How Will the People of Yahweh Survive the Mark of the Beast?
By DON ESPOSITO
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There Are many scary scenarios in Scripture. We see the flood of Noah destroy all human and animal life on the earth, except for Noah and those with him on the Ark. We also see Israel in slavery for several centuries, and dealing with hard bondage, and great suffering and misery.
And also, the Bible is filled with droughts and plagues and famines that sometimes can even boggle the human brain to how bad they may have been at the time.
2nd Ki 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria. And behold! They were laying siege to it until the head of a donkey was at eighty silver pieces, and a fourth of a cab of dove’s dung at five silver pieces.
2nd Ki 6:26 And it happened, the king of Israel was passing by on the wall. And a woman cried to him, saying, Save, my master, O king.
2nd Ki 6:27 And he said, If YAHWEH does not save you, from where shall I save you? Out of the threshing floor, or out of the winevat?
2nd Ki 6:28 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she said, This woman said to me, Give your son and we will eat him today; and tomorrow we will eat my son.
2nd Ki 6:29 And we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him. But she hid her son.
2nd Ki 6:30 And it happened when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his garments. And he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked. And, behold, the sackcloth was inside on his flesh.
We also see great martyrism of the early believers in the book of Acts.
Act 8:1 And Saul consented and participated in his murder. And in that day a great persecution took place on the assembly which was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Act 8:2 And devout brethren buried Stephen and all made a great mourning over him.
Act 8:3 Now Saul persecuted the congregation of YAHWEH while he entered homes and dragged away men and women. And he delivered them to prison.
And throughout the last 2,000 years many brethren have had to live underground, and in mountains and caves to get away from the great persecution that their respective governments brought on them.
However, there is a situation that is prophesied for the end times that is different than any other situation that true believers had ever had to go through. The book of Revelation prophesies about an end time global beast power government that will have rule all over the earth.
Yet, most people living in the world at this time will worship this beast leader and the system that he institutes all over the globe. Satan will try to make this system look righteous and good, but deep down it will be demonic and deadly.
However, there is one thing about this beast system that has startled brethren for almost 2,000 years.
Rev 13:15 And was given to it to put life into the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak, and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
Rev 13:16 And the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the freemen and the slaves, it causes that they give to them all a mark on their right hand, or on their foreheads,
Rev 13:17 even that not any could buy or sell, except the one having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom: Let him who has understanding compute the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man and its number is six hundred and sixty six.
Brethren in the past, in their simplicity, have come up with all kinds of guesses to what this mark actually is, such as Sunday worship or even a social security card. However, this mark is an end time mark, and implanted in the hand, and the technology for this would not be made known until the time of its admittance.
However, now as we are marching on toward this very time of the beast government implementing the mark, we see that Bill Gates from Microsoft has patented a system that uses human biometrics, such as body heat and brain-wave activity to mine cryptocurrency. The patent, filed under international patent number, WO- 2020-060606 and titled ‘Cryptocurrency System Using Body Data Activity’, leverages human body activity as proof-of-work.
As to how body activity and biometrics will be communicated to servers and cryptocurrency hardware, the patent explains that “a sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user.” The patent then gives examples of sensors that can be used to this end – such as “fMRI scanners, electroencephalography (EEG) sensors, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) sensors, heart rate monitors, thermal sensors, optical sensors, Radio Frequency sensors, ultrasonic sensors, cameras, or any other sensor or scanner.”
In other words, a chip will be inserted into the body that monitors a person’s daily physical activity in return for cryptocurrency.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated more than $21 million towards developing a vaccine technology that uses a tattoo-like mechanism which injects invisible quantum dot nanoparticles under the skin that is now being tested in a vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19
The human implantable mark when injected emits a glowing, red X pattern as it delivers the vaccine, and what is left behind is capable of data storage and retrieval for years afterwards. Not only that, it is the oft-stated aim and goal of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda to give a quantum dot vaccination mark to every human being on the face of the earth to help distinguish those with Covid-19 from those without.
Also, at the same time Elon Musk and his company called, Neuralink, wants to insert Bluetooth-enabled implants into your brain, claiming the devices could enable telepathy and repair motor function in people with injuries. His devices will consist of a tiny chip connected to 1,000 wires measuring one-tenth the width of a human hair and be able to implant information and thoughts into the human brain.
Before this modern computer, technological age, no one could have imagined how government, as powerful as they may be, have the ability to stop people from buying and selling. How could they be able to track all humans, and stop them from trading their silver or gold, or even paper currency for food and living supplies?
Now with these new technological advances in science, this soon coming world government can not only track every human on the planet, but also control what someone buys or sells by a trading system that will only be able to be done electronically with an embedded chip to be placed under the skin of all humans on the planet.
Some countries, such as China and India, are already in the process of transferring over to an electronic cashless society. So, if a full electronic cashless society arrives in the form of the mark of the beast, how on earth could the people of Yahweh survive in such a controlled, manipulated system without taking the mark?
This is a question that brethren, and even myself have asked for centuries. It seems that under such a controlling system that no one could survive outside of it.
However, Yahweh has always had other plans. Yahweh is the great Creator, and sustainer, and all the earth, including human life belongs to Him (Psa 24:1). He has created human beings in His image, and it is only by His very word in the book of Revelation that Satan is even allowed to set up such a diabolical, evil world system to control every person on this planet.
However, Yahweh uses everything to the good, to those who love Him, and are called according to His purpose (Rom 8:28). He will never allow anything to try us above what we are able to, and in the case of the mark of the beast, He is the one using this wicked beast system as a way to test His people in the end times, and to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The Kingdom of Yahweh is about unity, and selflessness, and serving and loving our neighbor as our self. So whatever plan He would have to overcome the beast and its mark, it would have to involve love, and unity, and a team effort of His people working together in these last days, in preparation for rulership in His soon coming Kingdom.
His plan would never be just about people being loners and preppers, locked up in some deserted place by themselves with 20 years of military MRE vacuumed sealed meals to last and survive by themself. As what would be the purpose for someone to simply survive?
What would be the purpose for a person to survive by themselves while all the brethren are suffering and starving to death. This would not be a Kingdom principle or having a Kingdom mindset; the very reason that Yahweh is allowing this in the first place.
So, in Yahweh’s infinite wisdom He has set up for His people to live in community, together in the last days, so that they can be mini cities of refuge, and mini-Kingdoms of Yahweh all over the earth. Yahweh has inspired this idea with His chosen remnant back in 2014 well before there was any fear of a worldwide pandemic, or the mark of the beast being implemented any time soon.
So, the idea of community living and brethren dwelling together in safety and unity, did not come out of panic for self-survival, but it came out of heart-felt desire to live together in harmony, and to be able to love each other on a daily basis.
But it will also be a way that Yahweh can use these communities to sanctify His people in these end times, and to be able to be self-sufficient with food, and shelter, and the daily needs of the brethren. They are also places where brethren can worship Yahweh in Spirit and truth away from the sinister world and system of Satan the devil.
And the brethren who have left society over the last 6 years to join one of Yahweh’s communities did not do so to save their flesh, but to learn how to ‘die to the flesh’, and to save their souls. They are spirit filled believers who understand that in order to be an overcomer you need to be part of the body of Messiah as we are all just one small part of that body, and none of us can survive as a part of the body if we are alone. How can you as a small finger survive without the rest of the hand, and arm, and leg and head of the body?
1st Cor 12:12 Even as the body is one, and has many members, but all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is Messiah.
1st Cor 12:13 For also we all were baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Arameans, whether slaves or free, even all were given to drink into one Spirit.
1st Cor 12:14 For also the body is not one member, but many.
1st Cor 12:15 If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, on account of this, is it not of the body?
1st Cor 12:16 And if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, on account of this, is it not of the body?
1st Cor 12:17 If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would the smelling be?
1st Cor 12:18 But now YAHWEH set the members, each one of them, in the body, even as it has pleased Him.
1st Cor 12:19 But if all was one member, where would the body be?
1st Cor 12:20 But now, indeed, many are the members, but one body.
The body of Messiah is indeed one body, fully dependent on Yahweh and Yahshua and co-dependent on each other for its very survival. It is the Laodicean mindset that wants to be separate, doing their own thing, making their own decision according to their own lusts and desires, just as Adam and Eve made the decision to reject Yahweh, and partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
It is this same demonic mindset today that makes Satan’s global government want to control every human being on this planet.
As the set apart remnant of Yahshua, we must humble ourselves before Yahweh and put on the true Kingdom of Yahweh mentality by not hoarding mammon, but giving to my brother who has less than I do. It is only by this selfless, Kingdom mindset that the people of Yahweh will learn to deny the wants of the flesh, and to grow into the grace and knowledge of our Master Yahshua, and to put on and embrace the mind of Messiah. Taking every thought into captivity into His very obedience and will, and denying ourselves daily to be pleasing to Him in all things.
The Kingdom of Yahweh is a reality, but it is also a mentality that we must live in everyday of our lives. By living in community with like-minded believers, and leaving the wicked, self-centered, system of commercial Babylon that Satan has set up in these end times, we are conditioning ourselves daily for our position in the Kingdom of Yahweh.
We are creatures of habit, and unless we leave this prideful, egotistic system that Satan has created, we will be putting ourself under his rule, as he is the god of this world’s system that he has created. Yahweh wants us to come out of that system and be set apart in the camps that He Himself is providing and protecting. The time is short, and it takes time once you move to a community to allow your human nature to die, and to grow into the character of Yahshua; that is why Yahweh has set up these communities now, and didn’t wait for the last minute to do so. It is truly a mindset, and life and death, as whomever takes the mark will die.
Rev 14:9 And a third cherub followed them, saying in a great voice, If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or in his hand,
Rev 14:10 he also shall drink of the wine of the anger of YAHWEH having been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented by fire and brimstone before the holy cherubs and before the Lamb.
Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever. And those worshiping the beast and its image have no rest night and day, even if anyone receives the mark of its name.
Being a true believer is not simply about believing a certain doctrine, but it’s about living by a set of core values, and it is truly a way of life that our actions are automatic by our character that we grow into day by day. Yahweh truly is wonderful and surely has long ago thought of protecting His people from Satan’s mark.