THE MARK OF THE
BEAST
THE MARK OF THE BEAST
The 24th study in the series.
Studies written by William Carey.
Presentation by Michael Salzman.
All texts are from the New King James
version.
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What is the warning message of the
third angel?
Revelation 14:9-11,14
Then a third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice, “If anyone
worships the beast and his image, and
receives his mark on his forehead, or
on his hand.
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10 “he himself shall also drink of the
wine of the wrath of God, which is
poured out full strength into the cup of
His indignation. He shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels and in the presence
of the Lamb.
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11 And the smoke of their torment
ascends forever and ever; and they
have no rest day or night, who worship
the beast and his image, and whoever
receives the mark of his name.
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14 Then I looked, and behold a white
cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the
Son of man, having on His head a
golden crown, and in His hand a sharp
sickle.
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In the closing era of earth’s history just
before Christ appears on the cloud, at
the last day, to reward every man, God
will send a special message warning
every person not to receive the mark of
the beast.
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The terrible punishment of which God
warns should make us purpose never
to receive the mark of this beast, even
if our faithfulness to God should cost
us our lives.
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Can this beast power be identified?
Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him that has
understanding calculate the number of
the beast, for it is the number of a man:
His number is 666.
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This beast power, whose mark we are
warned to avoid, is the Catholic power.
(Beasts are a symbol of a nation or a
power, Dan 7:17,23). The pope’s leading
title, VICARIUS FILII DEI, when counted
according to the Roman numeral value
of the letters, equals exactly 666.
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Since the beast is symbolic of the
Catholic power, the mark of the beast
must be some institution of Catholicism,
which will distinguish those who adopt it
as obeying her authority in preference to
obeying God on that point.
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How do you become a servant?
Romans 6:16
Do you not know that to whom you
present yourselves slaves to obey, you
are that one’s slaves whom you obey,
whether of sin leading to death, or of
obedience leading to righteousness?
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Whatever power we obey in religion, his
servants we are. Two questions will
show plainly what is involved in this
matter of the mark of the beast:
1. When a person keeps the 7th-day
Sabbath, who does he obey? There
can be only one answer: that person is
obeying God, for that is what God has
commanded in the 4th Commandment
of the 10, Ex. 20:8-11.
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2. When a person keeps the first day of
the week, Sunday, as a so-called
Sabbath, whom is he obeying? He is
not obeying God by keeping the first
day, because God has never told
anybody to keep the first day of each
week. Whom then is he obeying? He is
obeying the command of the Catholic
power, which has attempted to
substitute the first day as a holy day in
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place of the 7th-day, which the Lord
Christ sanctified or set apart for man in
the beginning of time, Gen 2:1-3, Eph.
3:9. Thus it is made plain in light of
God’s message that, when we choose
to keep the 7th-day, we are marked as
worshipers of the Creator, Jesus Christ,
the only true God.
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See Eze. 20:12. Compare also
Neh. 9:12-15 with 1 Cor. 10:4); while if
we choose the Catholic Sunday in the
place of God’s seventh-day Sabbath,
we are marked as followers of the
beast-power of Revelation 13.
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Is false worship of any benefit?
Matthew 15:9
And in vain they worship Me, Teaching
as doctrines the commandments of
men.’”
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When we substitute a human
ordinance in place of what God has
ordained, OUR WORSHIP IS IN VAIN.
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Is the world forced to accept the
Mark of the Beast?
Revelation 13:16-17
He causes all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and slave, to
receive a mark on their right hand, or
on their foreheads,
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17 and that no one may buy or sell
except one who has the mark or the
name of the beast, or the number of
his name.
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An attempt will be made to enforce the
mark of the beast on all people. So
each one will have to decide whether
he will obey God and keep the seventh
day, or to obey the beast power and
keep the first day, which this power has
sought to put in the place of God’s holy
day.
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Will everyone on earth worship the
beast?
Revelation 13:8
All who dwell on the earth will
worship him, whose names have not
been written in the Book of Life of
the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world.
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All the world will obey the beast power,
except a few, who will be loyal to God,
as the three Hebrews were in the vast
throng of Babylon. The book of
Revelation shows that in the testing
time every person will have to choose
whether he will receive the SEAL OF
GOD on his
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forehead, or whether he will receive the
MARK OF THE BEAST on the forehead
or in the hand. Whichever mark we
CHOOSE, either for God or for the
beast, for CHRIST or ANTICHRIST, WILL
SEAL OUR ETERNAL DESTINY. God
holds out the Sabbath as the sign of
His power, Ex. 31:16-17.
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God holds out the Sabbath as the sign
of His power, Ex. 31:16-17. The beast
power holds out Sunday as the sign of
its power. Which one do you choose?
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Who did the apostles say we should
obey?
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the other apostles
answered and said, “We ought to obey
God rather than men.
We should decide now to obey God
rather than man.
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Who avoids the mark of the beast?
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints; here
are those who keep the
Commandments of God and the faith of
Jesus.
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The only way we can avoid the mark
of the beast is to keep the
commandments of God and the faith
of Jesus. If we have made that
decision, then stick to it. If you have
not decided, then put yourself on
God’s side this moment by deciding
to obey Him by keeping HIS day holy.
From a Catholic Catechism
THE FULFILMENT OF THE PROPHECY
OF DANIEL 7:25
“Think to change times and laws”
Quoted from a Catholic Catechism
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
192. What is the third Commandment?
The third Commandment is: “Remember
that thou keep holy the Sabbath Day.”
From a Catholic Catechism
193. What are we commanded by the third
Commandment?
By the third Commandment we are
commanded to keep Sunday holy.
The Jews Sabbath Day was Saturday; we
Christians keep Sunday holy. The
Church, by the power our Lord gave her,
changed the observance of Saturday to
Sunday.
From a Catholic Catechism
A word about Sunday. God said,
“Remember that thou keep holy the
SABBATH DAY.” The Sabbath was
Saturday, not Sunday; why, then, do
we keep Sunday holy instead of
Saturday? The Church altered the
observance of the Sabbath to the
observance of Sunday in
commemoration of our Lord having
risen from the dead on Easter Sunday,
From a Catholic Catechism
and of the Holy Ghost having
descended upon the apostles on Whit
Sunday. Protestants who say that they
go by the Bible and the Bible only, and
that they do not believe anything that is
not in the Bible, must be rather puzzled
by the keeping of Sunday when God
From a Catholic Catechism
distinctly said, “Keep holy the
SABBATH DAY.” The word Sunday
does not come anywhere in the
Bible, so, without knowing it, they
are obeying he authority of the
Catholic Church.
--THE CATECHISM SIMPLY EXPLAINED,
H. Canon Cafferata, page 89.
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“You may read the Bible from Genesis to
Revelation, and you will not find a single
line authorizing the sanctification of
Sunday. The scriptures enforce the
religious observance of Saturday, a day
which we never sanctify.”
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS,
--James Cardinal Gibbons, Page 89.
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Do you want to receive the MARK OF
THE BEAST?
Do you want to receive the SEAL OF
GOD?
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