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What is the Mark of the Beast?

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My guess: FOX

F is the sixth letter of the alphabet.
O is the 15th (1 + 5 = 6).
X is the 24th (2 + 4 = 6).
 
Actully I heard that 666 was a mistranslation they found out about when they discovered an older manuscript, I think it's supposed to be 696.
 
Fembot said:
Please, enlighten me....




http://www.markbeast.org/mark-beast-what-is-it.html

http://www.markbeast.org/mark-beast-666.html
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Before in the past, the people were instructed by the pope not to buy, sell, or trade, with those Christians who would not keep the Sunday Sabbath. There is scripture to suggest that it may repeat, but it is not certain. In any event, if we are no longer able to buy, sell, or trade in the future, then that would be how we can tell that day has come again.
 
LaCrum said:
Actully I heard that 666 was a mistranslation they found out about when they discovered an older manuscript, I think it's supposed to be 696.
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Lets see the documentation for that statement. That sounds like something a Catholic would say.
 
The mark is not a literal mark, it refers to where your allegiance lies (with God or with the world)

It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt. - Exodus 13:16

And you shall bind them [God's commandments] as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. - Deut. 6:8

Obviously, these weren't literal marks or signs on their foreheads/hands.

And the number of the beast and mark of the beast are 2 different things, though they are related.
 
If we let God direct us we will find what it is.
It has to do with the mind wrapped up in "commerce", buying and selling and profiting.
It is the number of a man. It is a "character" in the forehead, (mark) of where we "think".

There is only one way to know what this means, and that is letting God show us from the scriptures.

Now, where else in the Bible does that same number occur? Here it is...

(2Ch 9:13) Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

So NOW we know 666 points us to Gold, the universal monetary basis for "mammon" or "lucre", as Jesus calls it.

What is the significance of our foreheads? It is where we think. It is who we love, it is our mind for God.

(Rev 22:4) And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

So who are those with the "mark of the beast" in their foreheads?

It is these people who stretch their hand forth and labor to be rich...

(1Ti 6:9) But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

(1Ti 6:10) For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

This "mark" has always been here within men who lust for money since day one.
But WE Christians are not to be covetous...

(1Ti 6:11) But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Men of God don't have this mark of the beast in our foreheads if we flee this covetousness as described in verse 11!

It has always meant this, it always will mean this. Nothing more. God's Word is for all people of all time.

No need to befuddle ourselves with modern day conspiracy tatooes, computer chips or ssi numbers lol.

The simplicity in Christ! Isn't it wonderful?

Son of Israel
 
Thanks for your reply Son of Israel. Did you read the links I posted? What do you think about that?
 
Fembot said:
Brother Lionel said:
Before you know what the mark of the beast is, you first need to know who the beast is. Do you know???
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The Catholic Church?
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Fallacy. The anti-christ will never say that Jesus is the son of God. If someone says Jesus is the son of God then they cannot be the anti christ.
 
In my study, this is a very two-folded puzzle. On the one hand, it is talking about currency in reality, on the other it is talking about (it seems to me) how the Lawless one (or any beast) hijacked the US, for the spreading of spiritual posions through the national education system.

The beast's human name somehow is Washington. His image is in every money notes of teh states, without the money notes in their hands, you can hardly buy or sell goods.

When 666 is turned upside down it becomes 999 which represents gold's purity. And gold is money, and money is said to be the root of all evil. Anyway, the beast's name is Washington (or the US).

On the other hand, the mark represents how humans are stamped with a mark of education. And in modern countries (7 heads and 10 horns), one can hardly make a living (buy and sell) without education. While in modern countries education affects everyone's mind (forehead) and behavior (right-hand). Because our mind and behavior are essentially affected by our education that it leaves a mark to all of us.

Now what the lawless one to do is to gain control of the education system through which scientism such as evolution is spreaded like a plague, for people with an education mark to fight God. The lawless one also gains control of the so-called 'scientists' (oops, no offense), they are the ones with 2 horns like a lamb but speak like the dragon, and under the command of the US (first beast) they caused atomic bombs (fire) to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men.

Alternatively speaking, the lawless one is stamping a mark to everyone through our education system. Those who fight against God will employ their knowledge acquired through the education system. It is the Tree of Knowledge where people keep eating its fruit to think that they are in a position to judge right and wrong (good and evil) like God, by totally ignoring the Word of God, like Adam did. They are eating from it under the influence of the serpent.

While the Christians are with God's mark from the Blood of the Lamb (as Passover in Exodus). Only those with God's mark of the Blood of the Lamb will be saved.
 
ChevyRodeo said:
Fembot said:
Brother Lionel said:
Before you know what the mark of the beast is, you first need to know who the beast is. Do you know???
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The Catholic Church?
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Fallacy. The anti-christ will never say that Jesus is the son of God. If someone says Jesus is the son of God then they cannot be the anti christ.
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The Beast is not the anti christ.
 
Hawkins said:
In my study, this is a very two-folded puzzle. On the one hand, it is talking about currency in reality, on the other it is talking about (it seems to me) how the Lawless one (or any beast) hijacked the US, for the spreading of spiritual posions through the national education system.

The beast's human name somehow is Washington. His image is in every money notes of teh states, without the money notes in their hands, you can hardly buy or sell goods.

When 666 is turned upside down it becomes 999 which represents gold's purity. And gold is money, and money is said to be the root of all evil. Anyway, the beast's name is Washington (or the US).

On the other hand, the mark represents how humans are stamped with a mark of education. And in modern countries (7 heads and 10 horns), one can hardly make a living (buy and sell) without education. While in modern countries education affects everyone's mind (forehead) and behavior (right-hand). Because our mind and behavior are essentially affected by our education that it leaves a mark to all of us.

Now what the lawless one to do is to gain control of the education system through which scientism such as evolution is spreaded like a plague, for people with an education mark to fight God. The lawless one also gains control of the so-called 'scientists' (oops, no offense), they are the ones with 2 horns like a lamb but speak like the dragon, and under the command of the US (first beast) they caused atomic bombs (fire) to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men.

Alternatively speaking, the lawless one is stamping a mark to everyone through our education system. Those who fight against God will employ their knowledge acquired through the education system. It is the Tree of Knowledge where people keep eating its fruit to think that they are in a position to judge right and wrong (good and evil) like God, by totally ignoring the Word of God, like Adam did. They are eating from it under the influence of the serpent.

While the Christians are with God's mark from the Blood of the Lamb (as Passover in Exodus). Only those with God's mark of the Blood of the Lamb will be saved.
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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?
 
Brother Lionel said:
Before you know what the mark of the beast is, you first need to know who the beast is. Do you know???
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Yes I know, this is the beast...

(Ecc 3:18) I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. (people)

Peter knew that...

(Act 10:11) And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
(Act 10:12) Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

Act 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Act 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Israel's descendents were mixed among the gentiles, or as stated, "seed of men mixed with the seed of beasts"...

(Jer 31:27) Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

God pronounced that His New Marriage Covenant to Israel would be with the beasts...

(Hos 2:18) And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

(Hos 2:19) And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

So yes, I know who the beast is. It is mankind in general.

So if you read my post above, you will know that the mark of this beast in the forehead is the number of a man who lusts after money, the root of all evil.

Nothing more :)
 
Fembot said:
Thanks for your reply Son of Israel. Did you read the links I posted? What do you think about that?
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Hi fembot. The links, I looked at them. Nothing but some carnal manmade numerology theories. Calendar, days etc etc. Someone has a doctrinal axe to grind and goes to strange extremes to prove it.

The answer I gave in understanding the mark of the beast couldn't of course been any part of what that website reflected. The mark of the beast has been as real from day one as in John's time as in our time.
It is altogether centered around the love of money, the root of all evil, that destroys those who are given over to buying and selling. Not some numerological religious scam lol.
I sure hope it isn't something you possibly thought had any merit.
Son of Israel
 
I'm inclined to believe that the Beast was Caesar Nero in the mid 60s AD. I know that's not as exciting as trying to figure out the "Beast mystery" from present-day newspapers, but it seems most contextual to me.
 
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