Is There An End Time Mark of The Beast?
Would Computer Chip Implants Be This Mark?
Hi Mike,
I have been reading your stuff for some time now. When I read the first article, the scripture came to mind ‘this man teaches with authority and not as the pharisees teach’. I fully appreciate the is, was and will be aspect of your teaching, but if I had one question pertaining to the ‘will be’ it would have to be – if there comes a time that our currency is transferred from paper to some form of implant to the right hand or forehead would you suggest I receive or reject it? Once again, Mike, your teaching and insight of scripture has been a pure and fulfilling lesson to my life. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME.May God continue to bless you and yours,
A____
Hi A____,
I am very grateful for your question. You ask:
… if there comes a time that our currency is transferred from paper to some form of implant to the right hand or forehead would you suggest I receive or reject?
My answer to all ‘What if’ questions is that ‘They are not’. But the scriptures are clear that there is nothing from without that can defile us.
Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mat 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Mat 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mat 15:20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands [ or with a chip in your right hand or forehead] defileth not a man.
So an implant in our skin or forehead will not defile you or me. What will defile both of us is what comes out of our mouths, from our hearts. That is what will defile us, and that is NOT the result of a physical chip implant, but it is the result of the spirits of false doctrines we have received from false prophets. That is what will cause us to do or not do all deeds whether good or evil. That is what all of God’s Word tells us.
1Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
“Believing a spirit” is believing a doctrine. That is what “because many false prophets are gone out into the world” means. False prophets bring with them false doctrines, and that is the mark that is in the right hand and in the forehead of those who are defiled with the doctrines of Babylon which proceed from within and defile us all at our own appointed time.
That is why God calls His people “out of Babylon.
Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
God’s Word is written in such a way that it appears we can avoid certain words which have proceeded out of God’s mouth. This verse of Rev 18:4 is a perfect example of words which have proceeded out of God’s mouth.
Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [ it] by his angel unto his servant John:
Rev 1:2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
All who are in Babylon have received the mark of the beast in their right hand and in their foreheads, and that includes all men who are upon the earth.
Rev 13:16 And he [ the beast] 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.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man [ Greek, anthropos, mankind]; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Six has been Adam’s number from the beginning because Adam, just like all other beasts, was created on the sixth day and is by nature nothing more than a beast, “marred in the Potter’s hand”. “They themselves are beasts”.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
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.
Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
There are those who will declare that Adam was not “marred” until he chose to eat of the tree, even those people know that Eve was burdened with “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life… sin in her members”, before she ever touched the tree which made her aware of the naked and dusty and marred condition in which she had come from the Creator’s hand.
1Jn 2:16 For all that [ is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food [“lust of the flesh”], and that it was pleasant to the eyes [“lust of the eyes”], and a tree to be desired to make one wise [“the pride of life”], she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
“Not of the Father” does not mean that these things are not controlled by “the Father, of whom are all things”. What it does mean is that these are not the things the Father is using evil to produce. Being naked is a Biblical type of living in sin. Adam and Eve did not become naked when they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they simply became aware of that nakedness into which they had been created for their “day of evil”.
Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens:it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.
Isa 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
So God has given all of mankind “an experience of evil” by placing us in a naked body of “marred clay” which inherently has “sin within” it and is inherently unfit to “inherit the kingdom of God”:
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Are you and I responsible for this “law of sin which is in our members”? The answer is absolutely not! “It is not I that do it, but sin that dwells in my members… that is in my body”. So like all things, this “law of sin is also “of God”:
Jas 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Be sure to check out the studies on “The Law of The Offerings” where you will see that God has provided an offering for what we are, which is “sinful flesh”, as well as an offering for what we do, that is we trespass against God. So God gave Israel a “sin offering” as well as a “trespass offering”. No particular trespass is mentioned in the sin offering, but many examples of transgressions are given in the trespass offering, because both are inherently within us and are food for the serpent.
Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [ art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
So it is by God’s own design that our first Adam has been given to Satan as His lunch, and he devours us as he is given to do. But this is the “evil experience which God has given to mankind to humble us”. It is common to all men and no one will escape without first experiencing the destruction of this first, rejected creation of God.
Ecc 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
I hope this all helps you to see that anyone who thinks that the mark of the beast is an implant in the right hand or the forehead as something peculiar to the last generation before Christ’s return, simply “has not been granted understanding of the mysteries of the kingdom of God” (Mat 13:10-15) and is unable to apply Christ’s warning concerning what “comes out of a man, from our hearts”, as opposed to what enters into us from without, whether food, hip replacements, an implanted chip or any other outward work of mankind.
God bless you, as you seek to know Him and His Son.
Joh 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Your brother in Christ,
Mike
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