The Bible predicts something called the Mark of the Beast.
It says that this mark will be put on people everywhere in the days before Jesus returns.
The Bible only talks about this Mark in one place.
It is in the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
The last book of the Bible.
You can read about it at the end of chapter 13 and the start of chapter 14.
The Mark is put in the right hand or on the forehead of people everywhere.
The prophecy says that, without this mark, people cannot buy or sell anything.
It also says that God's anger will be poured 'without measure' on anyone who gets the Mark.
As you can see, it is pretty bad!
"Without measure" means the strongest possible, pure anger of God.
Accepting that mark is the point of no return for the human soul.
This is pretty scary stuff.
But nowhere else in the Bible is this Mark talked about.
Jesus never says anything about it.
Or does he?
I will show, in this video, how the Mark of the Beast is fundamental to the Revelation of Jesus,
And how that revelation starts in the gospels and finishes in the last book of the Bible.
The one called, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ".
But we will forget about the Mark for a few minutes,
And look at how God has revealed himself to us throughout history.
He has done this in many ways..
One of the best, is creation itself.
The Universe and all that is in it, down to the smallest atoms reveals the Creator.
Science shows us more every day, about how big the universe is.
And it also shows how complex the tiniest atoms are.
Psalm 139 says, 'It is wonderful, the way we are made.'
Next, if we want to understand God's PLAN for us as humans,
The Christian Bible is widely believed to be the best
revelation of that.
These books were written by many people over many centuries.
With all of it pointing to the first four books of the New Testament.
In those books we read about the life and hear the teachings of Jesus.
He is called the Christ; God in human form.
Jesus showed the greatest love and wisdom that the world has ever seen.
He is called the Cornerstone...
The one piece that holds everything together..
Look more closely at the four gospels. In them, you can find the Sermon on the Mount.
Many of the most important teachings of Jesus are in this sermon.
You can find it in Matthew's Gospel, chapter five to seven.
At the end of that great sermon,
Jesus said that those who do what he taught in it will be building on a rock.
Nothing will shake them. Not even death.
Even in the hard times, they will escape God's anger.
They will have peace with God forever.
Now we will look at the corner of the cornerstone.
In the middle of the Sermon on the Mount,
Jesus says,
"Do not save up wealth on earth,
"where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves can rob it.
"Earn wealth in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy it,
"and where thieves cannot rob it.
"Do not worry about what you will have to eat or drink or wear.
"Llfe is more than food and your body is more than clothes.
"Look at how flowers live.
"They have no jobs. They do not make cloth.
"But even King Solomon was not dressed as well as one of these flowers."
Then Jesus says that his disciples will be different to everyone else.
We will not worry about food and clothes.
We will learn from Jesus how to live by faith.
This is the message of Jesus to the world.
Our Creator never wanted us to trust money.
He wants us to trust Him to feed and clothe us.
But this message has been missed by almost everyone.
We say Jesus is the Son of God, but we live like God does not exist.
We only trust money.
In Matthew 12, Jesus was angry because the people would not listen to him.
Only a few trusted him.
He said, 'The Queen of the South was better than you people.
She came from far away to hear Solomon's wisdom;
and now you have someone much better.
So both in Matthew 6 and in Matthew 12,
Jesus said he had something better than what Solomon had.
And what did SOLOMON have?
He built the first temple in Jerusalem;
a beautiful and expensive building.
History says that Solomon had tons of gold.
He is also famous for being the wisest man of that time.
Jesus compared Solomon's wealth and Solomon's wisdom
with his own poverty and wisdom.
Jesus compared birds and flowers
with all the gold that Solomon had.
Then Jesus named the 'Queen of the South'.
The story of this Queen is in two places in the Old Testament;
Once in First Kings 10,
and once in Second Chronicles 9.
In this story, the Queen of Sheba gives Solomon four tons of gold, just to hear his wisdom.
She wanted his wisdom that much.
By comparison, what do we do with the wisdom of Jesus?
We walk on it without thinking, in our search for wealth.
Jesus talked of looking for God's kingdom and for God's righteousness.
He said if we will do that, and stop looking for money,
God will give us the few things we really need.
And, as we do it, we will find peace, happiness, and eternal life.
This is the essence of the Sermon on the Mount, the essence of the teachings of Jesus and the essence of the Bible.
So far, I have said nothing about the Mark of the Beast in the teachings of Jesus, have I?
We will not look more closely at what The Revelation says about the mark of the beast.
But remember that the true name of that book is this:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
So I am looking for a link between the Sermon on the Mount and the book of Revelation.
Here it is, in Revelation 13:
"The Beast... That is Devil in human form...
"will lead people everywhere to receive a mark in the right hand or in their forehead.
"No one will be able to buy or sell
"except those who have this mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
"Here... is... wisdom:
"A wise person will study the number of the beast. It is the number of a man.
His number is six hundred and sixty-six.'
Here is that word again: 'wisdom'. Jesus used it when he compared his wisdom with Solomon's wisdom.
Solomon's wisdom made him very rich.
But in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said,
'Happy are the poor in spirit. The kingdom of heaven is theirs.'
Do you want wisdom? Real wisdom?
Jesus says you can find it in something that Solomon missed.
Jesus' wisdom is the best.
And the Revelation says the number 666 will show us where all the bad stuff comes from.
It gives us a clue. It says that 666 is the number of a man.
Many years ago, I looked for that number 666 in the Bible.
I thought, "Maybe it is in another place in the Bible.
The Revelation says to study the number if we want to find true wisdom.
Well, I found the number 666 in two other places in the Bible.
I found it in First Kings ten.
And I found it in Second Chronicles nine.
Jesus pointed to those chapters when he compared himself with Solomon.
The words are almost the same in both chapters:
"The weight of gold that Solomon received in one year was 666 talents of gold."
That is about 25 tons of gold.
Today, that would be over 8 billion US dollars.
Solomon was one of the richest men who ever lived, like Bill Gates.
I believe a world leader will soon appear. The letters of his name will add up to 666 in Hebrew.
But the first illustration of that leader was King Solomon.
Jesus and the Mark of the Beast prophecy
both point to the same two chapters of the Bible.
But Solomon was a good man... the king of Israel.
He wrote three books of the Bible.
But is he the Son of God?
To find true wisdom, we need more than just 'good men'.
We need Jesus, the Voice of God in a human body.
Many churches today teach that God wants us to be rich.
Where did it come from?
They got it from Solomon's wisdom.
They hate what Jesus said about the poor.
They believe that buying lots of things is good.
It shows how empty their spirit is.
This belief is anti-Christ.
They serve Solomon, not Jesus.
They have killed Jesus so they can be rich.
But in the end, they have only ashes.
They have no peace. They only want more and more.
Satan owns them. They are just waiting to get his Mark.
Jesus predicted the mark of the beast.
But he did more than that.
He taught us how to live without the mark.
He says God will give us food and clothing.
If we tell the world about God's love for the poor.
We are happily waiting for Jesus to return.
But first we will have, great trouble.
We will need God's strength and wisdom.
We must live on the rock of His teachings.
Please come, Lord Jesus.
Amen.