Page 24 - The Mark of the Beast

Revelation 17:3-5, 16-17
So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting
on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten
horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and
the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her
desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts
to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the
words of God are fulfilled.
The harlot church system today rides on the beast, but it has not tamed it. Rather it
has made an unholy alliance with the lower nature and fails to exercise dominion over it.
Because of this failure, God will cause the beast to make the harlot desolate and naked, to
eat her flesh and burn her with fire. This is not a bad thing, for it is the flesh of a fallen
church system that must be consumed, and her nakedness must be exposed in order for
God to clothe her with robes of righteousness.
God will accomplish through Christ and His overcomers that which Adam and Eve
failed to do in the Garden. He will cast down the beast and He will raise up a body of
overcomers who will exercise dominion over the beast.

Revelation 15:2
And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had been
victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name,
standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God.

The first chapter of the first book of the Bible reveals God’s design for man to rule over
the beasts, and the last book of the Bible reveals that there will be a company of overcomers
who do so. God’s plan has not been thwarted. All goes according to Yahweh’s plan of the
ages. Even as Adam and Eve took upon themselves the image of the beast by submitting to
the serpent, so there will be those who are victorious over the beast and his image. These
will bear the image of the heavenly. These will have the seal of God in their foreheads, while
a multitude of others receive the mark of the beast.
It is a great folly that the church has so misunderstood that which is spoken of the
beast, his image, and his number. Multitudes are focused upon avoiding some physical
mark of the beast that will be stamped upon the hand or forehead, not realizing that the
mark is already there. Mankind bears the image of the beast in their mind and in their
actions. The number of the beast is the number of the flesh man, and all who bear the image
of the first Adam, and who have not been conformed to the image of the last Adam, bear
this mark.
It is a great deceit that the church should be focused on conspiracies of men and
physical marks on the hand and forehead, but that she has neglected to preach the truth
that a more important spiritual mark has already been given, and only by being united with