

Rev. 22:18-19, "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."