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<p>There is much superstition today in the Church about the mark of the beast. Carefulness is exercised in credit cards to social security  numbers . Some even claim it is the day one worships on. The reason this all  fails logically and biblically is the penalty for receiving either the mark or  worshipping the image. Killing is a moral command that no matter when it is  broken it is forgivable, if one repents. However the taking of the mark is  unforgiveable, there is no repentance available for anyone who accepts it. </p>
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For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. (I Thessalonians 4:16,17-NIV)
  
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The above passage is the foundation for the unscriptural teaching of the pre-tribulation rapture to deliver the believers from Antichrist and the great tribulation.
  
Just  as the sin of blasphemy for Israel at the time of Christ is unforgivable, this  too at the end of time cannot be forgiven. So if it is worshipping on Sunday as  some claim there is no way out.   Rev.13:16 &ldquo;He causes (forces by demand) all, both small and great, rich  and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, &ldquo;the word on is epi within the context of Gr. It says &ldquo;the hand of  them, the right one or upon the forehead of them(the bible uses the word hand  for anything from the forearm to the fingers.  
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If you will read the passage carefully you will see there is no mention whatever in the verses or their context that the purpose of resurrecting the dead in Christ, or catching up the saints to meet the Lord in the air, has anything to do with escaping Antichrist or the great tribulation.
  
It says Jesus showed the nail  prints in his hand yet we know this was in his wrist not the palm. In the head  means literally on the actual forehead 17 and that no one may buy or sell  except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his  name.&rdquo;(this is a personal mans name arithmos  anthropou) 18 This calls for wisdom. ( not  speculation) If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast,  for it is man&rsquo;s number, His number is 666.&rdquo; If one cannot buy or sell I hardly  think this would mean the day they go to church. considering our interconnected  society today for one to have free ability to do commerce it must be something  numerical or else how would we allow it. Vs.18 the number we notice is a number  of a man, not just a title, a role or a system.  
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Paul wrote these words, not to give the believers hope they would be removed from trouble but to comfort them concerning their dead relatives. I use the passage at funerals, telling the grieving relatives and friends that they will see their loved ones again.
  
<p>It is either the name Which is  the name of the beast referring to a man. also in gr. the number is a mans  number, literally &ldquo;is a man&rdquo; and &ldquo;the number of him&rdquo; is hexa kosioi hexakonta  hex .These are words of numerals which are in 3 groups = 600 ,6-10&rsquo;s=60, and 6.  Food for thought, there may be significance that this is written out this  way.  Its not a card, its not a an  empire, its not a day, its the number of a man. The beast is a man! That man  has a name! His name has a numerical equivalent! Rev.13 warns of 3 things in relation to this, the mark which is some type of symbol. the name of the beast  or the numerical value of his name.</p>
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Notice there is no mention of leaving the earth and going to Heaven. The saints meet the Lord in the air. They go up to meet Him as He descends to the level of the spiritual thrones that govern the earth. These thrones had been occupied by wicked spirits. The thrones in the air are now vacant, ready to be taken by those saints for whom they have been prepared.
  
<p>We are expected to count the number of this man&rsquo;s name to  identify him!  Robertsons greek words  says &ldquo;The stamp (the mark) may bear either the name or the number of the beast.  The name and the number are the same. They could write the name in numerals, for numbers were given by letters. Swete suggests that it was &ldquo;according to a sort  of Gematria known to the apocalyptist and his Asian readers, but not generally  intelligible.&rdquo; In other words one would probably have to be Jewish or know the Hebrew alphabet and number system. Its not in Latin nor Greek but Hebrew that  always had a numerical value to its letters.   Right now we can know who the beast is not, until he is on the scene we  cannot know who he is . There&rsquo;s been a lot of speculations over the years which  I don&rsquo;t think we can take too seriously except to have some fun.  I&rsquo;m waiting for someone to figure this number  in with Y2K, This you can be sure of by popular prophecy decoders.</p>
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Notice that the dead in Christ, many of whom have been in Heaven for thousands of years, have returned with the Lord to claim their bodies from their place of burial. Now they are standing on the earth in glorified bodies.
  <p>The UPC bar codes are generally divided into two parts by  three bars, one at the beginning, one at the end, and one in the middle. These  bars may be longer than the numbers, but they may look the same as one of the codes for the number six. Some bar codes do have the number 666 built into  it.  This may or may not be significant  sometime in our future since no one may buy or sell without the number. Time  will tell on this one, lets not make it happen before it really does.</p>
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<p>The European Union headquarters is in Brussels,  Belgium,which has a huge computer system they call &ldquo;the Beast&rdquo;. Is an acronym  for the Belgian Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal. The Beast of the scripture is a person not a machine, no upgrading on this one.  The issue in this future story is that of worship of a creature, not God.  People  must vow their devotion to one whose ministry is greater than any of the other  false Christs. Those ministries which are marked with signs and wonders that  lie, his will be greater so people will allow either his name, or the number to  be placed on them as a symbol of their allegiance.  So what exactly is the Mark , It is the badge  of the followers of Antichrist, stamped on the forehead or right hand. The same  as a scratch or etching, it is an engraving an impress a stamped image, an  exact copy .  </p><p>Robertsons Greek words  says&rdquo; A Mark means to engrave, used in Acts 17:29 of idolatrous images, but in  Rev. it is the brand of the beast on the right hand or on the forehead or on  both. the ancient official business documents in papyri often have the same  name and image of the Emperor, with the date as the official stamp or seal and with the charagma as the name of this seal. Animals and slaves were often  branded with the owners name, as Paul (Gal.6:17) bore the stigmata of Christ.  Ptolemy Philadelphus compelled some Alexandrian Jews to receive the mark of Dionysus as his devotees (3 Maccabess 3:29) </p>
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The living saints, who are spiritually mature enough to sustain the change from mortality to immortality while standing on their feet, are also glorified.
<p>Strong&rsquo;s Concordance GR. charagma, &ldquo;a stamp&rdquo; or &ldquo;imprinted  mark.&rdquo; From the root word charrasso (to sharpen to a point; related to the idea  of scratching); a stake, taw, &ldquo;mark&rdquo; Ezek 9:4,6. In Ezekiel&rsquo;s vision of the  destruction of the wicked, the mark to be set upon the forehead of the  righteous, at Yahweh&rsquo;s command, the man clothed in linen, with a writer&rsquo;s  inkhorn by his side, was told to mark upon their foreheads those whom God would  save from judgment by His sheltering grace. Taw also appears as a&rdquo;signature  made to a document,&rdquo; The equivalent Hebrew letter taw (&ldquo;t&rdquo;) in the Phoenician  alphabet and on the coins of the Maccabees had the form of a cross (T). In  oriental synods the T was used as a signature by bishops who could not write.  The cross, as a sign of ownership, was burnt upon the necks or thighs of horses  and camels. It may have been the &ldquo;mark&rdquo; set upon the forehead of the righteous  in Ezekiel&rsquo;s vision. <br />
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  Ezek. 9:3-7 &ldquo;Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up  from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He  called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer&rsquo;s inkhorn at his side;  and the LORD said to him, &ldquo;Go through the midst of the city, through the midst  of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over  all the abominations that are done within it (here we see the mark is written  by the man with ink).&rdquo;</p>
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This is the army of the Lord. Do you think these warriors in glorified bodies, living by the life of the Spirit of God, could be harmed by Antichrist or the great tribulation? Let us not be foolish!
<p>John seems to get his metaphor from the Tephillim  (phylacteries) which the Jews wore on his hand and forehead. This &ldquo;mark of the beast&rdquo; is necessary for life and all social business relations. On the right  hand, that is plain in sight. Upon their forehead (epi ton metapon).&rdquo;Deut  6:5-9&rdquo;You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul,  and with all your strength. 6&rdquo;And these words which I command you today shall  be in your heart.7&rdquo;You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall  talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie  down, and when you rise up.8&rdquo;You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and  they shall be as frontlets between your eyes (on the forehead) 9&rdquo;You shall  write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.&rdquo;<br />
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  This tells us about the Jews who made phylacteries, little  boxes with scriptures inside which they would bind on their foreheads and on  their hands, where people could see, and where they themselves could never  forget it was Gods authority they were under.That they were to obey his word  having it always before them. These   little boxes had a piece of Scripture in them, and are still displayed  outside their homes today. This practice is called a mezuzah where they kiss  their hand and touch it as they go in and out of the house. </p>
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Slowly, majestically, in the sight of Antichrist and the wicked of the earth, the army of the Lord will rise to meet the Commander-in-Chief in the air. There they will mount the white war stallions in preparation for the onslaught of Armageddon.
<p>Instead of the word of God written on ones hand or forehead  it will be the name or the numerical value of the beast .Clearly a challenge to  Gods word.  Interesting that Bible says  when people receive the Mark of The Beast they will be allowed to buy and sell  so the mark is not present in our system yet ,without a prohibition first. But the mark itself is a sign of allegiance, an act of worship of Antichrist (  false Messiah). Its similarity to wearing phylacteries in the Old Testament and  Ezekiels inkhorn cannot be overlooked. It will be an admission that the wearer  is under the authority of Antichrist, and gives his allegiance to his  cause.  We know as far back as the  ancient Egyptians have marked their bodies with tattoos, cut marks into their  skin, which is pagan ritualistic worship.   The Torah teaches against such things, as the Lord specified to Moses in  the law, Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo  any marks upon you: I am the Lord&rdquo; (Lev. 19:27-28). Deuteronomy 14:1 further  warns against cutting the body. Elijah confronted the 450 false prophets of  Baal who performed this cutting of the skin as worship as they decided whose  God was more powerful.  Considering the  O.T. warnings on cutting oneself or prohibitions of tatooing, The tatooing all  over ones body today is preparing us for the marks acceptance. Its no longer  strange to think that one would take the mark on their body. Seeing how open we  are today to cut ourselves and put pierced jewelry and rings in different parts  of the body.  Today their are all kinds  of tatoos accepted and even in fashion, some quite hedious. Iv&rsquo;e seen people  put them on their hands and in the middle of their forehead. We wear hats with  names on them for teams, we were T-shirts, even our cars have emblems.  Christians have worn a cross to show who they follow, as well as T-shirts so  this has become engrained in our culture. So it is not hard to make a leap to  having some kind of computerized or engraved tatoo that will be a sign of allegiance to the new world orders new leader, the Devils substitute.  This is something that is visible that is on  the outside not on the inside, once taken their is no turning back. This will  be something so evident that someone would literally have to climb over Jesus&rsquo;  command to receive it. Rev 16:2 &ldquo;So the first angel went and poured out his  bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had  the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.&rdquo; They will be  literally tortured for doing this. Can anyone actually think this has taken  place already.</p>
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<p>In 1983, 6,000 Swedes participated in testing an  invisible laser identification mark on the  back of their hand. With today&rsquo;s computers and scanners, it&rsquo;s easy to do. &ldquo;Pay  Point&rdquo; debit cards are already very common in the U.S. eventually it will be  easier to just scan your hand.  What of bar codes stamped on people forehead as we had seen on the cover of time mag.  Although numbers might even be tattooed on or implanted in us, the number that  will be displayed on the hand or forehead will not be our individual number,  but the Antichrist&rsquo;s.  </p>Whats more  interesting is the mark on the forehead is relative to the third eye of  illumination in the new age movement. Marilyn Fugueson has 666 intertwined on  the cover of her book the Aquarian conspiracy—personal and social  transformation in the 1980&rsquo;s. Some new agers actually invoke 666 to come in  their meditations.  As the mark will  definitely be issued one day, Scripture declares, the eternal fate of all who  receive that mark will also be sealed! To take this mark will prove you are not  in the kingdom of God, written in the lambs book of life . <br>Those who do will  suffer eternal torment over this single act of disobedience, according to  Scripture! The specific generation at the end will be tested like no  other.  The outcome Rev.19:20 &ldquo;But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the  miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had  received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were  thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur&rdquo;.<br />
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Don't you think the heroes of faith who have returned with Christ and received back their bodies from the ground would be somewhat dismayed at the thought of returning to Heaven to wait another seven years before they can assume their places of rulership (as is often taught)? They are kings and they are anxious to inherit their kingdoms!
  The saved those whose names are written in the lambs book of  life will be with Jesus forever and see all the wonders God has in store for  them throughout eternity. The time to make a decision for Christ is now before  it becomes a test of giving your life and find yourself in the tribulation  period. </p>
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<p>The Rolling Stones sang a song&rdquo; time is on my side&rdquo;, have  you seen how they look lately. Time is not on their side! The bible says today  is the day of salvation, the Devil always says tomorrow.Time is not on our side  and it is rushing to its inevitable outcome in the future.  As Jeremiah writes in 12:5 &ldquo;If you have run  with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you run with horses?  And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how  will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?</p>
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You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10-NIV)
  <br>If one cannot see their need for being rescued from sin and  make a decision to follow Christ in the time we live now , how will they decide  when the whole world is going the other way .In the tribulation period they  literally will have to give their life.   Today is the day of salvation.<br />
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  The Tribulation, the Antichrist and the Church The Mark of the Beast <br />
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The moment they rise from the earth the fury of God's anger will fall on those who have been left behind. This is not the great tribulation but the Day of Wrath.
  <br>As in the Days of Noah<br />
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  Prophets of the 2nd Advent Anti Christ and the  Spirit of anti Christ <br />
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Notice the following verses, which are in context with the above passage.
  The Tribulation and the Rapture<br />
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For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness so this day should surprise you like a thief. (I Thessalonians 5:2-4-NIV)
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To say that Paul has changed the subject, that I Thessalonians, Chapter Four is not speaking of the historic Day of the Lord, and that Chapter Four is not speaking of the same event as the first and second chapters of Second Thessalonians, is to defy every principle of biblical interpretation. The "pre-tribulation rapture" is a "private interpretation." It is one of the deceptions that Jesus warned us would be prevalent in the closing days of the Church Age.
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We see, then, that a close look at the "rapture" passage causes the doctrine of the "pre-tribulation rapture' to evaporate like dew when the sun rises. It is not verified by the Scripture. It is a myth, a delusion, a device to keep God's people from preparing themselves to stand in the evil day.
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I think it is time for God's leaders and statesmen to turn this thing around and bring a true description of the future to the Lord's people.

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For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. (I Thessalonians 4:16,17-NIV)

The above passage is the foundation for the unscriptural teaching of the pre-tribulation rapture to deliver the believers from Antichrist and the great tribulation.

If you will read the passage carefully you will see there is no mention whatever in the verses or their context that the purpose of resurrecting the dead in Christ, or catching up the saints to meet the Lord in the air, has anything to do with escaping Antichrist or the great tribulation.

Paul wrote these words, not to give the believers hope they would be removed from trouble but to comfort them concerning their dead relatives. I use the passage at funerals, telling the grieving relatives and friends that they will see their loved ones again.

Notice there is no mention of leaving the earth and going to Heaven. The saints meet the Lord in the air. They go up to meet Him as He descends to the level of the spiritual thrones that govern the earth. These thrones had been occupied by wicked spirits. The thrones in the air are now vacant, ready to be taken by those saints for whom they have been prepared.

Notice that the dead in Christ, many of whom have been in Heaven for thousands of years, have returned with the Lord to claim their bodies from their place of burial. Now they are standing on the earth in glorified bodies.

The living saints, who are spiritually mature enough to sustain the change from mortality to immortality while standing on their feet, are also glorified.

This is the army of the Lord. Do you think these warriors in glorified bodies, living by the life of the Spirit of God, could be harmed by Antichrist or the great tribulation? Let us not be foolish!

Slowly, majestically, in the sight of Antichrist and the wicked of the earth, the army of the Lord will rise to meet the Commander-in-Chief in the air. There they will mount the white war stallions in preparation for the onslaught of Armageddon.

Don't you think the heroes of faith who have returned with Christ and received back their bodies from the ground would be somewhat dismayed at the thought of returning to Heaven to wait another seven years before they can assume their places of rulership (as is often taught)? They are kings and they are anxious to inherit their kingdoms!

You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10-NIV)

The moment they rise from the earth the fury of God's anger will fall on those who have been left behind. This is not the great tribulation but the Day of Wrath.

Notice the following verses, which are in context with the above passage.

For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness so this day should surprise you like a thief. (I Thessalonians 5:2-4-NIV)

To say that Paul has changed the subject, that I Thessalonians, Chapter Four is not speaking of the historic Day of the Lord, and that Chapter Four is not speaking of the same event as the first and second chapters of Second Thessalonians, is to defy every principle of biblical interpretation. The "pre-tribulation rapture" is a "private interpretation." It is one of the deceptions that Jesus warned us would be prevalent in the closing days of the Church Age.

We see, then, that a close look at the "rapture" passage causes the doctrine of the "pre-tribulation rapture' to evaporate like dew when the sun rises. It is not verified by the Scripture. It is a myth, a delusion, a device to keep God's people from preparing themselves to stand in the evil day.

I think it is time for God's leaders and statesmen to turn this thing around and bring a true description of the future to the Lord's people.