Who Shall Suffer the PLAGUES? Listen! John in the Apocalypse or book of Revelation describes the last warning message: If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture (Rev. 14:9, 10). This prophecy is most significant because it is revealing, in advance, events immediately ahead of us at this present time. Listen again! John, carried forward in vision into the terrible day of the Lord, sees these plagues beginning to fall! And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven last plagues ... and the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image (Rev. 15:6 and 16:2). Every sign tells us these things will happen, plunging the world into the most frantic, frenzied state of anguish ever known, almost certainly within a matter of the next several years! Those who suffer the wrath of Almighty God are described as those who worship the beast, or his image, or have his mark. It is futile to try to imagine, as so many are doing, what the mark of the beast may be. These prophecies are real. They are imminent. Because these and other prophecies have never been understood until now, even churches, the theologians, evangelists have been ignoring prophecies in general and these imminent prophecies in particular. Too many are trying to speculate in their imaginations. But God says, My thoughts are not your thoughts (Isa. 55:8). We cant work this out in our minds. We are face to face with a stern reality, not an imaginary fairy tale! There is only one way to learn the truth. That is to study carefully, cautiously, prayerfully, with an open mind yielded to and guided by the Holy Spirit, all the testimony of all the scriptures that bear on this question. We cannot determine what the mark of the beast may be, until we have learned what, or who, the beast is! For, of course, the mark is the beasts mark. Who, what then, is the beast?
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:17:39 +0000
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