Mark of the Beast 

(Editor's Note: The following is a reprint of an 8Feb1998/04:11EST reply by Richard Clark, to a Curious Questioner.  GRAPHIC illustrations and supplemental materials have also been added for your edification.)

>CQ> The Mark of the Beast- Have You Taken It Unaware?

OF COURSE NOT! The mark is not given until after the beast is revealed.

"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;" (2Thes.2:3)

The beast is still hidden from view under the WATERS where the woman sitteth in Rev.17, with only the 10 horns and 7 heads upon which the woman sitteth showing. The horns are not yet crowned. In Rev.13:1,2, the beast comes out of the waters of the SEA and then is revealed to be like a leopard, with feet like a bear, and a mouth like a lion: Horns CROWNED, and no woman sitting on the heads!

>CQ> When he appears he will order every soul on earth to receive his mark...

No, the SECOND beast of Rev.13 [or the image?] causes people to receive the mark, the beast that is not the Lamb, but only has 2 horns like a lamb. Rams have big horns; lambs have little horns. One "little horn" appears among the 10 horns of Daniel 7. The other "little horn" comes out of one of the 4 horns of "Grecia" in Daniel 8. Two little lamb-like horns. You did realize that the father of Prince Charles was the "prince of Grecia" didn't you? Little Prince William is the son of the late Princess Diana, who was herself a descendent of King Henry the 7th, and of William the Conqueror.

>CQ> In the same prophecy Yahweh, the Almighty God of Israel,

"Yahweh"? No, the main speaker of Revelation identifies himself as:

"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." (Rev.22:16) "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts. 4:12)

>CQ> But to be honest, we have to admit that nowhere in the Bible does the Almighty categorically say what the Mark of the Beast is.

Nonsense. The beast is plainly identified with feet as the feet of a BEAR! Lions, leopards and bears ALL mark trees by SLASHING them with their claws. The three "score" marks on the UPC (Universal Perdition Code?) are plainly the slashes of the right handed six symbol, appearing at the beginning, middle, and end of the code of 5 left hand numbers and [*] 5 right hand numbers. Men in the Bible are many times likened unto TREES! The beast himself gets wounded by a sword in the forehead and right hand. His right eye gets darkened.

(Your FORE head is the front part of your head, not the back! Isn't your right eye in the right front part of your head? Yes, your left eye is in your forehead too.)

>CQ> 1. To begin with the Mark is described in Revelation 14:11 as The Mark of his name. What the Beast's name is we are not told; but it would appear from this clue that the Beast's mark is in some way related to his name.

His personal name is NOT in the Bible, the book of life, for the obvious reason that only those who are not found written in the book of life are cast into the lake of fire, and both the beast and false prophet are plainly cast ALIVE into the lake of fire in Rev.19:20.

>CQ> ...and there were sealed a hundred and forty four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Those are ONLY Israelite "virgins"; 12,000 from each tribe.

>CQ> In other words, the Mark of the Beast and the Seal of God are both names and are both placed in the foreheads of the people who receive them.

Receive? There is no mention of the 144,000 receiving anything. In seeking to understand the mark of the beast, have you overlooked the fact of the name in the forehead of the woman of Rev.17?(!)

Babylon THE GREAT! Same last name as Alexander THE GREAT, who is the ONLY one of the "seven kings" who is not called BY NAME in the Bible. He's the horn called "the great" in Daniel. He's the "eighth" king that is "of the seven". (Was, is not, and shall arise!)

>CQ> ... then the Mark of the Beast, the Lawless One, the one who vainly thinks that he can change the Sabbath days in God's law, must by process of simple deduction be the bogus sabbath of Sunday and all the other pagan festivals which are currently posing as Christian Holy Days.

Your claim that the "seal of God" is keeping the sabbath, and that the mark of the beast is keeping sun-day, is too idiotic to answer.

"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee... And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee..."

You say, That's just FIGURATIVE? Well, Friend, if you look at your "right hand" one day and realize the mark of the beast is in it... You flat better LITERALLY cut that offensive member off! If your RIGHT EYE gets implanted with a micro-circuit enabling the beast to see through you: You better LITERALLY pluck it out post haste! The judgment against people with the mark is far worse than the ordinary hell in the earth! And if you find yourself with the mark of the beast in your forehead in such a way that it cannot be plucked out, then join "the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God"! It's a matter of life or death!

The word of faith says, That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved; For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved!
(Call on him now! :)

Grace be to them that cherish the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. --Richard