1. You trust God’s teaching that suffering, persecution, and martyrdom are temporary, while the life beyond this one will be eternal with Christ. You love Christ more than your earthly possessions and your physical life. 2. You possess the Spirit of discernment that will enable you to discern the deception of Satan and the beast’s […]
Image of the Beast
6 Reasons Why You WILL Take the Beast’s Mark
1. You will fear the person who can kill your physical life more than the person who can kill your soul. 2. You will not possess the Spirit of discernment and consequently be deceived by Satan and the beast’s system. 3. You were taught all your life that you would not be here when the […]
THE Apostasy Within the Church Will Come Through the Antichrist’s Mark of the Beast – Ep. 88
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/THE_Apostasy_Within_the_Church_Will_Come_Through_the_Antichrists_Mark_of_the_Beast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed“Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion [apostasia] comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.” (2 Thess 2:3 NET) In this episode, I first explained the larger context to the question of […]
How Far Can You Go and Still Be Able to Repent? A Plea to John MacArthur
The question about whether you can take the mark of the beast and still be able to repent later, makes no earthly sense to me. And yet there are pretribulational teachers who think this is a meaningful question. “How far can you go” is in the same vein of the frequent question that youth pastors […]
Autonomous Drones — a Type of Eschatological Detection
I found this piece interesting, not because I think it is the fulfillment of any prophetic event. I found it interesting because many believe that the book of Revelation depicts events that are so fantastic that they think they could never actually happen. “And it was allowed to give breath [autonomy] to the image [inanimate] […]
Move Over QR Codes, Here Comes Near Field Communication
QR codes are already going to the wayside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code NFC technology is emerging rapidly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication Will NFC be an application used with the “Image of the Beast” in Revelation 13:12–18, particularly the ominous event in verse 15? (12) It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and […]