Well, it is so splendid my dear Father ABBA that you have chosen another faithful vessel of an ambassador of you and your son Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit to give a critical message about the Mark at this time of this generation and the hour being late. Dear Sergio thank you for doing such a subject and making it understandable when most things out there are complicated with argon not such as this laymen terms. Some of us fail English teaching in school and still struggle these days especially with spiritual scriptural matters.
I have used the term to some when commenting that they knocked it out of the park. For you I say you're the bat catcher that had had his holy bat catcher's glove vigilantly, vigilantly, posture ready on DEFCON 1 readiness and caught the truth words of the Father coming on the spiritual waves of his son's promised helper the Holy Spirit never picked up in that glove the filthy fluff of the enemy's false doctrine and gave the divine word for the sheep to so as stay ready and prepped to make sure we have the righteous worship sitting on the throne of our heart (ABBA). Bless be you and may Father and Christ and the Holy Spirit keep you spiritually sound and others pray for you in support.
Sergio, I couldn't have said this better myself! You, I believe, are exactly on target with this. I've believed and thought this for years! It's great to read someone else has the same mindset! Thank you for posting this! Everyone is concerned about taking a literal mark on the forehead or hand. Christians say they won't do it. Indeed they wouldn't ever. The Evil one knows they won't. This is about what we set hands to do in the kingdom of God's purposes for us. It's about front of mind awareness, what we think and as a result, do. We are sealed by the Holy Spirit. That's not a number. The dragon wants us to be sealed by his spirit. Not a number. By our thoughts and actions we are pledging allegiance to one or the other by what we think and thus do. This is why it says "faith without works is dead". "You will be known by your fruits". Your thoughts will exemplify your actions. Allegiance to one or the other.
Thank you for this post. It’s always a comfort when God speaks. This past weekend, I was thinking about how much I struggle with the book of Revelation because I don’t understand. And then this morning I open my Substack to find this post which speaks to this book in a clear manner that resonates and strikes me as a sensible interpretation.
God is good.
Also, I am concerned about what is happening in America, and wondering how many white, Christian evangelicals are more loyal to Trump and the republican, MAGA cult than to Christ and the gospel.
Cap, you bring up a really sharp point — and I think it’s much needed. When people ask me what party I align with, I tell them I align with issues — like being pro-life and other biblical principles where Scripture makes it clear where I should stand. I don’t pledge allegiance to any public figure or politician, including pastors.
I’m also concerned, my friend, because we’ve grown comfortable idolizing the minuscule — magnifying the trivial while neglecting the eternal. I truly appreciate you taking the time to read and comment, my friend. I pray you have a blessed week.
That's what is sad...tare Christians who cannot see the wolves. And will accept and worship the one who comes in his own name. Praying they will "wake up" the right way...not the false woke crowd, but come out of deception. T-rump even said...rather slyly done...(Oh, shut up silly woman) "You knew I was a snake before you took me in." But I guess it went right over their heads. There are many antichrists...but only one Savior. Jesus Christ.
Once again I'm drawn to to the Hebraic understanding of Scripture. Rome is certainly a prototype of the many that come behind it. The world will continue to tug away at us no matter how loyal we are to Yeshua. As a matter of fact things will bode worse as time marches on. Let's stay in the trenches with each other as we look forward to being the Bride of Christ someday!
C’mon, now you’re starting to sound a little like Groucho Marx, “who’re you gonna believe, ME or your own eyes?” The execution of Christ is clearly referenced in both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmuds. Purportedly, ‘it wasn’t written down until 300 AD’—but even if that point were conceded, the timing alone should tell you A LOT about the motivation behind same. A related question , if the Rabbinical account of the execution of Isaiah was not a settled narrative written or ‘oral; by 30 AD , then WHERE did Paul get his ‘sawn in half’ info in Hebrews 11 from? it’s certainly not in the Bible.
Don’t take offense at this, but I’m a busy person and this isn’t going anywhere.
You’re treating literary parallels as if they automatically prove historical reporting, and I’m not going to grant that leap. If you ever want to restart with one concrete claim—exact passage, dating, and why the identification is certain—I’ll engage. Otherwise, I’m moving on.
You’re trying to shame me into treating late, polemical Talmud material as ‘clear’ biography. I won’t. The identification is debated and the texts aren’t neutral history.
And the Hebrews point doesn’t help you: Hebrews isn’t Paul, and “sawn in two” is a known Jewish tradition about Isaiah outside the Tanakh—so it proves traditions existed, not that the Talmud is a reliable record of Yeshua.
If you want to discuss evidence, fine. If you want to do name-calling, I’m out.✌️
‘Shaming’ you?! You are SO barking up the wrong tree. Funny how you can pivot to nitty-gritty Hebrews’ disputed authorship in a micro-second. So, WHOEVER wrote Hebrews, where did he get his info from?
Hebrews pulls from well-known Second Temple Jewish tradition about Isaiah (outside the Tanakh). That proves traditions circulated — not that later, polemical Talmudic compilations are neutral biographical evidence about Yeshua. If you want to claim they are, name the exact passage and make the case for dating and identification.
I do. Your question assumes the Babylonian Talmud is a straightforward historical source about Jesus. It isn’t. Those passages are late and polemical, with censorship/redaction history and naming/chronology problems. Some scholars think “Yeshu” refers to Jesus in at least some places; others argue it’s a different figure or a later composite. Either way, it’s not “exact history,” it’s a hostile tradition. So “Hebraic ≠ Talmudic” stands.
Are you asking for history, or are you trying to use a hostile late source as a weapon?
Let’s approach this from a different angle: before the Internet, did the high priest’s taunt of ‘give God the Glory, son’ in Matthew ever sound Vaguely Familiar or Strangely evocative to an episode in Israel’s distant past? And isn’t it strange that the Talmudic account of the execution of Christ (‘YESHUA’) EXACTLY PARALLELS the Achan Incident. Must be a CO-INK-A-DINK, right?
Well done. Any regenerate person--graced to be enthralled by the beauty of Christ, revealed in God's Word, opened-up by the Holy Spirit--will be led to the same general conclusion without the special knowledge of gematria, IMHO... but it's a nice bonus to know that they jibe.
This makes a lot of sense. Especially with people constantly “this person’s name has 666” “this guy does too”. It’s so uproarious that I don’t even pay attention because something THAT hyped, is propoganda. Swaying the minds of believers to believe strongly what a leader is is also idolatry. The focus is on someone here, rather than the One up there.
The sabbath connection was interesting because Yah calls the sabbath a sign between He and His people. So the man, 6, that strives for the sabbath, 7, becomes perfect, bearing the sign of his Creator. But the one who doesn’t, is left steps behind perfection, lingering in the deception of his own self governance.
I’m very glad you didn’t say vaccines are the mark 🤣 but! Rn my state is asking if they should make a bill prohibiting health care without vaccines 🤦♀️ there are so so many ways the system wants to make us conform to its power and authority to control anyone who will comply. And we are tricked by fear into thinking we have to comply to consume. (Masks for example. My fam didn’t wear them, we still make it through the apocalypse 🙄)
Anyways! This was really good thought and insight that honestly makes a lot more sense and brings clarity as to why so many seem to be THE antichrist. They all are. It’s a system. Not a person.
We made our Jesus out to be a blasphemous beast. We made him to teach that anyone who refused to say the magic words was damned eternally regardless of the holiness of your [Jews] lives and sincerity of your prayer. “The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads… One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast” (Rev 13:1,3).
Our crucified and risen Jesus, whose mortal wound was healed, became a license for hatred, slaughter, slander, and cruelty against you. “A wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces” (Gen 37:33 NKJV). The humble loving Jesus who forgave sinners and blessed children was devoured by hostile and hateful preachers and torn to pieces. So far from loving our enemies we delighted in your agony. We eagerly rejoiced about the madness, blindness, and dismay you would face, the hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything, the signs and decrees against you for all time, proofs of the superiority of our new religion.
“It [the beast] also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads” (Rev 13:16). Our preachers and bishops taught and enforced hostility and persecution, contempt and abuse, against you, the brothers and sisters of our Lord. The mark of hatred was on our hands, our actions, and on our foreheads, our thoughts and intentions. The real Jesus believed that his Torah should be the mark on our hand and forehead: “Tie them (My commands) as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads” (Deut 6:8).
Instead, we preached a beastly imposter who condemned everyone but us, a Jesus who considered all of you white-washed tombs, a brood of vipers, sons of the devil, and sentenced you to eternal misery and damnation. We got so excited about your anguished heart, eyes that pine, the despondent spirit, the terror night and day, and the Lord’s delight in causing you to perish and wiping you out, we did not get to the part about what happens next. Deuteronomy chapter 30 is about your ultimate future, the one you live in now and will continue to live in:
Great insight and I see how it aligns with everything with one exception… The scripture still tells us that without this Mark we cannot ‘buy nor sell’. This edict cannot be enforced without some tangible Mark, which occurs outside of the realm of how we live our lives or what is in written on our hearts….
Great thoughts, seriously, I appreciate the way you’re thinking it through. The only spot where we land differently is the ‘buy or sell’ part. In the first-century world, that didn’t require a physical mark or tech. Economic exclusion already worked through allegiance. If you didn’t align with the emperor’s system, the guilds and marketplaces shut you out.
So Revelation isn’t pointing to a gadget or implant as much as the same ancient idea Scripture keeps using a ‘mark’ as a sign of loyalty. And the economic pressure is simply how that loyalty gets tested.
So yes, there’s enforcement… it just doesn’t have to be a literal object. The heart determines the mark, and the system exposes it. IMO
Well, it is so splendid my dear Father ABBA that you have chosen another faithful vessel of an ambassador of you and your son Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit to give a critical message about the Mark at this time of this generation and the hour being late. Dear Sergio thank you for doing such a subject and making it understandable when most things out there are complicated with argon not such as this laymen terms. Some of us fail English teaching in school and still struggle these days especially with spiritual scriptural matters.
I have used the term to some when commenting that they knocked it out of the park. For you I say you're the bat catcher that had had his holy bat catcher's glove vigilantly, vigilantly, posture ready on DEFCON 1 readiness and caught the truth words of the Father coming on the spiritual waves of his son's promised helper the Holy Spirit never picked up in that glove the filthy fluff of the enemy's false doctrine and gave the divine word for the sheep to so as stay ready and prepped to make sure we have the righteous worship sitting on the throne of our heart (ABBA). Bless be you and may Father and Christ and the Holy Spirit keep you spiritually sound and others pray for you in support.
Thank you so much for sharing my friend. We are in this together, a light in the complacent darkness! :)
Sergio, I couldn't have said this better myself! You, I believe, are exactly on target with this. I've believed and thought this for years! It's great to read someone else has the same mindset! Thank you for posting this! Everyone is concerned about taking a literal mark on the forehead or hand. Christians say they won't do it. Indeed they wouldn't ever. The Evil one knows they won't. This is about what we set hands to do in the kingdom of God's purposes for us. It's about front of mind awareness, what we think and as a result, do. We are sealed by the Holy Spirit. That's not a number. The dragon wants us to be sealed by his spirit. Not a number. By our thoughts and actions we are pledging allegiance to one or the other by what we think and thus do. This is why it says "faith without works is dead". "You will be known by your fruits". Your thoughts will exemplify your actions. Allegiance to one or the other.
Amen Amen Amen!! 🙏
Thank you for this post. It’s always a comfort when God speaks. This past weekend, I was thinking about how much I struggle with the book of Revelation because I don’t understand. And then this morning I open my Substack to find this post which speaks to this book in a clear manner that resonates and strikes me as a sensible interpretation.
God is good.
Also, I am concerned about what is happening in America, and wondering how many white, Christian evangelicals are more loyal to Trump and the republican, MAGA cult than to Christ and the gospel.
This post speaks directly to that.
Thank you.
Cap, you bring up a really sharp point — and I think it’s much needed. When people ask me what party I align with, I tell them I align with issues — like being pro-life and other biblical principles where Scripture makes it clear where I should stand. I don’t pledge allegiance to any public figure or politician, including pastors.
I’m also concerned, my friend, because we’ve grown comfortable idolizing the minuscule — magnifying the trivial while neglecting the eternal. I truly appreciate you taking the time to read and comment, my friend. I pray you have a blessed week.
That's what is sad...tare Christians who cannot see the wolves. And will accept and worship the one who comes in his own name. Praying they will "wake up" the right way...not the false woke crowd, but come out of deception. T-rump even said...rather slyly done...(Oh, shut up silly woman) "You knew I was a snake before you took me in." But I guess it went right over their heads. There are many antichrists...but only one Savior. Jesus Christ.
How is MAGA a "cult"? I find that very offensive. Let's leave the politics out please. It will just cause strife among the brethren.
Once again I'm drawn to to the Hebraic understanding of Scripture. Rome is certainly a prototype of the many that come behind it. The world will continue to tug away at us no matter how loyal we are to Yeshua. As a matter of fact things will bode worse as time marches on. Let's stay in the trenches with each other as we look forward to being the Bride of Christ someday!
Amen! We are building the Ekklesia my friend! Love your perspective!
C’mon, now you’re starting to sound a little like Groucho Marx, “who’re you gonna believe, ME or your own eyes?” The execution of Christ is clearly referenced in both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmuds. Purportedly, ‘it wasn’t written down until 300 AD’—but even if that point were conceded, the timing alone should tell you A LOT about the motivation behind same. A related question , if the Rabbinical account of the execution of Isaiah was not a settled narrative written or ‘oral; by 30 AD , then WHERE did Paul get his ‘sawn in half’ info in Hebrews 11 from? it’s certainly not in the Bible.
Don’t take offense at this, but I’m a busy person and this isn’t going anywhere.
You’re treating literary parallels as if they automatically prove historical reporting, and I’m not going to grant that leap. If you ever want to restart with one concrete claim—exact passage, dating, and why the identification is certain—I’ll engage. Otherwise, I’m moving on.
Offense? None taken.
You’re trying to shame me into treating late, polemical Talmud material as ‘clear’ biography. I won’t. The identification is debated and the texts aren’t neutral history.
And the Hebrews point doesn’t help you: Hebrews isn’t Paul, and “sawn in two” is a known Jewish tradition about Isaiah outside the Tanakh—so it proves traditions existed, not that the Talmud is a reliable record of Yeshua.
If you want to discuss evidence, fine. If you want to do name-calling, I’m out.✌️
‘Shaming’ you?! You are SO barking up the wrong tree. Funny how you can pivot to nitty-gritty Hebrews’ disputed authorship in a micro-second. So, WHOEVER wrote Hebrews, where did he get his info from?
Hebrews pulls from well-known Second Temple Jewish tradition about Isaiah (outside the Tanakh). That proves traditions circulated — not that later, polemical Talmudic compilations are neutral biographical evidence about Yeshua. If you want to claim they are, name the exact passage and make the case for dating and identification.
Hebraic is not equivalent to ‘Talmudic’. While we’re on the subject, according to the Babylonian Talmud, what EXACTLY happened to ‘Yeshua’?
There's no real good answer for that because most scholars don't agree on whether or not the word that they think is Yeshua is actually Yeshua.
You ACTUALLY believe that?
I do. Your question assumes the Babylonian Talmud is a straightforward historical source about Jesus. It isn’t. Those passages are late and polemical, with censorship/redaction history and naming/chronology problems. Some scholars think “Yeshu” refers to Jesus in at least some places; others argue it’s a different figure or a later composite. Either way, it’s not “exact history,” it’s a hostile tradition. So “Hebraic ≠ Talmudic” stands.
Are you asking for history, or are you trying to use a hostile late source as a weapon?
Let’s approach this from a different angle: before the Internet, did the high priest’s taunt of ‘give God the Glory, son’ in Matthew ever sound Vaguely Familiar or Strangely evocative to an episode in Israel’s distant past? And isn’t it strange that the Talmudic account of the execution of Christ (‘YESHUA’) EXACTLY PARALLELS the Achan Incident. Must be a CO-INK-A-DINK, right?
I find this very interesting and enlightening.
You see, I’ve always thought “the mark of the beast” wasn’t a physical mark.
I believed the mark on our forehead was reflected in our beliefs/thoughts and the mark on the hand was known by our fruit.
Thank you.
Well done. Any regenerate person--graced to be enthralled by the beauty of Christ, revealed in God's Word, opened-up by the Holy Spirit--will be led to the same general conclusion without the special knowledge of gematria, IMHO... but it's a nice bonus to know that they jibe.
Insightful thank you
Good word!
This makes a lot of sense. Especially with people constantly “this person’s name has 666” “this guy does too”. It’s so uproarious that I don’t even pay attention because something THAT hyped, is propoganda. Swaying the minds of believers to believe strongly what a leader is is also idolatry. The focus is on someone here, rather than the One up there.
The sabbath connection was interesting because Yah calls the sabbath a sign between He and His people. So the man, 6, that strives for the sabbath, 7, becomes perfect, bearing the sign of his Creator. But the one who doesn’t, is left steps behind perfection, lingering in the deception of his own self governance.
I’m very glad you didn’t say vaccines are the mark 🤣 but! Rn my state is asking if they should make a bill prohibiting health care without vaccines 🤦♀️ there are so so many ways the system wants to make us conform to its power and authority to control anyone who will comply. And we are tricked by fear into thinking we have to comply to consume. (Masks for example. My fam didn’t wear them, we still make it through the apocalypse 🙄)
Anyways! This was really good thought and insight that honestly makes a lot more sense and brings clarity as to why so many seem to be THE antichrist. They all are. It’s a system. Not a person.
👏👏👏
you nailed it! Big picture thinking is what get’s us out of the religious matrix. 💙
Exactamondo
It is a system
We are led astray to believe the mark of the beast is : bitcoin, vaccines, a microchip etc etc but people including pastors don't fully read scripture
The mark is third on the list.
Worship the beast
Worship an image of the beast
Take the mark of the beast.
Amen!Amen!Amen!
So when John says the beast marks foreheads and hands, his readers understand: This is counterfeit Torah. A rival covenant.
So is Calvinism, so was Constantine's church. A few paragraphs from https://maryfholley.substack.com/p/the-beast
We made our Jesus out to be a blasphemous beast. We made him to teach that anyone who refused to say the magic words was damned eternally regardless of the holiness of your [Jews] lives and sincerity of your prayer. “The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads… One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast” (Rev 13:1,3).
Our crucified and risen Jesus, whose mortal wound was healed, became a license for hatred, slaughter, slander, and cruelty against you. “A wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces” (Gen 37:33 NKJV). The humble loving Jesus who forgave sinners and blessed children was devoured by hostile and hateful preachers and torn to pieces. So far from loving our enemies we delighted in your agony. We eagerly rejoiced about the madness, blindness, and dismay you would face, the hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything, the signs and decrees against you for all time, proofs of the superiority of our new religion.
“It [the beast] also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads” (Rev 13:16). Our preachers and bishops taught and enforced hostility and persecution, contempt and abuse, against you, the brothers and sisters of our Lord. The mark of hatred was on our hands, our actions, and on our foreheads, our thoughts and intentions. The real Jesus believed that his Torah should be the mark on our hand and forehead: “Tie them (My commands) as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads” (Deut 6:8).
Instead, we preached a beastly imposter who condemned everyone but us, a Jesus who considered all of you white-washed tombs, a brood of vipers, sons of the devil, and sentenced you to eternal misery and damnation. We got so excited about your anguished heart, eyes that pine, the despondent spirit, the terror night and day, and the Lord’s delight in causing you to perish and wiping you out, we did not get to the part about what happens next. Deuteronomy chapter 30 is about your ultimate future, the one you live in now and will continue to live in:
Great insight and I see how it aligns with everything with one exception… The scripture still tells us that without this Mark we cannot ‘buy nor sell’. This edict cannot be enforced without some tangible Mark, which occurs outside of the realm of how we live our lives or what is in written on our hearts….
Great thoughts, seriously, I appreciate the way you’re thinking it through. The only spot where we land differently is the ‘buy or sell’ part. In the first-century world, that didn’t require a physical mark or tech. Economic exclusion already worked through allegiance. If you didn’t align with the emperor’s system, the guilds and marketplaces shut you out.
So Revelation isn’t pointing to a gadget or implant as much as the same ancient idea Scripture keeps using a ‘mark’ as a sign of loyalty. And the economic pressure is simply how that loyalty gets tested.
So yes, there’s enforcement… it just doesn’t have to be a literal object. The heart determines the mark, and the system exposes it. IMO
All makes sense. Thank you.
I apologize for not thanking you sooner, Lyn. Appreciate you. Have a great day!
Wow.
Just, wow.
Your post made me think of digital ID honestly - the next thing, like the parchments of old.
How long can people hold out?
How long can I?
I fear I know the answer.
"It’s not a code to decode; it’s a pattern to discern." Profound.