Thursday 24 June 2010

Rev.13:17 - Was the Mark of the Beast Something Functional or Was it Only a Mark?

The Bible doesn't say that the mark of the beast will be something physically functional that will literally enable citizens to buy or sell, like a mircrochip. It was only a mark. A mark doesn't have any functionality in and of itself. The only thing that has functionality in regard to a mark is any laws that may be enacted in its regard. The Bible just meant that citizens were not allowed to buy and sell if they were found not to be marked. And the mark was said to be the beast's name or number.

The sentence, "...that no man might buy or sell..." (Rev.13:17) referred to a legal edict - it is not a scientific/technological explanation.

It described a law that accompanied the mark - it doesn't describe a technological function of the mark.

It was only a mark - it isn't something functional.

The mark was the beast's name or number.

That's how John Wesley and other standard commentators understood it.

It requires a lot of extra-Biblical imagination to say a micropchip is the mark of the beast.

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