Hi, I'm training to be an end time Survivor.
I'm trying to listen and learn, so I can live through the last days.
Today, I'm going to provide answers for 5 questions
about Bible prophecies that get asked a lot of people.
1. Why are prophecies so hard to understand?
There are 2 answers.
i. God knows the future, but he has also given us free will.
Whatever he tells us about the future must take into account how our actions
are going to change as a result of what he has told us.
If God said, "You are going to die in a car accident",
you will almost certainly refuse to go near a car and you are free to do that,
so he will not tell you, even if it were going to happen.
However, if he wanted your family to know that your death would be part of a bigger plan
he might say something cryptic, like giving someone a dream about something good coming from a tragedy.
Then, after the accident has happened
you will understand that the dream was prophetic.
ii. Prophecy is not a game.
What God is looking for is faith,
our willingness to trust him even when we are not faced with overwhelming, compelling evidence.
He gives us just enough information to know that he's out there
and that he knows what he's doing.
But not so much as to take away our freedom to choose faith for the parts we don't understand.
2. Who is the Anti-Christ?
The Anti-Christ is the coming world ruler who will be extremely popular
but who will eventually turn on Christians, persecuting them all over the world.
As indicated in the first answer to the first question,
God sees there is no need for us to know ahead
who he is, lest we convince ourselves that we can save the world by killing him.
God will use the Anti-Christ to test our faith in him.
And he has given us a clue to make it clear when the actual Anti-Christ appears.
The numeric value of the letters in his name almost certainly, in Hebrew, will add up to six hundred and sixty six.
The Hebrew practice of assigning values for every letter in their alphabet is called gematria.
And should probably be applied to their own language.
For many decades people have played around with various number codes,
various other languages, and variations on the names of famous people
to make almost anyone's name add up to six hundred and sixty six
whereas in Hebrew this is not easy.
There is apparently only one name in the Bible which adds up to six hundred and sixty six
and that is an obscure name in the genealogies (Sethur, I think).
I've been told that the name Prince Arthur also adds up to six hundred and sixty six
as does Caesar Neron, a special spelling for Nero's name.
Nero died many years before the Revelation was written,
but he is seen as the prototype for the coming world leader.
3. What is the Mark of the Beast?
Very little is said about the Mark of the Beast in the Bible.
It appears to be some form of money, because the Bible says it will be used for buying and selling.
It also says that this Mark will be placed in the right hand or forehead of people all over the world
in the final few years before Jesus returns.
We are warned in the 14th chapter of the Revelation that God's wrath
will be poured out on anyone who accepts that Mark,
which in recent years has come to be recognized as the implantable RFID microchip
that is not being used in various experiments
relating to security clearance, stored health information, and buying and selling
Just like how you can buy something nowadays using your phone
what if you could use a microchip inside your hand instead?
They are about to do this to more than 50 of their employees.
It's the next thing that's inevitably gonna happen
Inevitably gonna happen
and we want to be a part of it.
We'll come up, scan the item, pay with credit card
and it's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll hold my hand up
just like the cell phone and it will pay for my product.
Although Jesus never mentioned the Mark of the Beast directly
He had much to say about greed being the source of all evil in the world
and declared that we will either end up serving money, and all that it can buy,
or serving God.
On that basis, it could be argued
that people everywhere have already begun to serve the devil.
It's just that accepting the implantable RFID microchip
marks the point-of-no-return for any who take it.
4. Who are the two witnesses?
The Bible says there will be two powerful prophets in the end
in the last 3 and a half years before Jesus returns
who will perform many great miracles until they are finally killed in Jerusalem.
Based on various arguments, people have guessed that they might be Moses, Elijah, or Enoch
Because all three of those men appear to have gone to heaven without having died here on Earth.
However, Jesus said that John the Baptist was Elijah.
even though John was naturally conceived and even though John himself was unaware of such a connection.
This suggests that what Jesus meant was that John's ministry
was a fulfillment of a prophecy that was really referring to someone
coming with the same kind of power Elijah had.
It is quite likely that the two witnesses will also be people just like you and me
But that God will give them incredible power to testify to their authenticity.
5. Who are the 144 thousand?
The Revelation tells us that God will seal 144 thousand people
who follow the Lamb, Jesus, wherever he goes shortly before the start of the Great Tribulation.
Although these people are described as 12 tribes named after eleven of Jacob's sons
and one of Joseph's sons,
there is little reason to believe they are literal descendants of Jacob.
Their faithfulness to Jesus, the Lamb, and the disappearance of 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel
makes it pretty obvious that this elite group of believers are true believers of Jesus Christ.
Very likely they are the only people with genuine faith in Jesus Christ at the start of the Great Tribulation.
If so, then it gives and indication of just how rare true Christians must be in today's world.
Just 1 in every 50 - 100 thousand inhabitants.
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