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The Mark Of God vs. The Mark Of The Beast

Now to explain why the House of Israel lost their identity and the House of Judah didn't. God gave them an identifying sign which they lost. By losing this sign, they lost their identity. Now the world believes that the Jews are the only Israelites, because they still have this identifying sign.
A sign is defined as a badge, symbol, token, or mark to identify something. When you walk through the Mall, if the stores had no signs, you could not identify them, one from the other. Just as Gods people, without this sign they cannot be identified from the Gentiles.
Exodus 31:12-17, "And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, verily my sabbaths ye shall keep For it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations. that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therin that soul shall be cut off from amoung his people. Six days shall work be done: but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day he shall surely be put to death.

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshad."
Notice the Sabbath (Saturday, Friday at sunset until Saturday at sunset ; Leviticus 23:32) is the sign of Gods people, FOREVER!! Why ? So you may know that he is the Lord that sanctify you.
Ezekiel 20:11-13, " And I gave them my statues, and shewed them my judgements, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. Moreover I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them That they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. But the House of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statues, and they despised my judgements, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly polluted: Then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them"
Ezekiel 20:16-20, "Because they despised my judgements, and walked not in my statues, but polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. Neverless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. But I said unto their children in the wilderness, walk ye not in the statues of your fathers, neither observe their judgements, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the Lord your God; walk in my statues, and keep my judgements, and do them; and hollow my Sabbaths; they shall be a sign between me and you, THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
Speaking of the Passover, which the Lord also calls a Sabbath,
he says the following in Exodus 13:9,16, "And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thy eyes, so the Lords law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt. And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: For by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt."

Deuteronomy 6:1,6-8, "Now these are the commandments, the statues and the judgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thou children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thou house, and when thou walkest by the way,and when thou liest down and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thou hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Deuteronomy 11:18,"Therefore shall ye lay up these words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and that they may be as frontlets between your eyes."
Proverbs 7:2-3, 'Keep my commandments and live and mine law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart."
Revelations 7:3-4, "Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed: an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel."

144,000, such a small number considering the population of the world. Now that you know who the children of Israel are, you see how we compare to the 3 or 4 mentioned in Genesis as living -^ by God's laws in the first 2000 years of the earth's history.

Revelations 14:1, "And I looked and behold a lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his fathers name written in their foreheads."
If you'll notice the sign of God's people are his Sabbaths, and his commandments. This sign will be on their hand and between their eyes. The children of Israel was removed from God's" sight and lost this identifying sign, although the Jews never lost this sign of identity, and that's why even today they're known as God's people. Now notice how this compares to the mark of the beast. Both signs will be on the hand and on the foreheads. But they are two totally opposite signs or marks.
Revelations 14:9-12, "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his image, and recieve his mark in his forehead , or in his hand, the same shall drink from the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever recieveth the mark of his name."
Revelations 13:16-18, "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,, to recieve a mark in their
hand, or in their forehead,And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the marK, or the name of the beast, or in the number of his name. Here is wisdom, Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six."
As you can see God's people will have a sign in their hand and on their forehead between their eyes. Also there shall be people with a different mark on their forehead and in their hand; the mark of the beast. We will discuss in great detail this beast and his mark shortly. Now you understand why the House of Israel lost their identity, because they lost God's sign of his people, which is his Sabbaths and his commandments. You also can see how God's sign is located in the same area as the mark of the beast. You will soon see who this beast is and what his mark is, and if you have it or not.

Now you must learn who the beast is and the "number of his name". We will solely rely on God's own interpretation. For there is only one interpretation and that is God's, Isaiah 55:8.
In Revelations 13 we see a beast starting with verses 1&2 : "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet was as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him power and his seat and great authority."
Notice first that the dragon gave him power. In Revelations 12:9, we see that God defines the dragon as being Saton; "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world..."
In Daniel chapter 7 we see the same symbols described. The beast, the seven heads, the ten horns, the lion, the bear, and the leopard. And here we find the interpretation of these things.
Notice that both the beast of Revelations 13 and Daniel 7, both came out of the sea, Daniel 7:3 : "And four great beast came up from the sea, diverse one from the other."
Notice Daniel 7 verses 4-6, the symbols of the lion, the bear, and the leopard. "The first was like a lion, and had eagles wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads and dominion was given to it.
Now notice verse 7, the fourth beast: "After this I saw in the night vision, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns."
Notice in Daniel there's only one head describing the lion, one for the bear, and one for the fourth beast. But the third beast had four heads, making a total of"7 heads, just as in Revelations 13. Notice also out of the fourth beast came 10 horns.

Now notice in Daniel 7:16, he's going to interpret these symbols. " So he told me and made me know the interpretation of the thing." In verse 17 we see the beast is defined as kings, it says, " The great beast which are four, are four kings, which shall a-rise out of the earth." In verse 23, we see that the beast is also defined as kingdom, it says, " Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom..." In verses 18, 22, 24, and 27, the word kingdom is used to refer to the beast. The 10 horns are defined in verse 24: " And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise..."

The same four world ruling Gentile kingdoms are found in Daniel chapter 2. The dream is described in verses 31-35 and the interpretation begins with verse 36.

Let's begin with verses 31-35, the dream. It says, "Thou 0 king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrible. This image head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 'his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till a_ stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became as the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth."
Now in verse 36 we see, " This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation therof before the king."
Starting with verse 37-40, we see the interpretation and the same four world ruling governments as in Daniel chapter 7. It says, " Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power and strength and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beast of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold (King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 625-539bc). And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee (Persian Empire 558-330bc), and another third kingdom of brass (Greece or Macedonia under Alexander the Great 333-330bc), which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise (the Roman Empire).

As you can see the four ruling goverments of Daniel chapter 2 and the four beast of Daniel 7 are the same. History shows the first was the Chaldean Empire of Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar. Second was the Persian Empire often called the Medo Persian Empire because it consist of Medes and Persians. Third was Greece (Macedonai), under Alexander the Great who conquered the Persian Empire. Upon Alexanders death his empire was divided into four divisions as we learned earlier, and this is why in Daniel 7:6, it is described with four heads. The fourth kingdom developing from Rome, spread out and gradually absorbed each one of these other kingdoms. Dreadful, terrible and exceedingly strong was the Roman Empire, 31bc-476ad,(Daniel 7:7 and Daniel 2:40).

Rome had all the royal splender of ancient Babylon, thus having the head; the strongest part of the lion. It had the massive powerful army of the Persian Empire, symbolizing the legs; the most powerful part of the bear. The Roman Empire was the worlds most powerful war making machine the world had ever seen. It also possessed the swiftness, the cunning, the cruelty of Alexanders army, symbolized by the leopard. This fourth beast; the Roman Empire was like no other on earth. It was stronger, greater, more terrible than any before it.

In Revelations chapter 13 John doesn't see four beast, but one because it had absorbed all the others. So it had all the seven heads. If you'll notice John's beast in Revelations had the ten horns, just as Daniel's fourth beast had ten horns. As you can see John's beast is Daniel's fourth beast. In Daniel chapter 2 Nebuchadnezzar's image of the two legs represent the two divisions of the Roman Empire after 330ad; west with the capitol at Rome and east with it's capitol at Constantinople.

In Revelationsi3:4, John talks about this beast and he says, "Who is able to make war with him."
In Daniel 7:23, we saw where it said this fourth beast is the fourth kingdom on earth. Every teacher and educator will tell you the fourth world ruling kingdom on earth was the Roman Empire. But they reject God's own interpretation of his own symbols as in Daniel 7:23.

In Revelations 13:3-5, we see one of the beast's heads were wounded to death and then we also see where the wound was healed. It says, "And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the beast, and they worshipped the beast saying, who is like unto the beast ? who is able to make war with him ? and there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months."
You just saw the deadly wound in the last paragraph of the last chapter. It was administered on September 4, 476. This deadly wound was also healed and did continue forty and two months.
42 months X 30 day months (God's Calender) = 1260 days As you can see 42 months equal 1260 days going by God's calender, not the Roman calender we all go by today.
Remembering the day for a year principle we saw earlier in Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6. Then this would be 1260 years, and by actual fulfillment we know this to be true. The Roman Empire was ressurrected in 554 and continued until 1814, exactly 1260 years.
We saw earlier that the ten horns were ten kings to come out of this fourth beast, the Roman Empire (Daniel 7:24), and these are they -
1. The Vandals who sacked Rome in 455
2.The Heruli government set up by Odoacer in 476
3.The Ostrogoths kingdom from 493-554
These three kingdoms filled the period in history as the "transition age"; That is a transition between the wound and the healing.
In Daniel and in Revelations it speaks of a little horn that plucks up these first three kingdoms by the roots. It says in Daniel 7:8: "I considerd the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn was eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things." We will discuss this little horn in great detail later.
These first three horns were destroyed, plucked up, by the pope. The pope had tremendous power, just like today. The pope dominates completely the horns to follow.
It was the fourth horn (kingdom) which really healed the (j deadly wound. With the fourth horn came the " Imperial Restoration
4.Justinian set up his kingdom in 554 healing the deadly wound.
5.The Prankish kingdom from France in 774
6.The Germans in 962 restores Romes glory as "The Holy Roman Empire "
7.The Habsburg Government in 1520
8.Napoleon was crowned Emporer by the pope on December 2, 1804
In 1814 when Napoleon was defeated the beast continued no longer.
9.In 1870 the ninth horn appears with the rule of Mussolini, and
he continues until 1945.
10. We are now waiting on the tenth horn to appear.
In Revelations chapter 17 it speaks of this beast also. We will discuss chapter 13 and 17 in great detail later, but for now let's look at Revelations 17:10: "And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space."
The seven kings are the last seven of the horns. Remember the first three were plucked up by the roots. The five that are fallen are the five that filled the 1260 year period the beast was to continue. The one that is, was Mussolini. And the one that has not yet come, will be a future empire of ten kings under one leader, which we'll discuss more about later.
We will deal later more specifically with the 17th chapter of Revelations. But notice for now that the woman mentioned in this 17th chapter never rode on any part of the beast of Revelations chapter 13 except it's last seven horns. She is the little horn of Daniel chapter 7, whose " look was more stout than his fellows " and who caused the first three horns to be plucked up by the roots. And since in the 17th chapter of Revelations the woman rode all seven of the heads of the beast, and since she rode none of the heads but only the last seven of the horns of the " healed beast" of the 13th chapter of Revelations then we can conclude that the seven horns of the 13th chapter form the seven heads of the 17th chapter.
The 7th head with it's 10 horns,in the 17th chapter, will be as the 17th chapter explains, the revival of the beast, The Roman Empire, as it says in verse 8: " The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit; and go into perdition: and they that dwell in the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is."
This beast will appear in the near future and consist of the federation of 10 European nations centered within the old bounds of the old Roman Empire. This is actually taking place as we speak.
The entire beast of Revelations 17 is part of the seven heads of Revelations 13 and Daniel 7 because it comprises the last seven horns. Yet this revived Roman Empire is " the eighth " system, differing from the seven before it (Rev.17:11).
What about the number of this beast,666, and who has this number and where can you find this number ?
These are the only scriptures in the Bible that speaks directly of this number:
Revelations 13:16-18: "And he causeth all both small and great rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
Revelations 15:2-3: "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying great and marvelous works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints."
As you can see from these scriptures the beast has a number and can be identified. The number is 666. We are told to count the number. The same Greek word is used only in Luke 14:28: "count the cost." As you can see this number, 666, is the number of the beast. The only Bible interpretation for "beast" is kingdom or king as we saw earlier in Daniel 7:17&23. So this number, 666, is the number of a kingdom and king. It also says it is the number of a man. So it must be the number of a man of this kingdom, or the king.
We know who the beast is, the Roman Empire. The founder and first king of Rome was Romulus. The Roman Empire was named after him. His name, the name of a man, also is the name of the kingdom. And every citizen in the kingdom bears the same name, a Roman.
When John wrote the book of Revelations, telling us to count the number of the beast, he wrote it in the Greek language. So we must look to the Greek language for this number 666.
Everyone's familiar with the Roman numerals, where letters are used as numbers. All know that I is 1, V is 5, X is 10, etc. Although many people don't know that the Greek language, which the book of Revelations was written also uses letters for numbers.
The name Romulus, which was the father of Rome and also who the empire was named after originally was spelled "Lateinos ", meaning " latin man". This word also signifies "Roman". In the original Greek language L is 30, A is 1 , T is 300, E is 5, I is 10, N is 50, O is 70, and S is 200. Count the numbers, they equal 666. It is no coincidence that the name of the kingdom, its founder and first king and each man of the kingdom , counts exactly 666. Certainly the beast stands identified!
Satan has his civil governments on earth. He gave it " his power, and his seat, and great authority " as you see in Revelations 13:2. He has also organized religion to deceive the whole world as it says in Revelations 12:9 and 20:3. In II Corinthians 11:14 we see that Satan is transformed into "angel of light". Paul says in II Corinthians 11:13-15, that Satan has his ministers that pretend to be the ministers of righteousness but are actually false apostles, deceitful workers, calling themselves the ministers of Christ. It says, " For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness..."
Now to begin in the 13th chapter of Revelations with verse 11: " And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." As we saw earlier the symbol of a beast represents a kingdom or king. We also saw that the symbol of the lamb represents Jesus (John 1:29 and

Rev. 17:14). And we also saw the dragon represents Satan (Rev. 12 :9 and Rev.20:2) .
So here you see a kingdom or government appearing as that of Christ but is actually that of Satan.
Now notice verse 12 of Revelations 13: "And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him. " The first beast is the Roman Empire. Now let's continue with the 12th verse: "And he causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."
So here you see another beast that exerciseth all the power of the first beast, which was the Roman Empire. Notice also that this is after the deadly wound was healed. This deadly wound was healed in 554. So here we have a government, a religious government, appearing to be that of Christ's government, and actually ruling the Roman Empire after ad554.
For the entire 1260 years/ the emporers acknowledged the supreme power of religion. The church was organized as a government, as a dual, two fold government (symbolized by it's two horns), It embodied church goverment, and it was also a state or civil government, always occupying a certain amount of territory over which it, alone, ruled as an independent sovereign state - in addition to actually ruling the vast civil kingdom called the Holy Roman Empire. Even today it is a seperate, independant sovereign state.
Notice, the second beast was to weild power over all the earth and it was to cause them that dwell upon the earth to worship the first beast. In most encyclopedias under " millennium " you will read the history of how the Holy Roman Empire was called the kingdom of God upon earth. They claimed the millennium had arrived.
Notice Revelations 13:14: "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast." verse 13 says "he doeth great wonders " Notice this beast performs miracles. He performed them in the sight of the first beast, the Holy Roman Empire. And with them he deceiveth the earth.
This same beast, the Roman Catholic church is pictured in other scriptures as well.
First note in Revelations chapter 17. Here is pictured a woman. As we learned in previous chapters a women is a symbol of a church ; II Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 5:22-27 and elsewhere. This woman in chapter 17 is a fallen woman, an apostate church, pictured as ruling over many nations in Revelations 17:1,15. " And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgement of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters;...And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."
In verse 3, this false church is pictured sitting on a beast. He who sits on a beast guides, and controls the beast. It says: "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."
Notice verse 18," And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."
Notice verse 2: "With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk -with the wine of her fornication."
Notice verse 6: "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus..."
Notice Chapter 18:3: "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her..."
Notice 18:4: "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not her plagues."
Our God's title is " The Holy Father", the pope has taken this title and put it upon himself. In II Thessalonians chapter 2 it speaks of this. It says in verses 3-4 : "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
Verses 5-12: "Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall the wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. And all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they shall beleive a lie. That they might be damned who beleive not the truth, but had pleasures in unrighteousness."
This false church, the Roman Catholic Church will continue until Christ returns.
Notice Revelations 16:13-14: "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon (Satan), and out of the mouth of the beast (Roman Empire), and out of the mouth of the false prophet (Pope). For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which goeth forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Notice Revelations 19:19-20: "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse (Jesus), and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet, that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image, these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

This false Christianity, The Roman Catholic Church, is pictured as the little horn, the woman who rode the beast and also the two horned beast.
As we've read in revelations 13 and elsewhere, that the people were made to worship the image of the beast. This organized church government of the Roman Catholic church was built in the image of the Roman Empire. Leo I thought the form of government of the Roman Empire was the most marvelous thing on earth. He applied its principles to the church, organized the church into a government, forming the papacy. This church government, is in fact a model, a counterpart, an image of the beast which is the Roman Empire government. This image; man designed and man ruled church government, compelled people to worship the church, and since the church was organized into a worldly government, this was worship of the image; false worship; idolatry!
This worldly church became a mother and daughters came out of her in protest, calling themselves "Protestant". There are over 400 different denominations that sprouted from this worldly church, and they are all worldly churchs. They are all Pagan teaching churchs cloaked in the name of Christianity. This is why Revelations 17:5 says: "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
The Roman Catholic Church is the great whore, mother of harlots. And these other worldly churchs are the harlots.
We saw in a previous chapter that the sign of God's people are the Sabbaths that they keep and his commandments and statues. God's people as we learned will be marked by this sign on their hand and between their eyes, on their forehead.
Satan's people will also have a mark on their hand and on their forehead. This as you know now is the mark of the beast, and now you know who the beast is, and his false prophet.

In 365ad the Roman Catholic Church wrote in one of it's famous canons, "Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, must work on that day. Rather honouring the Lords day. But if any shall be found Judaizers, let them be athema from Christ." This was a sentence to torture and death.
In Daniel 7:25, speaking of the beast, the Roman Empire, "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws..." The Romans did change times. God's day began at sunset and ended at sunset, but now we start our day at 12:00 midnight. Also God started the year in the spring of the northern hemispere but now we begin our year in the dead of winter. We no longer go by God's calender but now we go by the Roman calender. Also God's Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday. God's Holy Days were also changed, and now the world holds the traditions of the pagans .

 

 

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