The Mark of the Beast is a form of money. It was predicted in the bible 2,000 years ago.
it's said to work via some form of technology which either is in the right hand or in the forehead,
and the prophecy says that, without this Mark, people won't be able to buy or sell anything.
Thanks to developments in human microchipping technology,
we now have the technology in place for this prophecy to actually be realized -
to actually be fulfilled - to actually come to fruition in this very present time.
The Bible warns that anyone who accepts the Mark is gonna receive the unmitigated wrath of God.
Now, that's pretty scary, you know.
For anyone who doesn't want to receive God's wrath, the question then becomes,
"How do we survive without the Mark?"
I believe the solution lies in the teachings of Jesus, and in this video, I'm going to give you five tips on how to do it.
Tip number one: pray.
The first tip if we're going to learn to survive without the Mark of the Beast is simply to learn to pray.
Our prayers don't have to be eloquent recitals - they don't have to be the most, you know, beautiful sounding prayers you've ever heard.
They just have to be real, genuine, gut-level honesty between ourselves and between God.
Jesus actually taught us to pray for our daily food,
and we may find, if we don't pray, that we miss out on some of the provision that God has in store for us.
A very important aspect of prayer is simply listening. In the Old Testament, there's a story about the prophet Elijah
being fed by ravens in the midst of a drought.
Elijah was only able to receive this provision however, by being directly in tune with what God was saying,
and by going where God was leading him.
Also in the Old Testament, you have a story of Moses. Moses being, you know, arguably one of the greatest prophets in the Old Testament.
And he leads the children of Israel through the desert where they're fed by manna.
Again, for this to happen, Moses had to be directly in tune with what God was saying.
There are numerous examples
of people receiving miraculous provision throughout the Bible.
But you notice that each time the person through whom the provision comes,
they're exactly, finally directly in tune with what God is telling them.
So take time every day just to pray. Ask God for your daily food and tune in to anything he may want to tell you.
We are going to need His guidance now more than ever, if we're going to survive the end times without the Mark.
Tip number two: simplify.
The Bible says for us to be content with food and with clothing.
There's no talk here about iPhones; there's no talk about Range Rovers and fancy cars - certainly no talk about bling bling.
So, if we are going to survive without the Mark of the Beast, we need to learn how to live without these things.
Certainly, God can give us these extras as and when he chooses, but we don't need them to survive.
This may sound counterintuitive.
When we first think about how to survive without accepting the Mark of the Beast in the end times, our first reaction is
to hoard things for ourselves - to gather - to stockpile. That's why you have so many preppers out there;
they're stockpiling food and raw materials for the end times.
However, this kind of selfish mentality actually runs counter to the attitude that God wants each of us to have.
Rather than, you know, just keeping things for ourselves,
he wants us to have faith that he can provide. He wants to provide for us like a father would for his children.
And oftentimes he asks us to let go...
in order to get back.
We shouldn't think that because we're going to live without the Mark that we have to always be the receiver
and everyone else has to do the giving. No, no, no, that's not the way it works.
We need to constantly be on the lookout for ways that we can give, secretly, totally,
whether or not the other person actually deserves it, and with no strings attached.
It's this kind of secret, wholehearted giving that's going to be the real measure and the real test of our faith.
But it's also going to be our biggest faith builder, as we see God Himself
start to respond in ways that we would have never even imagined.
And that's the kind of faith that we will need if we're going to survive the end times without the Mark of the Beast.
Now you've probably heard of the verse, "If you don't work, you don't eat."
You know, the churches, they misuse that all the time. They stick money in there, where money is not mentioned at all.
So, at the same time that we on this channel don't believe in working for money, we also don't believe in just being lazy.
Serving God, working for God, being a Christian is not a cop-out from social responsibility, and it's not about just being lazy.
We still need to use our time and our energy to help where the greatest needs are.
We need to look for ways to be creative, to be productive, to be useful, and if we do that,
we'll actually find that God Himself will respond in ways that we would not have gotten.
When Jesus sent his disciples out on outreach, He gave them specific tasks to do. They were to preach the gospel,
they were to heal the sick, they were to cast out demons, etc.
And they were to do all of these things freely. Jesus said, "Freely you have received, freely give."
So in the same way we as Christians trying to survive the end times even without the Mark,
we need to be on the lookout for practical ways to be of use - to be of service to others. If we do this, our provision will come.
But, if we don't do these things and we refuse to do God's work as God guides, we made just find that
God refuses to feed us, too. No man is an island;
so, if we're going to survive the end times without the Mark of the Beast, we're going to need to look for ways
to team up with other people who can help us along that path.
Sharing skills, sharing knowledge, sharing resources -
they're all going to be of immense importance as we try to survive the end times without the Mark.
So, what I would suggest as tip number five is look for other people you can share with.
Look for other people that have a like mind, who you can, you know, move towards the common goal with,
and consider teaming up with them for mutual encouragement and mutual support.
So in conclusion,
I have given you five tips on how to survive the end times without the Mark of the Beast.
You need to start with prayer,
learn to live on less,
don't be afraid to actually give and to share with other people,
definitely don't be lazy, and finally, look for other people of the like mind whom you can share that experience with.
These are all five things you could start doing right now!
So, the question is, what are you waiting for? Let's get started!
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