The Mark Of The Beast

December 28th, 2010 | rpickett | Bible

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Understanding the mark of the beast is pretty simple once you have a little knowledge. You always see a lot of hype at churches and in movies, etc over “THE MARK OF THE BEAST” where it’s made out to be some deep dark scary mystery. Let’s take a look a the scriptures to see exactly what the Bible says about it and dispel the myths and all the hype.

First I’ll post all the relevant scriptures that we’ll be using in this post. When I read someone else’s article and they post scriptures I used to skip right over them and just jump down to what the person was writing about those scriptures. But that’s a really bad habit, I’ve found it’s really good to take the time to read real slow through the scriptures that are listed, then try to see the points the person is making using those scriptures. I hope you do the same.

Rev 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: (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. (18)  Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (KJV)

As always, before digging right into a verse or passage we should always take a look at the context that the verse is placed in. Revelation 13 is dealing with two beasts, one that rises out of the sea, the other that rises out of the land. This isn’t the focus of this article (it can be dealt with in another article easily), so let me just briefly tell what the two beasts are without a lot of explanation.

Each beast represents world powers. The first beast had 7 heads which are the six world powers that have already come and gone, and the one world power that now is. They are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medio-Persia (Meeds and Persians), Greece, Rome, and the United States. The second beast has only one head, and in Rev 18:11 it says “And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven…”, meaning the eighth head is of the first seven heads. Counting them in order, the second beast’s head is the eighth head (the first beast had the first seven heads). Many believe, as do I, that the second beast, a.k.a. the eighth head, is a one-world power that is not yet in full power. This verse in Rev 18:11 shows that the eighth head is comprised of the 7 previous heads, a sign that it is a combination of all the nations together ruling as one. The first seven heads each ruled as single nations over the world, the eighth will be a coalition. Some have said it’s the UN. I say maybe, maybe not. Before the UN there was The League of Nations which didn’t have as much power, and the US and Britain conspired together, using WWII as it unfolded, and pushed for the establishment of the UN. Today the UN doesn’t have far reaching power as we can see the US does whatever it wants in spite of UN opposition (Bush II going into Iraq completely against the UN). That doesn’t sound much like a world power to me, but I’m not excluding the possibility that it will  become the eighth head in the future.

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