The Beast Mark is Here (2)
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David Eells - 11/15/20
In my studies in the Word, I didn’t look into what was being revealed about the physical mark for many years because I learned that it would only identify the ones who had the real offense to God, the mark of the beast in their very nature. Those who do not repent of the spiritual mark will receive the physical mark. For that reason I would like to study that which is most important, the spiritual mark.
In part 1 we saw clearly that the beast is a body of people on the earth like the dragon and beast of of revelation. They are the body of all lost mankind whether they claim Christianity or not. Those who have the Spirit of Christ are His body and all who have the spirit of antichrist are his body
All who do not receive the spirit of Christ will receive the mark. (Rev.13:16) And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead; (17) and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, [even] the name of the beast or the number of his name. (18) Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six. Notice the mark identifies “the beast”. It is the number of a corporate man who is without Christ and not in the one body of Christ. The mark on the forehead is also the name of the beast. “Name” in Greek here means “nature, character, and authority.” The body of antichrist has the nature and character of the beast on their forehead meaning in their mind. It is the mind of the flesh for which Paul in Romans 8 warned “Christians” they would die. Rom 8:12-14 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
The body of Christ has His “nature, character, and authority” on their forehead. (Rev.14:1) And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. Forehead in these opposing verses symbolizes the mind, in which lies the nature, character, and authority of either Christ or the antichrist beast. (Rom.8:6) For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: (7) because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be. Those who have the mind of the Spirit are the true body of Christ. Those that have the mind of the flesh are enemies of God even if they believe they are Christians and they cannot obey Him or please Him because they are the body of the antichrist beast. They must repent now while there is still time to renew their minds with the Word. “The mind of the flesh is enmity (Greek meaning: enemy) against God.” Those who are against the Word are enemies of God and must walk by faith that Jesus gave them His mind to be justified. Jesus said, “He that is not with me is against me” (Mat.12:30). Notice there are only two bodies of people. Those who have the nature, character, and authority of a false Jesus are also antichrist, for “anti” means “against” or “in the place of.” False prophets replace the true Jesus with their own.
In Revelation 13:16 the mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead and in Exodus 13:16 (same verse) is the mark of God in the hand and forehead. (Ex.13:16) And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes (forehead) …. What is this mark? This is more completely described in Deuteronomy where we see that it is binding the Word of God on your hand and forehead. (Dt.11:18) Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes (forehead). The Jews put scripture in little boxes and tied them on the backs of their hands and on their foreheads. Hands in Scripture symbolize our works. This can only symbolize thinking and works that are according to the Word. That is the mark of the Lord.
The mark of the beast is just the opposite, thinking and works that are according to the flesh. Between the eyes carries more symbolism than just “on the forehead” for this is also the base of the nose. This place represents the mind of the Spirit that gives sight and smell according to the Word. The nose discerns and reveals what can neither be seen nor heard. (1Cor.2:9)… Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him. (10) But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. The nose represents revelation or discernment of the Spirit. (Heb.5:14) But solid food is for fullgrown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
As little David picked up the five stones smoothed by the washing of water in the brook, and used one to smite Goliath in his forehead, so our senses must be exercised “by the washing of water with the word” to put to death the mind of the flesh and know good and evil. Notice the two sixes in this verse; the third six comes later. “In the sixth year, in the sixth [month]” (Eze.8:1), Ezekiel had a vision in which he saw God’s apostate people in the temple of the Lord worshiping the false son of God from Babel, Tammuz, and his false father, Baal. (Eze.8:14) Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house…and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz. (15)…thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these. (16)… and they were worshipping the sun (Baal) toward the east. Many “Christians” worship a Babylonish god of their own making and not according to the Word.
Then we see the third six, making 666, the beast who is being raised up to destroy the apostates from among God’s people. (9:2) And behold, six men (666 = the beast) came from the way of the upper gate, which lieth toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side …. God then sends the man in linen, symbolizing Christ, with the inkhorn to mark His own. (9:4) And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof. The mark of God on their foreheads identifies those that have the mind of the Spirit, the mind of Christ, who sigh and cry over the “abominations” of worshiping a false Jesus and His father.
Then God sends six men, symbolizing the beast, to destroy all who have the mark of the beast in the sanctuary, which are those who do not have the mark of God. (Eze.9:5) And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity; (6) slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark (of God): and begin at my sanctuary…. The third six, the six men, are sent by God to desolate the harlot who in effect is “the abomination that maketh desolate” in the sanctuary. (Rev.17:16) And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire. (17) For God did put in their hearts to do his mind ….
Notice that there is a portion of the sanctuary of God that will be made “desolate” because of their “abominations.” Abominations are mentioned sixteen times from chapters five through nine of Ezekiel. Desolation is mentioned six times in chapters five, six, and seven. God promises to “desolate” His people, meaning make them void of God, who take the mark by committing abominations of idolatry in His house. As a type in Jesus’ day, the apostates who had their own ideas about God were offended by the Word and “walked no more with him” (Joh.6:66). Notice the address is 666. The righteous will be persecuted by men who see nothing wrong with worshiping a convenient Jesus of their own making. They can’t “sigh and … cry” because they don’t have the mark of God, the Word, in their mind and works.
Remember that Revelation is a parable and we must look for the hidden meaning. The interpretation must come from the Bible itself and not man’s wisdom. The mark of the beast creates the image of the beast as we will see. The Greek word for “mark” (of the beast) in Revelation 13:16-17 is “charagma." This means the act of being stamped or impressed or engraved by a character. Like the English word “character,” this is a tool for recreating its own image. A typewriter key or notary’s stamp is a good example of this. Jesus, the Word, came as the mark, character or stamp of God for reproducing Himself. (Heb.1:3) Who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image (Greek: charakter) of his substance ….
The Word is a tool sent by God to create His image in us. The typewriter character reproduces an image on paper called an “icon.” The Word reproduces an image in us called an eikon in Greek. This is the word, too, in Revelation 13:15 for the “image” of the Beast. You see now that the mark of the beast creates the image of the beast and the mark of God creates the image of God. (2Cor.3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image (eikon) from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. To see the true Jesus of the Word in the mirror by faith will transform us into His image. Paul said, in Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me.”
Anyone who sees only his natural face in the mirror will be a hearer but not a doer of the Word (Jas.1:23). Since they are not walking by faith they receive no power to obey. When we read or hear preached the promises of the Word and receive them by faith, they recreate the image (eikon) of God in us. (Col.3:9)…Seeing (by faith) that ye have put off the old man (antichrist beast) with his doings, (10) and have put on the new man (Christ), that is being renewed (recreated) unto knowledge (the renewed mind of the Word) after the image (eikon) of him that created him. Clearly the Scripture is showing us that when true ministers share the Word (mark) with believers, they are given a perception of Christ to aspire after and their faith brings them into that image (eikon). The true Word (mark) brings the true image (eikon) of Christ. The traditions of men created the Pharisees, Sadducees, and many very religious people in our day but not the image of Christ. They are sons of the devil according to Jesus. If a false prophet preaching a false word (mark) exchanges the image of God for the image of corruptible man (beast), you will end up with a people who are the image of the antichrist beast. Again, “anti” means “against” or “in the place of.”
(Rom.1:22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (23) and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man…. (25)...exchanged the truth of God (Word) for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature (image of the beast) rather than the Creator (image of God)…. As the true Word through the true prophet creates the image of God in the receiver, so the false word through the corporate false prophet creates the image of the beast in those that receive it (Rev.13:14). Christ is the Word which came down out of heaven (Joh.6:32-33,51) and the beast is the word from the bottomless pit (Rev.11:7). Both impart their life. Christ is in the image of God and the beast is in the image of the world or the devil (Joh.8:23,44).
We can see the same principle in other ways. (Mat.13:37)…He that sowth the good seed (Greek: sperma) is the Son of man. Jesus sowed the sperm of the Word into humble hearts, which brought forth His fruit. We see in Genesis 1 that each seed brings forth after its own kind. Since the true Word is the sperm of God, only it can recreate God’s image in us. Jesus said, “The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life” (Joh.6:63). All words have the power of spirit and life. The question is, whose spirit and whose life? Words have the power to pass on the nature of the person who speaks them. (2Cor.11:4) For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with [him]. Each seed brings forth after its own kind. The words of even a cultist bring forth his spirit and life in those who listen to him. The words of the dead Christian religions bring forth only the same image in the poor listener. They cannot bring forth Christ. What is manifested by God’s true Word looks and sounds like Him (Joh.14:12; 7:38-39). True Christians are the image of Christ and the rest are the image of the antichrist beast.
(Mat.12:30) He that is not with me is against me …. We have all borne the image of the beast and it is only by the Word of God that we take on Christ’s image. (1Cor.15:46) Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual. (47) The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man (born again man) is of heaven. (48) As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. (49) And as we have borne the image of the earthy (beast), we shall also bear the image of the heavenly (Christ). (50) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. The natural man is of the earth and it is his nature to please the physical. He is therefore subject to the beast nature and not God. (1Cor.2:14) Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. This is why every man that is born must die to self.
The “false teachers” and “false prophets” bring the un-steadfast saints back into this corruption of the image of the earthly. (2Pet.2:1) But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. (2) And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. (15) forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing. (18) For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; (19) promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. (20) For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. (21) For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Through their traditions of men and false doctrines, they lead the apostates to walk after the mind of the flesh and the world system of the beast. They become the image of the beast. If we allow the false prophets to identify the mark and image of the beast for us, we will not recognize these when they come. Like the Pharisees they are blinded by the letter of the Word when Spirit is what is meant. “The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life." The Pharisees and Sadducees could not identify the true image of God, Jesus Christ, nor the image of His body after Him. Neither can their modern-day seed. The false prophets have told us that the false prophet will give breath to some statue and cause it to speak. The truth is hidden from them and it is much more plausible. Revelation 13:15 in the Greek says, “And it was given [unto him] (Greek: “her” = the body of the false prophet) to give breath (Greek: “spirit”) to it, [even] to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should…speak” (KJV). The false prophet gives the spirit of the beast to the body in his image and causes them to speak as the beast. Jesus gives spirit, life, and speech to His image by the renewing of His Word. (Joh.6:63)…The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
A disciple speaks his teacher’s words or he doesn’t have his life (Isa.8:20; 1Pet.4:11). Jesus said, “Every one therefore who shall confess (Greek: homo-logeo, “to speak the same as”) me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven” (Mat.10:32). Another way we receive the Spirit from the Word (Jesus) is because it is “he that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit” (Joh.1:33). (Act.19:2)...Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? … (See also Act.19:6-7) The false prophets in the same way pass on their spirit, life, and speech to their image. Since those who receive the mark become the image, we can see how the image can “cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed” (Rev.13:15). Those born of the flesh have always persecuted those born of the Spirit (Gal.4:29). The Church is in the Image of Christ as the harlot is in the image of antichrist and is guilty of the blood of the saints (Rev.18:24).
Remember ten out of the twelve tribes and their ministers worshiped the image of the beast, the golden calf. In other words, they had his mark in their foreheads (mind) and hands (works). (Dan.3:4) Then the herald (from Greek word for preacher) cried…peoples, nations, and languages (5)…fall down and worship the golden image (of the beast)…. “Herald” here is the only Greek word in the text and it is used in the New Testament for “preacher.” The command to worship the image (Rev.13:14-15) will come from the pulpits in strong delusion for the apostates. If the truth weren’t hidden in the parable of Revelation there would be no strong delusion. In Daniel 3:7 all except Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego worshiped the image. These three wouldn’t bow because they wouldn’t be defiled with Babylon’s food (meaning their word) and wine (meaning their nature) in Daniel 1:5-16. If you receive the word and nature of a Babylonish false prophet you, too, will be defiled and bow down (Mat.15:6- 20).
The apostate ministers use the Word to cause their people to walk after the mind of the flesh. They give them the spiritual mark of the beast without them even knowing it. In Mark Ward’s dream of the one world church, the preachers were causing many to take the mark through the word that they preached. I repeat a portion of that dream. Then I went to see this one world church. I couldn’t even see the other end of it. I happened to look in the wrong door and noticed a giant ministers’ conference. They were being shown a film on how to scan a beam of light (the Word) across the foreheads of their congregation giving them the mark of the beast without them knowing it. Those who do not receive the mark of the Lord in the renewed mind of the Scriptures will instead be deceived by their ear-tickling false prophets. (2Thes.2:9) [Even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: (12) that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Before the coming of the Lord, God is sending this delusion to cleanse His Church of those who do not love truth. Then the Church will be prepared to meet Him! First, He “shall gather out of his kingdom (Church) all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire (in the Day of the Lord): there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father… (Mat.13:41-43). First, He will “sever the wicked from among the righteous” (Mat.13:49); then He will come for His saints and destroy the wicked (2Th.2:8). The mark of the beast will cut the cancer out of the body as it symbolically did in Christ’s day. The first 666 in the New Covenant shows this. (Joh.6:66) Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
Note: If you would like much more specifics they can be found in Hidden Manna for the End Times. Each chapter is foundation for the next chapter so it is best to start from the beginning. - https://www.ubm1.org/?page=Hidden_Manna_for_the_End_Times
