Revelations interpreted?

[John 8:32]

I do not think the mark or the Beast is going to be recognized as a "spiritual" thing. It is strongly associated with commerce and it appears that most will simply see it as a way of doing business. It will be recognizable and not something one can accidently take, but most will not even associate it with Rev 13 because most do not even read the scriptures.

[quiet dove]

I do not think the mark or the Beast is going to be recognized as a "spiritual" thing. It is strongly associated with commerce and it appears that most will simply see it as a way of doing business. It will be recognizable and not something one can accidently take, but most will not even associate it with Rev 13 because most do not even read the scriptures.

The reason I disagree, is having an ability, with a mark, is no different than having the ability with a card when it comes to purchasing food, or whatever else...it is the decision to reject the Gospel of Salvation, the true God.....and to willfully accept the false and worship the false. So I agree, it is associated with commerce, but only because worship of the false is required in order to participate in commerce.

Taking his mark and worshiping his image go hand in hand. He is the image of the false, and the rejection then of the Truth...

Rev 14:9 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."

Rev 16:2 So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.
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Just as Jesus is the image of the Truth, and is the Truth

2Co 4:4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Joh 14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
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While it is also true that men were created in God's image, and that those in Christ will bear His image as they have born Adam's. We must remember that the word "image" must be taken in context. And within the context we know that Jesus was not created in the image of God, but is the very image of God...God the Son....is the Truth, and being God we worship Jesus.

This is then what Satan desires to imitate...himself claiming to be God and presenting his image to men for worship...along with his "mark" which will only be "commerce" because he will be declaring himself the provider of all things to men, as their god. But it will be a choice that men must make...not simply a matter of a different kind of "card" to purchase stuff.