Share how you read it if you like. I enjoy talking about such things. My main point in that was that the mark of the beast is a spiritual mindset of Babylon that each Christian must overcome to reign with Jesus Christ.
If the mark is a mindset, how is it monitored and controlled? I agree there will be a choice and a worship element that is inward, I think they'll be able to monitor that as well, to a point.
It's not monitored and controlled by man. People under Babylon, don't know they are submitting to the course of this world. Babylon is religious, it has a false prophet that deceives the world. Those decieved, don't know they are decieved.
God calls his people out of Babylon in Revelation chapter 18. Submitting to Babylon is taking the mindset of Babylon. Submitting to the kingdom in Christ is taking the mindset of Christ.
The 666 passage and the 144,000 passage are just 3 verses apart.
666 is under Babylon.
144,000 is under Christ.
That's how the book of Revelation reads spiritually. I contend that the carnal mind can't understand the book of Revelation at all. It is a spiritual book about spiritual reality in It's entirety.
I think it's control in the physical and spiritual realm simultaneously:
Revelation 13:14-17
He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived. He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of his name.
Share how you read it if you like. I enjoy talking about such things. My main point in that was that the mark of the beast is a spiritual mindset of Babylon that each Christian must overcome to reign with Jesus Christ.
If the mark is a mindset, how is it monitored and controlled? I agree there will be a choice and a worship element that is inward, I think they'll be able to monitor that as well, to a point.
It's not monitored and controlled by man. People under Babylon, don't know they are submitting to the course of this world. Babylon is religious, it has a false prophet that deceives the world. Those decieved, don't know they are decieved.
God calls his people out of Babylon in Revelation chapter 18. Submitting to Babylon is taking the mindset of Babylon. Submitting to the kingdom in Christ is taking the mindset of Christ.
The 666 passage and the 144,000 passage are just 3 verses apart.
666 is under Babylon.
144,000 is under Christ.
That's how the book of Revelation reads spiritually. I contend that the carnal mind can't understand the book of Revelation at all. It is a spiritual book about spiritual reality in It's entirety.
I think it's control in the physical and spiritual realm simultaneously:
Revelation 13:14-17
He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived. He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of his name.