If the Bible prophecy about Antichrist came about in our lifetime, would you choose receiving a mark in order to buy food? This would include worshiping that global leader that brought "peace" to the world. The option of not receiving the mark and worshiping the leader is death by beheading. So, would you receive "the mark" to survive?
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2007-10-13 08:32:28 · 25 answers · asked by Pearly Gator 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If it was between recieving the Mark and beheading I would choose the beheading.Who else will stand for Christ and lose their life to gain it?
2007-10-15 00:14:37 · answer #1 · answered by shellyangelwolf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I would not receive the mark and I would not worship the global leader.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?
As a Christian death by beheading will be my choice because I will not take the mark and condemn my soul to hell.
Give me liberty or give me death as Patrick Henry quoted.
2007-10-13 08:39:59 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, I wouldn't. If I had to choose between a nice, quick beheading and winding up in Heaven or giving in and having to live with myself for the rest of eternity, I'll take the beheading. If I'm around when that happens, I'll move way out in the country and start my own farm. My parents are planning on doing that as soon as they retire anyway, maybe I'll just move out with them. Either that or move to a deserted island somewhere. I'll take chickens and seeds and stuff and do like the Swiss Family Robinson did.
2007-10-13 08:48:11 · answer #3 · answered by The SuburbanCat 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The atheist will be the ones doing the beheading. Because, because we will not assimilate into their concept of society.
(Christians are the ancient, intolerable ones, uneducated, living in fantasy.)
We have read evidence enough on this forum of such animosity.
On to your question, when the time is right, "Jesus knows how to take care of his own."
2007-10-13 08:50:13 · answer #4 · answered by Randy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not!......My "spiritual family" is the future family that lives in glory for eternity in the Kingdom of God. Why would I want to choose temporary gratification here and now, when I already know God has a place for me in eternity. Paul’s clear teaching about the recipients of God’s wrath. Colossians 3:6 tells us that “the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.” The mark of the Beast is therefore a brand of disobedience to God. It marks those who refuse to keep God’s commandments in spite of both the preaching of the two witnesses and even the final warning delivered by an angel of God (Revelation 14:9).
The mark of the Beast stands clearly as a brand of disobedience to God and His laws. In Exodus 31:13–17, God declared to ancient Israel that His Sabbaths were a sign between Him and His people forever! The Sabbath is the test commandment to identify the true God of creation and the people who are obedient to His commands and laws.
Revelation 13 explains that the mark of the Beast, a brand of disobedience to God, is taken upon the hand and the forehead. Just as disobedience is described as worn upon the hand and forehead, so also is obedience to God’s law. In Deuteronomy 6. “Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and commandments… And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes” (vv. 1–2, 8, KJV). The hand is symbolic of actions, while the forehead is the seat of intellect. Obedience to God involves both actions (hand) and will (forehead).
The mark of the Beast is a brand of disobedience to God. Not only must this involve rejection of God’s sign of obedience, the Sabbath, but also the acceptance of a counterfeit sign or mark. This mark is, in reality, a brand deriving from Babylon and Rome
2007-10-13 08:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by TIAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I Do not expect to Have to Make that Decision, because I will Already Be "OUT OF HERE" With Jesus, IN the Rapture! If We are Saved, we are not Left Behind to face those Terrible Times. "Thank You, Jesus."
I Thessalonians 4:I6, I7-I8 (smile)
WE MUST ALL BE READY. JESUS IS COMING SOON!
2007-10-13 08:53:05 · answer #6 · answered by minnetta c 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I would not worship a man to survive.
If I was given a choice by a muslim to either convert or die I would choose death.
I would rather be death than that religion. They are cruel to women and children and each other.
2007-10-13 08:43:51 · answer #7 · answered by Steven 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No way. To take the mark of the beast would be to denounce God and I would prefer beheading to going to hell.
2007-10-13 09:45:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get the axe ready and swing!
Food for a short time is worthless if you take the mark of the beast,because Jesus will come back very soon after this happens. No one with the mark of the beast can be saved.
2007-10-13 08:39:36 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I'd pretend to, there's an obvious difference but I'm not sure a religious person is going to understand.
An atheist can't 'sin' by feigning belief in any person or sky-pixie or whatever.
Really though upon re-reading your question the scenario is just so ridiculous, you might as well ask me what I'd say or do if santa came to life and took off a mask and revealed he was the frankenstein monster... you know? It's exactly THAT plausible.
2007-10-13 08:36:00 · answer #10 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 4⤊ 5⤋