Do you believe in God and religion? [I Love My Religion]

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I do believe in God and religion. I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins, and I believe by praying and asking for forgiveness and to be saved, I am saved and my sins forgiven. I also believe what is written in the Bible. Now here's my problem that I am having below:

Revelation 16-17 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Now I don't know if I'm in the wrong here with this, but with everything that has been happening lately, I'm tending to tie this verse in with the one and only vaccine. "Getting ready to walk into wally world... "Uh sir, where's your card?" "Oh I see, no vaccine card (mark) no food."

Now one might say, well money could be the mark, but money is talked about in the Bible. If a store wants to deny you service because you don't have a vaccine card, it means you can't BUY or SELL, no mark, no service. I don't know, that's how I'm seeing it. And no I'm not some, crazy, off the wall whatever, I just remember reading Revelations and reading that if the people don't have the mark of the beast, they can't buy or sell, and to me in today's world in which we live, this vaccine sure sounds A LOT like a mark of some kind anyway.

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canusernamebemyusername · M

The mark is not a vaccine as needles existed when revelation was written. So there would have been no need to make a metaphor in place of some future not understood technology. The mark is a literal mark. A brand. Like one would brand a criminal at the time. It was meant to distinguish people. So you know who you can and cant not trade with. You cant distingue people with a vaccine which is effectively invisible. Nor do you get a vaccine in your head and or hand. If you are going to go this far you might as well say no shoes, no shirt, no service is the mark as well. They tried this with UPC codes in the 70-80s as well. And paper money. And the Euro. At this point it's crying wolf.
Most of this has to do with the fact that Revelation was written by a Jewish convert to Christianity and therefore uses Jewish occult symbols. Including things like gematria. Modern Christians not raised around Judaism have completely lost most of the context of Revalation therefore.
Christians need to be more worried about false prophets and worshiping antichrists. As many have fallen for an antichrist in tr*mp and have taken the word of false prophets like Jonny Enlow, Kat Kerr and Jeff Jansen to heart and believe them despite their prophecies failing time and again.

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."
Deuteronomy 18:22

But I have heard many "prophets" hide behind: ""Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm." 1 Chronicles 16:22'

But this is cowardly and arrogant as they are claiming that they themselves are prophets and anointed and chosen of God despite no evidence not God telling anyone else that he chose them.

Ultimately the Bible only says one sin is unforgivable and that is blasphemy against the holy spirit.

Thodsis · 51-55, M

@canusernamebemyusername Has your local shop run out of tin foil? :)