12.

THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR

THE SEAL OF GOD?
 THE SECOND BEAST: AN IMAGE TO
THE FIRST [SEA] BEAST
REVELATION 13:16
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or
in their foreheads...

 Second Beast: Reject separation [Church & State]

 Second Beast: Revive repression [Roman System]
 Second Beast: Lamblike--speaks like a dragon
 Second Beast: Force all to receive the beast’ mark
 Second Beast: Military-Political-Economic-Religious
 CONTRAST: THE MARK AND THE
SEAL
MARK OF THE BEAST THE SEAL OF GOD
REVELATION 14:9, 11 REVELATION 14:1
 Mark: Forehead or  Seal: Foreheads
right hand  Seal: Those who choose
 Mark: Those who to worship the true God
choose to worship the and not an image of the
beast and his image beast
 Mark: Dictated upon all  Seal: Given in free will
who refuse God’s call to to those who accept to
come out of Babylon come out of Babylon
 CONTRAST: LOST AND SAVED
LOST: DISOBEDIENCE SAVED: OBEDIENCE
REVELATION 6:15-17 REVELATION 7:1-3
Mercenaries Missionaries
 Kings of the earth
 Kings of the earth
 Great men
 Great men
 Rich men
 Rich men
 Chief captains
 Chief captains
 Mighty men
 Mighty men
 Bondmen
 Bondmen
 Freemen
 Freemen
 HOW IMPORTANT IS THE MARK OF THE
BEAST AND THE SEAL OF GOD?
Israel’s History: Babylonian captivity
 EZEKIEL 16:2, 8, 30; 23 [Professes to be God’s true
people]
 EZEKIEL 23:40 [Decked with ornaments, jewelleries and
eyes accessories]
 EZEKIEL 8:16, 17; 16:45 [Commits abomination]
 EZEKIEL 7:1, 2; REVELATION 7:1 [God’s judgment ]
 EZEKIEL 9:1-6 [Warning & sealing prior to God’s
destruction]
 EZEKIEL 11:22, 23 [God’s glory left Jerusalem]
 WHAT HAPPENED AFTER GOD’S
GLORY LEFT THE CITY?
Historical Account
 Nebuchadnezzar besieged the city and took Israel captive [2
CHRONICLES 36:17]
Why? Because of Israel’s abominations...[Sun Worship]

JEREMIAH 17:27
But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day,
and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of
Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and
it shall not be quenched.
 BUT…WHY THE SABBATH?
EZEKIEL 20:12, 20
Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between
me and them, that they might know that I [am] the LORD that
sanctify them. And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign
between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD
your God.
JEREMIAH 5:30, 31 [Israel’s unfaithfulness] Priests, pastors, and
prophets prophesy by Baal worship and led Israel astray
[JEREMIAH 2:8].
1. Sun Worship
2. Sabbath Worship
 ISRAEL’S APOSTASY: O.T. & N.T…?
EPHESIANS 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;

REVELATION 2:2-4
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience,
and how thou canst not bear them which are evil:
and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles,
and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast
borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake
hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I
have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left
thy first love.
REVELATION 2:20
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee,
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which
calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce
my servants to commit fornication, and to eat
things sacrificed unto idols.
 ISRAEL’S APOSTASY AND THE
APOSTATE WOMAN [BEAST]
REVELATION 2:20 & REVELATION 17:1-5
 Woman apostatizes [Jezebel in her midst]

 Woman commits harlotry

 Woman represents the Beast

 Woman commits abominations and fornications

 Woman is filled with the blood of the saints

 Woman controls the nations of the world

 Woman is decked with silver-gold-precious stones

JEREMIAH 51:7
Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD’S
hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations
have drunken of her wine; …the nations are mad.
 FALSE PROPHET(S), IMAGE, AND
DAUGHTER(S)…
Case in Point: Prophet Elijah [1 KINGS 18]
 King: Ahab

 Harlot: Jezebel

 False Prophets of Baal: Jezebel’s table

Case in Point: Prophet John the Baptist [MATTHEW 14]

 King: Herod

 Harlot: Herodias

 Daughter: Salome [Herodias’ daughter]

 WRITING NAMES ON TAGS
Application

 The Dragon represents Satan

 The Civil power represents the Beast

 The Papacy represents the Pope

 The False Prophet represents the United States

of America
WHAT IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST?
What is the Seal of God?
ECCLESIASTES 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and
keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
EZEKIEL 20:20
And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God.

 So then, what day depicts the sign of God’s seal?

 CONTRAST: EZEKIEL 20:20 &
REVELATION 14:9
EZEKIEL 20:20
And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a
sign between me and you, that ye may know
that I [am] the LORD your God

REVELATION 14:9
And the third angel followed them, saying with
a loud voice, If any man worship the beast
and his image, and receive [his] mark in his
forehead, or in his hand...
 THE BEAST TRAMPLING ON GOD’S
SEAL & LAW
REVELATION 14:9, 10
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship
the beast and his image, and receive [his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out
without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with
fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the
Lamb:
 MARK OF THE BEAST [SUN WORSHIP]
 SEAL OF GOD [SABBATH & LAW]
 WHOM DO YOU WORSHIP?
EZEKIEL 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S
house, and, behold, …between the porch and the altar,
[were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward
the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east;
and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
EZEKIEL 9:3, 4
…..And he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had]
the writer's inkhorn by his side; And the LORD said unto
him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men
that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be
done in the midst thereof.
 RELATIONSHIP: MARK OF THE BEAST AND
SUN WORSHIP?
DEUTERONOMY 6:5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
might.
 Which table of the law…?

 What does God tell us to do with this table of the

law?
DEUTERONOMY 6:8
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes.
 Does the Seal on the forehead [frontlets] have any
relation with the First Table of the law?
ISAIAH 8:16
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples.
HEBREWS 10:16

This [is] the covenant that I will make with

them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put
my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I
write them;
 WHICH GROUP WILL THE BEAST
WAR AGAINST?

REVELATION 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went
to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep
the commandments of God, and have the testimony
of Jesus Christ.

If REVELATION 13 is parallel to REVELATION 12,

would you expect one of the two characteristics that’s
contrasted to be the Devil’s mark?
WORSHIP: GENUINE & COUNTERFEIT
DEVIL’S MARK SEAL OF GOD

Counterfeit
Genuine
REVELATION 13
MARK OF THE BEAST REVELATION 12
SEAL OF GOD
Covetousness
Love
Sun Worship [Secular]

Sabbath Worship [Sacred]

False Prophet

True Prophet
 A SEAL CONTAINS THREE THINGS
1. The signature or signet
2. Territory [Governs]
3. Official Title
 Did you know that the ten commandments were written
both of their sides?
EXODUS 32:15, 16
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and
the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the
tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one
side and on the other [were] they written. And the
tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was]
the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
 QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS
 Where would you expect to find the seal of God?
 At the center of his Law
 What must that SEAL have?
1. HIS NAME
2. HIS TERRITORY
3. HIS TITLE
The seal of GOD is the Sabbath: EXODUS 20:8-11
 What then would be the mark of the beast?
EZEKIEL 8:16 {Sun Worship}
DANIEL 7:25
And he shall speak [great] words against the most High,
…and think to change times and laws.
 HOW DARE HIM [BEAST] CHANGE
GOD’S TIMES AND LAW?
 Does the Roman Catholic church claim to change
God’s Law?
- September 1, 1923, the catholic record: “Sunday is
our mark of authority” “The church is above the
bible; and this transference is proof of that fact.”
- Translated from Lucius Ferraris, prompta bibliotheca
(ready library), “ papa,” art. 2.
“The pope is of so great authority and power that he
can modify, explain, or interpret even divine
laws...the pope can modify law, since his power is
not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent
[deputy/magistrate with delegated power] of God
upon earth.”
 Catechism of the council of Trent (Donovan's
translation, 1867), part 3, chap. 4, p. 345
“It pleased the church of God, that the religious
celebration of the Sabbath day should be transferred to
‘the lord’s day.”
-Council of Trent: McHugh and Callan Translation (1937
ed.), p. 402. “Question. How prove you that the church
hath power to command feasts and holydays? “Answer.
By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday,
which protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly
contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly,
and breaking most other feasts commanded by the
same church.”
 A Doctrinal Catechism (3d ed.), p. 174.

“Question. Have you any other way of proving that

the church has power to institute festivals of
precepts?
“Answer. had she not such power, she could not
have done that in which all modern religionists
agree with her; -- she could not have substituted
the observance of Sunday the first day of the
week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh
day, a change for which there is no scriptural
authority.”
The converts catechism of the catholic
doctrine (1946 ed.), p. 50.
“Question. Which is the Sabbath day?
“Answer. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
“Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
“Answer. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the
catholic church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to
Sunday.”
WHO’LL MAKE AN IMAGE OF/TO THE
BEAST?

The Second beast [land beast] or America [USA]

 What does an image to the beast mean?

 What is this image expected to do?

1. The church controls or dictates to the state and advices her to

enforce her demands.
2. It will enforce the mark of the beast.
1. The forehead [frontlet] mind…believes the beast is
right.
2. Right hand: Carries out the work of the beast

ECCLESIASTES 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy
might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
goest.
 DISOBEDIENCE AND ITS REPERCUSSION
Adam & Eve: TEN Commandments [Sabbath]
1. No other gods/carved images
2. No bowing down
3. Using God’s name in vain: [Serpent]
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
5. Honour thy father and thy mother
6. Don’t murder
7. Don’t commit adultery
8. Don’t steal [pilfer/take in secret without consent]
9. Don’t bear false witness: GENESIS 3:3 Eat/Touch
10. Don’t covet
 A CLOSER LOOK: ISRAEL
EXODUS 31:16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the
sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their
generations, [for] a perpetual covenant. It [is] a
sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
EXODUS 19:8
And all the people answered together, and said, All
that the LORD hath spoken we will do….
 Read the book of EZEKIEL
LUKE 16:10
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in
much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
much.

 If you are unwilling to loose your honour, fortune, and

livelihood, what makes you think you will be willing to
loose your life for JESUS CHRIST?