Featured Mark of the Beast (on the hand)

This is being spread worldwide by a unending number of news and social sources which on the surface seemingly no connection to Pope and the Catholic church, but they appear to be almost orchestrated or the same source.

Here are a few..."Give the earth a Sabbath day - CSMonitor.com If we all reduced our driving, shopping, business, and energy consumption by one-seventh, we'd pollute that much less. We'd have to avoid energy-guzzling leisure activities, so maybe nix the long drives or movie marathons. Still, even if we left out the work and traffic that must go on – hospitals, police, utilities – the environmental boon would still be significant.

Religious leaders have joined to battle global warming and preserve God's creation. But in their rush to recycle, reduce, and reuse, they have neglected the pollution-reducing potential of a full-day work stoppage.

The Evangelical Climate Initiative, launched last year by 86 leaders, calls for international action but also directs concerned Christians to "keep your tires properly inflated" and "walk or bike more." Why not invoke the Sabbath and suggest that people live near their church and keep Sunday holy by not shopping or working? Then they could skip all driving one day a week....

Global warming has united the monotheistic faiths despite their other frictions. In the past week, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and other religious leaders from around the world have convened yet again for a symposium on the environment, this time in Greenland in part to focus on a melting glacier there.

Together they could do much more by hewing to one of the oldest practices in their common tradition."...Give the earth a Sabbath day

"At least one societal change resulting from the quarantine could do wonders to reinvigorate our national sense of family, faith, and community. Let’s give serious thought to reinstating at least some of the time-honored Sunday closure laws, sort of a one-day-per-week modified stay-at-home request. Such action would rededicate our society to a regular day of rest, family meals, civic associations, and religious observance.

By rededicating each Sunday as “a common day of rest,” we would say that the life of America is much more than never-pausing commerce and ever-grinding bureaucracy. We would proclaim that the heart of the nation transcends consumerism and looms larger than even the biggest government. We would emphasize that the real value in a country comes not from its GNP or tax collections, but from families, faith, communities, that it comes from “We the people.”

Many obvious benefits to faith, family, and community are certain to accrue from Sunday closings. Less obvious will be an economic uplift for the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortar shops that traditionally were permitted to open on Sundays, long before being squashed by malls, warehouse stores, and supermarkets which dominate seven-day commerce. Additionally, locally owned restaurants regularly served neighborhoods in the “blue law” era, further encouraging small businesses. For old-school sports fans, Sundays-at-rest may encourage a relaxed weekly afternoon watching or listening to nine innings of baseball, reinvigorating our once-dominant national pastime.

Of course, there will be plenty of entrenched opposition to a renewed Sunday for rest, reflection, family, faith, and community. Libertarians and classical laissez faire economists oppose any such restrictions on commerce, blissfully unaware that most states protected the Lord’s Day from big business encroachment for nearly two centuries, while encouraging free enterprise on the six other days. Even those who claimed “the business of America is business” were willing to concede one day a week for faith, family, rest.

More opposition to a restoration of Sundays will emanate from secular leftists, who on most issues vehemently denounce greedy billionaire capitalists. But on this matter their fear that more Americans “will keep holy the Lord’s Day” far outweighs their fear of unbridled capitalism. Better, many secularists suppose, that people go to supermarkets and malls than to prayer services. Better still that Americans become addicted to consumerism than fall for “the opiate of the masses.” Better, they conclude, an undifferentiated mass of Sunday consumers than Masses and services filled with Sunday worshipers. "https://newbostonpost.com/2020/04/01/if-history-rhymes/?fbclid=IwAR3YkxuB_nOkEIONnqdtV17pvY4JTg3n9PhMzqUIV6dHrYGou6atYZ1rmaE

"Green Sabbath Project

Increasing numbers of people see the wisdom of observing a technology shabbat, a break from all devices with screens. Bogotá, Colombia, has introduced car-free Sundays that the population savors. When Israeli cities shut down for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur (the day of atonement), nitrogen oxide pollution in the air decreases for the day by 70-99% .

Try it. One day a week you’ll stop creating the need for more goods, stop using up natural resources, stop emitting carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

The Sabbath is said to be a foretaste of the world to come (Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 57b). Literally. If you care about our future, about your well-being, observe a real sabbath day of rest. It helps cultivate community, self-discipline, inner calm and contentment. One powerful weapon in the fight against environmental deterioration and climate disaster may just be an age-old spiritual technology."..Green Sabbath Project


And people have noticed the connection..."

End of the world: Why Pope Francis' plan for 2020 is ‘straight out Book of Revelations’ On September 12 this year, Pope Francis announced his plan to launch a global education pack to “unite efforts” to combat climate change. The leader of the Vatican called on world leaders to come together on May 14, 2020, to discuss his “Laudato Si” proposal to reduce global warming. He said: “Never before has there been such need to unite our efforts in a broad educational alliance, to form mature individuals capable of overcoming division and antagonism, and to restore the fabric of relationships for the sake of more fraternal humanity.

“An alliance is needed between the Earth’s inhabitants and our common home, which we are bound to care for and respect.

“I invite everyone to work for this alliance and to be committed, individually and within our communities, to nurturing the dream of a humanism rooted in solidarity and responsive both to humanity’s aspirations and to God’s plan.

“The most significant personalities in the world are invited to take part in the proposed initiative, political, cultural and religious, and in particular the young people to whom the future belongs.

“The goal is to arouse an awareness and a wave of responsibility for the common good of humanity, starting from the young and reaching all people of goodwill.”

However, by ignoring God’s instructions to rest on the seventh day.

He said in a video in October: “Pope Francis is referring to Laudato Si’, which is his encyclical on climate change, there he offers some suggestions on how to combat climate change, including reducing carbon emissions, carpooling, planting trees and recycling.

“These are not bad suggestions, but in the encyclical, Pope Francis also suggests Sundays with keeping a better environment.

“Page 237 reads ‘On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance, Sunday is meant to be a day which heals our relationship with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world’.

“The implication here is that we need to have a law mandating rest on Sunday, so it appears that his agenda on climate change includes giving Sunday rest and worship mandated by law to improve the environment.”...

“The Book of Revelation describes a religious polarisation that takes place in the End Times, people will be divided into two camps, those that receive the mark of the beast and those that receive the seal of God.

“Those that receive the mark of the beast will be those that go along with Sunday rest and worship laws, while those who receive the seal of God will decide to stay true to God’s commandments and keep the seventh day holy, which is on Saturday, not Sunday.

“However, the Catholic Church changed the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and no man has the right to change God’s commandment...." End of the world: Why Pope Francis' plan for 2020 is ‘straight out Book of Revelations’

 

The Sabbath is the "sign" of God's people, however a individual can be a Sabbath keeper or keep it strictly like a Jew and still have the Mark of the Beast. How so, well by following it in its false practices of worship, like this 'day of rest' for Mother Earth which still is really worship of the Beast. Lets look at the text closely...

Revelation 14:9-12
King James Version (KJV)
9And 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,
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:
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.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Worshiping on Sunday is a direct way of worshiping the Beast, but there are other ways which we must be careful to avoid, and this secular 'day of rest' for the world is still following the worship of the beast.

So we have to keep ourselves clear of anything that worships the Beast and its image. Scripture shows us what the law is and how we need to follow it.

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;

Deep into our hearts it should go and be understood, not a surface understanding..

Isaiah 8:16 "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples."

A seal was something that held fast and in this context was binded up.

Deuteronomy 6:2,8 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you....And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

and we see it will be a sign...

Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth.

Exodus 31:13,17 Truly My Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the Lord that does sanctify you....It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever.

and it is forever. But look at what do you do on the Sabbath, can we say 'worship' God.The Mark of the Beast is about keeping of God's law especially worship, same as it always has been, and the Sabbath is at the center.

 

Here is from the Jesuit scholars...
"Citing Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si, Camosy calls for members of society to “be motivated” to accept laws and regulations to fix climate change. He continues,

For laws to bring about the necessary long-term effects, “the majority of the members of society must be adequately motivated to accept them, and personally transformed to respond.”

Camosy rightly observes that the Pope is calling for a profound interior conversion, an “eco-conversion” if you will. Such a conversion, the Pope says, must be both individual and communal. But it must be a fundamental change of life — much like that of the saint best known for his spiritual emphasis on God’s creation, St. Francis of Assisi.

Are you listening to this? The Pope is calling for a spiritual conversion experience from the inhabitants of the earth. This is radical environmentalism on Jesuit steroids. Camosy continues,

We must also celebrate rest, especially from buying and selling, by returning to a focus on keeping the Sabbath.

As it did for St. Francis, Pope Francis argues that this kind of conversion can restore “ecological equilibrium, establishing harmony within ourselves, with others, with nature and other living creatures, and with God.”

What are they calling for here? Say it with me. “SUNDAY.”

They want religious institutions to work to help people cultivate a spiritual foundation that makes “ecological conversion” possible. And anyone who worries about the existential threat of global climate change (and there is a worldwide propaganda program going on to instill climate fear in adults, children and religious organizations) should do all they can to support religious institutions in this work."....Jesuit University Theologian Calls For Sabbath Rest To Combat Climate Change — Fulcrum7