Okay. I know that if you don the mark of the beast you're doomed for all eternity...However if you are forced to wear it and you don't use it for anything such as buying selling or anything like that? Will god forgive you?
I believe that if you where forced to but never use the mark I imagine that god will forgive that person because he didn't follow in Satan's plan.
2007-07-31 04:10:19 · 17 answers · asked by Michael B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The mark of the beast is symbolic.
If you do not have Christ you are not saved.Period.
The 666 meant Nero. If researched this and is very interesting.
The Greek word used for "mark" is charagma. It was the technical term for the Roman imperial stamp that appeared on various documents. The charagma was a seal stamped with the name and date of the emperor and attached to commercial documents.
John was writing to real people in the first-century church, not some "end-time" church, and his message applied to them. Whatever the "mark" was, it conveyed something they could understand.
John’s readers would have readily understood the point he was making. In vision, Ezekiel saw a man with a writing kit at his side. He heard the Lord say to the man, "Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it" (Ezekiel 9:4). Here are people who are "marked" for protection.
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2007-07-31 04:15:54 · answer #1 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'd suggest getting a good serious commentary on the book of Revelation by a scholar. David Aune's multi-volume one in the Word Biblical Commentary series is great, but assumes knowledge of Greek, as does Beale's. Maybe George Beasley-Murray's would be most accessible. All three are by Evangelicals. What you'll find is that experts on the Bible (as opposed to popular authors trying to make a buck) all agree that the Beast was a symbol of the Roman Emperor, almost certainly Nero (since the number 666, and the alternative number 616, both correspond to his name depending on how one transliterates it into Hebrew/Aramaic).
A more relevant question for us Christians today is how our practices of buying and selling contribute to poverty, oppression and injustice elsewhere. Unfortunately, many Christians are happy to be distracted with baseless speculations about a futurist interpretation of Revelation, because that is less painful and challenging than asking about the things we actually do and their effects, in light of the teachings about economic justice found in books such as Amos.
2007-07-31 04:21:48 · answer #2 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one will be physically forced to take the mark of the beast in their right hand or across their forehead. It has to be willingly accepted and taken for the very reasons you mentioned, because Satan does not want God to be able to challenge his claim on that person's soul/life in eternity.
2007-07-31 04:19:14 · answer #3 · answered by faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is an interesting question, but I believe that you still will go to hell (sorry), because it is what the mark represents. It's like accepting the mark is accepting Satan. I would suggest that you accept Christ now so you won't have to worry about the mark of the beast!
2007-07-31 04:16:03 · answer #4 · answered by Ailrys 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Since you capitalized the word satan, and made a small letter for God... your question has me baffled, too.
For those who wish to study the Bible and its prophesies of the end times, it explicitly says the mark will be put in the forehead, or hand.... As for me, I pray if I am here at the time it happens, that I am fully aware of what someone is trying to do. And though the anti-Christ may come in the form of a particular person in the end... at this time, and in Jesus' time, it is and has been society preparing itself for the battle for souls. The ones taking them away from God, and the ones winning them for God.
2007-07-31 04:18:40 · answer #5 · answered by C Sunshine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 02:36:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mark of the beast will be given to those who have not believed in Jesus and it will be too late to be forgiven. If I have read correctly in Revelation ch. 13, It sounds like they have no choice they will receive the mark or will be killed. Saints or Believers in Christ will not receive the mark, for they are God's. Saints will be martyred for the name of Christ.
2007-07-31 04:20:56 · answer #7 · answered by austin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would find yourself in this situation if you were not raptured up. After the rapture, life would be terrible if you don't accept the mark. If you accept the mark YOU WILL GO TO HELL. The only way you can go to heaven if you were not raptured up, is if you chose to believe Jesus, decide not to accept the mark, which means of course that you will suffer and eventually die...but go to heaven. There will be no other way, that's why we need to get it together now.
2007-07-31 04:26:42 · answer #8 · answered by islandgirl God and family 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gods elect wont bear the mark of the beast, and theyre the only ones going to heaven anyway
2007-07-31 04:15:23 · answer #9 · answered by mega-mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be assured of this one thing, that Christ knows the intentions of the heart. If what you are saying is possible because the devil does not have all authority then trust God that He will know you heart.
2007-07-31 04:18:03 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋