Mark of the Beast

[Bob_Crowley]

The question is the answer. If you cannot see the danger then I do not know what else to say. The Bible is most clear about this sort of thing and you say “So what?”

God Bless

With all due respect, I think you’re extrapolating from your own admitted experience as a former witch, and assuming I’m going to make the same mistake. I missed that line the first time I read your first post.

I say this because i am a former witch, and it was not until I understood that i could eat the flesh of my Lord that i was moved to confess and to believe in sacramental forgiveness and to take the cleansing of the Holy table of our God.

Not a chance.

It’s a common human frailty to swing from one extreme to the other. It’s one thing to disbelieve the devil exists, and another to take an unhealthy interest in the demonic. As usual, there’s a middle ground which simply accepts the spiritual world accepts, and that sometimes it breaks through, whether for good or evil. If some of us have spiritual experiences, then so be it.

Saints have sometimes been harassed by the demonic eg. Padre Pio. Saints get visions. Saints sometimes see apparitions. Padre Pio had the gift of bilocation, and if a book my Catholic psychiatrist has written is correct, about 17 saints have been identified who had that gift. That didn’t mean they were verging on the edge of “necromancy”.

All the best with your own RCIA.

On the business of Mary, about which you expressed doubt, I assume you are aware of the very powerful miracles which accompany the approved visions and apparitions. At Fatima in 1917 for example there were two miracles - the first and most recognised was the dancing sun. But there was also a very rapid drying of ground and clothes after days of rain. Scientists have calculated the energy required to do the rapid drying was equivalent to a 2 megaton nuclear weapon. The onlookers should all have been vaporised.

At Akita in Japan around 1973, a statue of Mary wept 101 times, real human tears as assayed at the local university, and she also shed real human blood. The warning she gave could almost be lifted from Revelation.

In fact, my old Protestant pastor once said to me that he thought the Marian apparitions were a judgement on a divided church, commenting “There’s been a lot of them”. And I for one believe she’s the portent in the heavens in Revelation 12 that John saw in his vision, so the approved Marian apparitions are Scriptural.

And her main role appears to be to intercede for those in Purgatory.

 

[AnotherFriend33]

The hand is what you use to work.

If your works are good, your hands are ok. You know the tree by its fruit.

A demonic mark on someone’s hand indicates that he/she is an evildoer.

That’s how I understand the mark in the hand.

The forehead means two things:

1. It is visible, it is not possible to hide it, maybe it is a matter of pride.
2. It represents how you think.

Putting it together, a demonic mark on the forehead represents how someone pervert thinks, for example a sodomite who is proud to show to the entire world how pervert he/she is.

That is how I understand the mark on the forehead.

As the entire world grows evil and forgets about God, the day will come when those who aren’t evil will be so few that they won’t have anything in common, not even topic for a conversation with most of the people.

The good ones will be a rare endangered species, that is what I understand with “no one will be able to buy or sell, unless he has the mark in the hand and/or the forehead”.

Evil deeds (hands), Evil thoughts, and Pride/shameless to be evil (forehead).

The microchip thing might happen too, but who cares about what happens with the flesh?

It is the soul what we need to save.

 

[onemangang]

Tefillin

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The obligation of tefillin, as expouned by the Oral Law, is mentioned four times in the Torah: twice when recalling the The Exodus from Egypt:

And it shall be for a sign for you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand did the LORD bring you out of Egypt.
—Exodus 13:9

And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and as totafot between your eyes; for with a mighty hand did the LORD bring us forth out of Egypt.
—Exodus 13:16

And you shall bind them as a sign upon your arm, and they shall be as totafot between your eyes.
—Deuteronomy 6:8

You shall put these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall tie them for a sign upon your arm, and they shall be as totafot between your eyes.
—Deuteronomy

 

[fred_conty]

It has nothing to do with microchips.

Seven is a number which represented perfection. God rested on the seventh day.

Six was a number which represented something which had failed to achieve perfection, something which had fallen short of the goal. Lots of sixes - 666 - meant something which was very imperfect.

That’s all it means. Perfection vs Imperfection.

-Tim-

My license plate is 666, and over it I have the sign “GO 2 MASS”. I guess that means the devil should go to Mass.

 

[PumpkinSeed]

Well, lets hope not. Even in Obama’s health care bill, you can read in there that eventually, the chip will be mandatory.

 

[rdscheirer]

The mark of the Beast is already here- it is Obamacare that allows the gov’t direct access to your bank accounts and investments- the mark of the beast will be when BHO is re-elected and does away with all cash and converts the economy to cards-so that the gov’t can track all purchases and personal behavior. Think about it, why should the gov’t need to know every purchase you make- TO CONTROL YOU.