666: The Sins Of The American People

Revelation 13:15-18, “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 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: 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. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

With the COVID-19 pandemic still in full force, now advanced to the Omicron strain, people worldwide are questioning is this is the Mark Of The Beast. So far, it is not. To become the Mark of the Beast, it will have to require people to deny Jesus as the Christ. We read in Revelation 14:11, “And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” So, Biblically, whoever receives the Mark of the Beast (i.e., the Antichrist) will be cast into Hell forever. This means that a denial of Jesus as one's Savior will be required to receive the Mark. Nothing has even been suggested of such regarding mandates to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Having said that, the world is definitely moving quickly toward the Mark of the Beast...

The most alarming aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been vaccine mandates. NO ONE has a right to force you to take a risky vaccine that has killed thousands of people so far. I have often said that when the Mark of the Beast comes, I humbly believe that it will be the corporate world that enforces it, not the government. We are seeing that right now with COVID-19. Businesses everywhere are denying service to unvaccinated people.

The Bible teaches us in our text passage from Revelation 13:15-18 that the False Prophet will erect an image of the Beast, and that anyone who refuses to worship the image and receive his mark will be murdered. The Bible says that to buy or sell (which people need to do to survive), they will need either the mark, name or number of the Beast. Somehow or another, every individual will be required to swear an allegiance to the Antichrist, which the mark will confirm. Christians will refuse the mark and be martyred for it!

So even though I don't think that COVID-19 vaccine mandates is the Mark of the Beast, I definitely see how forced vaccinations could easily lead into the Antichrist system in the near future. It is my personal opinion that the much dreaded Mark of the Beast will be a sudden event, and not something gradual over time. It is also my firm conviction as a Bible student for 41 years, that the Antichrist will not appear into the middle of the 7-year Tribulation Period. 

Although the Bible does not specifically use the term "Tribulation," we learn from the Days of Daniel in Daniel 12:11-12 that the Man of Sin (Antichrist) will break the peace treaty with Israel mid-way through the seventieth week of Daniel's prophecy. A week is 7 days and a week in Daniel's prophecy is 7 years. The Bible plainly tells us that from the taking away of the daily sacrifice in the Jewish Temple (which is waiting to be rebuilt, but Muslims have control of the Dome where Solomon's temple once stood), there will be 1,290 days until Christ's Second Coming.

The event mid-way into the Tribulation, when the Antichrist breaks the treaty with Israel, he will proclaim to the world that he is the promised Messiah, God on earth (2nd Thessalonians 2:4). This blasphemous event is known in prophecy as The Abomination Of Desolation (Matthew 24:15). 2nd Thessalonians 2:4, “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” I humbly disagree with the popular theological notion that the Roman Empire will be revived:

Revelation 17:9-12, “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.”

In Revelation 17:10-12 we read about 8 kings. These "kings" represent world powers throughout history, which is clear from the context. These world powers are; namely, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. The seventh will be the now forming New World Order, from out of which the eighth king (the Man of Sin) shall arise to rule over the world for a very short time (7 years).

Now we know for a fact that the "woman" we just read about is Jerusalem (or respectively, Israel). Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” If you don't already know it, Israel rules the world. The subject is ignored by the mainstream newsmedia, but if you do a little research on the Internet, you will quickly learn that Jews control our government, Hollywood, the entertainment industry, education and nearly everything else today.

I 100% agree with Pastor Texe Marrs (1944-2019), who used to wisely say that Israel by proxy controls the United States! Amen and amen! I am not happy about that wickedness, but it is THE TRUTH. The truth can be dealt with, but a lie cannot. Most Christians today are deceived, thinking that God expects them to bless unsaved, wicked, Christ-rejecting Israel today. Nothing could be further from the truth!!! God Himself divorced Israel in the Old Testament. In Exodus 19:5-6, the Lord only promised to bless the Jews and make them a peculiar people above all the nations of the earth, "IF" they obeyed His statutes and commandments. The Jews failed. They chose instead to rebel against God, committing spiritual adultery with pagan idols. The Old Testament book of Ezekiel covers this topic.

Israel ceased to be a nation since Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple in 586 BC. God allowed the Romans to scattered the Jews in 70 A.D. across the face of the world, destroying the second temple which Zerubbabel and even Herod had rebuilt. There are no Biblical promises which Christ-rejecting Jews have a right to claim today, except that they will burn in the fires of Hell like any Gentile, if they don't get born-again as Jesus commanded in John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” While out soulwinning I have met arrogant Jews, who tell me that they are automatically going to Heaven because they are Jewish. No, they will not be permitted into Heaven without the righteousness of God, which comes only by faith alone in Jesus Christ (Romans 10:3-4; Philippians 3:9).

I do not believe that I will be here when the Antichrist comes. That is because I believe Biblically that the Rapture happens BEFORE the Tribulation. This is the historical doctrinal Baptist position, called a "Pretribulation Rapture." That is what the Bibles teaches. That is what I believe. In mark 13:32-37, Jesus said that NO MAN knows the time, not the day nor the hour, WHEN Christ shall return. Since we know from Daniel 12:11-12 that there will be 1,290 days from The Abomination That Maketh Desolate, until Christ's Second Coming, this passage in mark 13:32-37 cannot be referring to Christ's Second Coming. So it logically must refer to the Rapture. A Pretrib Rapture is the ONLY doctrinal position that allows for Jesus' imminent, unannounced, surprise return!!!

That is why we are taught in Titus 2:13, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” We are taught to LOOK FOR JESUS!!! Now, if the PreWrath Rapture camp (i.e., Pastors' Steven Anderson, Roland Rasmussen and company) are correct, who say that Christ will not return until after the Antichrist appears and proclaims himself as God, then why would we look for Jesus? That would make no sense at all. In fact then, we should be LOOKING FOR THE MAN OF SIN (ANTICHRIST). If we simply take the Holy Bible at face value, and use simple logic to interpret it without reading between the lines what is not there, then it becomes plain to see that the Rapture must happen first, before the seventieth week of Daniel. It is common sense folks.

The main thing is to make sure you are saved. Am I Going To Heaven?