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Three Cosmic Messages: Earth's Final Conflict

Mark Finley

01 Jesus vs Satan

02 The Decision that Decides Your Destiny

03 Only One Church Preaches this Message

04 Will You Pass God’s Judgment?

05 Mathematical Proof We are Living in the Last Days

06 The Obedience Dilemma

07 Revelation’s Creation Connection

08 This is Why Satan Hates the Sabbath So Much

09 Avoid this False Church System

10 Satan’s Final Deception Infecting the Church

11 Mark of the Beast | Everything You Need to Know Part 1

12 Mark Of the Beast 2 | Everything You Need to Know Part 2

13 End Time Events Before the Second Coming of Christ

I'm glad you've joined us for this series called 3 Cosmic Messages.

We've been unfolding the prophetic messages of the book of Revelation, especially the messages of Revelation chapter 14, verse 6 to 12, that discuss God's last message for humanity.

The third angel's message is a warning against the beast and the mark of the beast.

We're gonna explore it in this session and in the next 1.

Father in heaven, thank you so much for Jesus.

Thank you for these messages of warning, but our messages of encouragement.

Give us hope and encouragement as we study and open our eyes so we can see marvelous things from your Word.

My topic in this presentation is the seal of God in Mark of the Beast.

We've divided this into 2 parts because it's such a vitally important topic.

Some time ago, I was reading the health care section in the NBC News, and this title captured my attention.

I was then interested in the first sentence, medical milestone or privacy invasion.

The question was, is this computer chip that's planted in one's wrist to get medical information.

There are some people who believe in certain conspiracies who believe that that chip planted beneath the skin is going to detect information for the government and that has to do with the mark of the beast.

This implanted biochip is about the size of a grain of rice, and it transmits a radio frequency.

That radio frequency is picked up by a scanner, and that information is transmitted to an FDA-compliant storage bank for medical research.

It only can deal with a small amount of information today, but there are companies that are working on enlarging that amount of information.

So if you have that biochip implanted, your medical information, and really everything about you, can be stored in an amazingly small amount of space in a computer database.

Does this have something to do with the Mark of the Beast?

Does this have something to do eventually with the rise of the Antichrist and enforced worship?

It's fascinating when you take a look at all the different ideas about the Mark of the Beast.

Some have the idea that this is information stored beyond our medical records in a computer.

But there are other people who believe that this idea, the Mark of the Beast, has to do with black police helicopters from the UN landing in America.

Some people have to believe that has to do with barcodes on cans that are scanned at the grocery store.

Other people believe that it has to do with strange numbers on the dollar bill.

You know, 1 of the funniest ones is, for many years, I was the speaker of It Is Written television.

And She said, Pastor Mark, I'm sending you a new tie.

But then she said, the reason I am is I looked at the pattern on your old tie, and it had 666 on the pattern.

And I didn't want you to be wearing the Mark of the Beast.

Well, let me assure you that the issue of the Mark of the Beast is not a pattern on my tie, your tie, or a pattern on some lady's dress.

What is the central issue in this whole subject of the Mark of the Beast?

Because once you understand the foundation, Once you understand the basic essence of what it is, everything else will fall in place.

To state it simply, the central issue is worship.

Let's go back to the book of Revelation and these 3 messages, 3 cosmic messages that lead us to a deeper commitment to Christ in an understanding of divine truth in Earth's final conflict.

You'll recall that the first angel flies in mid-heaven.

It's an urgent, swift message carried to the ends of the earth.

End time, for the hour of His judgment has come.

Now notice, worship the 1 that made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of waters.

The very essence of the first angel's message is a call to worship the Creator.

And in that very expression where it says, Worship the 1 who made heaven, earth, the sea, and the springs of waters." That phrase is a quote from the fourth commandment, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

For in 6 days the Lord created heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is.

So John quotes the fourth commandment, the Sabbath commandment, that is an appeal to worship the Creator.

So this first angel's message, this message of eternal destiny about worshiping the Creator has something to do with the seventh day Sabbath.

Now when you look at the verse 8, it says Babylon is fallen is fallen.

Great city because she's made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Fermented wine represents false doctrine.

So Babylon, a fallen religious system, passes around the wine cup of her false doctrine.

People are inebriated with that and they fail to understand or comprehend the first angel's message, the message of the gospel of Christ, the message of dependence on Christ, the message of obedience to Christ, the message of the second coming of Christ, the message about worshiping the Creator in the Bible Sabbath.

A third angel flies and it says in Revelation 14, verse 9, "'If anyone worships the beast.'" Now remember in verse 7 it said, "'If anybody worships the Creator in his image and receives his mark in his forehead or in his hand, he himself shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.

So here you have another class in contradistinction to those that worship the beast.

Here you have another class who obediently worship the Creator.

Here is the patience, that word means endurance, of the saints.

Here are those who keep the commandments of God and they have the faith of Jesus.

So the message of the 3 angels comes to a focal point.

It comes to a climax with a body of believers who do not worship the beast, but who worship the Creator.

And this body of believers who worship the Creator God observe His commandments including the symbol of creation, which is the Sabbath commandment.

Revelation 14.9, do not worship the beast.

Revelation 14.12, keep the commandments of God.

So here we have outlined the basic issues in the great controversy between good and evil.

The basic issues in this cosmic conflict, this intergalactic struggle, this Star Wars drama.

A rebel angel rebelled against God in heaven.

He challenged God's authority, disobeyed God's law.

He came to Eden, tempting Adam and Eve by saying, you don't have to obey.

And down through the ages, This rebel angel, this being of dazzling brightness, has deceived men and women into thinking obedience was unnecessary.

This is a cosmic struggle over worship, and God will have an end time people who are loyal to him in the face of the greatest opposition and the fiercest persecution in the history of the world.

This is what the Mark of the Beast issue is all about.

The Mark of the Beast issue is about the authority of Christ and worshiping the Creator.

And the sign of His creative authority is the commandment that says, remember the Sabbath day.

In spite of a decree that says, according to Revelation 13, that no man can buy or sell.

In spite of persecution, in spite of oppression, God will have a group of people that through his power will be obedient.

And the Scripture says, here are they that keep the commandments of God and what?

They worship the Creator and they do not worship the beast.

And really when you actually look at the book of Revelation, There are only 1 of 2 choices at end time.

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