Rev 13:14-18 Part 2, The Mark of The Beast
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Rev 13:14-18 Part 2, The Mark of The Beast
[Study Aired February 2, 2025]
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15 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.
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.
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; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
We ended our last study with the question, “What happens to those who overcome that image, mark, number and name of the beast?” Here is what happens to such a person.
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.
Another way of saying what this verse says is:
Mat 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
The mark, name, number and image of our beast are one and all associated with our knowledge of, and faith in, the doctrines of the great red dragon who is the father of the beast within us. We are even told that when we worship the beast, we are actually worshiping the dragon.
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
So we have all or none at all, ‘the name, number, mark and image’ while we worship the beast and our father the devil. The name, number, mark and image are all one package. Notice how that is demonstrated in these two verses:
Rev 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.
Rev 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
So the “mark of the beast” and the “number of the beast” are both demonstrations of “his name.” The name of the beast has no more to do with whether it is Lucifer or Beelzebub than the blaspheming of God’s name has to do with how His name ‘Yahweh’ is pronounced phonetically. The ‘name’ of the beast, like the name of God, has only to do with what others see in us, while we all claim to be of Christ. That is what Christ meant when He made this statement:
Luk 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
“The name of God” is what Paul meant when he said this:
Rom 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Rom 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Rom 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
So the word ‘name’ in scripture has nothing at all to do with whether God’s name is pronounced with a Y or a J (there is no ‘j’ in the Hebrew alphabet). God wants His “good name” to be respected by how we live our lives in obedience to the “things He says”. That is the meaning of “a good name”.
Pro 22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Ecc 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
The image, number, mark and name of the beast, like the name of God, is recognized as being upon us by the life we are living. When we tremble at God’s Word, we will never blaspheme His name, and we will always do the things He says to do. When we fail to do that, then we automatically blaspheme God and those who dwell in heaven, and we demonstrate that we have the image, name, number and mark of the beast.
The “two horns like a lamb” of the beast that ‘comes up out of the earth and speaks as a dragon’ tells us that this part of our self-centered beastly progression is cloaked in a very powerful religious experience.
Psa 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
‘Horns’ signify power whether they are the horns of the wicked or the horns of the righteous. Any farmer knows that a small bull with horns will dominate a large bull without horns. A large bull with large horns, which is what the “ten horns” of the beast signify, will dominate “all the world”:
Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Another symbol of this part of the “all things [which] are all ours” is the great harlot of Revelation 17-18.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon [the beast of the earth] the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants [false apostate ministers] of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
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.
“The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies… Come out of her my people…” It is by coming out of Babylon that God’s people are considered to be “the smell of death” to those who are in Babylon, and it is by coming out of Babylon that we can no longer “buy or sell” her merchandise. While we are in Babylon, our beast with two horns causes us to prosper in the sales of her goods, because we fit in with Babylon and with her traditions and her doctrines. When we leave “that great city”, we begin to experience victory over the image, name, number and mark of the beast. When we begin to “come out of Babylon”, we then deny that we have a will that is free from the will of God (Job 23:13; Rom 9:16; Eph 1:11 and Php 2:13):
When we appropriate to ourselves the “all things” which the Lord is working after the counsel of His own will” we are worshiping the beast, and when we acknowledge God’s sovereignty in all things then that is when Christ begins destroying the power of “the beast with two horns like a lamb, who speaks as a dragon”, who is the same as the “man of sin, the son of perdition” who “sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”
Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 13:15 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.1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 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.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
The “worship of the image of the beast” of Revelation 13:15, and the worship of one’s self “sitting in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God”, is the one and same spiritual fornication and adultery in which we all indulge, at that time and place in our “experience of evil”, during which time we are dominated by the doctrines and traditions of Babylon while we are in these vessels of “corruption” called “flesh and blood” (Ecc 1:13, CLV; 1Co 15:50).
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.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Put another way, our beast with two horns like a lamb, speaking as a dragon, is one and the same as our man of sin, who sits in the temple which we are, and demands our unwavering self-serving worship, of doing what our flesh wants to do and seeking to know only what is permissible, and building on the foundation of Christ with ‘wood, hay, and stubble’ to please ourselves instead of building on the foundations of Christ with ‘gold, silver and precious stones’, seeking to do that which is commendable to please the incoming king who destroys our two-horned lamb which speaks as a dragon, and our man of sin within us in “the day of Christ”.
Luk 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1Co 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1Co 3:13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
The ‘gold, silver and precious stones’ of God are His doctrines, His thoughts and His mind. The ‘wood, hay, and stubble’ are the corrupted doctrines of devils which have ‘gone out into the world’ via “many false prophets.”
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.
Only those who are given eyes that see and ears that hear (Mat 13:10-15) are capable of ‘trying the spirits to see whether they are of God”:
Mat 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, [I speak in parables to the multitudes who come to me] Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Mat 13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Mat 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Until it is “given to [us]” we cannot hear, see or hear “the mysteries of the kingdom of God” which He is working “after the counsel of His own will”:
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Here is what we think of ourselves before we are given eyes that see and ears that hear, the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven:
Rev 3:13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Verse 17 describes the true worth of the merchandise of Babylon, while verse 18 contrasts Babylon’s merchandise with the true wealth of the “keeping of every word of God” (Mat 4:4), and the wealth of obeying His commandment to “keep the things written in this book” (Rev 1:3).
Revelation 3:14-18, explains it all. That which imparts to us the image of the beast is that which we value and which we so eagerly “buy and sell.” Just as our new man is “renewed in knowledge after the image of Christ”, in the same manner our old man is renewed in knowledge after the image of his father the devil. It is the doctrines, the thoughts and the mind of both God and the Adversary, which are also their gold, silver and precious stones, and it is the loss of all that “merchandise” which causes the death of both. That’s right, Babylonians consider their false doctrines of the twisted words of Christ just as valuable as we think of the Truths of the doctrine of Christ:
1Co 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation [of Christ] gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Rev 18:12 The merchandise [signifying lying false doctrines] of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, [in Babylon]
We all choose the merchandise of Babylon and the worship of our own “man of sin”, first. Then when Christ does come into our hearts and minds, all the delicacies of Babylon suddenly begin to be seen for their true worthlessness, and our “man of sin”, whom we have served for so long, begins to be “destroyed by the brightness of [the] coming of [Christ]” into our hearts and minds to claim His rightful place on the throne of our hearts.
Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Rev 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Rev 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
Rev 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble [2Th 2:8, Rev 18:10-12, and Rev 3:17-18, are all one and the same event].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.
Here again is part of that “experience of evil… one event”, we must all first endure:
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; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.
“He that has wisdom” knows that which signifies is not the same as that which is being signified. If it were then the parables of Christ would have no function in keeping the multitude deaf and blind. The man who has wisdom, has Christ, and Christ knows by the scriptures themselves what each and every symbol signifies. This number of the beast is the number of mankind, and that number is three sixes because the spiritual significance of the number six is all of mankind. That number is three sixes because “he that has understanding” knows what is the spiritual significance of the number three, and that significance is the process of being judged:
Numbers in Scripture – Three: The Process of Spiritual Completion Through Judgment
It is knowing the spiritual significance of the symbols used to signfy what Christ is doing in our lives that “is wisdom”:
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has a mind calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is the number of mankind, and its number is six hundred sixty-six. (CLV)
When our “iniquities are [being made] full” (Gen 15:16) through keeping the things which are written in this book, written in our book (Psa 139:16 ASV; Rev 1:3), our number is 666. It is only after our judgment begins that we can look behind us to see what God has wrought in us:
Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Rev 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Rev 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
This book is the record of the process of judgment of the beast we all are, and it is all His work of bringing us to see the insidiousness of our self-centered ways and our unwillingness to part with all the things of our life in this world. That judgment is presented to us in three parts; seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven vials. He that has wisdom is not looking for an outward stamp on his physical right hand or on his physical forehead. Instead he is searching his own heart and asking what is commendable to better serve and glorify the new king of his new man’s heart. The number ‘six’ in all of its multiples is the number of an incompleted image of Christ. It is the number of mankind in sinful flesh and blood, and that is what these verses actually tell us:
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are [aorist tense, being] changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
This is the number that has been attached to Adam since the sixth day of the creation of God, when all the beasts of the earth were created, and “the son of man” was created just “a little lower than the angels”.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.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.
Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psa 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.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.
As Ecclesiastes 3:18 tells us, mankind is a beast, and the number six, in any of its multiples, is the number which will forever be attached to mankind in the mind of “him that hath wisdom.”
As an interesting aside, sixty-six is the number which signifies our going down into Egypt, separated from the family of Joseph, the symbol of Christ:
Gen 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six; [66]
It takes Joseph and his family to bring us up to “three score and ten”.
Gen 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. [70]
Summary
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
We saw in this verse that miracles are not the same as truth, and that miracles are actually used by God to deceive us when we are not yet given to appreciate the value of Christ who is the Truth. We saw that it is that Truth, the Word of God, that was used to inflict the temporary “deadly wound” upon our first beast, who was then healed of that wound, and returned to the state of once again becoming a healthy wild beast who opposes and withstands the truths of the Word of God.
We also learned in our study of this verse, that it is our coming to the knowledge of The Truth, and our faith in The Truth of God’s word which causes us to begin to take on the image of His Son.
Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
We saw that it is our “love of the true… knowledge of Christ and His Father”, which changes our old “image” from the image of “our father the devil” into the “new man… the image of Him that created us”. As we come to “see” and “know God and Jesus Christ” we are “transformed into that same image, from glory to glory”.
Joh 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
“As in a glass” means that we are reflecting and being transformed into the image of Christ.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Rev 13:15 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.
In this verse we saw that our second beast, who is described earlier in our studies as a beast with “two horns like a lamb, but speaking as a dragon”, is the symbol which is used to signify the time we spend in the sphere of the influence of the great harlot called Babylon the great. It is while we are in this “great city”, also portrayed as our beast with “two horns like a lamb”, that we are actually brought to worship and to take upon ourselves the “image of the beast” who was healed of his deadly wound.
We saw in this verse that just as our knowledge of and faith in the truths of the doctrine of Christ causes us to “be transformed into His image”, in the exact same manner, it is the knowledge of and our faith in the doctrines of our inward beast who literally “buys” into the doctrines of the great red dragon, which imparts to us “the image of the beast”.
In this verse we also saw that it is at this point, having bought into the doctrines of the dragon, that we come to hate those who have overcome the image, name, number and mark of the beast and who having overcome the name of the beast, are now faithful to the Truth of Christ’s Words. It is our hatred of those truths, and our hatred of those out of whose mouths those truths and doctrines are coming, that causes us to “kill” those who are no longer worshiping “the image of the beast”.
1Jn 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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:
We saw that this verse six times qualifies the meaning of the word ‘all’, and we saw that there is not one exception to this rule. While Christ never sinned and always resisted the temptations of His flesh, He was still in flesh which cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and even He had to struggle against what was in His “forehead” when confronted with the specter of imminent death.
Luk 22:41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Luk 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will [of my flesh], but thine, be done.
Luk 22:43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Luk 22:44 And being in an agony [struggling against His flesh] he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Christ was truly “the son of man” and as such was struggling against the flesh of the first Adam, just as we do.
Mat 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God [“One God, the Father”, 1Co 8:6]: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Luk 13:31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
Luk 13:32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
Christ does not lie. He knew He was made of a woman, made under the law, and He knew what that meant, even if we do not. In the gospels He calls Himself “the Son of Man” 16 times more often, than He tells us that He is “the Son of God”. He is, of course both, but the overwhelming emphasis is upon His humanity, and His ability to identify with our pain and our struggles.
Heb 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Heb 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
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.
In this verse we learned that the merchandise of both Christ and the dragon, are their different doctrines. Their doctrines are their names:
Pro 22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Rom 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
We learned that we all buy into the doctrines of demons before we buy into the doctrine of Christ. We also learned that the mark, name, number and image of the beast are all speaking of the doctrines of the dragon, who is the spiritual father of our inward beast.
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; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.
We saw that the number of mankind is six because mankind, right along with all the “beasts of the earth”, was created on the sixth day, and we learned that all the multiples of six serve only to magnify and demonstrate the fact that man without Christ is not the completed image of Christ, and is nothing more than a beast and has no preeminence above a beast.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
We are being “changed into the same image” of Christ, and that process began in Eden.
In our next study, Lord willing, we will be encouraged and reminded that those who first keep the things written in this book, are those who will have their heavenly Father’s name written in their foreheads as “the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb” (Rev 14:4). The reason they have their heavenly Father’s name is because they have come to know Him and have begun to think as He thinks and to see that mankind must “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” and must therefore “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book”.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
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- Rev 13:3-5 Part 1, His Deadly Wound was Healed (January 10, 2025)
- Rev 13:14-18 Part 2, The Mark of The Beast (February 1, 2025)
- Prophecy of Isaiah - Isa 10:1-4 What Will You Do...In The Desolation...? (May 13, 2017)
- Forget Your Misery (September 2, 2008)
- Ezekiel 14:1-23 Idols in our Hearts - The Stumbling Block of our Iniquity (April 22, 2024)
- Christ Was Made Sin and Yet Knew No Sin? (July 19, 2010)
- Can Two Adams Be One Event? (October 26, 2010)
- Book of Jeremiah - Jer 34:12-22 You Brought My Servants into Subjection to You (April 2, 2022)
- Awesome Hands - part 34: "Whose hand the cup is found" (July 12, 2013)
- Are There Still Generational Curses? (July 22, 2007)
- Am I Sinning Willfully? (October 1, 2007)
- "The Sin Offering" - Part 1 and Part 2 (May 20, 2008)
- "Love is a Consuming Fire" - Part 3 (August 16, 2021)