16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
Rev 13 NKJV
This is another topic of great debate and mass confusion and distraction. I don’t think people give it enough thought to how their physical mark theories allow it to be applied to ALL in the world. You have to consider the very poor villages of the world and see how the mark would be applied to them. It’s to easy to forget the the world is not completely modern and there are still indigenous tribes out there. Microchips would not stop anyone in a place that doesn’t even use electricity for transactions.
The mark of the beast is a forgery of Yah’s mark. Many people don’t even know Yah has His own mark! So much emphasis has been put on the New Testament, and taken away from the Old Testament that people disregard it almost completely.
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Duet 6 NKJV
Do you see the similarity between the beast mark and Yah’s mark?
Yah tells us from the start that we need love Him and follow His commands. He tells us to bind them as a sign on our hand, which is a sign that we are performing His commands. He also tells us they should be in the frontlets between our eyes, which is symbolic of the forefront of our mind, to remember them.
Looking at the beast’s mark, we see:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
Rev 13 NKJV
The mark is simply spiritual just as we see that with Yah’s mark. So if you refuse to follow Yah and take his mark, you by default are taking Satan’s beast mark. This is a decision you make, whether you want to believe and follow Yah or not.
8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Rev 21 NKJV
He causes all EXCEPT those with Yah’s mark to take the beast mark. Everyone will have the mark of Yah or the beast.
16 He causes all … to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
Rev 13 NKJV
If you don’t believe in Yah and do not follow his commands, you are allowing Satan to control your thoughts (mark in/on your forehead) and/or your actions (mark in/on your hand).
Once you realize this, you know its not eternal condemnation. All you have to do is REPENT and change your mark by following Yah’s word with a willing heart, do the actions that are proceeded by following Yah’s word by loving Him and Loving your neighbor.
We see throughout Revelation (during His wrath) that it is mentioned where the people of the world still did not repent. This signifies that you can turn from your ways and follow Him until the mighty and awesome day of Yah. Call on His name, Yahuah/Yahusha, and you WILL be saved. He gives grace and will always be sovereign.
20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
Rev 9 NKJV
But what about the buying or selling? Lets take a look, click here.