Mark of beast is leopard spot

If the Antichrist was allowed to do what he wanted to do and never restrained, meaning the 1,260 days of the last half of the 70^th week weren’t shortened by the Second Coming of Christ, he would deceive the whole world and all of humanity would be wiped out.

Revelation 13 foretells, [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.

“No. 666 is the number of the beast, not the mark,” explains Jordan. “So what is the mark that they receive in their right hand or in their forehead? In Revelation 7, when the 144,000 are sealed, God puts a mark on them.

“Revelation 7 says, [2] And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
[3] Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
[4] And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

“God puts His seal in the foreheads and the Antichrist, the false prophet, is going to identify people with himself using a mark that will either be in the forehead or right hand.

“People conclude, ‘Well, it says IN so you’ve got to put it inside, like a seed implant,’ but that’s maybe just over-reading the verse. It doesn’t necessarily have to be under your skin to be in your forehead or right hand.

“Revelation 13:1-2 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 beast is the Antichrist. The dragon is Satan who gives the Antichrist his position. Notice what the beast looks like. He’s like unto a leopard, has the feet of a bear, the mouth of a lion. His body is the body of a leopard.

“You’re looking for a mark of the beast and the beast looks like a leopard and a leopard has marks. In the Bible is a verse that tells you how a leopard is marked.

Jeremiah 13:23 says, [23] Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

“So a leopard has spots, or marks on his body that identify him. Spots on a leopard aren’t round or triangular; they have a shape to them. They look like somebody kissed them. What do you do when you worship in religion? I Kings 19:18 says, [18] Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

“Where do you get the mark of the beast in Revelation 13? A religious service put upon you by a false religious system, the false prophet.

“Have you ever heard of Ash Wednesday? Do you know what they do? A mark in one of those two places. What is it? Black ashes. I would say you just got the spot!

“My point is, it’s a religious identifying mark where you have joined with a power of the false prophet in proclaiming the Antichrist to be your Messiah and you do it in Baal worship, which is what the religion of the Antichrist is, through that process.

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“I had a friend years ago write a tract entitled, ‘What to Do if You Miss the Rapture’? Point No. 1 was, ‘Don’t get excited, you were going to hell anyway.’ I’ve always thought, ‘That’s a good answer. If you’re not worried about going to hell before the Rapture, why you going to be worried about going to hell afterward?’

“I John 5:18 says, [18] We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

“The ‘wicked one’ is the Antichrist. I John is written in the context of the tribulation where people are looking for him. I John 2:18-19 says, [18] Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
[19] They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

“The 70^th week begins with the Antichrist as the one who signs the covenant with Israel but this passage talks about the period prior to that 70^th week in that prophetic program after the Rapture. It’s the last time, this time right here and ‘we’ve heard that the Antichrist shall come.’ He isn’t there yet.

“The books Hebrews through Revelation begin their ministry right here before that 70^th week with some people in this ‘believing remnant’ looking forward to going into it. This is where the seven churches in Revelation fit. The Antichrist isn’t there but he’s coming. You got the 12 apostles back there that that match the 144,000 over here.

“God intervenes to start the dispensation of grace and that’s what He’s going to do to start the tribulation and that’s what those two witnesses and the 144,000 are all about. It’s right in here that He says there’s ‘a sin unto death.’

“Is there a sin they could commit that they couldn’t get over? Jesus said in Luke 12, [10] And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

“How do you blaspheme the Holy Spirit over here? The same way they blasphemed Him back over here. The sin unto death is taking that mark. That’s the only sin they can commit that they can’t get over.

“What he says in I John 5:18, that’s like the verse in 3:9 that everybody goes bonkers about: [9] Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

“You know you’re born of God and yet you know you sin. People argue, ‘Well, it means they don’t continually sin.’ You know better than that because you continue to sin. The one sin you can’t get rid of is pride because it’s built into your old sin nature. The sin is talking about is the mark of the beast. If these people are born of God, the Believers aren’t going to take the mark. What happens to them? If you don’t take the mark, you can’t buy or sell.

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Zechariah 14:16 says, [16] And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

“So there’s going to be a bunch of Gentiles who come out of that tribulation period and go into the kingdom that are left of all these nations. They didn’t take the mark of the beast. They’re like those guys in Matthew 25, the goat nations that blessed Israel.

“Listen, the Antichrist is not going to run and rule the U.S.A. If the time wasn’t shortened, he would, but he’s not going to have time to consolidate his kingdom all around the world. The world would follow him in what he wants to do, but God’s going to stop the time before he gets everywhere.

“The Antichrist’s kingdom is in the Middle East and he takes over those 10 Middle East nations identified in Psalm 83. He starts out the horse rider in Revelation 6, he’s got one crown and by the middle of the week he’s got all 10; he’s consolidated his kingdom.

“He can’t pass a law everyone’s forced to obey except in his kingdom, so he’s going to pursue a one-world government but he doesn’t get there. That’s why it’s cut short. He would if his time was extended but it’s cut off by the day of the Lord’s wrath.

“You’re going to have people who go into the kingdom who were really sort of neutral bystanders. Suddenly they’re required to worship the king and if they don’t, the passage says they wind up being destroyed. He ‘rules with a rod of iron’; that is, you obey or you die.

“If you have instant, absolute enforcement of the law and instant punishment, people will obey. How do you get saved in the kingdom? You keep the law. The problem with that is, if you don’t have faith, you don’t get regenerated and how good are you at keeping the law if you don’t have the new man in you? So there’s going to be some problems.

“There will be people in the U.S. who don’t take the mark because there’s no law that says they have to and so they can still have commerce, but what happens in the kingdom is they then have to toe the line.

“So those guys in Zechariah 14 who are ‘left of all the nations’ that came up against Jerusalem, their country went up there, but here’s some people who didn’t. You know, you send troops over there, the U.N. is fighting, but you’re here and didn’t go. What happens to you?

"You have to worship the king when you go into that kingdom. II Thessalonians 2 says the reason people miss the Rapture is because they didn’t receive the love of the truth to get saved. Well, if you didn’t love the truth then, what makes you think you’re going to love it later on?”