The Mark of the Beast.
Satan the Mimic.

Everyone is wondering what the mark of the beast is. Revelation 13:16–18.

The latest one is the Covid 19 vaccine.
What is being said by some, is that the Covid 19 virus is an invented disease so that the elite of the world can gain control of the masses by placing track and trace in everyone in a vaccine.

There have always been those that believe that the mark will be literal. A tattoo, a chip implant, inserted in the hand or forehead, or perhaps some other physiological branding by which the Beasts  followers are visually identified, such as a credit card, an identity card or a bar code..
The idea is that “the name of the beast” or “the number of his name, 666” Rev. 13:17—will be forcibly imposed on people living in the final few years prior to Christ’s second coming.
If one wishes to buy or sell and thus survive in the days ahead, they must submit to this means of identification.
However, is this correct?

We can gather from scripture that Satan tries to counter or copy or mimic everything that God does.
The very name of Satan proves that he is God’s adversary. (your enemy, the devil).

God is love.

1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 

God is Life and truth.

Satan is evil.
Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

Satan is death and lies.

Where the Trinity is concerned, the devil mimics.

Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Satan, the beast and the false prophet.
 

The unholy trinity.
The scripture reveals the rise of Antichrist in the last days, whose power is from Satan and he will be preceded by the False prophet

The Holy Trinity.
The scripture tells us that the true Christ came being preceded by John the Baptist and Christ’s power came from the Father.

It is very possible that the mark of the beast is nothing more than a copy of the mark of God.

Mark: Symbol – sign.

Revelation 14:1, says that the redeemed bear a seal on their foreheads. The seal consists of the names of God and the Lamb and shows that the redeemed belong to God. The seal is presumably not a visible one but a way of indicating that people find their identity in relationship to God and Christ. 
 

Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. 

Also every Christian is sealed and marked for God.
 

Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 

Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. 

 

A seal is "something that confirms, ratifies, or makes secular" and a "mark given the effect of a common-law seal by statute law."- taken from Merriam Webster. And it is very important to know God himself is a law giver and has a statutes.

A typical seal will have a name, title and territory.
Is there a seal in the law of God which give authenticity of God as a lawgiver of that particular law? Absolutely! 

As Christians, we belong to God the Father through Jesus Christ, we are His, purchased with a price and we are sealed, confirmed as His. He has the title and we are citizens of heaven, His territory.

In the New heaven and earth, we are told in Revelation:
 

Rev 22:4  And they shall see his face; and His name shall be in their foreheads. 
 

Christians will not literally and physically have the names of Jesus and the Father tattooed on their foreheads. This is simply a way of describing that those born again and redeemed by Christ’s blood and belong to him and to his Father and are preserved in faith by the indwelling Holy Spirit. It is a mark of belonging.

So too, when we read about the mark of the Beast we read that the false prophet causes everyone who isn’t a Christian to have the mark of the beast written on their forehead, we should understand this as a sign that they belong to the beast and are loyal to him.

This “mark” on their foreheads or on their right hand is simply Satan’s way of mimicking the seal of God on God’s people.
If you have the name of Jesus and God the Father written on your forehead, it simply means that they own you, that you belong to them, that you are loyal to the Lord God Almighty.

 

Rev. 13:17 However, if you have “the name of the beast” written on your forehead, it signifies that he owns you, that you belong to him, that you are loyal to the Antichrist.

So, will the mark of the Beast be a literal mark? It could be but it is more plausible to believe that it is an invisible mark, symbolic of loyalty to the Beast.

And all the world wondered after the beast.

Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marvelled and followed the beast.

One last question.
Why the hand or the forehead?

It could be that the hand symbolizes the doing of Satan’s will, putting your hand in his hand.
It may be that the forehead points to one’s ideological commitment and the hand to carrying out that commitment.

Finally, who are the ones that take the mark?
All the world wondered after the Beast.
 

Christians are not of the world.
John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Those that take the mark will be unbelievers and they are condemned to hell.
 

Rev 19:20  And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 

Rev 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, 

Rev 14:10  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: 

Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 

This cannot be referring to those that are born again. They have a different mark.

John 10:28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.