We're racing the Rapture! Are you ready?

Or maybe you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but you've backslid back into your old ways, or you really haven't turned from your old, sinful ways. There is no such thing as "once saved, always saved". You can lose your salvation if you don't live your life for Christ. Jesus said in Romans 3:15-16:

"I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."

If you don't know Christ as your personal Savior or you need to recommit your life to Him, I compel you to make your decision. Watch the news. Follow this blog or others who are revealing that we are currently living in the end times. Time is running out. The signs are all proving that Christ's Second Return is close at hand. If you have accepted Christ as your Savior, you are saved from Hell and will spend eternity reigning with Christ. If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you will be cast into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth ~ where you will suffer forever.

We are living in a very exciting time. As we unfold the prophecies in the Bible over the next days and weeks you will realize we are now living in the end times. Our job as believers is to go out into all the world and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. His wish is that none perish.

If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, I encourage you to not wait a minute longer. Come with me, if you will, and take a personal journey down the Romans Road:

Admit you are a sinner.
            Understand that as a sinner, you
            deserve death.

Believe Jesus Christ died on the cross to save you from sin and death.

Repent by turning from your old life of sin to a new life in Christ.

Receive, through faith in Jesus Christ, his free gift of salvation.

Let's take a walk along the Romans Road to Salvation ...

1.  Everyone needs salvation because we have all sinned.

Romans 3:10-12, and 23

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”

2.  The price (or consequence) of sin is death.

Romans 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

3.  Jesus Christ died for our sins. He paid the price for our death.

Romans 5:8

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

4.  We receive salvation and eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

Romans 10:9-10, and 13

“ For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

5.  Salvation through Jesus Christ brings us into a relationship of peace with God.

Romans 5:1

"Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us."

Romans 8:1

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

Romans 8:38-39

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, not angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to seperate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Hopefully, showing you the fulfillment of prophecies that are taking place, as we speak, and the truths of the Roman Road has convinced you that you need to turn your life over to Jesus Christ. It is easy to accept Christ into your heart. All you have to do is:

Ask forgiveness.
Believe in the gift of salvation.
Pray to confess your sin.
Receive Christ into your life.

Please pray with me:

Dear Lord,
I admit that I am a sinner. I have done many things that don’t please you. I have lived my life for myself. I am sorry and I repent. I ask you to forgive me. I believe that you died on the cross for me, to save me. You did what I could not do for myself. I come to you now and ask you to take control of my life, I give it to you. Help me to live every day in a way that pleases you. I love you, Lord, and I thank you that I will spend all eternity with you.

Amen.

Welcome to the Family of God!

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.

Part 6 – 666: Mark Of The Beast

Equipping God's Saints (Believers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

Here is the next big question. Are we really moving toward a global ID?

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which is an arm of the UN, has been assigned to oversee international travel. By April 2010, 170 nations who are members of the ICAO had begun issuing passports in total conformity to the requirements of this International Civil Aviation Organization. That means the passport is a global ID and you cannot travel without it.

This global ID system is being foisted upon us through the United Nations and the cooperation of all the countries of the world. These requirements include an RFID chip that can be picked up with a radio receiver as you walk past. They must have a digital photo because, now, the ICAO has determined that facial recognition is the technology that will be used for biometric identification. That means if you are in an airport, they can get a picture of your face on the cameras. They will know where you are at all times. If you've done nothing wrong, what's the problem?

Ask Adolph Hitler. Ask the Jews that lived under his brutal regime. All we need is for the wrong person to grab power and what was designed for good is going to be so terrible ~ so horrible. That's the reason we're going the wrong direction.

Are we moving into a cashless society right now? Certainly we are.

Bangkok, Thailand has taken a major step toward creating a cashless society. That's when the numbering system's going to really work like the Bible says it will. Sydney, Australia, July 27, 2010, over the P.R. News Wire:

“Bangkok Smart Card System has secured a major component in developing their visit to direct Bangkok towards a cashless society. Announcing a design and delivery of a Smart Card clearing house solution for micro payments.”

In Nigeria they are set up to become a chashless society according to E-Money News August 8, 2010:

“Nigeria is set to take a huge stride towards becoming a cashless society following the release of a new mobile banking service. The Money Box platform allows users to make bank transactions over a mobile phone in conjunction with a scratch card. It can be used with any mobile phone, anywhere, any time and on any mobile network with any bank and by any individual.”

“The Irish are now moving toward cashless banking.” That was reported on December 22, 2009.

Greece has now outlawed all cash transactions over 1500 Euros as of January 1, 2011. Every transaction above 1500 Euros between a person and a business or between businesses will be considered illegal if it's done by cash. Transactions will have to be done through debit or credit cards.

How about a chip under the skin?

Applied Digital Solutions has produced an injectable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice. It's known as the Verichip. This technology has been used for animals for several years.

In 2004 the US Food and Drug Administration approved the injection of this chip under the skin for the maintenance of medical records. If you have a wreck, you're unconscious, the medics can just scan the chip and they will know what meds you are on and what you are allergic to.

A lot of people believe that that's the real answer for total identification from cradle to grave.

This could be used for financial transctions, as well. It's actually being used at the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain. You can check in and be injected with the computer chip. Since you are going to be in your swim suit all week, no worry about billfolds or purses. They are using it for financial transactions right now.

Let's remember the scripture. It says that every person is going to have to have a number and Revelation 13:18 says the total of this number will be 666. In this particular passage, the original Greek was Chi Xi Stigma. According to Strong's Greek Dictionary, this is the original Greek for 666.

Here's something really scary. Thayer's Greek Dictionary gives a most interesting definition of the word Stigma. It comes from a primary word, “Stizy”, which means to stick, or prick with a mark incised or punched for recognition of ownership. When you get this computer chip under your skin, they use a needle and stick you and they put the mark in.

I do not know whether that's the way the Mark of the Beast is going to be implemented or not. All I know is the technology is in place. It is happening right now.

It's very important that all of us understand the Mark of the Beast is not a possibility. It is an absolute certainty. With all this information, we now know that it's much closer than we think.

The critical thing is for you and me to be ready. The Bible says that,

“...all will worship the beast and take his mark, except those whose names are in the Lamb's Book of Life.”

Whatever you do, make sure YOUR name is in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.

Part 5 – 666: Mark Of The Beast

Equipping God's Saints (Believers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

Satan is planning this trap. He intends to be able to control everyone, force them to adopt his way of life and to, ultimately, worship him.

That's where this whole thing is leading. That's what the Bible says in Revelation 13, where this prophecy is given. The Bible says that all people will be forced to worship the Antichrist, Satan's personal agent. In so doing, they will be committing idolatry against God, Himself.

When the terrorist attack took place on 9/11, the whole nation was in an uproar. Congress decided to appoint a Commission called the 9/11 Commission and said, “We want you to calculate how to make America safe.”

Such prestigious people as Henry Kissinger and others were on the Commission. Congress straightly charged them, “But do not come back with the mandate to establish a national ID. We're not going to do that.”

What did the 9/11 Commission do? They came back and said, “Well, what we need is a means of secure identification for all of our citizens.”

They didn't say, “We need a national ID”, but that's exactly what they meant. They came back and did exactly what Congress told them not to do.

The result was ~ the Real ID Act was passed, first of all in the House of Representatives without much fanfare. Most people didn't even know it was being considered. It was already passed. When this hit the news, immediately opposition arose.

The Real ID Act called for bringing your original birth certificate to the license branch, your original social security card, and proof of your address. You then had to submit to a digital photo when the driver's license was issued because the international community was planning on the facial recognition technology to ultimately establish a global ID. That was one of the the things they built into this Real ID Act.

All of this information was to be placed in a database for sharing with all of the other states. If you received your liense in Texas or Indiana, they would put all of your information in that database, but that database had to be linked to all the other databases of the other 49 states. You couldn't have two or three licenses in different states.

In so doing, you created a national ID. If you had the database that states could access, Federal Government also could access it. That means that they could control you with that ID. For example, if you were forbidden to have a license in Indiana, you couldn't get one in Texas or California. Since you didn't have your ID, that means you're not going to be able to fly in an airplane, enter a Federal building, drive a car, open a bank account, or even hold a job.

This is where the rubber meets the road. Once they establish a system where you can no longer hold a job, that means you can no longer buy or sell. If you don't have a job, you don't have any money and that means you cannot buy or sell.

The prophecy in Revelation 13 says that this system is going to be implemented where every person will have to have a mark or a number, and without it, you cannot buy or sell. We are veering treacherously close to the precipice now that was prophesied about 2000 years ago, but could only be fulfilled right now.

The people that want the Real ID deny that it is a national ID even though it is an “ID” and that it's going to be “national”. They don't care about being honest, they just want to take this next step where big government could become bigger because they think they know what's best for your life and mine. They've forgotten what freedom is really all about. They don't believe in freedom, anymore. They believe that man is inherently evil and that you are guilty until you're proven innocent. So we have to keep track and track of everybody, everywhere, all the time.

Americans don't believe that. We believe people are innocent until proven guilty and the government has no right to check your papers, to come in your house, to search your automobile or anything else. They don't have the right to say, “Papers, please”.

That's the American tradition, but if we don't fight with all of our might for this tradition we're going to lose it, even here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

They couldn't get the Real ID Act passed in the Senate, so it's time for some political trickery. They decide that they will attach it to the back of an Appropriation Bill for our troops in Iraq. It was one of those “Must-Pass” Bills. It goes through with flying colors. They pass the Real ID Act on the back of a Bill that had nothing to do with the Real ID Act. President Bush signed it on May 11, 2005.

This Bill said it should be enforced beginning May of 2008. They gave a 3 year window to get everybody used to it ~ for all the States to issue Real ID compliant driver's licenses. These licenses would have certain features so that it was considered a secure ID. It could be used for boarding airplanes.

Now, nobody's paused to say, “Wait a minute. Hold on... Most all of the hijackers on 9/11 had legitimate ID. They could have gotten on those planes if they wanted to.”

They didn't stop to say that because they didn't really care about security. They were caring about getting this level of control, moving America into Socialism.

The States awakened to realize what's going to happen here and they began to pass laws against the Real ID because the US Government had hijacked the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles. They had no business doing that. That power is not given to the US Government. So the States began to pass laws against it. Soon 25 of the 50 States of the United States have passed laws or resolutions against Real ID.

Some believe Real ID is now dead in the water. But people are not giving up. In 2007, there were people who tried to pass an Immigration Bill. They said, “We need an enforceable, mandatory ID in order to be able to curb immigration.”

We've curbed immigration for 230 years by enforcing our borders. But people were no longer willing to do that. We didn't want to keep foreign labor out. We needed foreign labor to feed our labor machine. We didn't have enough workers.

So that really wasn't the purpose of the Immigration Bill. The people that were pushing this believed in World Government. They really wanted a global ID so, you don't need borders anymore.

We now have electronic handcuffs that we can put on everybody. Once everybody has that ID, that ID is used for renting motel rooms, purchasing things, even used for where you can work. It's used like ID is used right now. Once that happens, then you start establishing a trail and you can monitor the activity of everybody. It becomes a form of control.

The Bible says, ultimately, it will even control what you believe politically and what you believe spiritually. Let me remind you what happened under Joseph Stalin. The butchering of over 20 million people because they were political dissidents or they had religious beliefs that Stalin could not tolerate. Same way in China under Mao Tse Tung with the cultural revolution. We've had the same thing occur.

If we think it cannot happen here, we're just foolish. We're not studying our history books. If we yield that level of control, some day that control will be used against it. That's the reason this is a fight that we cannot afford to lose.

The Immigration Bill called for a machine-scannable social security card and it established a national database. If you were not in that national database, you were not allowed to hold a job. Employers would have to take your card and scan it. That would be hooked up by computer to the national database under Homeland Security's control, the IRS control and Social Security control. If you were not approved, you could not be hired. It would be illegal to hire you if your name was not in the database and the Employer could be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.

The reason that this is so deadly is because once that database is established, the government can place any stipulation on that database that they want to. And of course, no job, no buying, no selling.

Then they went on to establish a thing called E-Verify. Today, any firm that has government contracts is required to use the E-Verify technology on everyone they hire. That began as of September 8, 2009. They say it's voluntary, but it's not voluntary for anyone that does business with the US Government. That's a lot of people. This is another way the government is attempting to introduce a national ID through the back door.

Once again we've got to ask this question. “Why is the government so determined to implement a national ID?

Control … Control … Control

They want to control whether you plant a tree in your front yard or backyard. They want to control exactly how you build your house. The control factor in this nation and around the world has become absolutely suffocating. That's the reason they are pushing so strong toward this national ID.

Are we really moving toward a global ID?

Are we moving to a cashless society right now?

Answers to these questions and more, follow ...

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.

Part 4 – 666: Mark Of The Beast

Equipping God's Saints (Believers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

Previously, we learned what the Bible says about the Mark of the Beast. Now we want to investigate how close we actually are to implementing the Mark of the Beast. We are going to find out that we are closer than most people think.

The prophecy foretells a time when each of us will have a mark or a number, without which we will not be permitted to buy or sell. It paints a picture of a system of total control. Let's look at the history of numbering people upon this earth.

Over the last 70 or 80 years most nations have implemented a system of numbering their citizens. Here in the United States of America the social security system was begun in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

There was opposition to this system because so many people knew their Bibles. They knew the bible talked about a time where everybody would be numbered. When the government began to talk about giving all of us a number, there was huge opposition about that. As a result, the government agreed to stamp on the social security cards, “Not to be used for identification.”

Obviously, that's a joke. They said it would only be used to administer the social security benefit program. Over time, because this number was available, little by little people have begun to use it for taxes, for retirement, for almost everything. You've got to give your social security number to buy a house, to get a loan ~ even though they had stamped on there, “Not for identification.”

It's become such a joke that in 1972 they said, “Look, there's no use pretending anymore. It is used for identification. We'll just take it away. So it's not on there anymore.

During the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler numbered the Jews and many Non-Jews that were imprisoned in his concentration camps. They were tatooed with a number in order to identify and track each individual. It was Hitler's way of keeping tabs on each person so that he could maintain control. The end purpose of numbering a population is always to control them.

You know as well as I do, control and freedom are opposite terms. If Fido's on a leash, he's under control, but if the leash breaks and he runs through the neighborhood, now he's free.

What do we want to do? Do we want to be on the leash of big government or do we want to be free? You cannot have freedom when the population is numbered. That's the reason that Americans have always resisted a national ID card.

Today over 100 nations have compulsory national ID cards because most governments are controlling. Most governments are socialistic. They believe the people are to serve the government instead of the government serving the people.

Most other nations besides these 100 that have the compulsory ID card, have some form of non-compulsory ID. However, these non-compulsory ID's have a way of becoming mandatory over time.

For example, here in the United States most of us use our driver's license as an ID card. Now, you can't fly without a driver's license or an ID card. You can actually go to the driver's license bureau even if you don't drive and they will give you an ID card. It's so necessary. It's almost compulsory now in the society in which we live.

A national ID system is required in order to implement a totalitarian form of government. When you see the trend toward all the nations acquiring a national ID, and even to the point where it soon could be a global ID, you know that you're in the process of the slide on the slippery slope into World Government. The principle reason for a national ID is control. Always remember, control and freedom are opposite terms.

Let's talk about some of the national ID systems around the world. There is no doubt about it the national ID programs that are set up are going to end up being the mechanism that will be used by the Antichrist and his religious partner, the False Prophet, to rule the world.

In India, on June 25, 2009, India announced it was pressing ahead with universal biometric ID cards to be completed by 2011. The plan was to register 1.2 billion people. That's the entire population of India. They were going to accomplish this, phenomenally, within just 18 months.

In 2007, China launched an ID card containing an RFID chip for all 1.3 billion of it's citizens.

Here you have 1.2 billion (India) + 1.3 billion (China). That's well over one-third of the world's population just in those 2 countries who already now have mandatory ID cards. That means they already are under the strong hand of government and under the strong hand of control.

Germany is implementing a biometric ID card to all of it's citizens starting November 1, 2010.

We can see this is a huge trend in the world. Almost every nation is moving in this direction now.

In the United States of America, fortunately, our forefathers had such a strong tradition of liberty that we've always said, “No. We're not going to have a national ID Card. We are men. We are not numbers. We're not going to submit to this dehumanizing of society.”

The ID card idea has been chipping away at us for a while. A lot of people think it all began on 9/11 with the terrorist attacks on New York City, but that's not true because Marvin Stone, the editor of US News and World Report, wrote in an editorial on September 15, 1980 an article entitled, “A National Identity Card?” His rationale for arguing for the establishment of a national ID here in the United States was to solve the problem of illegal immigration.

This was catching momentum back in 1980. It came to the desk of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. When it was proposed to him, he said, “What? Are you crazy? That's the Mark of the Beast.”

That was the end of the national ID idea here in the United States for a while, at least, until the Reagan administration was over. Ronald Reagan just happened to know enough about his Bible. He was actually a student of the Book of Revelation and he understood the Mark of the Beast.

We will never have a national ID in the United States of America as long as we have a Biblically literate society. But the further we get away from God's Word, the more likely we are to slide into the trap.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.

Part 3 – 666: Mark Of The Beast

Equipping God's Saints (Believers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

When we talk about this mark, will this mark be a visible mark? Will this be a 666 on your hand or forehead? Or will it be invisible?

I can't tell you for sure whether it will be visible or invisible, but I definitely believe it's going to be a physical mark. I believe that because you have to have something that enables you to buy or sell.

We know right now that when you get some kind of an ID card, they like your fingerprints or they like your eye scan. That's a little bit disconcerting because the prophecy says that the mark will be in your hand or in your forehead. Well, my fingerprints are on my hand and my iris, my retina that the machines read, is in my forehead. Could it be what this prophecy is talking about?

Or could it be talking about just a national ID card. You can either hold the ID card in your hand, or you can memorize your number in your head. I don't know the answer for sure right now. All I can tell you is this time is coming and it's coming right ahead of us. The technology is being set up right now.

In the rest of the passage, Revelation 13:18 says:

“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.

The passage says that this is the number of a man. Could it be the Antichrist's social security number? Or somehow could we calculate the name of a man and interpret into 666?

Notice the passage says, “Let him that hath understanding count [or calculate] the number of the beast.” And notice in verse 17 that it's, “The number of his name.”

Somehow, apparently, the name of the Antichrist, or of his world government, is going to calculate to 666. Here are a couple of examples that may help you imagine what this is going to be like.

Back when Ronald Reagan was President, there were some people that thought Reagan could be the Antichrist. His name is Ronald Wilson Reagan. Each name has 6 letters in it, which could calculate to 666. Obviously, Reagan was not the Antichrist. He's now dead and gone.

There is an inscription in the crown of the Pope. The inscription is in Latin and it says, “Vicarius Filii Dei.” It's Latin for “Vicar of the Son of God” ~ Vicar, or Representative, of the Son of God. The Catholics believe that the Pope is in the place of Jesus Christ on earth today.

Now, if you take the letters in Vicarius Filii Dei that stand for Roman numerals, that have Roman numeral value, it's interesting what happens when you add up the Roman numerals in the words. (The A,R, S, F and E are skipped because they have no Roman numeral values.)

          V = 5

          I = 1

          C = 100

          I = 1

          U (is inscribed as V) = 5

          I = 1

          L = 50

          I = 1

          I = 1

          D = 500

          I = 1

Add them all up and you will see they add up to 666. Does that mean the Pope is the Antichrist? No. We've already demonstrated in a previous lesson that whoever is Pope at the time of the Antichrist will be in alliance with the Antichrist and will play the role of the False Prophet. So, I don't think we could say that Vicarius Filii Dei fulfills the requirement of the prophecy. But you do have to admit that it's interesting since the Bible says,

“Let him that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast, for it's the number of the name of a man.”

Also notice in Revelation 14:9 that it tells us what's going to happen to the person that takes the mark. Revelation 14:9-11 says:

“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; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”

What is this saying to us?

The cost for taking the Mark of the Beast and worshiping the Antichrist will be eternal damnation. That's the reason this is such a serious subject.

The Bible teaches us that some people will refuse the Mark of the Beast and they will be killed because of their refusal. It says in Revelation 20:4-6:

“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”

This is going to be happening during the final 3 ½ years immediately preceding Armageddon and the First Ressurection. When this happens, these people will not be dead long because the Bible says when Christ comes back, the dead will be resurrected. They may be dead a year or two or three. It's not going to be long. Then they are going to be resurrected and the Bible tells us this is the First Resurrection.

Will some people refuse the Mark of the Beast and survive? Absolutely.

The Antichrist will not be in control of every part of the world. Daniel 11:41 tells us:

“He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.”

All three of these locations are inside the country of Jordan.

The Bible also tells us that the nation of Israel will never fall under the control of the Antichrist. Revelation 12:14 tells us that “The woman with 12 stars [The 12 stars symbolize the 12 tribes of Israel] Revelation 12:14 says:

“The woman will be protected from the Antichrist during the final three and one-half years.”

This is during the time we call the Great Tribulation.

Furthermore it says in Daniel 11:44:

“The tidings out of the east and north shall trouble him...”

The Antichrist is going to have opposition. He will be fighting wars all during that last period of time.

When you take a look at the Antichrist and this Mark of the Beast, it's important that we realize that some will take it, some will not. The ones who take it, the Bible says that they will be cast into Lake of Fire and they will be tormented in the presence of the Holy Land.

You can argue with this if you want to, but it's in YOUR Bible. It's in Revelation 14:9-11. It's serious.

This is CRITICAL. The Bible says, everybody will take this Mark except those whose names are in the Lamb's Book of Life. Make sure YOUR NAME is in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.

Part 2 – 666: Mark Of The Beast

Equipping God's Saints (Believers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

You have got to understand this whole program was conceived in Hell by Satan, himself. His desire is to cause all of us to worship him because he hates God. He hates the fact that the human race is God's prized creation. He wants you and me and everybody in the world to worship him through the Antichrist.

When the Bible says that the False Prophet will influence the entire world to worship the Antichrist. That really will result in the entire world worshiping Satan. That's what Satan wants. He does not want us to worship our Creator, the one, true God. He wants us to worship Satan.

The scriptures tell us when you take the mark of the beast ~ and it tells us here that if you don't, you will actually be killed. This is a dramatic, drastic scripture. But the Bible says whosoever refuses to worship will be killed. How could that happen in modern society?

Wind the clock back about 100 years. Go to the times of Joseph Stalin. Go to the times of Mao Tse Tung. Joseph Stalin slaughtered at least 20 million people because they would not conform to his regime politically and spiritually. They tell us from 1949, when the communists took over Mainland China, until right now, there have been 60 million killed over the last 50 years. I'm talking about in recent times here. I'm talking about within the last 100 years. And we know what happened with Adolph Hitler. Six million Jews, a total of about 11 million slaughtered, not counting the fatalities that were committed in World War II.

For us to think it couldn't happen now, that's folly. We have records of incidences like this from the beginning of time until now. You can talk about the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, or more recently, the Soviet Union, Communist China, Nazi Germany.

I hate to tell you this … It's getting ready to happen again. The Bible says this coming persecution will be the worst persecution, ever. It will be a tribulation such as never has been before or ever again shall be. I wish it were not true, but it's going to happen.

It's absolutely certain to happen. We can stick our head in the sand and act like it's not going to happen, but it is going to happen. It's in YOUR Bible. It's in MY Bible. It's Prophecy. The prophecies always come to pass, so it's absolutely critical to you and to me that we really take this to heart.

Let's look at the rest of the passage in Revelation 13. In Revelation 13:16-17 it says:

“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:

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.”

Notice it says 3 things here:

1. The Mark
2. The Name of the Beast
3. The Number of his name

Remember those things because the Bible says that's what you're going to have to accept in order to be able to buy or sell ~ To participate in the economy.

If you do not take the mark, you will be boycotted, economically. That means they are going to force you out of commerce. You won't be able to go to the store. You won't be able to provide for your family. You are going to be put off limits because by this time diversity will no longer be tolerated. They are going to insist that everyone comes to conformity. We see this happening already.

In Germany, right now, it's against the law to home school your children. They explain, “We don't want a parallel society. We want everybody thinking alike. We want everyone to have the same values. We want everyone to have the same culture.

It's already starting all over again, and that's not just Germany. There are other places in Europe right now that are starting to outlaw home schooling because they want you to think like the state wants you to think. That's what's going to move all the way through Europe. Europe is going to be the power base of the Antichrist. The world community already is using sanctions to force obedience.

Sometimes when we read these prophecies we think, “Wait a minute. It could never happen.”

But the fact is, it is happening right now. The United Nations, right now … Any nation that does not comply with the edicts of the UN Security Council, they will pass sanctions against them. It was Iraq first of all with Saddam Hussein.

More recently, we've passed several levels of sanctions against Iran. You're very aware of that. It's in our news all the time right now.

However, this prophecy not only applies to sanctions on a national level, we're talking about a prophecy that says sanctions on an individual level will soon be levied against people. You know as well as I do that it's never been possible for sanctions to be placed against us on an individual level ~ at least until now.

Now the technology does exist so that they could put you off limits. We don't have a total cashless society yet, but there are actually laws in place that force you to have an approved national ID card or else you can't hold a job. If you can't hold a job, how can you buy or sell? You can't make any money.

Already, we see the laws are moving toward this 2000 year old prophecy, which could never be fulfilled prior to now. It can be fulfilled right now with the emergence of modern technology. You know as well as I do that you could buy almost anything if you have a valid credit card with a valid number. You can pick up the phone and buy things from Hong Kong, from Singapore, from all over the world. But if you don't have that number, you're out of business in the land of interstate and international commerce.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.

Part 1 – 666: Mark Of The Beast

Equipping God's Saints (Believers of Christ) through the Prophecies of the End Times …

You go through a check out line and the cashier rings up your purchases. The total comes to $6.66. What goes through your head? Do you instantly think, “Mark of the Beast”?

It's interesting that no matter who it is, when you say “666”, all of a sudden they know what you are talking about. What do you know about the Mark of the Beast?

The Bible prophesies a time when every person will be required by the Antichrist and his world government to have a number. Without this number, you will not be able to buy anything or sell anything. In order to get your number, you will be forced to worship, or pledge allegiance to the Antichrist and his world government system.

One more thing that is very important is, if you pledge allegiance to the Antichrist, you will be eternally damned according to the Bible.

The system that the Bible prophesies for the days of the Antichrist, for the time just before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; this system could never be set up until now. The prophecy is 2000 years old, but the fulfillment is only possible right now. Only with the invention of the computer, the birth of the internet and the use of credit cards has it become possible to set up a system whereby every person on earth could be tracked and controlled, economically. You know as well as I do that this now has become possible.

Have you ever stood in front of an ATM Machine, or possibly using a credit card at a gas station, you swipe your card and the screen says, “Authorization Failed”? What went wrong? You've got to get it fixed or you don't get any gas or you're not able to get your money. What caused the problem? It could have been too many purchases that day. Perhaps you are over your credit limit. Maybe there's a mistake. There is a database somewhere that controls whether you can use that card or number to buy or sell.

The prophecy 2000 years old said a day would come when you would use a number in order to buy or sell. It's been absolutely incomprehensible until our generation. Yet, the prophecy written 2000 years before credit cards came into existance is there in the Bible stating that the time will come when everyone will have to have a mark or a number in order to be able to buy or sell.

We now have a system in place whereby every person could be given a number. That number could be used to determine whether you can participate in the economy or not. I'm talking about a database that could control the world.

Let me make sure I say here at the very beginning or our lesson that this is possibly the most important lesson you will every hear in your entire life because this lesson can mean the difference between eternal salvation and eternal damnation.

The prophecy states that you will not be allowed to buy or sell if you have not pledged allegiance to the Antichrist and his world government. One entry into your database and your access to the global economy will be cut off.

Think about this for just one moment. Let's just say that a world religious system were set up and everyone has to pledge allegiance to that world religious system in order for their particular point on the database to be checked okay. If that's not checked, then your number will not work, your card will not work. They have the power at a mere stroke of the computer to either grant you access to buy or sell, especially if we come into a world that is a totally cashless society. (By the way, we are getting closer and closer to that all the time.)

Mikhail Gorbachev, in his famous book, Perestroika, stated back in 1987 that there are three root causes for war on earth:

1. Political Conflicts
2. Religious Conflicts
3. Economic Conflicts

He theorized in his book that if we had a One-World Government, a global belief system, a global ethic, some kind of a global religion that all religions could ascribe to, that they could all buy into the common denominator. And if we had a global economy that we would have removed the root causes for war on earth, we could enter into a time of peace and security.

It may surprise you, but exactly that kind of a system is described in your Bible 2000 years ago. Revelation 13 talks about a time when there will be a world government, a world religion and a global economy, just like Mr. Gorbachev suggested.

Revelation Chapter 13 is divided into 3 sections:

1. Verses 1-8 = The Antichrist and his world government
2. Verses 11-15 = The False Prophet and his religious system
3. Verses 15-18 = The global economic system

The global economic system in verses 15-18 are our focus for this lesson. The global economic system will be used to force compliance and obedience to the One-World Government and the One-World Religious System. The global economic system will be used to control every person on earth. Revelation 13:15 says:

“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.”

The beast is referring to the political leader, the Antichrist. The False Prophet gives life to the image of the beast. How does this work?

Remember, this prophecy is 2000 years old. Could they be talking about television? We know that a person can go on television and you can see that person as though they are live in your living room, world-wide. Could it be a hologram? I don't know the answer to that particular question, but somehow, some way, they are going to be able to put out there the image of this one great world leader so that we can hear him speak and almost have a personal relationship with him.

When we talk about that he's going to force all of us to worship the beast, does that mean we're all going to bow down to a man and say, “You're my lord, you're my savior, you're my god”? What is it going to mean to worship? Could it mean to pledge allegiance to?

We know that in Adolph Hitler's day, there was a system very close to this and everyone would stand for hours with their hand raised and shouting “Hail Hitler”. It was really a form of Emperor worship.

How will we pledge allegiance? Will we pledge allegiance to the One-World Government, to the New World Order? Whatever it is, the Bible sees it as worship. To worship the Antichrist will be to worship the Devil.

Resources: The anointing of the Holy Spirit and God Almighty, who I am accountable to. I have prayed diligently and am led to follow and support the teachings of Pastor Irvin Baxter from Endtime Ministries and his teachings of Understanding the End Times. I encourage you to visit his website at endtime.com.