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Will the mark of the beast soon be here to doom us?

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Futurists wrongly teach that there will be a modern-day beast (in spite of the clear timing indicated in the Revelation which placed him in that first-century world)--

Hmmm? I wonder, is the world going to go to a denarii system so that everyone can be forced to buy a quart of wheat for a denarius and three quarts of barley for a denarius? Is that the one-world currency we are supposedly heading for? Guess so, huh?

Matthew24:34

I just want to once again reiterate my position of what I see Mathew 24:34 doing once again.. Here we have a chap asking questions about the antichrist and his mark. This person may be new to the faith or simply may not know.

Matthew 24:34 once again tells us to ignore any current signs, symbols or warnings as there is no possibility of a modern day antichrist. So no matter what happens in the modern day,, take the mark?? Why wouldn't you? Take the mark for safety security and to be able to buy and sell.

This is my biggest, perhaps the only major concern I have about this view. It's a gamble and it's dangerous to our faith.

I would also like to ad one more thing to the Preterists. I have no problem that you believe this view within your own hearts. However I beleive in my heart that this view is going to be blown out of the water as days approach and prophecy is fullfilled in the modern day (translation 2009 forward). This means all that all who believed this view will be running with their tail in between their legs. Some of you even said that if you saw ezikel 38 happen in the modern day you would change your views. Yes but at what cost, the damage you did is done.

My issue is not that you believe it.. it is when you preach it to be true to others that the damage is done and can not be corrected when you are proven to be wrong from modern day events. You go on the internet and other places telling everyone to ignore the modern day signs, no modern day antichrist, no warning, which many believe contravene scripture. Some consider it satanic.

How do you plan on going back to everyone you told about this view that you were wrong. The damage is done by your hand.

If I was in anyway unsure about my views I would believe them but I certainly wouldn't preach them. I certainly wouldn't preach them if some considered my view even remotely satanic.

I would preach the gospel of Jesus Christ but not this view. This is what we do, if we see these signs or warnings we go out and tell and warn as many people as possible.

I am fine that you believe it. I am hurt by what you do to others.
 
nonbelieverforums said:
Futurists wrongly teach that there will be a modern-day beast (in spite of the clear timing indicated in the Revelation which placed him in that first-century world)--

Hmmm? I wonder, is the world going to go to a denarii system so that everyone can be forced to buy a quart of wheat for a denarius and three quarts of barley for a denarius? Is that the one-world currency we are supposedly heading for? Guess so, huh?

Matthew24:34

I just want to once again reiterate my position of what I see Mathew 24:34 doing once again.. Here we have a chap asking questions about the antichrist and his mark. This person may be new to the faith or simply may not know.

Matthew 24:34 once again tells us to ignore any current signs, symbols or warnings as there is no possibility of a modern day antichrist. So no matter what happens in the modern day,, take the mark?? Why wouldn't you? Take the mark for safety security and to be able to buy and sell.

This is my biggest, perhaps the only major concern I have about this view. It's a gamble and it's dangerous to our faith.

I am fine that you believe it. I am hurt by what you do to others.

No ,Mathew doesnt understand.
Mathew seems to say the antichrist is the third rider.If Mathew understood scripture as well as he claims he would know that Hell follows the forth rider.Also I would like to add that these four horsemen isnt given power over the world.Only the forth part of the earth.Before anyone tries to make a worldwide event of these things ,they should understand this.
 
Vic C. said:
Here is another contradiction cleared up.

Myth: The SPP is a movement to merge the United States, Mexico, and Canada into a North American Union and establish a common currency.

Fact: The cooperative efforts under the SPP, which can be found in detail at http://www.spp.gov, seek to make the United States, Canada and Mexico open to legitimate trade and closed to terrorism and crime. It does not change our courts or legislative processes and respects the sovereignty of the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The SPP in no way, shape or form considers the creation of a European Union-like structure or a common currency. The SPP does not attempt to modify our sovereignty or currency or change the American system of government designed by our Founding Fathers.

Vic I am going to respond this all in detail on Friday I'm supposed to be working. I am not bowing out the thread just in a rush at the moment. I have read the above as I gave you the post. My question is this. If the U.S. was to go bankrupt what soverignty would we be maintaining and to who:

Watch the enclosed video (never mind that it came from Beck) of how close the U.S. almost came to loosing everything including soverignty.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r8AKDp_0ek
 
Hi nonbeliebersforum

Have been away for a while but several pages back you asked (in effect) how could the mark and corruption be evident in the 1st century sinse most all commerce was done by barter, trading etc. I suggest it happened even then as James 2:6,7 and Jas.5:1-6.

God bless,
duval
 
Hi guysmith

I've been away from my pc for a while but recall a few pages back you used Joel2:32 as partial proof of Christ's second coming. May I point out that relates to Acts 216-21, the day of Pentecost, the 1st Pentecost after Jesus' resurrection. There Peter quotes says the events of that day are in fulfillment of Joel 2 and quotes Joel 2:28-32.

God bless,
duval
 
duval said:
Hi nonbeliebersforum

Have been away for a while but several pages back you asked (in effect) how could the mark and corruption be evident in the 1st century sinse most all commerce was done by barter, trading etc. I suggest it happened even then as James 2:6,7 and Jas.5:1-6.

God bless,
duval

How did the antichrist in the 1st Century enforce his mark by preventing buying and selling if everyone was on barter. How on earth would you prevent barter. Why worry about the mark then? Take the mark barter?
 
Hi nonbelieversforums

James simply says "do not the rich oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called? Thats what happened then, thats what happens now and will continue to happen till the end. We are not told the "how" then nor are now except in the ways we experience it. Remember Dt.29:29. I have shown that it was real even in the sense of barter, and do you think barter was the only means of commerce? I don't think so.

God bless,
duval
 
duval said:
Hi nonbelieversforums

James simply says "do not the rich oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called? Thats what happened then, thats what happens now and will continue to happen till the end. We are not told the "how" then nor are now except in the ways we experience it. Remember Dt.29:29. I have shown that it was real even in the sense of barter, and do you think barter was the only means of commerce? I don't think so.

God bless,
duval

Are you kidding me??

Rev 13:16 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:

Rev 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.


The mark of the beast is a matter of control if you fail to worship him. He controls the spending of buying and selling of everyone who takes the mark. If you don't take the mark you may not buy or sell.

In a modern day setting it is clear how that could be implemented if the world moved to a cashless society in the name of peace, security, counterfit, fraud, the advantages are endless to this mark. If you don't bow down you can be cut off by the touch of a keyboard.

If I lived in the first century I can take the mark I can still do what I want if I don't bow down to the antichrist, I can barter, trade, sell, buy how does he catch me, how does he enforce it, how does he monitor what I am doing.

I thought it was the Tefillin from the last person who took your first century view and even then I thought you wore that on your arm not on your forehead??

My goodness man !!
 
Hi Nonbelieverforums

Don't get so upset, its not good for you. Certainly I would not exclude the poor in this topic. The rich and mighty simply have more and greater opportunities do theiy not?????
 
duval said:
Hi Nonbelieverforums

Don't get so upset, its not good for you. Certainly I would not exclude the poor in this topic. The rich and mighty simply have more and greater opportunities do theiy not?????

I'm sorry I have no idea what your saying?? I don't see how a mark in the first century could enslave everyone one earth or how it could even be enforced. I can see how it could happen in the modern day but not back then. I don't see how a person could become enslaved so to speak by taking the mark in the first century.. You are a Preterist correct?
 
Hi nonbelieverforums

Don't know what a preterist is. Can't find it in the Bible. Maybe I am. How do you understand the 666? Is it a literal mark? Unseen? Spiritual? What?

God bless.
duval
 
duval,

re: “ How do you understand the 666? Is it a literal mark?â€Â


Actually, 666 is the number of the beast and not the mark.
 
There are a lot of theories of how 666 might be used in the modern to identify or relate to the Antichrist or his mark.

I can relate some of them to you as long as I am on record saying that I simply don't know nor do I subscribe any of them.

I believe rise Antichrist will happen in this life time. The preterists on this site believe it all happened in the first century,, hense the endless arguements between our views.

I can only imagine the abuse I will get if I start giving out 666 theories and how they might be used in the modern day.

There are one or two that I have my eye on as I keep an open mind and do my best to stay with in scripture.
 
Vic C. said:
That info directly contradicts some of the things you posted earlier. For instance, you posted that Bush signed an agreement, but your latest link says there was no signed agreement by Bush at all


Great catch Vic...
NBF posted as FACT what he later posted as MYTH.
Which are we to believe?
he has yet to address this discrepancy that I can tell.
I wonder if he will?
 
parousia70 said:
Vic C. said:
That info directly contradicts some of the things you posted earlier. For instance, you posted that Bush signed an agreement, but your latest link says there was no signed agreement by Bush at all


Great catch Vic...
NBF posted as FACT what he later posted as MYTH.
Which are we to believe?
he has yet to address this discrepancy that I can tell.
I wonder if he will?

My goodness parousia you grasp at straws,, yes my bad on the Bush issue, I was going off the CNN Lou Dobbs article and the way he reported it. The North American Union, the African Union, the South American Union, the South Asian Union, the Pacific Union, the Central Asian Union, the Arab Gulf States Union, the Caribbean Union and others are all looking at either starting or making major advancements during 2010.

That is also the midpoint of the seven year ENP agreement, which is itself a confirmation of the 1995 Barcelona Declaration. In fact, it's likely that this process will result in splitting the entire globe up into 10 distinct regions. It will also be at this point that we will see the National I.D. Card, National I.D. Cards with the RFID chip and full chipping (do not hesitate to challenge me on RFID chipping as a form of international I.D. I have endess documentation to support its here and it will be implemented. It is not a consipricy theory alternatively do your own homework.

Now on the the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP):
Myth vs. Fact. I said I would respond and I am.. I do have a day job brother. I have always been out numbered with you lot in the loins den and I have never backed down. I have been responding to the smaller posts throughout the day this was going to be the big one.

I ask you how the U.S. will be able to maintain sovereignty if there is a complete market meltdown of the U.S. economy and the countires it takes down with it. (google 60 minutes and 401k) the retirement system of the U.S. is just about broke millions of people have had almost 90% of their retirement savings wiped out. They may never get it back.

The days of the U.S. currency are just about done. China and Russia are starting to refuse the U.S. dollar completely. China’s central bank proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. Both countries cry for a new world order (do you own homework if you don't beleive me). You know I just bought something from a distributor in China. I had been dealing with this company for years and paying in U.S. funds. Now I am paying in Euro. My wife also does business with China all Euro funds now.

When it all hits and it will you will see the U.S. sovereignty fade. You will see the U.S. moving closer and closer in alliance with the E.U. Yes the site does indicate they do not seek to model after the E.U. but what I have said to this point is a full fact not a conspiracy theory.

Just once I would love to argue with a preterist who actually reads a newspaper or made a serious effort to keep up todate with the current events in our world.

You know exactly where I am going with this. We are moving to a world currency, a one world religion is being started via the United Nations “Alliance of Civilizationsâ€Â. They maintain that world peace will come through religious tolerance. They seek to eliminate all “religious fundamentalism". New Age teaching is on the rise.

Time magazine did a story called "Obama's New Word Order". We can see a new world order forming. There are two world wide banking systems created, they are just waiting for the old system to crash.

We have right now Iran Russian and China forming alliances viaThe Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Iran is begging for full member status. Does this sound familiar to you?

I don't accept any of the views or answers from the preterist as it pertains to the mark of the beast or the antichrist in the first century. It is impossible that an antichrist in the first century could contol the buying and selling of the world. My true response "you gotta be joking"

How so if people back then were trading, bartering, using gold silver? How could it be enforced? How could it be monitored? You could take this mark and could easily buy, sell, trade without anyone knowing it. In the modern day in a cashless society you can see the difference, yes there will be barter in a modern system. But you still have to pay your taxes buy food, gas, clothes, use government services health, care school etc.. you won't survive if you don't take the mark in the modern day. The government has already imposed a tax on barter.

I just don't get with so many things matching scripture in the modern day how you can still maintain the views you do.. I will be adding to this post later in the weekend.
 
Hi Nonvelieverforums

As per Osgiliath's challenge on another thread I must not be a "preterist"

God bless,
duval
 
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