Revelation 13 - 17part2 - No man is able to buy or sell, except he that has the mark of the beast

Revelation 13:17 part 2
No man is able to buy or sell, except that man has the Mark of the Beast !
By Brother Mike (2-9-24; 45 minutes)

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17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name .

INTRODUCTION

In our last study of Revelation 13:17, part 1 , we learned that to buy, or sell, does not mean to buy, or sell, material goods of any kind. Rather, it means to receive, or bring, the very word of God, Jesus Christ, respectively. Therefore, when we had learned that the beast (Satan, his demon helpers, and his counterfeit Christian helpers) ongoingly caused all who were in the Christian churches during the Great Tribulation from May 21,1988 to May 21,2011, and even to this every day, to be given a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead; and that no man was able to buy, or to sell, except he that had the mark during that Great Tribulation, and even to this very day, meant that unless a man had the mark of the beast, he could not declare what he had learned was the very word of God for these Latter Days. And, since it was God's true

Elect alone who had not been given the mark of the beast while still yet in the Christian churches during that Great Tribulation before they had all followed Christ to depart out, they, God's true people, were kept from being able to proclaim the very truths from God's word for these Latter Days, namely that God's Final Judgment on this world had begun at the House of God, the whole corporate Christian Church, on May 21,1988, and that the spiritual Church Age then also came to an end with the Holy Spirit having then begun to depart out, and the Man of Sin, the counterfeit Holy Spirit and Christ, Satan himself, having been loosed from the pit to take the place of the true Holy Spirit in the corporate Christian Church to bring it, eventually, to complete spiritual desolation by September 7, 1994 without virtually anyone in all the Christian churches even knowing it. God's people were also then, at that time, proclaiming salvation to have come to an end in all the Christian churches to begin the Great Tribulation, and that salvation would soon to come to an end as well for the entire world outside of the churches on May 21,2011, as it did.

Furthermore, after the Great Tribulation began on May 21,1988, God's people were also proclaiming all the rest of the word of God for the Latter Days as they were learning it, but they were soon not able to proclaim it within the Christian churches because they were not ongoingly being given the mark of the beast like all the many false Christians in the Christian churches had been being given. No, instead, being the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, God's Elect were spiritually killed (silenced) and so could not proclaim the very truths of God's

silences] the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not !

God's true people, then, have not been able to proclaim (sell) the very truths of the word of God for these latter days within the Christian churches; nor can they receive (buy) the false word of God or gospels and teachings for these days being proclaimed in the Christian churches. Indeed, God's true people have not been able to bring (sell) the true word of God for these days in the Christian churches because God's true people do not have the mark of the beast that everyone else now has that are in the Christian churches. Instead, having been being given the mark of the beast, the Christian churches have spiritually killed God's true prophets, namely the Two Witnesses who do not have the mark of the beast; that is, they have silenced them by not allowing them ministry in the corporate Christian church, for according to them, we are false prophets unworthy to be listened to. Yes, all those in the Christian churches have the mark of the beast because they worship and serve the counterfeit Christ, the Antichrist and Man of Sin , Satan himself, also called the beast and Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet. Nevertheless, all those in the Christian churches will swear that they worship and serve the true Christ, for as we read about them in 2Thessalonians 2,

9 Even him [the counterfeit Christ, the Antichrist or Man of Sin , Satan himself] whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders ,

word within the Christian churches (see Revelation 11:7-10 ). Thus, the people in the Christian churches would not listen to God's true Elect, but they, instead, silenced them (spiritually killed them), and even threw them out of the churches in some cases. Yes, we, the true people of God, have all been considered false prophets, just like our Lord was when He came to His own, but His own rejected Him, even to this very day, and even though we can back up what we say with Holy Scripture, they do not understand because it is written in parabolic or symbolic language so that as we read in Matthew 13,

14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive :
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them .

Indeed, they have just not been given the ears to hear, and the eyes to see, for it is all hidden to them in the parabolic or symbolic language that God's word often uses for the purpose of hiding truth from those whom He is bringing judgment against. And Jesus spoke to them through what He had said to the Old Testament Church when He said,

Lu 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem [O Christian churches, Christian churches of which the Old earthly Jerusalem was but a type] , which kills [if not physically kills, then spiritually kills; that is,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved .
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie :
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness .

Now, not only have God's true people not been able to proclaim (sell) the very truths of God's word for these latter days because they do not have the mark of the beast, but this is also why they cannot receive (buy) the false word of God for these days being proclaimed in all the Christian churches. That is what it means that no man is able to buy or sell, except that he has the mark . Whereas God's Elect can neither buy or sell in the Christian churches because they have not the mark, and, indeed, are no longer even in the Christian churches, on the other hand, all those who are still in the Christian churches can both buy or sell their false gospels or teachings because they do have the mark of the beast. Therefore, if any man is able to proclaim (freely sell) the true word of God for these days in the Christian churches or receive (freely buy) the true word of God for these days in the Christian churches, he must have the mark of the beast, and he must, therefore, worship and serve the counterfeit Christ, the Antichrist or Man of Sin, the dragon, Satan himself. And, since God's true people have not been able to either buy or sell the true word of God for these days in the Christian churches, they will not normally be found in any Christian

Church. No, they have departed out from all the Christian churches, just as the true Holy Spirit and Christ did depart out beginning on May 21,1988 when the spiritual Church Age ended and God's Final Judgment on this world began at the House of God, the whole corporate Christian Church, which includes all Christian churches worldwide (see Why leave all churches? ).

Now, let's stop and think a little about what all this means. First, as God's Elect and true Prophets of God, we must not be deceived like all the others. Just because someone claims to be a Christian means nothing if that person has not departed out from their church, for if they have not followed Christ and the Holy Spirit to depart out from all the Christian churches, what Christ and Holy Spirit are they following? Not the true one, obviously. And, because they have remained in their Christian churches, they have ongoingly been being given the spiritual mark of the beast, which means they serve and worship the beast, the counterfeit Christ and Antichrist, the devil himself, without even knowing it. It makes no difference that they are extremely moral churchgoers, for that is why the Final Judgment on this world began at all the Christian churches: it is because they believe and follow only those things that their own hearts tell them is right, and they are blinded to all the rest, especially those things written in parabolic or symbolic language that God uses to blind them as judgment against them.

I heard one so-called Christian say it all so well. He said, my dad always taught me to follow my gut instinct, and so if I feel it in my gut, he said

he knows it is true and so should follow it. But that can be so far from the truth, for the heart [apart from true salvation] is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it (Jeremiah 17:11)? So, how can anyone trust their own gut before they trust the very word of God? They can because they were never saved by the power of the Holy Spirit that gives one a new heart, or resurrected soul. O they believed in Christ and said the sinners prayer; they were baptized in water; they led moral lives; they went to church, and they outwardly seem to do everything they are supposed to do to show they are Christians; nevertheless, they were never truly born from above by the power Holy Spirit to be given a new heart or resurrected soul by the hand of God alone, and not by the hands of men. You see, when the scripture says in John 3:16, for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life , you have to ask the question, what does it mean to believe in Him according to Holy Scripture? It does not mean that you can just believe in Him by your own mind, or just accept Jesus into your heart, and you are now saved like all too many have been falsely led to believe, for you must take into account all scripture as well. No, other scripture also says that you must be born from above by the power of God, which results in your believing in or your accepting of Him, and not the other way around. That is, we don't believe to be born from above, but we are truly born from above when our believing stems from having been given a new heart or resurrected soul; when we have been spiritually and supernaturally born from above, which comes

only by the hand of God alone upon hearing His word, for faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). As Jesus said to Nicodemus, the Pharisee, in the often quoted verse in John 3,

3 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again [literally, born from above] , he cannot see the kingdom of God .

So, if your belief comes from just your own mind instead of through the supernatural power of having been born from above, you are not saved. Unfortunately, that is how it is for the vast majority of the people who claim to believe in Christ, and so think they are saved or being saved when they actually are not because they have not actually experienced the supernatural power of God, that gives them a spiritual rebirth and new heart from above, which, alone, results in true faith. And, of course, in this day of the many days of Judgment Day that began on May 21,2011, the only thing they can do is believe with their own minds, which, alone, will never save them, for God has no longer been imparting a new heart or resurrected soul to anyone; He is no longer eternally saving anyone who was not already saved by May 21,2011. Judgment Day has come, and who can stand it? See Is God Still Saving? and Luke 11:5-13 , Isaiah 13:10, scroll down to verse 10 and Isaiah 13:14 and Revelation 18 study - Part 3, scroll to verses 21-23 and Revelation 9:1-5 and verse 6 of Revelation 9:6-12 and Revelation 6:12-13 and Jeremiah 50, scroll down to verse 12 and Jeremiah 50:16-17 , Jeremiah 50:40 , Jeremiah 51:26 , Jeremiah 51:30 and 32 , Jeremiah 51:36 ,

Jeremiah 51:43-44 , Jeremiah 51:55 , Jeremiah 51:58 , Isaiah 26:20 .

But even before May 21,2011 came when salvation was still possible, what is being said was already then proven over and over again: even when hundreds of people at a Billy Graham crusade, for instance, or in any church for that matter, would come forward and believe in Christ, the truth is that after only a few years, very few of those who came forward and believed were still following Christ. That is because although they believed in Christ, and even confessed Him with their mouths as the scripture says to do (Romans 10:9), they were not born from above by the Holy Spirit, and they did not receive a new heart or resurrected soul. So, they were never transformed from within where it really matters. The result is that they have no real power to keep walking with Christ so that over a relatively short period of time, they all fell away into sin and the world that they so love in their natural hearts or souls. No, they had never received the new nature or resurrected soul in Jesus Christ, but they still have their old sinful nature with no real power to continue walking in the steps of Christ. They believed in their own minds or hearts, yes, but they were not saved by being born from above in the way that scripture prescribes, for example, in John 1 where we read,

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name :
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God .

Notice how that the true sons of God are those who, yes, did both receive and believe, but they did so because they were born of God; not because they willed or chose in their own flesh or body to be saved, nor because any human beings, including themselves, willed or chose to be saved, but because God chose them to be saved; hence, THEY WERE BORN OF GOD. So, unless one had received or believed in Christ by the power of having been born of God by His Choice and by His Hand alone to be made a new creation from within, that person just received or believed by their own mind and so did not become saved. There is a receiving and believing, then, that comes from God in being saved; and there is a receiving and believing that comes from oneself and is not from being saved. As God declares,

Mt 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen .

That is, many have been called by hearing the word of God or gospel, and many have been called by believing or receiving Jesus with their own minds. But only a few have believed in and received Jesus Christ because they were truly born from above or born of God unto eternal salvation by His choosing alone.

And we read more about what will happen to those who have believed in Christ by their own minds or hearts and not by having been truly born from above with the result that they eventually fall away in Hebrews 6,

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the

heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost ,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come ,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame .
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God :
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned .

Of course, if they were people who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come , they could not possibly fall away, for the power of God would keep them, for it is the will of the Father that Christ lose none of them but raise them up on the Last Day (John 6:39). But, regardless, there are many who have believed with their own minds and power that are not saved; whose end is to be burned . They came very close to entering the kingdom of God, perhaps, but never really did enter in because they were misled to believe that they were saved when they were not. Woe unto you shepherds, for the wrath of God has come upon you to the utmost!

But now, returning to the point originally being made, we should not follow our gut or heart,

but we should follow what the Bible teaches regardless how our own gut or heart may feel about it. If we base things on our own gut or heart instead of Holy Scripture, we could never fully follow the true Christ because there are many times that to follow the true Christ can go against our own heart or gut. As just one example out of the seemingly infinite number of examples that could be given, Holy Scripture forbids divorced Christians to remarry another unless their original spouse is physically dead. Instead, they are to remain single, or be reconciled with one another because God declares that they are one flesh, and what God has joined together in marriage, let no human being break it apart (see Divorce, the Big Lie! ). Nevertheless, most so-called Christians cannot accept not being able to remarry, so they do their best to twist scripture to their way of thinking, or they just ignore it. Why? Because their gut or heart says that is not right. It says to them, God would never want me to be alone for all these years until my Ex dies; that is just not fair. And besides, the divorce wasn't my fault. I had no idea that we would have so many problems together. There must be someone else who would be better for me. And the wife might say, my husband is just not kind to me but abusive, and he just won't listen to me. There must be someone else who can better listen to me and be kind to me.

Anyway, you've got the idea. Instead of never giving up and being willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to improve the marriage as God would have it, one or both chooses to rebel against God and divorce

God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:8-10).

But most people's hearts will not accept that teaching of election even though God clearly teaches it in His word, and even if it has been clearly made to be understood in the best way possible. Why won't most accept it? Because their hearts or guts don't feel right about it for one reason or another. So, they follow their gut instead of the word of God, and they fall away from truth in their minds, and they change it to mean something other than what is clearly taught in the Bible to make it more to their liking; and before long, after doing that with one thing after another in the Bible, they are soon worshipping and following a false Christ of their own creation. This is how many churches and denominations have come to be, and people choose that church or denomination which they feel in their heart or gut is truer to it instead of choosing based on careful study of the word of God to follow it alone. The result being the eventual falling away of all the Christian churches, and God's Final Judgment on this world began with them on May 21,1988 because they have rejected His Holy Word in many different ways to follow and worship strange gods, strange doctrines, and traditions, created by the wicked gut or hearts of men.

Likewise, even though the Holy Scriptures teach that those who remain in the Christian churches have been being given the mark of the beast; and that they are serving and worshipping a false Christ; and that to follow the true Christ, they must depart out from their churches and never return back to them; and even though

because of what their own gut or heart tells them to do even though God teaches the exact opposite when He speaks of the Christian marriage in 1Corinthians 7,

10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband :
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife .

As another example of the overwhelming number of examples that could be given of so-called Christians following their gut rather than the word of God, consider this one: to fully follow Christ in our thinking and teaching, we must believe that Christ only chose certain people to salvation from before the foundation of the world, and because He had chosen them, that is the reason why they became eternally saved and chose and believed in Him. No one ever became saved because they by themselves chose or believed in Christ. No, we who have become truly saved did so, not because we did anything ourselves to become saved such as believe, or because there was something better about us than anyone else to warrant our salvations. No, we became saved because God chose us for His Own Purposes before the world even was created. As the scripture declares,

8 For by grace [were we] saved through faith; and that not of [ourselves] : it was the gift of God :
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast .
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which

the Holy Scriptures teach that the many days of Judgment Day began on May 21,2011 with salvation having come to an end forever; and that the Antichrist already came and has been ruling over their Christian Church; and that the Great Tribulation already came; and that there will be no pre or mid-tribulation rapture or any other kind of rapture for that matter until the Last Day; nor will there be a 7 year Great Tribulation, nor will there be a 1,000 literal year reign of Christ on this earth; and the Holy Scriptures teach that the Church Age already ended on May 21,1988, and we could go on and on ... Yes, even though God's word teaches these things as well as many other things that those in the Christian churches have not been obeying or following, are we to think that just because they seem to be moral and kind people and go to church that they serve and worship the true Christ? Absolutely not! For they are only following what their guts and hearts tell them. They are not following the word of God in many things that He is using in this day to separate the sheep from the goats, the wise virgins from the foolish virgins. And they are not following these things because God has been blinding them as His Judgment against them to bundle them all in the Christian churches where the spiritual fires of God's wrath have been burning ever since God's Final Judgment on this world began on May 21,1988 at the House of God, the corporate Christian church, which includes all Christian churches worldwide.

Indeed, everyone in the Christian churches should have departed out from their various churches by the time of September 7,1994 when the Latter Rain began outside of all the churches during the Great Tribulation that already came,

which was from May 21,1988 to May 21,2011, to escape the spiritual famine already in the Christian churches, and then, to ongoingly cry out for God's mercy outside of any church or denomination that they might be fed unto true salvation before any possibility for salvation had come to an end, as it did when the many days of Judgment Day began on May 21,2011. But most did not depart out from their churches to follow the true Christ and Holy Spirit! Instead, they clung to their churches as if somehow, they would be saved by their denomination or church, and, by having continued to attend their churches or denominations, they have been worshipping a lie without even knowing it; and therefore, they are worshipping and serving the devil without knowing it. Nevertheless, they are serving Satan by not submitting to all that Christ teaches in His Holy Scriptures even though God has blinded them to it to bring His Judgment against them.

Woe, to all of you who cannot let go of your denomination or church, for they cannot save you, and the true Christ and Holy Spirit is no longer there. By not being able to depart out to follow the true Christ and Holy Spirit who began departing out on May 21,1988, you show that you are not following the true Christ, but some counterfeit Christ that is the idol or image of the beast that you believe in without knowing it. The true people of God are outside of all the Christian churches because they cannot buy (receive) your false gospels, teachings, signs and wonders; nor the counterfeit Holy Spirit and Christ in your churches. Neither can God's true people sell (declare) in all the Christian churches that you repent from many of your false

himself who deceived all the churches and congregations worldwide to worship him and receive the Mark of the Beast, and he brought in his counterfeit gospels, counterfeit teachings, and counterfeit signs and wonders to spiritually destroy them.

Now, before moving on further, we should note that Christ, like Satan, is also referred to as a lion in scripture. Remember, we read,

Re 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David [Christ] , hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof .

And, in describing Christ by four beasts (better translated as four living creatures), we read,

Re 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle .

So, Christ and Satan can both be described as a lion in scripture, but Satan is the counterfeit lion. Satan comes looking just like Christ, which is one of the reasons why he is described as a lion in the same way that Christ is. And there are many Old Testament verses that both typify Christ and Satan as a lion that we will not get into for brevity, but with that being said, let's look at one last verse. We read,

Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought . {great ... : Heb. droughts }

6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me .
7 Therefore I [God] will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I [God] observe them :
8 I [God] will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I [God] devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them . {wild ... : Heb. beast of the field }

Notice that in this verse, because God is bringing judgment on His own people, God describes Himself as all three of the same beasts - the leopard, bear, and lion - which are used to describe Satan coming against God's Church as judgment against them during the Great Tribulation from May 21, 1988 to when Judgment Day began on May 21, 2011 in our verse of study, Revelation 13:2. In fact, Hosea 13:5-8, the verses we just read, typifies God's judgment that would come upon the New Testament Israel, the Church, which we see being described in verse 2 of our study in Revelation 13.

Now, our verse 2 of Revelation 13 ends like this: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. That is, the beast (Satan and his kingdom) that rose up out of the sea (was loosed to rise up out of the bottomless pit in which it was first bound at the cross) to bring God's judgment against all the churches and congregations worldwide beginning on May 21, 1988 according to the well-proven , Biblical Timeline of History got its power from the dragon who we learned is the devil, Satan himself .

teachings and believe all God's teachings for these Latter Days of God's Judgment upon you. Indeed, it is only God's true people who cannot buy or sell in the Christian churches today because only they do not have the spiritual mark of the beast who is ruling in your congregations. But all you in the churches can buy or sell because it is you that have the mark of the beast. You continue to not repent from your false gospels, Christs, teachings, or your false signs and wonders as if you are not under God's wrath. But you are under His wrath, and God has already spiritually destroyed the Christian churches with no more salvation possible, but He is yet to physically destroy them as well on the Last Day of Judgment Day that we are now in, which is relatively soon to come. So, recognize all this and depart out from all your denominations and churches, for they have all been given over to the counterfeit Christ, the Antichrist (also called the Man of Sin, Abomination of Desolation, and the beast), the devil himself because they are all under God's wrath.

Well, let's just mention a couple more things about verse 17 of our study in Revelation chapter 13. Once again, the verse says,

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save [except] he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name .

Notice that the last part of the verse says, ... except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name . Now, to have the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name is all the same thing.

That is, to have all three: the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name means the same thing as having any one of these three things by themselves, namely that the man who has either the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name means that he is ruled over, serves, and worships the beast (Satan). None of these are material or physical marks of any kind, but all three are invisible and spiritual things that simply identify a person as being ruled over, serving, and worshipping Satan. But, if this is the case, why then are all three listed and not just one of them? You know why: because the number 3 in the Bible can symbolize the purpose of God (see Bible Number 3 ). Therefore, by listing all three in our verse, God is emphasizing that it is His very purpose that only those who are ruled over by, serve, and worship Satan (only those who have the spiritual mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name) can buy or sell their false teachings, gospels, Christs, sign and wonders, or their false word of God for these Latter Days in the Christian churches. The true Elect, on the other hand, who are now outside of all the churches cannot buy or sell the truth for these days in the Christian churches, for the Day of the Lord's wrath has come, and it all began at the House of God, the corporate Christian Church, which includes all the Christian churches worldwide.

Now, we will attempt to finish up on our last verse 18 of Revelation 13, in our next study. Until then, may Yahweh bless thee, and keep thee: Yahweh make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Yahweh lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace (Numbers 6:24-26).