Right or wrong, there is a lot of interest at the moment, in the Mark of the Beast.
Many people are saying that the covid vaccine is the Mark, or at least that it is a precursor to the Mark.
I disagree, but I do think it is good that people are thinking more seriously
about the implications of the Mark of Beast at this point in human history
when the REAL Mark of the Beast is so close to implementation.
Because we have been warning the world about the coming Mark of the Beast for a few decades now
a lot of people have been turning to us, and asking, "What should I do? Where should I go? How can I escape?"
To be totally honest, I do not have absolute answers to these questions.
However, what I do know is not popular...
not even amongst people who have already lost their jobs over refusing to be vaccinated.
But every now and then, someone comes along who is really serious about hearing from God
and, for those people, I have some important information which I will elaborate on in this video.
Let's go back to the beginning, when Jesus predicted the time of great trouble
that we are very close to experiencing at this very moment.
In Matthew 24:21 Jesus says of this time
"There shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."
Please take the time to study the 17th chapter of Luke and the 24th chapter of Matthew, side by side
to get a complete picture of what lies ahead.
Each of them include details that the other left out.
But they both agree that God is going to call some people to flee, before the worst of the trouble hits.
Remember that. It is very important.
Some people are going to hear God calling them to flee, and they are going to respond
while others are going to stay asleep spiritually, and find themselves totally unprepared.
This picture of being prepared is first and foremost a spiritual preparation.
But I'm convinced that it will be practical preparation as well.
The disciples felt the same way, and so they asked a question, which Luke recorded.
They asked, "Where?"
If we are going to flee, then it helps to know where we will be fleeing TO.
But the answer Jesus gave was cryptic.
Both Matthew and Luke recorded it.
They report Jesus as having said, "The eagles go to where the food is."
You see, this is the thing about birds.
You never hear about birds dying in a famine, because they recognise the warning signs and they move on.
They are not tied down to a single location.
God wants us to be like that.
Unfortunately, most so-called Christians today are tied to buildings.
It may be a church building
which will make them sitting ducks for the antichrist when he comes to arrest them on a Sunday morning.
But it is also their own homes, whether owned or rented.
Sometimes it is the very last thing they will part with.
They would rather give up their marriage than give up their home.
Birds have nests, but when trouble comes, they flee.
Nests can easily be built in other places.
And Jesus asks us to be even more mobile than the birds.
"Birds of the air have nests," he said to one would-be follower, "but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
So, if God is going to tell you to flee, are you going to be able to hear him?
In the gospels, we can already hear Jesus saying
"Sell your home, and give to the poor; then go into all the world and preach the gospel."
But when I share this with people who want to escape the tribulation
they tell me that they were not called to preach the gospel.
All they want is a hiding place... a refuge... an escape.
And that is when I have to sadly shake my head and say that I have nothing to offer.
Just before World War II, some wise people in countries like Germany and Austria
saw the signs of what was coming, and they fled.
They had neighbouring countries into which they could flee, and some of us could do that now.
We ourselves have been led to flee America.
But there is no single destination... yet.
The final destination... God's secret hiding place... is still secret.
What we are doing is placing ourselves into a relationship with God
where we will be available when the right time comes.
And if any good is going to come from people losing their jobs over not getting vaccinated
it will be that they have let go of it all, and now, maybe
they can start following Jesus the way we should have been doing it all along.
We don't need to work for the food that perishes.
What we need to do is work for God.
Jesus said, "Consider the birds.
"They have no jobs or bank accounts, and yet God feeds them.
"Won't he feed you?
"Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and your material needs will be met by your heavenly Father."
You can read more about this over in the 12th chapter of The Revelation
where John sees a woman, whose job it is to bring Jesus to the world.
The Devil, who is described both as a serpent and as a dragon in this passage
declares war on the church, but this woman, it says, is "given two wings of a great eagle
"that she might fly into the wilderness, to her place
"where she is nourished for three and a half years, from the face of the serpent."
Can you see how this fits with what Jesus told the disciples in his cryptic answer to their question?
The woman goes where the eagle goes.
God still does not tell us exactly where or when, but he does repeat his promise to protect SOME of us.
But who are these people? And how do we become one of them?
If you read all of Revelation 12, you will see that these are people who overcome the devil
"by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and by not loving their lives, even to the point of death."
They are not described as running in panic, or cowering in fear
but rather as people who have faced death head-on
and who continue to testify about their faith in Jesus, no matter what.
Like Jesus was recorded as having said in Luke 17, their life is saved just by their willingness to first lose it.
And we show that willingness by not waiting fearfully for trouble to come to us.
We show it by our willingness to obey Jesus right now...
while we still have the opportunity... to go out everywhere
preaching the good news of the kingdom of heaven, even if it takes us right into the mouth of the dragon.
In the 14th chapter of The Revelation, these same people... the ones who are protected...
are described as spiritual "virgins", who have turned away from the greedy counterfeit love of the Babylonian system.
They are the spotless Bride of Christ, waiting for the Bridegroom to return, with their lamps lit.
There are only 144,000 of them
but they are people who have consciously chosen to... listen to this...
they have consciously chosen to "follow the Lamb, wherever he goes."
That's it.
All it takes to be ready for the coming Great Tribulation
is to take up our cross and follow Jesus right now... before it's too late.
If we're not following the lamb when he says to flee, we will simply not hear him.
We'll sleep right through it, no matter how much we would LIKE to escape.
But how many people are prepared to do that... to follow Jesus right now?
There was a day when Jesus had a multitude chasing after him.
They were saying they wanted to follow him, and he shouted to them
"Whoever refuses to forsake everything that he owns cannot be my disciple."
You wanna be an eagle?
You wanna be where the food is while everyone else is starving?
You wanna be nourished for three and a half years in the wilderness?
Then forsake everything you have right now, like Jesus told us to do
if you want to be his followers... his true followers.
Walk away from churchianity and start practicing Christianity the way the first Christians did.
Follow the Lamb, wherever he goes.
Do that, and he will give you the wings of a great eagle when the time comes.
Don't do it, and you'll end up losing your life, if not your soul.