What? You mean you can’t buy or sell without some mark?
The technology to place a mark on your hand and/or forehead is something “new”?
I certainly hope your not using those cards then ...
And since you too seem to think you can just wait for the signs, why does GOD command us to stay awake?
“But you brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do.”
Again, this is exactly what I said - the MotB will not sneak up on up us and take us unawares if we stay awake (which means to stay with GOD).
If you think that you will convince a non-believer by threatening him with Fire & Brimstone - IOW, not through the promise GOD’S Love, but through the threat of GOD’S wrath - I have a funny feeling that you misunderstood something along the way.
Well, yes, I would say so. When in the history of the world did the technology exist to number every single person on the face of the earth and for one man to be able to know when and/or if a particular person was conducting commerce and whether or not a particular person had a mark that was required to buy or sell? When, exactly, did that technology exist before now?
I certainly hope your not using those cards then ...
Every one of my "cards" has a Scriptural source. I stand on very firm ground.
Again, this is exactly what I said - the MotB will not sneak up on up us and take us unawares if we stay awake (which means to stay with GOD).
The Bible states that the Mark of the Beast will be forced on those who are on earth during the seven-year period of judgment called the "Tribulation". Believers in Christ will not be here for that time, so I won't have to worry about being forced to take the mark and not being able to buy or sell without it.
If you think that you will convince a non-believer by threatening him with Fire & Brimstone - IOW, not through the promise GOD’S Love, but through the threat of GOD’S wrath - I have a funny feeling that you misunderstood something along the way.
Your problem is with God, not me. He is the One Who wrote the prophetic Scriptures and He is the One Who made sure those prophecies were made available to man to read and act on. I'm not threatening anybody. It is the job of all who have accepted Christ's free gift of salvation to tell others and to warn others of the consequences of rejecting Christ and the reality of the judgment that Christ Himself tells us He will bring on an unbelieving, Christ-rejecting world.
So, I am not the threat to you - God and His Bible are. And if you feel threatened, it is because you choose to. Those who know Him as Savior are not threatened by any part of His word.
Jesus told those of us who know Him and love Him:
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:2-4)
The world is in that exact season right now, as is proven by the anger over God's prophetic Scriptures. However I will continue to obey my Savior, and tell others of all Scripture, because there are some who will hear those Scriptures and be saved. Not everyone will choose to reject Jesus Christ and will take His warnings seriously and will act on those warnings.