Fembot said:
I can grasp what you're saying. Where did you get this from? Seems everyone's got their own theory. Interesting.....Those links I posted make sense to me especially since they used scripture to back up their pov. But what you just explained (education as the mark) sounds more feasible than money being the mark.
Even the very elect could be deceived by false prophecies regarding this subject. I can't even count how many different responses there are on this subject. How can we be prepared, if we aren't on the same page?
It doesn't matter. Those who understand will understand.
And here's more, which I posted else where minutes ago.
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Though I never deny the possibility that the 8th pope may have something to do with the Beast in the last days, I do think that the situation is more spiritual in nature than physical (a spiritual warfare). The pope could be just a puppet of the Beast.
In my study, Satan's force is divided into 2 hordes, and his hierachy is somehow in 3 tiers,
Satan->Lawless One (the Beast)->False prophet (or any puppet having a physical body in our physical world)
Satan->Anti-christ->False prophet (or any puppet)
The anti-christ's job is for the spreading of the false doctrines. From my speculation almost all kinds of false doctrines will finally boil down to the denial of Jesus Christ. For example, what those universalists preaching is "no hell exists such that no believing in Jesus is needed as everyone will finally be saved".
The lawless one is for the spreading of scientism and such through our education system, for the worshiping of the image of the dead and Satan. The atheists are actually worshiping scientism instead of God, though they know of God and Christianity consciously.
Romans 1:21-23
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Romans 1:25
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
Their final goal is to bring the abomination into God's earthly church to cause a spiritual desolation (no soul can be harvested after the destruction of God's church). Most likely this will start with the Catholic Church (possibly by the 8th pope).
And the possible abomination include,
abomination 1 - worshiping of a false god
Allah the false god is introduced formally intot the church and treated the same as our God.
abomination 2 - deceit
the church may finally accept evolution as its formal stance.
abomination 3 - adultery
the church may finally accept homosexuality as its formal stance.
When God's earthly church accepts the above (or more), which simply means people's faith is no longer the correct kind of faith to be saved. It is the abomination causing desolation to occur inside God's Holy Place.
Then perhaps the end will come.
Matthew 24:15-16
"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
The imminent language of Revelation hardly seems fitting to mean 2,000 yrs later.
