what is rapture and the mark of the beast?

Answer 1

The word rapture is not in the Bible.

The beast Is Papal Power = Roman Catholic

Answer 2

In the near future those who died as Christians will have their bodies raised and those of us who are Christians looking for the coming of Jesus in the clouds, will be taken up to heaven. The mark of the beast is a mark that the antichrist will make everyone take after the rapture. Without the mark no one will be able to but or sell, with the mark the bible says you will be damned.

Answer 3

The church fabricated a new phrase "rapture" to describe the physically living church being "caught up" at the second coming of Christ:

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.
Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever.
1st Thesalonians 4:16,17

Mark of the beast comes from Revelations and is possibly not to be taken literally. (gonna get stoned for saying that) Deals with the Anti-Christ. Read this portion and you can interpret:

And with all the miracles he was allowed to perform on behalf of the first beast, he deceived all the people who belong to this world. He ordered the people of the world to make a great statue of the first beast, who was fatally wounded and then came back to life. He was permitted to give life to this statue so that it could speak. Then the statue commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die.
He required everyone--great and small, rich and poor, slave and free--to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name. Wisdom is needed to understand this. Let the one who has understanding solve the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is 666.
Revelations 13:14-18

Answer 4

The Rapture is a misreading of the writings of St. Paul. Ever heard of Miller Time? A preacher in Tennessee became a millionaire twice by selling 'ascension sheets' to his congregation.

He convinced them that the time for the faithful to be taken up with Jesus was at hand and so they turned over all their earthly belongings to Miller because he best knew how to use them. In exchange Miller gave them bed sheets with a hole cut in them to put their head through. Then he led them up a cold hill in Tennessee where they waited to be 'raptured into heaven.'

Preacher Miller promptly went elsewhere to perpetuate the same scam all over again while his congregation... waited.

The Mark of the Beast was something that allowed nonChristians to buy and sell during the time that Revelation was written in the First Century AD. Most likely it was anything that showed that the person was NOT affiliated with that 'new Christian Religion.'

Because Revelation states that the Beast is a man and his number is six-hundred and sixty-six many believe that the mark will be: "666." Keep in mind that when Revelation was written Arabian numbers were not in vogue. Also, the passages referring to the Beast and his number are written in the present tense rather than the future tense. Which means that the 'beast' was a certain historical personage alive and well during the time that Revelation was written. It says: '...it is the number of a certain man and his number is 666...' A far cry from the way many misread it: '...it shall be the number of a certain man and his number shall be 666...'

Actually the Beast of Revelation was... Well, there were two. I'll explain. The Prisoner of Patmos (author of Revelation) stated that he was astonished to see the Beast receive a mortal head wound, yet live again.

Caesar Nero was the first Beast. When his name is written out in Hebrew and a numeric value is assigned to each letter of his name that numeric value adds up to... You guessed it, the number of complete imperfection: "666."

To understand how the first beast received a mortal head wound you have to know history. Nero committed suicide by striking himself on the neck with his own sword. This was a mortal blow, one he did not recover from. How did he live again?

Well his nephew Domition succeeded him and he turned out to be an even worse persecutor of the early Christian Church, thus the Beast lived again. Greek was the secondary language of the early Christians. When a numeric value is assigned to each letter of Domition's name in Greek, it also adds up to: "666." So you see, the 666 is not the Vicar of Christ written in Latin with a bunch of letters assigned a value of zero and rest adding up to either 616 or 666 in Roman Numerals which are letters and not numbers at all!

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Answer 5

THE RAPTURE IS WHEN JESUS COMES BACK FOR HIS OWN. GOD IN HEAVEN SAYS "JESUS GO GET YOUR BRIDE" WHICH IS THE CHURCH. AND THEN THE ANGELS SOUND THE HORN AND ALL THE CHRISTIANS AND CHILDREN DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR. SO IT SEEMS. BUT ACTUALLY WE ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE AIR TO MEET JESUS.

THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS 666 IT IS A MARK THAT ONE TAKES EITHER ON HIS HAND OR FOREHEAD. IT IS THE MARK OF THE ANTICHRIST.

WARNING: WHEN ALL THE CHRISTIANS AND CHILDREN IN THE WORLD DISAPPEAR.

1. IT HAS BEEN FORETOLD BY US ALREADY
2. DO NOT TAKE THE MARK 666 IF A HIGH POLITICAL FIGURE ARISES AFTER WE HAVE DISAPPEARED AND SPEAKS OF WORLD PEACE AND CLAIMS TO BE CHRIST. HE IS THE ANTICHRIST. I REPEAT DO NOT TAKE HIS MARK,
3.ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SAVE YOU FROM THE DESTRUCTION YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE.

PLEASE REMEMBER MY WORDS.


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