It won’t be long before you have to have the mark of the beast to bank, buy or sell.
[It won’t be long before you have to have the mark of the beast to bank, buy or sell.]
Certainly seems like all the pieces are falling into place. Yes, I expect all of the spirit of antichrist people will want to exclude others. Just as we’re seeing.
FWIW, (and no offense intended) the Mark of the Beast is implemented one-half way through the 7 year Tribulation. I do not believe the Church is here for that. But there will be people Saved during that time; they will pay with their lives for refusing the Mark of the Beast.
Just after the Beast declares himself to be “God” - the False Prophet will be the one implementing the system.
First the 7-year “peace” covenant must be “confirmed” by the Beast.
Revelation 13:11-18 King James Version (KJV)
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.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
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; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 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 foreheads:
17 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.
18 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. (666)