I would like to hear about how this may pertain to the Mark of the Beast. Would you accept a chip implant in your right hand?
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Revelation 13:16-17 (KJV)
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive
a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 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.
So all Christians would need to do, to know they don’t have the mark is get an exemption from right hand insertion and get it in the left hand.
But there’s a reason scripture specifies the mark will be in the right hand, and in the forehead, that I will get to momentarily.
God will mark 144,000 on their forehead, but it won’t be a tattoo, a bar-code, an RFID chip, or a vaccine, nor anything visible or tangbile.
Here’s what I, and others, think Gods mark, and Satan’s mark, is going to be, and it’s found in the Bible.
In the OT, what you think becomes a mark on your forehead, and what you do becomes a mark on your right hand - it says right hand because most people are right-handed.
Thus worship of God puts a seal on the forehead of the 144,000.
Therefore worshipping the beast, or his image is the thought that marks them on their forehead, and bowing down in worship is the physical action that marks the right hand.
So how can not being able to buy or sell possibly work in this scenario?
Scripture says there will be an image of the beast that will be made.
The image of the beast would be set up everywhere that any commerce or banking takes place, and each person must be seen to bow down to the image and worship it briefly, before any business transaction is allowed.
Internet buying or selling would require clicking on I AGREE in the box that pops up with a pic of the image of the beast, that says, I agree that I worship the beast and his image.
It’s at least something believers should be aware is a possibility, in case the consensus belief that the mark is something visible or tangible turns out to be wrong.
After all, the consensus opinion of Israel was that Messiah would come as the conquering hero and immediately set up His kingdom, and overthrow the Roman occupation and tyranny they endured.
That’s the reason Jesus was rejected as Messiah - the consensus opinion ignored that Messiah would also suffer and be cut off from the living, and couldn’t imagine two comings of Messiah - one to suffer and die as a sacrificial lamb, and the second as the conquering Lion
That’s why after he’d already announced Jesus to be the Messiah, John the Baptist started to doubt who Jesus was as he languished in a jail cell for awhile, and sent messengers asking Jesus if he was truly the Messiah, or should they expect someone else.
Consensus opinions are frequently wrong.
Shalom.
