Eugene Prewitt: Book of Revelation

Eugene Prewitt

Ouachita Hills College

Respect for Messengers and Revelation’s Overcomers

Revelation 2 and 3

Laodicea

Revelation 4 and 5

The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, Part 1

The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, Part 2

The Judgment and its Hour

Second Angel’s Message

Rev 14:11 to 15:1 and 16:15

All right, let's bow our heads for a prayer.

Our Father in heaven, as we study more about the seal of God and the mark of the beast, I ask that you would be here as our guide.

I'll tell you where we're headed with this study so you can know, if I don't make it, how far you have to go.

We're aiming to be able to share with someone who does not know what we know about the spirit of prophecy, to share with them a convincing Bible study on the seal of God and the mark of the beast that is not dependent on sensational use of historical sources.

So Spirit of Prophecy and Mark of the Beast and 7 Seals?

I want you to be able to give a study on the seal of God and the mark of the beast to a non-adventist, Biblically.

What happens often in our evangelistic series is that we give a Bible study on the second coming, a Bible study on the Sabbath, a Bible study on the immortality of the soul being false, a Bible study on tithing, a Bible study on adornment, although that 1 often is a very thin Bible study.

But when we get to the issue of the mark of the beast, we give a few verses and begin quoting the papacy.

Anyway, listen, we really lose a lot of people to the Mark of the Beast, not because it's a more problematic doctrine than what we say about death or the Sabbath, but because it just plum looks false.

Alright, so maybe today I will start going over why it looks false and then we'll pick up where we left off yesterday.

The first reason it looks false is because it doesn't make any sense to people that Seventh-day Adventists are the only people going to heaven.

And our doctrine about the mark of the beast, because in the Bible what happens to people who get the mark of the beast?

Third angel's message, they're tormented in the presence of the Lamb with fire and brimstone, and they have no rest day nor night.

So if we say that Sunday keeping is the mark of the beast, even if we communicate it, do people hear exactly what you have to say?

Is it possible that you could say that Sunday keeping in the future will be the Mark of the Beast, and people would hear that Sunday keeping is the Mark of the Beast?

It's not only possible, it's entirely predictable.

So should you be very careful how you say what you say about the Mark of the Beast?

It looks false because in the New Testament, the seal is always connected with the Holy Spirit, and never once is the sealing connected with the Sabbath.

So it makes the doctrine that Sabbath-keeping is the seal of God and Sunday-keeping is the mark of the beast really look very manufactured.

So, I was saying the mark of the seal of God is magic.

Or maybe everyone that's been converted is sealed.

Although that, of course, we talked about evidence yesterday, don't we have plenty of evidence that you're a servant before you're sealed?

So the idea is sort of, they might not have a concrete idea of what is the seal of God, but they would know that whatever it is, you don't have it.

I mean, excuse me, that what you're teaching isn't it.

So, if we could rise a step above and just look at those objections from their eyes, However we present this, needs to communicate that the sealing is done by the Holy Spirit, which certainly is the truth.

Whatever we say needs to communicate that people can be servants of God without keeping the Sabbath and can be servants of God without keeping the Sabbath and can be servants of God without being completely sealed.

Why simple with The way we give all our other Bible studies.

And we will want to connect the mark of the beast, not with observing Sunday, but with but with obeying a worship law to honor Sunday.

And how would I make that distinction clear?

Yesterday I gave you hints from Daniel 3 and 6.

I talked about what was the seal of God in Daniel 3?

And what was the equivalent of the seal of God in Daniel 6?

What was the equivalent of the seal of God in Daniel 6?

What was the equivalent of the mark of the beast in Daniel 3?

And the equivalent of the Mark of the Beast in Daniel 6 would be praying to Darius.

Yeah, That's definitely the most simplistic way I know to communicate it.

Can you say those things again about what would you communicate if the Holy Spirit does the sealing and what would the other 2 pre-things you mentioned?

I don't know if I made a list in my head, so I don't know if I can give you back the list you wrote down.

Yeah, the first 1 is that the Holy Spirit is the 1 that's giving the seal.

Tell me what you have written down and I'll know.

And the third point I'm trying to make, I mean I don't know what order you have so I'll just go forward.

I was saying that the mark of the beast is not keeping Sunday.

The mark of the beast is submitting to the beast's civil authority in a Sunday law.

The mark of the beast is not the keeping of Sunday, it's the submission to the National Sunday Law.

Where will we spend most of our time in this business?

We're going to be methodical if we go to our 3 angels' messages.

Are those messages we've been given to give to the world?

And if we go to 3 of those messages, the first 1 is that 1 that establishes the judgment.

And do we establish, when we establish the judgment, anything about the 10 Commandments?

It's clear in, for example, in the Ecclesiastes.

Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man.

For God will bring every work into judgment.

The judgment is connected with commandment keeping.

Then it's also done in James chapter 2, where you have the royal law.

And if we break it in 1 point, we're guilty of all.

And then it says at the end of that little passage, that's verses 8 through 12, that we ought to so live as they that will be judged by the...

What's connected to this idea of the judgment?

And then of course we reviewed yesterday Romans 2.

Those that have the law are the only ones that have a chance at salvation in Romans 2.

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