I grew up extremely Evangelical. I remember hearing that in the next couple decades, we would be getting technology that allowed for us to get a chip implanted in our hand that would act as identification, a digital wallet, a car key, and a pass to use for public transportation or entry into places. But this would of course be used as the Mark of the Beast and if you refused the chip, you'd be beheaded by the Satanic one-world government.
Not to be attempting logic with an inherently illogical concept, but isn't it a major part of the mark of the beast that everyone knows it's the mark of the beast and gets it anyway? If people are unaware, by definition it cannot be the mark.
Kind of just an aside, but after constantly hearing about Mark of the Beast, and the antichrist doing bad stuff, from apocalyptic evangelists, I thought it was interesting that Revelation, the part of the bible the mark of the beast is from, makes 0 mention of the Antichrist, but just 'the Beast'.
I also like the general theories that a lot of these vague allusions, with the number of the beast, and the antichrist, and the Man of Sin, are pointed political commentary at the then-current Emperor Nero, and aren't really supposed to be far off predictions, but rather saying, "Hey, we gotta stop Nero NOW, or he'll fuck shit up like this!" Decent amount of evidence to this, though its still far from certain.
I grew up extremely Evangelical. I remember hearing that in the next couple decades, we would be getting technology that allowed for us to get a chip implanted in our hand that would act as identification, a digital wallet, a car key, and a pass to use for public transportation or entry into places. But this would of course be used as the Mark of the Beast and if you refused the chip, you'd be beheaded by the Satanic one-world government.
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True, my son's grandma still believes that the Covid vaccines have the Mark of the Beast nanochips inside of them, lmao.
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Not to be attempting logic with an inherently illogical concept, but isn't it a major part of the mark of the beast that everyone knows it's the mark of the beast and gets it anyway? If people are unaware, by definition it cannot be the mark.
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IT'S HERE AND IT'S CALLED A SMARTPHONE :agony-immense:
THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT SPYING ON YOU :agony-limitless:
Kind of just an aside, but after constantly hearing about Mark of the Beast, and the antichrist doing bad stuff, from apocalyptic evangelists, I thought it was interesting that Revelation, the part of the bible the mark of the beast is from, makes 0 mention of the Antichrist, but just 'the Beast'.
I also like the general theories that a lot of these vague allusions, with the number of the beast, and the antichrist, and the Man of Sin, are pointed political commentary at the then-current Emperor Nero, and aren't really supposed to be far off predictions, but rather saying, "Hey, we gotta stop Nero NOW, or he'll fuck shit up like this!" Decent amount of evidence to this, though its still far from certain.