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Amazing Facts

Prophecy Encounter

Doug Batchelor

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 1

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 2

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 1

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 2

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 1

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 2

144,000 & The Seal of God, Pt. 1

The Woman of Light

A Prophet in the River

The Mark of the Beast

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 1

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 2

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

What do you think of when you hear the number 666?

Perhaps it conjures up ominous images of occult ceremonies and the evil powers mentioned in Bible prophecy.

Some people have even refused phone numbers, license plates, and credit cards that might contain the number 666 because of their fearful superstitions.

While we don't need to be afraid of the number 666, it is interesting to note that mathematically 666 is a very unique number.

It's the sum of the first 36 natural numbers, meaning if you add 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 on up to 36, it adds up to 666.

And that would mean if you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, it comes to 666.

It's also the sum of the squares of the first 7 prime numbers.

Furthermore, if you add together the first 6 Roman numerals, the total is, you guessed it, 666.

Even organic molecules are based on carbon 12, with 6 protons, 6 neutrons, in the nucleus surrounded by 6 electrons.

Revelation 13 speaks of a beast and a man whose number is 666.

Obviously it helps us to identify a power that is opposed to God.

But what exactly is this power and how can we avoid receiving its deadly mark?

Join me now as we explore the Bible facts about the Mark of the Beast.

♪♪ Our study today is a very important 1.

I want to welcome our friends who are watching Prophecy Encounter talking about a very important and intense subject called the mark of the beast.

And when people hear that right away, all kinds of images come into folks' minds.

Is it a special super card that you carry in your purse or your wallet?

First question, who is protected during the 7 final plagues that you find in Revelation?

It says there, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." There is a group that is protected and they get a mark in their foreheads.

Now, you may not have caught this earlier, but how many people are marked in Revelation?

Bible tells us that 1 group's got the mark of the beast, another group's got the seal of God, and one's got the Father's name in the forehead.

You go to Revelation 17, Jesus got a paragraph that calls her a harlot in her forehead.

The Word of God, Christ is the rock, that Word of God, 10 commandments written on stone, in the forehead, brings down the devil.

Jesus fought the devil in the wilderness.

It is written, it is written, it is written.

And the devil fell on his forehead, brings down the devil.

Jesus fought the devil in the wilderness, it is written, it is written, it is written, and the devil fell on his face.

And so Goliath, that story is even a symbol of that.

What is the seal the righteous receive in their foreheads?

It says right there in Isaiah 8, 16, bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

And in the heart, when you say the heart biblically, you don't point here.

When you say the heart biblically, you don't point here.

When you say the heart biblically, you point here.

So the law of God is here in the forehead, in the hand, is in the actions.

Now, everybody that has the mark of the beast has whose spirit?

Everybody who has the seal of God has whose spirit?

So we already know that, and we showed you where in Ephesians it says we are sealed with the Holy Spirit.

But there's something deeper in God's law that reveals the seal of God.

Now, let's remind you, what has a biblical seal?

It's very much like an official seal today.

It's going to have the name of the individual, their official title that gives them authority, and then their territory.

You know, it's usually restricted to some place.

You can find the seal of God in the middle of God's law in the commandment that is the longest, in the 1 that begins with the word remember, and it's the only commandment where you find the word holy, and it's the Sabbath commandment.

It talks about our time, giving our time, giving our worship to God.

He's so important to us, we will keep that sacred appointment because we love Him and we want to nurture that relationship.

So which of the 10 Commandments has that seal, the components of a seal in it?

Exodus 20 verse 11, For in 6 days the Lord made, that's His name, the Lord made, creator, here's His territory, the heaven and the earth.

Is anything not included in the heaven and the earth?

He is Jehovah, the creator and sustainer of the heavens and the earth.

The seal of God is in the middle of the law of God and that law should be in our hearts and in our minds.

I'm going to make this study real easy for you.

It says in Romans 6, whoever you obey, that's whose servant you are.

So, you know, trying to analyze and melt down and break down exactly what is the mark of the beast, It's not complicated.

Now, how did the early Protestants identify the beast?

We're going to give you a little church history.

What is it that distinguishes Protestants from Catholics?

Martin Luther was the 1 who nailed, by the way, we're right now in that 500 year anniversary for Martin Luther nailing his protests on the doors of the church in Wittenberg, and 1 of the things that most Protestants held in common was they were all unitedly agreed of who the Antichrist power was identified there in Daniel 7, in 2 Thessalonians, in Revelation 13, and I'm just going to read some quotes now.

Before I read these to you, I want to make it very clear, there are a lot of good, loving Christian people in many different churches.

We're not talking about any individuals, we're talking about the official positions that they hold and the how they interpret the place of God in the scriptures in salvation.

So this is really just an analytical study, but here's what they said.

John Wycliffe, he was called the star of the Reformation, the morning star.

He's the 1 who translated the Bible first into English.

He said, we suppose that Antichrist, the head of all these evil men, is the Pope of Rome.

By the way, what church did he belong to?

So here you have a Catholic scholar who is saying it's the Pope of Rome.

Again, John Hus, he said, The Pope is the true Antichrist of whom it is written that he sits in the Temple of God among the people where Christ is worshipped.

Martin Luther, This teaching of the supremacy of the Pope shows forcefully that the Pope is very anti-Christ.

Who has exalted himself above and opposed himself against Christ.

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