(Revelation 13:16-17). “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
(Revelation 20:4b) “And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the Word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with the Messiah for a thousand years.”
(Revelation 14:9-13) “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. “Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labour, for their deeds will follow them.”
Today all over the world governments are “upping the ante” of pushing vaccinations even though they are still experimental. For example in America, Australia, Canada and Great Britain and even in Israel, there is almost a fixation by the political leaders and by the mainstream media in these countries to get everyone vaccinated! Of course not everyone will be vaccinated. Already we see a division being forced by governments to separate the vaccinated from the unvaccinated, something that we see very clearly in the State of Victoria in Australia and possibly spreading to other Australian states.
Detention facilities have already been built in America and in Canada and exist in Australia and most likely will eventually become quarantine centres for those who are unvaccinated and considered public health risks. But is there more to this mass fixation with vaccinations? Now you have the boosters being offered as the current vaccines are proving inadequate to stop even fully vaccinated people from still getting Covid-19.
In December 2019 in the Online Publication of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a headline appeared that said; “Storing medical information below the skin’s surface.” The sub-header read; “Specialized invisible dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history to save lives in regions where paper or digital records aren’t available.”
In the article it states; “A key challenge for vaccination campaigns in some developing regions is that there is little infrastructure for storing medical records, so there’s often no easy way to determine who needs a particular vaccine or booster shot. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed a way to store information about a patient’s vaccine history under the skin, using an invisible quantum dot dye that is delivered, along with a vaccine, by a microneedle patch…
MIT researchers have now developed a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, that is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine…“In areas where paper vaccination cards are often lost or do not exist at all, and electronic databases are unheard of, this technology could enable the rapid and anonymous detection of patient vaccination history to ensure that every child is vaccinated,” says Kevin McHugh, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice University.
The researchers showed that their new dye, which consists of nanocrystals called quantum dots, can remain for at least five years under the skin, where it emits near-infrared light that can be detected by a specially equipped smartphone.” (End of extracts)
If these microneedle patches are capable of storing ones vaccination or medical history it is possible that one’s personal ID number, personal details including ones bank transaction details can be stored in the so called ‘vaccine’ jab just below the surface of the skin where it is undetectable to the naked eye. This kind of technology would eliminate the need for credit and debit cards. Money would be obsolete once everyone had this quantum dot dye delivered, along with a vaccine by a microneedle patch that could be scanned at a checkout.
Now it needs to be said that the current vaccinations are not the mark of the beast system of government that is coming but a precursor or foreshadow of how this mark of the beast empire might be given to everyone and that by a regime that requires adherence to an ideology that requires ones allegiance and obedience to its edicts and mandates. The current Covid-19 ‘crisis’ has seen technology itself in many fields move ahead in leaps and bounds but especially in the medical field of endeavour.
Now when we look at this mark of the beast system of government in the Bible it involves worship. In the days of the Ancient Roman Empire in the first and second centuries the emperors were worshipped as a god. At the entrance to a Roman City where food and clothing could be purchased in the local market place one had to throw incense into a fixed basin sitting under the image or bust of the emperor as an act of worship before one could enter through the city gate. Of course many faithful New Covenant believers could not do this and if one refused they would be arrested and many were imprisoned and martyred.
Today, as we see vaccines mandated which are in reality more to do with population control than they are to do with public health, we see many more and more political leaders, especially in the western democracies, throwing their weight around by insisting on people doing their bidding with severe and unreasonable penalties attached. While multitudes in western countries around the world are protesting these vaccine mandates and passports the reality is that a system of government is coming when people will be forced to submit to a form of totalitarian despotic authority and its mandates, which under the man of sin when he establishes his kingdom, will be compulsory for everyone in every level of society across the board (Revelation 13:16).
At the very end of this present age for the last three and a half years there will be only one of two choices to be made. Christ of the Antichrist? The time will come, and possibly sooner than we think, when vaccination technology will be so advanced that it will become mandatory for ones ID, health records, personal details, bank accounts and the only means of buying and selling. Those who refuse we are told will be summarily beheaded which is historically the standard form of execution in Islam.
Those who die because they refuse to worship the man of sin and his beast empire and receive its mark will go to be with the Lord Jesus and when He returns to co-reign with Him in their resurrected, glorified and incorruptible bodies. For those who go with the beast system of government with its mandates and worship its leader and take his mark to save their lives in this world, will go alive into the lake of fire to be tormented day and night forever (Revelation 14:10-12) (Revelation 21:8). This startling revelation from the Lord Jesus given to the apostle John “calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.”
Everyday Satan is wearing down the saints. Whether it is through physical persecution, or through that more subtle enemy of the soul, being the lures of the world, the flesh and the devil himself, or with the cares of this world, or with the pursuit of material wealth or possessions and a lifestyle that consists of having things good in this world, it is all designed by him to get our allegiance to him and to turn us aside from our allegiance to the Messiah our Lord Jesus.
John tells us that there are three things we must continue to do 1. We are to develop patient endurance and we do this by enduring through the power of the Holy Spirit. 2. We are to Keep God’s commandments with the help of the Holy Spirit and if we fail, to keep short accounts with the Lord, to confess our sin and to be cleansed from it by the Messiah’s blood (1 John 1:9). 3. We are to remain faithful to the Lord Jesus trusting in His faithfulness to keep and preserve us especially in and through the hour of trial that is coming upon the whole world (Revelation 3:10) (John 17:15-16).
Satan is seeking to hinder us as New Covenant believers in our Lord Jesus the Messiah from pressing on to love and obey Him and His unchanging Word in the power of the blessed Holy Spirit. None of us can survive spiritually in these last of the last days apart from drawing closer to the Lord Jesus every day, trusting Him moment by moment to keep us by the power of His indestructible life dwelling in us through His Holy Spirit, and by maintaining fellowship with other blood purchased, blood washed, Spirit-filled brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus (Hebrews 7:16) (Hebrews 10:25).
Not everyone will be martyred and some will escape with their lives and protected and provided for supernaturally by the Lord Jesus. Others will go to prison but still be alive when the Lord Jesus returns (Revelation 13:10). God already knows how our life will end should we fall asleep in the Lord Jesus before He comes back. If this should happen to us and we physically die then we will be temporarily absent from the body but present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8).
In His loving and divine foreknowledge He has already prepared things in advance so that whether we live or die He will be glorified in us. The majority of faithful New Covenant believers, who remain faithful to the Lord Jesus and who seek to walk in His commandments daily through the power of the Holy Spirit, will be martyred during the last three and a half years of this present age but rise again to a glorious resurrection!
Many of the trials we are experiencing right now, and it’s getting harder, especially during this Covid-19 crisis as wearying as it can be, are preparing us for that weight of eternal glory which will far outweigh any hardship we are experiencing in this life which are light and momentary afflictions compared with the glory we are to inherit as we continue to fix our eyes on the Lord Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, and remain steadfastly focused on what is unseen and eternal rather than being focused on what is seen and temporal (2 Corinthians 4:17-18).
The Lord Jesus is preparing His bride to meet Him when He comes back for her but she must be purified and made ready, having on her wedding garments being the robe of His righteousness and clothed with the garments of His salvation and filled to the brim with the oil of the Holy Spirit in the lamp of their human spirit. To this end He is allowing the present trials and afflictions and increasing difficulties we are experiencing daily that we might not become too attached to this world and to the things of this world.
Vaccinations are with us now and we need God’s wisdom to recognise the mark when it comes and what it is, and God will show us when that is if we seek His wisdom and seek to walk in the revelation and the strength of the blessed Holy Spirit every day (Revelation 13:18) (James 1:5-6).
And so John in the first century, as our brother and companion who shared in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance in the Lord Jesus the Messiah along with all of the brothers and sisters in his lifetime, is still being experienced today by all of the saints in the wider Body of the Messiah. And so John writes, “Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labour, for their deeds will follow them.” What a blessing it will be for those who die in the Lord! Indeed they will rest from their labours! Indeed what a glorious rest it will be!
