FEAR REGARDING THE ‘MARK OF THE BEAST’
Sakkie Parsons
I would like to share with you what came to my mind when I had to read a false panic story for the umpteenth time.
I get very worried and sometimes upset too, when I listen to some children of God running with the evil stream to spread and support the fear of the 'mark of the beast ' so fully – actually I have to say with all their might.
I know I've already written about this but I just felt that I should write about this again and bring the following to the attention of my readers.
So, just again about the following that one so easily overlooks about the 'mark of the beast' when in fear:
If you are going to get the ‘mark of the beast’, whatever it may be, you are going to get it knowingly because you want it.
It is not going to become part of you in a sneaky way –
Because that is why you have the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ who protects you from outside and inside, if you keep your eyes on Jesus all the time in your life, of course, and listen to the Holy Spirit who lives in you and not to a bunch false evangelists – of which there are already many, but many more to come.
Please read this part in which I want to show you in this writing about the 'mark of the beast':
REV 13:11-15
11 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. (He persuades you through the options that he presents you with and you make the choice and thus get the mark of the beast. He does not push it down your throat or force it on you. If he could force it on you, you would have an excuse on judgment day not to go to hell for accepting the mark of the beast. But he let you make your choice.)
13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,
14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives (you are not compelled. You allow it to be led astray) those who dwell on earth, (those who were deceived, of course) telling them to make an image (in other words, you will also be a worshiper of the monster with the mark that you have knowingly put on you) for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
15 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.REV 19:20-21
20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. (All the people he deceived to serve him willingly and knowingly, not in a way they did not know, or wanted, but chose to have)These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
21 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.REV 20:4 (AMP)
Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes (beheaded) for their witnessing to Jesus and (for preaching and testifying) for the Word of God, (those who did not allow themselves to be deceived) and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark of permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years.
I mentioned that you and I, who keep our eyes on Jesus and listen all the time when Jesus' Holy Spirit in us gives us the right guidance, are protected from the outside and inside by Jesus' Holy Spirit:
From Outside:
GAL 3:26-27
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (Because we are now clothed with Christ)
The Amplifies put it this way in GAL 3:27
GAL 3:27 For as many (of you) as were baptized into Christ (into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, (the Messiah) have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ.
This is now concerning my belief in Christ which is my protection against evil forces or evil power from the outside who want to entice me to, against Jesus Christ, go with the "mark of the beast"
To now use a little of my great hero Paul's writing style:
Now I speak to you like a fool .
Suppose that evil forces or evil power are able to go around Jesus’ protection from without.
Only an unbeliever will be able to believe such a thing!
Well then my protection from within:
GAL 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Will He now allow, if I worship Him in spirit and in truth, that an evil power or spirit will take possession over me and put a mark or whatever, on or in me, as long as I allow Him, that is, Jesus through His Holy Spirit to abide in me?)
You can only believe such foolishness if you do not believe in Jesus Christ, God who became man.
Then – and so I always burst the false prophets' "bubble", when they come to me with the 'mark of the beast' panic tripe:
Remember now, I'm not saying for one moment, the 'mark of the beast' is not going to come.
I do say, that as I understand the rapture and praise our Lord's holy Name for it! You and I are not going to be here anymore when hell literally erupts here on earth – but one thing we must have no elision about:
If you and I are still alive and in other words still here when the rapture took place, it will be literally hell on earth for you and me.
It is at the present, (because of satan who knows that his judgment is near), difficult to keep our eyes only on Jesus but to use an old saying:
This difficult time we are living in now, as I understand the Word, is a filly in comparison, with what lies ahead for the people after the rapture.
I say if you and I are still in this life when the rapture takes place we are going to be gone. We are not going to be here when the 'mark of the beast' makes its appearance.
We, (who truly and not just lip talk), have repented and have adopted Jesus as our Saviour, will be taken by Jesus to always be with him,
Here then, in my opinion, is what the Word says to us in this regard:
1THS 5:9-10
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
Then our Lord comes to my opinion and underlines what you have just read and HE says:
REV 3:10-11
10 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
11 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
In Luke 17 from verse 20, Jesus talks about the time before His coming. Because it is a long section, I will only highlight what I think is relevant here but feel free to read the whole section yourself.
He begins by saying, among other things:
LUKE 17:26-27
26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Have you seen when the water hell burst loose on earth?
Only after Noah and the other children of God were in the ark and Jesus says that it will be the same before, to put it this way, hell breaks loose here on earth. He will first come and fetch His loved ones.
LUKE 17:27 (People) ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. (AMP)
Then Jesus goes on to give us another example of what we can expect before His return, and in my opinion, to teach us something else regarding His return:LUKE 17:28-32
28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot–they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all–
30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
31 On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
First, have you seen when, as far as the people of Sodom been concerned, hell broke loose over them?
LUKE 17:29 But on the (very) day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed (them) all. (AMP)
In my opinion, hell will only erupt on this earth when you and I are gone, or then out of this Sodom and Gomorra.
Second, remember that the angel told them when they fled that they should not look back. Do you remember that Lot's wife then turned around, transformed into a pillar of salt?
Now Jesus comes and after He has told us what it will be like, He tells us a very important thing that we must remember:
LUKE 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife!
Now, especially in these days we live –
You and I should not look left or right at falsehoods that are being preached to us, to try to make us full of fear and to waste the time left to win souls for Jesus.
We must not waste our time on things preached by false preachers but we must spend our time and energy getting ready first when our Lord comes to fetch us.
It is Jesus who speak here:
MAT 24:42 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Yes, let us remember and it is again our Jesus who is saying:
MAT 26:41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Come, let you and I rather spend our time through our lives, example, deeds and with our mouths fulfilling the command He gave us before He went to heaven to go and prepare a place for us to then at the right time will fetch us to be with Him always:
MAT 28:19-20
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Greetings,
Sakkie