tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2010252844503651112024-03-27T17:06:56.296-07:00666What does this number and mark mean?Pearl Doxseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281232149590681155noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-201025284450365111.post-23229859379316988862012-02-03T17:40:00.104-08:002023-03-31T19:38:37.486-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Rev.13:14-18 reads:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"<a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=201025284450365111&postID=2322985937931698886" name="bk14" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" id="vs14" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And it (two horned beast-Rev.13:11) <b><u>misleads</u></b> those who dwell on the earth, <b><u>because of the signs</u></b> that were granted it to perform in the sight of the wild beast, while <b><u>it tells </u></b>those who dwell on the earth to <b><u>make an image</u></b> to the wild beast that had the sword-stroke and yet revived.</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=201025284450365111&postID=2322985937931698886" name="bk15" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" id="vs15" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And there was granted it to<b><u> give breath to the image </u></b>of the wild beast, so that the image of the wild beast should <u><b>both speak and cause to be killed all those who would not </b></u>in any way <b><u>worship the image</u></b> of the wild beast. (Daniel 3:6; Rev.9:2)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=201025284450365111&postID=2322985937931698886" name="bk16" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" id="vs16" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that <b><i><u>they</u></i></b> should <b><u>give these a mark</u></b> in their <b><u>right hand</u></b> or upon their <b><u>forehead</u></b>,</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=201025284450365111&postID=2322985937931698886" name="bk17" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" id="vs17" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and that <u><b>nobody might be able</b></u> to buy or sell <u><b>except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name</b></u>.</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=201025284450365111&postID=2322985937931698886" name="bk18" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" id="vs18" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Here is where wisdom comes in: Let the one that has intelligence <b><u>calculate the number of the wild beast</u></b>, for it is a <b><u>man’s number</u></b>; and its number is <u><b>six hundred and sixty-six</b></u>.</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Leading up to the mystery of 666, are details about the beast that bears this symbol. Bible names themselves, are indicators of the attributes of a name's bearer (Gen.17:5; 35:18; Luke 6:14). (<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ben-Oni means "son of my sorrow"</span>) Therefore, it is reasonable that the attributes of the beast that we are given in Rev. ch.13, are expressed in this number. It will therefore be helpful to take a closer look at these attributes.</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">As indicated by my word emphasis above, I will list those attributes</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">of the Wild Beast:</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -Receives backing from one who is <b>misleading</b> (Rev.13:11,14; 19:20; Dan.8:24)</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -Stands as an <b>idolatrous</b> image (Rev.13:14,8; 2Thess. 2:4) (this god is <b>false</b>)</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -"Image" is falsely given life/breath/spirit, so <b><i>seems</i> a true, </b></span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b> spirit-infused and directed Image / god</b> (Rev.13:15) </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (to "give breath" is to imbue with "spirit-authority/backing/direction" -John 20:22-23)</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (false idols are obviously dead: Psalm 135:15,16,17) The "<b>image</b> of the wild </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> beast" </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i>does</i> have "spirit/breath in it's mouth", and "speaks" Rev.13:15). </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> From where </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">did </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">it get this</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> life/"breath"/spirit as a "<i>living</i>" image/god? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2018/02/who-is-false-prophet-who-gives-breath.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2018/02/who-is-false-prophet-who-gives-breath.html</a>)<br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> From the</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> "two-horned" </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">beast! Just as Yhvh </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">took from Himself some of </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> the life/spirit </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">within him, and </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">gave it to Adam (Gen.2:7) so too </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">this </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> "two-horned" </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">beast </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">has taken and used its authority ("key" to deception/abyss) </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> to appear to </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">give </span>divine authority and power, from itself,<br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> to unleash the Wild Beast/"locust-scorpion" collective) as also having</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> "divine" authority to speak and kill / power (Rev.9:1-3). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/06/i-have-found-typing-mistakes-below-and.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/06/i-have-found-typing-mistakes-below-and.html</a>)<br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> The Image of the Beast is not one of wood or stone, </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> but one <u>consisting of <i>living</i> men</u> (Joel 1:6; 2:2,4; Rev.9:8-9; Matt.24:21).</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Since the "earth" <u>accepts</u> the Image of the Wild Beast as spirit-inspired,</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> (due to the "two-horned" beast symbolically breathing upon it),</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> then the "earth" has also assumed, that the "two-horned" false prophet</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> possesses the power and authority to <i>bestow</i> spirit. It is therefore also </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> assumed as possessing spirit itself, and is therefore viewed as god-like. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Such "gods"/"objects of reverence/worship", </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">are the </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Chosen </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Ones </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (2Thess. 2:4; John 10:35; 1Cor. 3:16) (Rom.8:14; Ps.82:6). </span><br /><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">(<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/01/who-are-gods.html" target="_blank">http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/01/who-are-gods.html</a>)</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> The two-horned </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">beast,<b> is an anointed</b> false </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">prophet/witness </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> ("two" horns)**. He is </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">one of the</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> unfaithful, fallen anointed, </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(Matt.24:48,51; </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Zech.11:15,16,17) (2Tim. 2:20-21; Jer.51:7)</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">wicked stewards, who became one <span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">of </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Satan's </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">weeds. </span></span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (2Pet. 3:17; Rev.8:10,11; 9:1; </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Matt.13:24,36,37,38,39,40,42; 24:48,51)</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">. </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> Therefore, </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">this "image" </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">progeny of the "two-horned" beast, is a </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> misleading </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">deceptive tool used by this false prophet (Rev.13:14-15; 19:20).</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -After this<b> <u>image</u> </b>is given life/"breath"/spirit/authority (Rev.9:3), <u><b>it</b> <b>can "kill"</b></u> </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> those who do not </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">worship it </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">(Rev.13:15). The collective beast is made up of </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> living </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">representatives of this "image" (Rev.9:3; 13:15), just as the </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> faithful anointed </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">make up (and represent) the body of Christ. </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> As we represent our Lord...</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">the locust-scorpions </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">represent the </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">beast. </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> If </span><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><u>anointed ones</u></b><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">unwittingly subject themselves to</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> this image, </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> they will </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">not be </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"killed" </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">(Rev.9:5,6,4), </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">but they</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> also </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">will not get sealed. </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> If they refuse </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">to worship the wild </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">beast, </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">then they <i>will</i> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">be </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> "killed" (<b>Rev.11:7; 13:15; John 16:2; </b>Zech.11:4-5) </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i> and </i>sealed (Rev.15:2; 6:9,11; Mark 8:35; Rom.6:5; Heb.13:13; Matt.25:6).</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -The image <b>enslaves people's minds</b> (2Cor. 10:5; Deut.11:18 antithesis/dichotomy) </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b> and power</b> </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (Prov.3:27 "hand"), </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">and <b>makes </b></span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b>these </b></span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><b>obedient to</b> the false prophet's<b> lies</b>. </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (Rev.13:16; Isa.44:20) (Rev.13:10; Col.2:8; Luke 21:24)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">(see " </span><a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/mark-of-beast.html" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">MARK</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> on the Forehead")</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -Unless you are a worshiper of the image of the wild beast, you can not "buy" </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> or "sell" </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">(Rev.3:18; Matt.25:9,10; Rev.18:11; Isa.24:1,2,3,4; </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> Eze.7:10,11,12,13; Zech.11:4,5)</span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (Matt.21:12; Luke 17:28,30; Matt.13:44) This is the <i>spiritual</i> currency of </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> power, </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">devotion, </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">provisions, counterfeit divine approval, authority, and </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> obedience. </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">The wild beast </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">oversees all such "buying" and "selling" </span><br />
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (Rev.13:17)</span><br />
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Based upon these attributes of the image of the wild beast, we can now be helped to "calculate" the "number" of the wild beast, which is the tangible reality of the idolatrous "image". We are given two additional clues. It is a "man's number", and it is "666" (Rev.13:18).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">The interpretation of Revelation's symbols <i>must</i> be by God in order to be true (Gen.40:8). The only way to access God's interpretation, is through scripture alone (John 17:17; 2Pet. 1:20,21; 2Tim. 3:15,16,17; Rev.22:18) Only if we let this simple rule guide us, will our understanding (and our "lamp") be bright (Matt.6:22; Matt.25:8).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> So then, when we read that the "number" of the wild beast is a "man's number", we must turn to the Bible to find that "man". Since this number represents the traits of the wild beast, it would also represent the traits of this "man" (They both have the same "number" Rev.13:18 and measure up the same to God.)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">What "man" in the Bible, measures up like the wild beast? In order to know this, we have to review the traits of the wild beast's image.....</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -misleading</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -an idol/"image" that is worshiped</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -seems true</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -receives authority/power/life from fallen anointed.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -oppresses/"kills"/opposes faithful anointed</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -enslaves people's minds and deeds</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -controls spiritual commerce</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Is there a "man" in the Bible who bears all these traits?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Is he associated with the "Lord's Day", as the wild beast is? (Rev.1:10)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Let's review the traits of the beast, to find this "man".</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -misleading: 2Thess. 2:3,9,10,11,12</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -an idol that is worshiped: 2Thess. 2:4</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -seems true: 2Thess. 2:2,9</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -receives authority from fallen anointed: 2Thess. 2:2,15; Eze.44:7</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -opposes faithful anointed: 2Thess. 2:4,6,15,17 </span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> (1Cor. 3:16,17; 2Cor. 6:16; </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Eph.2:20,21,22)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -enslaves people's minds and deeds: 2Thess. 2:3,9,10,11,12; Rev.13:7</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> -controls spiritual commerce: 2Thess. 2:4,6,7,9</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">And finally, is he associated with the "Lord's Day"? 2Thess. 2:1,8</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Who is this "Man"? 2Thess. 2:3</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">This is, the <u>"Man of Lawlessness"</u> (Matt.7:22,23)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Now that we know who the "Man" is, we are half way through our "calculations" (Rev.13:18).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Our other clue, is that both the wild beast and this man of lawlessness, measure up the same (Amos 7:7-8; Isa.28:17; Zech.2:1-2,7; Rev.11:1); and that both their number, is 666.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Can this number be "calculated"/measured/estimated, based upon scripture? Will that number indicate the traits of both the "Man of Lawlessness", <i>and</i> the image of the "wild beast"?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Yes, it <i>can</i> be calculated through scripture. But as indicated, it <i>will</i> require "wisdom" and "intelligence" (Rev.13:18) to do this mathematical calculation. Such wisdom must be given by God (James 1:5).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">We receive our answer in an unexpected place.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Let's turn to Rev.14:1 and Rev.4:4; 5:8,9,10</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">The "crowns" upon the 24 elders, are "stephanos" crowns...the sort rewarding those who "conquer" (Rev.3:11,21).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">The anointed temple (not made with hands -Heb.9:11; John 2:19) is akin to the pattern given Moses, for the physical temple and priesthood that was made with hands. (Ex.25:9; Heb.8:5; Eph.2:10)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
</div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>There were a total of twenty-four heads of families from the tribe of Levi during the days of King David's reign. The regulation of twenty-four courses of priests rotating to minister in the Tabernacle was established in the days when Solomon had the Temple constructed and continued to be observed until the Second Temple was destroyed by Rome in AD 70.</span></div>
<div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">This appointed order of ministering by rotating among twenty-four priests was commanded by Jehovah. When Aaron received the regulations concerning the duties of the Levites, he wrote them down. Generations later, during the time of King David, the tribe of Levi had grown to twenty-four clans. The heads of these tribes served as priests in the Temple according to God's commandment. (1Chron. 24:1,2,3,4,19).</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Therefore, these 24 elders in heaven, are representative heads of the 144,000 priests and "12 tribes" of spiritual "Israel" (Rev.7:4; Rom.2:28,29; Gal.3:29; Matt.21:43; John 15:5,8; Matt.7:20).</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Now it's time to do some "calculating".</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">How many of the 144,000 does each "elder" represent?</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">The calculation is.....</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">144,000 divided by 24, = 6,000.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">So, each elder represents 6,000. </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Each "witness</u>/head of truth" (Rev.14:5; Isa.43:10,21; 1Pet. 2:9) represents and stands for<u> <b>6,000</b>.</u></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Why would this be...since each tribe consists of 12,000? (Rev.7:4-8)</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Apparently, this is because there are two representatives (witnesses/heads/elders) over each tribe.</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">12tribes X 2witnesses(elders) = 24 elders</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Why would that be?</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Well, the Bible makes this reason clear...</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">(2Cor. 13:1; Deut.19:15; 17:6; Matt.18:16; 26:60,61,62; Heb.10:28,29; Num.35:30; 1Kings 21:10,13; John 8:17,18; Rev.11:3)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Two witnesses are always needed to establish truth. Truth is the entire essence of</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">this </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">holy temple priesthood.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">The 144,000 become sharers in the human personification of truth perfected (Rev.14:4,5).</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Every duty these priests perform is based upon this pattern of truth...two witnesses. </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">How does this figure into our "calculation"?</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">As we have seen...these conquering priests pattern their dispensing of truth in perfection, and always by means of two witnesses. </span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"> (This will be studied in more depth in a future addition to the </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">article</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"> about the "Trees of Life", and their monthly "crops" of "fruit".)</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Therefore, these two elders (two witnesses per each tribe), represent 12,000 priests, or one tribe. Yes...the number ascribed two faithful witnesses (or the number for truth), is twelve; or multiples of 12. It is derived from two witnesses. Each witness is represented by six (6+6=12) (144,000 = 12X12)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(Mark 3:14,15; Luke 22:30; Acts 26:7; James 1:1; John 8:18; 11:9; Acts 1:15; 7:8; </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Rev.7:5-8; 12:1; Rev.21:12,14,16,21; 22:2)</span></span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">The entire Kingdom arrangement is based upon truth, two witnesses, and it's symbolic number "12" (6+6).</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">I find interesting confirmation, in the fact that God's Word contains 66 books.</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">**The fact that the "two-horned" beast has TWO horns like a lamb (Rev.13:11), yet "speaks l</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">ike a dragon", indicates that it appears to be true witnesses/prophet, who is imitating Christ; </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">but it is really </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">an agent of Satan's lies.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">If Truth (two witnesses) is represented by twelve (6+6), then can you see that each single witness is represented by six?</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">What if we only had one witness? Would that establish truth?</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">(Deut.17:6 b; Deut.19:15; John 7:18; 5:31; 8:13,14,18; Num.35:30) No...one witness is as good as a lie. The number "6", would represent a single, false, witness.</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">This is brought out for us when we compare Ezra 2:13 and Neh.7:18. </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Do you perceive </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">the lesson in those two scriptures? </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">When there is only one witness for a fact, which do we believe? </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">We </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">should not really put faith, in either. </span><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two</i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"> witnesses with the </span><u style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">same</u><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"> story, are needed.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Now that we have calculated the meaning of the number "6", let's return to Rev.13:18.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">The number of the wild beast, <i>and</i> the man of lawlessness, is 666.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Does this interpretation follow through?</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Remember the traits of both the "man", the false prophet, and the "wild beast"?</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">(see Rev.13:6,14; 2Thess. 2:9,10,11,12)</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">All who receive the mark of the beast on their forehead, believe and become slaves to lies.</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-letter-i-received-hi-sister-pearl-i.html" target="_blank">Mark of slavery</a>)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">All who receive the mark on their right hand, have their willpower enslaved to lies (Isa.44:20; Psalm 144:8,11; Rev.13:16; 2Thess. 2:9; 2Tim. 3:13; Rev.16:13) </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">They also become false witnesses of false witnesses, as seen in the scripture below.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">We do receive confirmation of the meaning of 666, as representing slaves of deception....</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Rev.16:</span><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=201025284450365111&postID=2322985937931698886" name="bk13" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top;">13</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> "</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" id="vs13"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">And I saw</span><u style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> <b><i>three</i> unclean inspired expressions</b></u><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> [that looked] like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and </span><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u>out of the mouth of the wild beast</u></b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> and out of the mouth of the false prophet.</span></span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=201025284450365111&postID=2322985937931698886" name="bk14" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top;">14</a><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> </span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" id="vs14"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">They are, in fact, </span><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><u>expressions inspired by demons</u></b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"> and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">"Three...inspired expressions...expressions inspired by demons". 666</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">The only unclean expressions of demons, are lies.</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">(2Chron. 18:20,21; Rev.16:13; John 8:44)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Three...a full amount of <i>false</i> witnesses to <i>establish</i> a lie, (2Cor. 13:1)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">causing it to prevail (2Chron. 18:21; Rev.12:9; Rev.13:8; 2Thess. 2:11,12)</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Those three lying witnesses are mentioned here....the "dragon, the wild beast, and the false prophet". Here we see who is behind the lies of the wild beast and man of lawlessness (2Thess. 2:9; Rev.13:2). Lies are their wisdom, power, and riches ("gold") (1Kings 10:14; Isa.28:15).</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">We must only accept "gold" refined by fire (Rev.3:18) from Christ himself (Matt.23:10; John 7:18).</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><b>"FROG-LIKE"</b></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Why are the lies (6's) described as "frog-like"?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;">In all creation, the life cycle of frogs is the most evolutionary. The change it's life undergoes from invisible egg to land reptile, is drastic. Without fully knowing about this life cycle, we might think that on</span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;">e stage of it's lif</span></span><span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">e is an entirely different species. Yes...the frog starts out barely noticeable. If one gave it's development constant attention, the gradual change would be imperceptible.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">If the<b style="font-style: italic;"> tiny, barely visible </b>"egg" (lie...6) were called "Truth", those enslaved through it's progression would still call the full-grown Frog, Truth.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""arial unicode ms" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">Yes, Satan and these demons know human nature. They have brought about these lies so gradually, that it has gone undetected by those mislead by them. Those who are perishing </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">and enslaved to the wild beast, still feel that these obvious lies, are truth. (Rev.16:13) Their foreheads have been branded like slaves, to lies (1Tim. 4:1,2; Rev.16:13-14; 13:16).</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">No one can "buy or sell" spiritual provisions (Isa.55:2,1; (Rev.21:6; 22:17); John 6:27,51; 14:6; Rev.3:18; Deut.11:18,1; 6:8), unless their mind ("forehead") and work/power ("right hand") is branded into slavery by the demonic lies of the Beast (Rev.13:16,17; Isa.44:20), rather than to God's free truths (Deut.6:6,8; John 8:32). It is robbery to enslave others as the cost for spiritual bread (Amos 8:4,5,6; Matt.24:20; Micah 6:10,11; Eze.45:9,10; Prov.11:1; Hosea 12:7,8,14; Zech.5:10,11; Rev.6:5,6; 13:17) (Isa.52:3,5; Rev.13:5,6; 2Thess. 2:4). All others who attempt to offer spiritual provisions without cost: (subjection, obedience and worship of the Beast and it's lies), outside the spiritual "commerce" and monopoly of the Beast (Matt.10:8), will be "killed" (Rev.13:15,17; 11:7; 6:9).</span></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">These enslaving, demonic lies will cover the land....just as the plague of frogs did, in Egypt (Exo.8:1,2,3,4,5,6; Rev.16:13,14; Prov.12:17; 2Chron.18:20,21,22; Eze.14:9,10; 2Thess. 2:9,10,11,12).</span></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">(Rev.18:3,6; Isa.51:21,22,23; Rev.11:2; Jer.25:15; Rev.14:10)</span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">For those of us who know the <i>Bible's</i> meaning of 666...</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">we are not mislead. We can see these full grown lies, for what they really are.</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">1Thess.5:4,5,6</span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">If you found any of this hard to understand, please write to me about your questions. There is a contact form on the <a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HOME</a> page.</span></div>
<div>
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;">- - - - - - -
</span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Addition:</u></b></span><br />
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">A QUESTION:</span></u></b><br />
<b><u><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></b><span style="font-size: large;">Pearl, what does 144,000 and 666 mean? How can mankind practically apply these numbers and their meaning in their lives?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">- - - - - - -</span><br />
<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">MR REPLY:</span></u></b><br />
<b><u><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></b><span style="font-size: large;">Since we pointedly receive the numbers 144,000 and 666 from the scriptures, we should seek a deeper understanding of these numbers, from the same place.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">First I would like to point out, that worshippers of the Wild Beast, are marked with 666, on their hand and forehead (see Rev.13:16,17,18,15,8).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What does it mean to possess the symbolic mark of 666?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Well, what does it means to be marked with <i>anything</i> on the hand and forehead, since the slaves of God are <i>also</i> marked <u>in these same places</u>, though <i>not</i> by 666 (Rev.7:3; 14:1; 22:4).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I find Deut.6:4,6; Deut.6:8 the most telling...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Tie <i>them</i> <b><i>as symbols</i> on your hands and on your foreheads</b>."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When our hearts are filled with God's Laws (Heb.10:16), it is seen <i>symbolically</i> as on our forehead ("I will <b><u>write</u></b><u> them</u> <b>on their minds</b>"). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Our marked "hands", (symbolizing what we do); and our marked "forehead" (symbolizing what we think and believe), are then directed by God. Those <i>faithful</i> to God's New Covenant (Heb.10:16), will have a <i>spiritual</i> mark, that identifies them as loyal from the heart, to God's Laws.</span><br />
[That mark is seen, only in the spirit realm. Yet this distinction <i>is</i> observable in the physical realm,<br />
by examining a prophet's deeds (hands), and teaching (mind)<br />
-(Mal.3:18; Eze.14:23,22; Matt.7:20)]<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">To be directed by and obedient to God's Laws, is to be a slave of God (and His Laws). This brings us back to the symbolism of Rev.7:3 and Rev.22:3B, Rev.22:4...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put <b>a seal on the foreheads of <u>the slaves</u> of our God</b>.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"...<b>his slaves</b> will serve <i>him</i>. They will see his face, and <u><i>his</i> name will be on their foreheads</u>."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Here's the tie between obeying God's word, and being his branded slave...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient, you are slaves of the one you obey —whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin"... [</span>branded with "666" and by the "<b>man</b> of sin" 2Thess. 2:3; Rev.13:18<span style="font-size: large;">], "you have come to obey from your heart (</span>Deut.6:6; Heb.10:16<span style="font-size: large;">) the pattern of teaching [</span>God's Laws<span style="font-size: large;">] that has now claimed your allegiance. <u>You have</u> been set free from sin and have <u>become slaves to righteousness</u>." (Rom.6:16-18)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Okay, now back to the numbers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The obedient slaves/worshippers of the Beast, have their hands and foreheads so designated, by the number 666.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As we learned about God's Laws marking the hands and forehead... The Beast's directive Laws are represented by the symbolic mark, 666. First, we need to know what the number "6" means. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We can, when we know what 12 means.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Are not God's Laws, declared to be the truth?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth." (John 17:17)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So if our minds, hearts, and deeds are directed by God's Laws</span><span style="font-size: large;">, they are directed by and obedient to, Divine Truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What number would that symbolically place on our hand and forehead?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The number twelve is constantly associated with the foundation and working of divine truth....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12 apostles, 12 tribes of Israel, 12,000 in each tribe...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the "measurements" (</span>Isa.28:17<span style="font-size: large;">) of God's City <i>of Truth </i>(</span>Rev.21:16,27<span style="font-size: large;">)...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him <b>144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. No lie was found in their mouths</b>" (Rev.14:1,5)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">[</span>144,000 is equal to 12 hundred X 12 hundred<span style="font-size: large;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If the divine truth found in God's Words/Laws, is associated with the number "12", </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">take note what other number truth is associated with...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"In your own Law it is written that the testimony of <b>two witnesses is true</b>." (John 8:17)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"And I will appoint my <b>two witnesses</b>, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone tries to harm them, <b><u>fire comes from their mouths</u></b>" (Rev.11:3,5a)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"'Is not <b><u>my word</u> like fire</b>?,' declares the LORD" (Jer.23:29a)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"<b>I will make <u>my words</u> in your mouth a fire</b> and these people the wood it consumes" (Jer.5:14b)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"for it will not be you speaking, but the <b>Spirit of your Father speaking through you</b>" (Matt.10:20)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So, TWO witnesses can symbolize witnesses of truth, just as the number "12" does.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What number would symbolize, <b><i>one</i></b> witness?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And what would one witness, signify?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If 12 is associated with 2 witnesses,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">then one witness would be 6. (</span>2x=12; x=6<span style="font-size: large;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">According to the bible, one witness was to be regarded as false. (Deut.17:6b; 19:15; John 7:18; 5:31; 8:13,14,18; Num.35:30).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If six stands for lies (</span>Satan is their source -John 8:44<span style="font-size: large;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">then where are 3 <i>false</i> witnesses? (<b>6</b>-<b>6</b>-<b>6</b>)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Check it out...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Then I saw <b><i>three</i> impure spirits</b> that looked like frogs; they came <b>out of the mouth of the dragon, </b>(1) <b>out of the mouth of the beast </b>(2)<b>, and out of the mouth of the false prophet </b>(3). They are <u>demonic spirits</u> that perform... lying signs and portents" (Rev.16:13,14a; 2Thess. 2:9; 2Tim. 3:13).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We learned that the <u>spirit of God</u> can symbolically speak through "two" truthful <i>and unified</i> witnesses (Matt.10:20) (6+6=12);</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and the <u>spirit of demons</u> can speak through <b>Satan</b>, the <b>Beast</b>, and the <b><i>false</i> prophet</b> (Rev.16:14)...all of whom are <i>false</i> witnesses (6-6-6).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Any branded by their lies, are also false witnesses (Rev.13:16; Isa.44:20; Ps.144:8; Rom.1:25; Rev.13:8; 2Thess. 2:11). To call themselves God's true witnesses, is another blasphemous lie, which they espouse in heart, deed, and mind; and by which lies, they are thereby symbolically branded as slaves (Rev.13:5,6,16,8,18). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In actuality, they are witnesses for *<b><u>Satan</u></b> (Rev.16:13; 12:15; 2Cor. 11:14,15; 2Tim. 3:13), </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the *<b><u>false prophet</u></b><b> </b>of the "earth" (Rev.13:11,14; 19:20), </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and the <u>Gentile</u> *<b><u>Wild Beast</u></b> "from the '<u>sea</u>'" [Man of Lawlessness / locust-scorpions (2Thess. 2:4,9; Rev.13:4,1; 11:7; Rev.9:2,3,10,11; Isa.33:1</span><span style="font-size: large;">)]; </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and all the demonic exhalations which issue forth <u>through the Beast</u> from *<b><u>those three</u></b>. They are therefore, branded as their slaves (<b>6</b>-<b>6</b>-<b>6</b>) (Rev.13:16,17,18) </span><br />
<img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVEp2pKFrVx1-boMIal_OjJtgrKVikYtvEyAVcFvtwCA9MP7rE" /><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/mark-of-beast.html" target="_blank">http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/mark-of-beast.html</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I feel the following affords some confirmation...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are "24 elders" and "12 tribes" (Rev.7:5-8; 4:4).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This means that each tribe has two elders.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If the 12 tribes are 144000, then each tribe = 12,000 (Rev.7:5);</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and each elder is over 6,000. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There must be 12,000, and there must be 2 elders...not 6,000, and not one elder, because both 1 witness and 6, signify untruth. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are therefore, 12 sets of 2 witnesses (=24) for 12 tribes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Two and twelve are needed, not because these numbers are literal, but because the Truth they signify, is essential </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(Rev.14:5; Eph.5:27; Rev.19:7,8; 1Cor. 1:6,8).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Those who are obedient from the heart, to the untruths of the dragon, wild beast, and false prophet; are so designated by having their hands and foreheads symbolically branded as slaves to their deceptive laws and decrees (Rev.13:17,18).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, those obedient to Divine truth, are branded as obedient slaves to that truth (Deut.6:6,8; Rev.22:3,4), and to the Divine Beings who are the source of it (Rev.7:3; 14:1,5).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">How can we make practical application of all this?<br />We must make certain that our service, obedience, and worship is to God alone. This is just as Jesus kept admonishing us (Matt.4:10; 22:36,37,38; Deut.10:12) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(2Cor. 13:5; 1John 4:1; 1Thess. 5:21,22; 1Tim. 4:1; Rev.16:13,14,15; 13:15,8; 2Thess. 2:1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We must make certain, that <b><i style="text-decoration: underline;">everything</i><u> we believe</u>, obey, and practice</b>, is <u>sourced in God's word of Truth</u>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Our minds, hearts, and deeds must be directed by and obedient to, God's Laws of Divine Truth. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Only then are we marked as <i>His</i> slaves (1John 2:17; Rom.6:18,22).</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">LINK TO HOME</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13281232149590681155" style="background-color: #cfe2f3;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">LINK TO DIRECTORY</span></a><br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Pearl Doxseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281232149590681155noreply@blogger.com8