Revelation 16 promises epic pandemic with mark of beast

COVID-19 is a global epidemic that is a sort of stage-setting for what Revelation 16 talks about: [1] And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
[2] And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

"The 'mark of the beast' won't be a virus but there is an epic pandemic associated with it," explains Jordan. "According to Revelation 16, in that day if you have the 'mark of the beast,' God's going to send a noisome and grievous sore (of leprosy-like disease) upon you.

"The context of Psalm 91 is the 'last days' and verse 3 says, [3] Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
"You ever had a sore that was just boiling, running, wouldn’t quit? It’s nasty, grievous.

"Revelation 13:2: [2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

“Notice that when the Antichrist is described as an animal, he’s described as a leopard. He has the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion, but he’s a leopard.

"You remember what Jeremiah 13 said about a leopard? Verse 23 reads, ‘Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.’ You know how you identify a leopard? By his spots.

“If they get that mark of the beast, when the wrath of God comes out, for those birds that have that spot of the beast God puts a spot of leprosy on them.

“And it's in their garments. That’s why Jude 23 says, [23] And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

“Listen, you’re talking about something where God’s literally going to consume people; consume the flesh off their body in judgment.

“The only thing they’ll be fit for is to be consumed; He’s talking about burning them up. Here’s the curse identified in Isaiah 5:24: [24] Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

“It won’t go well for those who’ve cast aside God’s law. Jeremiah 5:14 says, [14] Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

“You remember what John the Baptist said about the Lord Jesus? ‘[12] Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

“That’s what God’s telling them. They may be God’s nation, they may be going back into the land and building that temple and rebuilding that city, but if they don’t go there in faith trusting in God’s Word, and they’re involved in that vain religious system, that curse is on them.

“So Israel’s in a position where they still have to deal with that 5th Course of Judgment. In Zechariah 2 it's called the ‘Holy Land’ and He’s going to consume all those unholy, defiled people out of the land. He’s going to fly that scroll across the sky, fly His Word out there, make it plain. This is the option they have. Then He’s going to separate the wheat from the tares.

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"The 'mark of the beast' also has to do with worshipping this political leader who's going to take over the government. He's going to control the monetary system in the world, where you have to have this mark in order to have money to buy or sell. There's going to be monetary reset; a deliberate destruction of the money system on a global scale. These are going to be devastating times for the world.

"The 'mark of the beast' is mentioned eight times in Revelation and there are two beasts. As John writes in Revelation 13:11, [11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

"The first beast is the Antichrist and the second beast is the false prophet. Of the first beast, Revelation 13 says: [1] And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

"The first beast is not just one man; he has a whole system he's operating and he's the head. By the way, the leopard, bear and lion is the beast back in Daniel 7. When that fourth beast comes in Daniel 7, the residue of their kingdoms are all assimilated into the Antichrist. When he comes up in the earth to rule and reign he draws people together.

"He turns out to be a bad guy later in his career but he starts out by promising hope, wealth, power. In our day we would call it the Deep State, the elite, the cabal. He controls the governments, media and religion because he's going to be worshipped. He's this character that has this whole vast system of governmental global control.

"Then the next beast comes on and he causes the world to worship the first beast. You know how he's described like a lamb? Jesus is the lamb of God. We're talking about religion. He works miracles. In verse 13 he makes fire come down from heaven. He's a religious figure that professes to perform supernatural events to intervene in history, working miracles with demonstrable events and so forth.

"The first one is a political leader but the second guy, where the 'mark of the beast' comes from, is this religious leader to deceive people with this religious system he uses.

"Revelation 19:20 says, [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

"You see somebody doing miracles you need to watch out. People are going to do miraculous events to cause others to follow them into a religious system that's designed to make them worship someone who is a false christ.

"There is also a real conspiracy associated with the 'mark of the beast.' How does he deceive them? With religion. Paul says in II Corinthians 11, [13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
[15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

"Revelation 17 talks about this woman, this religious system the Antichrist uses to come to power: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

"You want a conspiracy, there's the real conspiracy! It allows the Antichrist to take over and develop the Deep State system he'll use to try and deceive the whole world.

"Revelation 17:8 says, [8] The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

"There's a spiritual conspiracy that goes on across the earth today to deceive people away from the truth of God's Word into a vain religious system designed to promote and deceive the human race into accepting what Satan's program is all about.

"Paul talks about the man of sin, the son of perdition, being manifested. He writes in  II Thessalonians 2:5, [5] Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
[6] And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
[7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

"Mystery Babylon already works and is going today, but there's something restraining it, holding it back, and that something is the church the Body of Christ. Until God finishes forming the Body of Christ, this stuff can't take over.These things in the Book of Revelation, like the 'mark of the beast,' are part of the prophetic program."

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Here is an older post on the same subject:
There are four times in the Bible where you find Scripture being written on both sides. In Exodus 32, it says, [15] And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

In Ezekiel 2, Ezekiel writes [9] And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
[10] And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

John testifies in Revelation 5:1, ‘[1] And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.’

“When Christ opens that seven-sealed book written on both sides, out flows the wrath of God,” explains Jordan. “The seals, the trumpets and the vials; they all flow out of that book. He says, ‘I’ll bring forth,’ and the curse is going to go forth.

“If you look at the reference in Exodus 32, you’ll see God’s wrath flowing out there, too.

“In Zechariah 5:3, we know the roll was written on both sides because it says ‘for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.’

“This vision of Zechariah’s is talking about the judgment to take place when the law, the covenant, has been broken. That curse goes forth and that wrath is laid out.

"In verse 4, he describes it in a way that reminds you of something in book of Leviticus. He writes, [4] I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

“This curse is going to be all-consuming consumption that destroys everything related to the satanic policy of evil of the Antichrist and all his associates. There’s a curse in your Bible that does that.

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“Leviticus 13 and 14 deal with leprosy and leprosy in the Bible is a 'sign disease.' It’s a disease God uses as a sign of the corrupting power and the corrupting results of sin. In Exodus 4, Moses says, ‘How are they going to know you sent me?’ God told him, ‘I’ll give you two signs.’

"One of the signs was the sign of leprosy. Moses took his hand, put it in his robe, pulled it out and God made the hand leprosed. Then Moses put it back in and pulled it out and God healed it. It was a sign of healing, but the thing he healed was leprosy; the most deadly, most demonstrative disease because it literally causes flesh to die and corrupt.

“There’s no other disease that has two whole chapters dedicated to it in the Bible. Those chapters in Leviticus aren’t there because leprosy was such a consuming disease in that day.

“In the Mosaic Law, when He told Israel don’t eat pork and don’t eat lobster and catfish, there was no health benefit or problem related to any of that.

“Leviticus 22 tells us that God did that to make Israel look different. There’s not a verse that says He did it for any health reason. God told Adam and Eve to eat herbs. He told Noah for them to eat meat.

“People say, ‘Well, you weren’t made to eat meat so you shouldn’t eat meat.’ Well, if you shouldn’t eat meat God made a mistake telling Noah it was okay to do it. If God told Pete it’s okay to eat pork, then there’s no health problem in it, otherwise God was recommending something that was bad for him. He gave those dietary restrictions to make them separate.

“Leprosy wasn’t because everybody was getting leprosy; it was picked out because it’s a sign; something that carried a message. One of the interesting things about leprosy is that, if you look at Leviticus 14:34, it says, [34] When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

“In the first part of the chapter he said leprosy could get into people and they’re unclean when they have it. Notice from the verse that leprosy can not only be in people, it can be in the dwelling place; the house.

“Verse 44-45 says, [44] Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
[45] And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

“The plague can spread out through the house and when the leprosy gets into the house because it came in with the people, it touches the stones, the timbers and even the mortar that holds the stones together. You get completely annihilated and that’s exactly what we’re reading about in Zechariah.

“Leviticus 13: 46-48 says, [46] All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
[47] The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
[48] Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin.

“Notice the leprosy even gets into the garment. This is a consuming stuff. Here’s how he’s going to describe it. Leviticus 13:2: [2] When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or a bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:

“Notice he describes leprosy as 'a bright spot.' Verse 42 says, [42] And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

“So you’ve got this white spot and it gets all festered and all red and infected and that’s how you identify leprosy.

“When that curse goes forth out of that book written on both sides in Revelation 5, and the seals go out and they’re open, then there's the trumpets and the vials come out in chapters 15 and 16."