Featured The Mark - Tattoo or Chip?

Revelation is apocryphal language. We read of God sealing his children so the angels know them and care for them.
Satan, ever the imitator, seals those whom God has not sealed.
When the time comes, this seal will be obvious. I don't think it is actually any physical chip or tattoo. I think it is a spiritual seal that marks one as an enemy of God enslaved to Satan and sin.

 

the mark will be physical, & it'll most likely be some sorta implanted chip. The tech for it exists RIGHT NOW! However, the chip will be much-improved by the time the beast comes to power & mandates it. First, he will hawk it as "theft-proof, loss-proof, always with you", etc. & after the rapture occurs, there'll be little opposition to it, so he can easily mandate it.

 

Just my "guess" ...

the "mark" is metaphorical.
On the forehead signifies that one must "think" the way the world thinks.
On the hand signifies that one must "do" the way the world does.

1. This contrasts with the call of God for His People to live apart from the world and to "think" as God thinks and NOT as the world thinks and to "do" as God does and not as the world does.
2. Fore a foreshadow of the "mark of the beast" in action, try being a baker in a certain city that chooses to not honor same sex marriage with a cake and feel the wrath of the "world" as it drives you from the market for refusing to "think" and "do" as the world demands.

 

No, it'll be literal. It'll be some of the means the beast/antichrist will use to control the world.

 

Prove it, otherwise it is just an opinion.

 

Rev 14 … an angel declares it. Identifies it.

yet … due to failure to wean off the world … and those whose spirit remains dead …

acceptance.

tattoo or chip?

IDK either but i believe it will be a physical mark.

greater social acceptance of tattoos is programming to accept a physical mark.

we have lots of agencies employing the chip too.

perhaps either/both?

 

can't prove something that hasn't yet happened, but there's not any hint of symbolism in the passages describing it.

 

So, what is the literal mark that the angels place on all the saints? Will we get a microchip from God? Read Revelation, God marks his saints before the antichrist marks people.
Can you tell us what the literal mark is from God.

 

You appear to have misunderstood ... or I did.

I think Roby is referring to Rev 14 ... where antichrist demands all take a mark ... the 3rd angel he saw ... v 9 IIRC.

Being sealed in Christ is a different act ... and in THIS I understand this isn’t a physical mark on our bodies ... but the mark of the beast IS.

 

Since He hasn't yet issued it, I don't know. And it's called a seal, while the antichrist's is called a mark.

 

2 cents:
[2Co 1:22 NASB95] 22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
[Eph 1:13 NASB95] 13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
[Eph 4:30 NASB95] 30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

 

These have taken place in History.
It will be like was described in Ezekiel 9

 

Revelation 14:1.

 

Thx Martin.

no. My reference is the angel which declares the mark of the beast.
I did get cross-wired this reference for the antichrist’s declaration. Sorry.

but a physical or symbolic… i believe it to be a physical mark/apparatus’s

 

My$0.02
Rev. 13:16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads

 

I have a whole big shelf full of encyclopediae & other works of history, as well as eleven English Bible versions, & the occurrence of those events is found in NONE of them.