Dig Deeper: Mark of the Beast & Politics (Republicans & Democrats)

Friday, November 16, 2012

Mark of the Beast & Politics (Republicans & Democrats)

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, 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 into the cup of his indignation;

Revelation 14:9,10

Some think that the Mark of the Beast (Mandated Sunday sacredness & observance inplace of Sabbath) will be implemented by one side or the other of the politcal spectrum----wrong.
It is more likely to be a compromise of BOTH political sides.....

REPUBLICANS:

Christian Right & Republican Party-
Seeking to legislate religion?

A coalition of the Christian Right & Catholic leadership working through the Republican Party will obviously play a large role. (Remember that those who implement the Mark of the Beast think they are doing God's will...Remember that Cain wasn't an atheist either--he just wanted to worship God his way). So as natural disasters increase and get worse, along with possible finacial collapse to a large degree, people say we have to turn to God. So they set aside a "holy day" in honor of FATHER GOD. {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: Daniel 7:25 - ...and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3}

Rise of practicing Catholics in Republican Party

DEMOCRATS:

Democrats expanding big-intrusive government-
a government big enough to dictate doctrines to a church
is big enough one day to make you join a church

The secular, God hating atheists, agnostics, liberal Christians (Christians who don't believe the Bible, especially Genesis), and new agers and other religions, working through the Democratic Party have reason to join in. First, they are the party of Big,Intrusive Government & would love to have more control. Second, the GLOBAL WARMING movement & environmental activism is what could unite both sides. About a decade ago this idea was already floated in Congress by these types for setting aside Sunday as a day of rest to protect the planet by reducing supposed pollution. All church goers could attend church that day then all would stay home to give the planet a break from use and "abuse". The bill didn't make it through committee though. Third, E.G.W. warns us that the unions will be involved in some way, shape and form. Unions work through Democrats. So one can see how even atheists,agnostics, liberal Christians, New Agers, Hindus, Buddhists,etc., could join in through setting aside a "holy day" to honor, as they say, MOTHER EARTH.{Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Romans 1:25 - For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.Romans 1:26,27}

Democrats openly court Gay Voters
for the first time at the Presidential level

4th COMMANDMENT:
Look close at the 4th Commandment (Sabbath Commandment) & you will see it under attack by both sides; The Christian Churches assault it with the day of the pagan Sun in place of His Sabbath day as a day they honor & worship on. And the secular world assaults it with an attack on His creative powers by claiming we got here through evolutionary processes.
It will be a joint attack on the 4th Commandment of the CREATOR.

SUMMARY:
Republicans push for the Mark of the Beast to honor FATHER GOD
Democrats go along as compromise in order to honor MOTHER EARTH
So one side will blame natural catastrophes on the anger of God and others on global warming...
Compromise, compromise,compromise......

Global Warming Alarmists place
the earth in the hands of man rather
than the hands of God-& they believe
Mother Earth is getting "ANGRY"

******BTW, NO ONE has the Mark of the Beast currently...It only exists when the counterfeit to God's mark is implemented worldwide by law..then all must choose which side..but until then...no one has the Mark of the Beast*****
SideNote
To our Christian friends-
@ 666 is NOT the Mark of the Beast-it is the number of his name
@ A one world banking system or government that controls whether you can buy or sell is NOT the Mark of the Beast, but rather that would just be an enforcement mechanism
@ God's seal on His people He tells us is His Sabbath--so it stands to reason that the counterfeit (mark of the beast) would be something similar but oppositte...
@ The mark in the hand are those who go along becasue they can't buy or sell, and those with it in their forehead go along because they really believe they are doing God's will...

In Summary:
...and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast,
whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:12

What We BELIEVE

* And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. 1 Corinthians 13:13

* Genesis 1-11 is actual HISTORY

* The 10 Commandments WAS - IS - & WILL BE the LAW of GOD

* REVELATION is written in symbols for actual end time events

* The SANCTUARY lays out the Plan of Salvation (Justification / Outer Court + Sanctification / Inner Court = preparation for your Judgment / Most Holy Place)

* The solemnity of the 7th day SABBATH (Saturday) was NEVER transferred to the 1st day of the week (Sunday) by God

* The modern charismatic movement is a counterfeit Latter Rain

* The Mark-of-the-beast will involve some sort of counterfeit Sabbath

* "Soul Sleep" for the State of the Dead (dead until the resurrection)

* The Godhead (Trinity) are 3 separate beings who work together in unity

* The GODHEAD's Existence is ETERNAL (in other words-The arrow of time stretching for Infinity in both directions)

* The GREEN RELIGION (modern environmental movement) is a cleverly cloaked spiritualism for the "sophisticated" modern world

* The Little Horn of Daniel & the Beast of Revelation (a.k.a. the anti-christ to some) is one & the same institution - the same institution the Reformers declared it to be during the Reformation

* Marriage is between ONE man & ONE woman

* The Emerging Church movement -- & spiritual formation are modern day GNOSTICISM & have NO place within Christendom

* Women Ordination is an ASSAULT on the foundation of the Godhead (as God is the head of Christ in an ecclesiastical setting - so too was the man placed as the head of the woman in an ecclesiastical setting -- outside this setting they are equal as Christ is with the Father)

* Baptism is by Immersion at an age of consent

* Justification + Sanctification = TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH....(Justification) Neither do I condemn thee: (Sanctification) go, and sin no more. John 8:11

* God is NOT homophobic -- rather He is sexual immorality phobic (HE places adultery, fornication, rape, bestiality, cross dressing AND homosexuality ALL in the same category)

* "HELL" is NOT an eternally burning place -- rather it is the Lake of Fire where the wicked will be destroyed together once & for all when this Great Controversy between God & His opponent comes to an end....God does NOT torment people for eternity

* The "Great Controversy" theme is the prism to make sense of this universal conflict between God & His opponent, of which we play a part on this space fabric of time as a "spectacle" (as Paul calls it) before all watching

* Biblical "speaking in tongues" was a GIFT of known foreign languages for Evangelization (not the gibberish "tongues" uttered in churches today)

* Historicism is the way to interpret eschatology from the view of the prophetic porch (NOT preterism, futurism or idealisim)

* The 3 Angel's Message (of Rev.14) is the central Mission of the SDA Church & the Sanctuary Doctrine (& it's sub-doctrine of the Investigative Judgment) is the Cornerstone Doctrine of the Denomination

* The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a SYMBOLIC Remembrance

* The 2nd Advent of Christ will be a literal, visible, physical return where EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM & that is when the dead will rise & the living be caught up-- Not at some sort of a "secret rapture" before His return...

* On the Nature of Christ - He was born with our sinful fallen nature / propensities--yet did NOT sin - hence His ability to be the spotless Lamb of God - the Lamb without blemish to cover ours

* 7th Day Adventism did not rise up at the end of the time-frame of Daniel 8:14 to be just another denomination to hang upon the wall of Christendom...

* The Dispensations around the Cross are 1) Before the Cross the Plan of Redemption laid out in the earthly Sanctuary in Types & Symbols patterned after the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Altar of Sacrifice to the Mercy Seat} 2) After the Cross shifts to the REALITY of the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Cross to the Judgment Seat}. ---- We REJECT the Dispensationalism that says "before the cross we were saved by the Law & after the Cross by Grace" ---- (the reason is because on BOTH SIDES OF THE CROSS we were never saved by the Law and always saved by Grace)

* We REJECT the DISGUSTING "Prosperity Gospel" as many see TV (so-called) Evangelists preach today

* Justification & Sanctification Simplified - God draws the BOUNDARIES with His LAW. When we step outside of them it's called SIN. (He offers JUSTIFICATION to remedy it). But afterwards He expects us to step back within those Boundaries (called SANCTIFICATION ).

* EndTime "BABYLON" - Confederacy of the Counterfeit Trinity of the "Dragon", "Beast" & "False Prophet" of Rev.16:13. (Also a term of Reference for the Fallen Condition of Christendom)

*The OLD TESTAMENT is simply the NEW TESTAMENT in Types & Symbols- therefore both are valid for Study & Doctrine.

* "A Minister's words are only of Value as long as his word's are an Echo of the Word's of God." {Dwayne Lemon}

* We REJECT the Church being involved with the ECUMENICAL movement....where do you see in Scripture God's people ever being told to be Ecumenical with neighboring religions?.. Nowhere....

*We believe in "Replacement Theology", that "Israel" in prophetic terms and spiritually is God's people...NOT Literal, Modern Day Israel in the Middle East.

* Tithing is Biblical: MONEY (1/10 to God) TIME (1/7 to God- the 7th day of the week, called the SABBATH)

* Soteriology: We believe in total FREE WILL as a component. - Therefore we Reject Sacramentalism, Predestination, Once-Saved-Always-Saved, Universalism & Pluralism.

* The HEALTH MESSAGE-Live it as best you can. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest....be in health... 3 John 1:2

* And always remember - "If you feel yourself to be the greatest sinner, Christ is just what you need, the greatest Savior. Lift up your head and look away from yourself, away from your sin, to the uplifted Savior; away from the poisonous, venomous bite of the serpent to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." Ellen White {JUSTIFICATION}

* "God has given us His commandments, not only to be believed in, but to be obeyed." Ellen White {SANCTIFICATION}

* SUMMARY: "Every chapter and every verse of the Bible is a communication from God to men." Ellen White

* WARNING: "...by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence." Ellen White

Are Ashes Upon Your Lips?

The love of God still yearns over the one who has chosen to separate from Him, and He sets in operation influences to bring him back to the Father's house.
--Have you, reader, chosen your own way?
--Have you wandered far from God?
--Have you sought to feast upon the fruits of transgression, only to find them turn to ashes upon your lips?
Now that voice which has long been speaking to your heart but to which you would not listen comes to you distinct and clear, Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. Micah 2:10. Return to your Father's house. He invites you, saying, Return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. Isa. 44:22.
E.G.W.