Amen! And the fact he, as AG, says it is doing God's work, bravely.
A great example for us fellow Christians! This is how we turn the tides against the Godless.
As a Floridian who first chose private Christian school, and now homeschools, instead of caving to mandates (although exemptions were easy enough to get), I'm over the moon.
The private school I attended often let some of the homeschoolers in the community participate in sports and school retreats. Either way, your family is blessed away from a lot of the woke
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You had to screw up a perfectly good title with a garbage understanding of Christian theology built on Dispensationalism.
The idea that the mark of the beast is a syringe, a barcode, or whatever the latest headline is peddling says more about our news cycle than it does about Scripture.
Start with the obvious. In Book of Revelation, the mark is tied to worship and allegiance, not accidental participation in commerce or medicine. Nobody in that text “accidentally” takes the mark while scheduling a doctor’s appointment between errands. The mark is bound up with bowing the knee to the beastly system in conscious defiance of Christ. It is covenantal, not clerical. You do not stumble into it like you grabbed the wrong grocery item.
From a postmillennial angle, this gets even clearer. The thrust of Revelation is not “brace for inevitable defeat,” but “Christ has already won, and His kingdom is advancing.” The beasts rise and fall in history. They are judged. They do not get the final word. If you read the book like a code for next week’s headlines, you will end up seeing the Antichrist in your toaster. If you read it as a prophecy of Christ’s triumph over rebellious powers, you start to breathe again.
Historically, Christians have had a bad habit of slapping “mark of the beast” labels on whatever scares them this decade. Social security numbers, credit cards, RFID chips, now vaccines. It is a bit like a man who calls every barking dog a wolf. Eventually people stop listening, and for good reason.
The mark, biblically speaking, is a parody of God’s own marking of His people. In Scripture, God marks His people on the forehead and hands as a sign of loyalty and obedience. The beast mimics that. It is about who owns you, who you worship, and whose commands you obey. It is not about whether a pharmacist handed you a Band-Aid afterward.
So unless your doctor is asking you to renounce Christ, burn incense to Caesar, and swear eternal allegiance to a blasphemous empire before giving you a shot, you can relax. The mark of the beast is not hiding in a vial. It shows up when men knowingly trade the lordship of Christ for the lordship of something else.
In short, the mark is about worship, not wellness. And Christ is not wringing His hands in heaven hoping nobody invents another needle. His kingdom is advancing, and the beasts are on borrowed time.
Good on Florida. I hope other states follow suit because vaccine mandates are tyranny and God hates the fact that they use aborted fetal cells in them.
Edit: now that I have a little bit more time off kind of explain who the beast is and give you a much more likely example of the mark....
If you want a candidate that actually fits the text without turning Revelation into tomorrow’s conspiracy blog, Nero is sitting right there like the obvious suspect.
First, the number. Revelation gives you 666 and practically dares you to “calculate.” When you take “Nero Caesar” and run it through Hebrew gematria, you land right on 666. That is not creative guesswork. That is first century readers nodding along instead of scratching their heads.
Second, the historical context. Nero was the first emperor to unleash a full scale, state sponsored persecution of Christians after the Great Fire of Rome. He turns Christians into human torches, and John writes about a beast drunk on the blood of the saints. That is not a coincidence. That is a match.
Third, the money. In the Roman world, you did not buy or sell without using coinage stamped with Caesar’s image and titles. Nero’s face was on the currency circulating throughout the empire. That lines up neatly with the idea of economic life being tied to allegiance to the beast. You want to participate in the marketplace? You are handling his image, his system, his authority every day. No microchip required.
Tie it together and it reads cleanly. A persecuting emperor, a name that equals 666, an empire where commerce runs on coins bearing his image. That fits the bill far better than trying to find the Antichrist hiding behind a pharmacy counter or inside a QR code.
In other words, Nero fits like a key in a lock. The modern guesses tend to be more like trying to open the door with a banana.
Let me then ask you how most church goers worship on Sunday? Did they change the Bible? If you think Satan will make sure you know exactly that this the Mark so you can accept or reject, I think you must rethink Satan's way.
Just going to point out that DemPanic does have a point in that the Mark of the Beast is not accidental, it must be chosen. The vaccine is automatically NOT the mark- children were forced to take the vaccine, just like SS numbers are also forced onto children (our parents, in most cases, got our SS numbers for us).
It’s a war, and you have to declare which side you’re on.
This entire framework you have of biblical eschatology is your problem. (That's just a fancy word for your view of the end times)
The issue is that you're holding to a future interpretation view of Daniel and the book of Revelation. That's not what Christianity understood for roughly 1800 years and didn't become a thing until the publication of the Schofield reference Bible about 200 years ago which was the first Bible with the footnotes that pushed this virtually unheard of position of premillennial dispensationalism or Darbyism.
Unfortunately this Bible was the first of its kind and widely adopted by pastors and seminaries so it quickly became the prevalent view. Guess which famous family funded the publication distribution of this Bible that radically changed how Christians viewed the end times input Israel central to future fulfillment of prophecy? The Rothschilds.
Let me go ahead and point you towards something that Christians back when this was written that could read and write Hebrew understood perfectly...
(I'll also edit my original comment and add this)
If you want a candidate that actually fits the text without turning Revelation into tomorrow’s conspiracy blog, Nero is sitting right there like the obvious suspect.
First, the number. Revelation gives you 666 and practically dares you to “calculate.” When you take “Nero Caesar” and run it through Hebrew gematria, you land right on 666. That is not creative guesswork. That is first century readers nodding along instead of scratching their heads.
Second, the historical context. Nero was the first emperor to unleash a full scale, state sponsored persecution of Christians after the Great Fire of Rome. He turns Christians into human torches, and John writes about a beast drunk on the blood of the saints. That is not a coincidence. That is a match.
Third, the money. In the Roman world, you did not buy or sell without using coinage stamped with Caesar’s image and titles. Nero’s face was on the currency circulating throughout the empire. That lines up neatly with the idea of economic life being tied to allegiance to the beast. You want to participate in the marketplace? You are handling his image, his system, his authority every day. No microchip required.
Tie it together and it reads cleanly. A persecuting emperor, a name that equals 666, an empire where commerce runs on coins bearing his image. That fits the bill far better than trying to find the Antichrist hiding behind a pharmacy counter or inside a QR code.
In other words, Nero fits like a key in a lock. The modern guesses tend to be more like trying to open the door with a banana.
If Nero already fulfilled the role of 666 and the rest of Revelation of the Antichrist, does that mean we can party all we want and we do not need to worry about that at all?
That question lands with all the theological precision of a toddler asking if vegetables are optional because dessert exists.
Nero fits the bill for the beast in Book of Revelation, that does not mean the moral universe suddenly turns into spring break in Cancun. It means one particular dragon got his teeth kicked in. It does not mean dragons as a species have been domesticated into lapdogs.
Postmillennialism is not a permission slip for sin. It is a declaration of victory. Christ reigns now, which means your obligations increase, not decrease. When a king takes the throne, the subjects do not say, “Splendid, now we may ignore him with enthusiasm.” They straighten their backs.
The confusion here is simple. You are treating “the Antichrist” like the last boss in a video game. Beat him once and credits roll, morality optional.
So no, you do not get to “party all you want.” You get to live under the triumphant reign of Christ, which is a far more demanding arrangement. Grace is not gasoline for your sin. It is the fire that burns it up.
In short, the beast being judged in history should make you more serious, not less. When God topples tyrants and vindicates His church, the appropriate response is not a keg stand. It is obedience with a backbone.
It also speaks to the accuracy of scripture and the supernatural prophetic nature of God and His prophets.
The real question you should be asking here is why the devil wanted Christians to think that they lose down here and why rich and powerful Jewish globalists like the Rothchilds were funding this propaganda and trying to deceive Christians.
If God wins, which we know from the end of Revelation, then we do not need to worry about Matthew 24:4, "**And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. **"
That's why I said the Antichrist is not Nero because if he comes and said, "Take a shot or take my money and worship me. Otherwise, you do not live." Everyone will reject that and no one will obey because we will know immediately it's the Antichrist. That's why Christ gave that warning. Nero was a tyrant, that's for sure. Everyone avoided him if at all possible.
Why would Christ said something like that? I will not believe it's Nero because I am going to believe Jesus and WATCH OUT.
When Christ warns in Gospel of Matthew 24 about deception, He is not preparing His people for a villain who shows up wearing a name tag that says “Hello, I am the Antichrist.” If the deception were that obvious, the warning would be unnecessary. “Take heed that no one deceives you” only makes sense if the deception is, well, deceptive.
The Torah (Old Testament) had a specific window for when the Messiah would come and that was before the destruction of the Temple (Which happened in 70AD) and THE AUDENCE JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO would have undoubtedly encountered one of the MANY people claiming to be the messiah in those days. There were ALOT.
Nero did not need to stand on a street corner yelling, “I am the Antichrist.” The Roman system already demanded what belonged to God. Caesar was hailed as lord. Loyalty to the empire had religious overtones. Christians who refused to say "CAESAR IS LORD" were not applauded for their discernment. They were punished, often killed. That is not a hypothetical threat. That is historical fact. He was killing christians in mass for fun. He would tie them to stakes and light them on fire to light up his dinner parties. He was the beast in every single way possible. This was common knowledge for over 1000 years and countless Church fathers and theologians wrote and preached about this. You must not do much reading outside of the last 200 years.
Postmillennial hope does not cancel Christ’s warnings. It explains them. Christ is reigning, His kingdom is advancing, and along the way there are real deceptions, real impostors, and real pressures to compromise. The victory is certain, but the battle requires clear eyes.
So yes, watch out. But watch for the kind of deception Jesus actually described, not the cartoon version where evil introduces itself with a drumroll. Nero fits the biblical pattern to a tee and within the lifetime of the audience the apostles were addressing.
The Torah (Old Testament) had a specific window for when the Messiah would come and that was before the destruction of the Temple
I would not confine God and Jesus to such a box. You understand. God is outside time. You want to interpret that as during Nero. I got it. But God is also Alpha and Omega. There could be other fulfilling just like the Bible is not dated. Otherwise, you are only reading a history book, right?
So many miss this point. It literally aligns with the above post calling out WORSHIP.
The blind say something like: "It doesn't matter what day...", or "That was done away with..", or "That's just for the joos..." or "That's the 'old law', we're in the 'new law'" (whatever that means). Jesus worshiped on the 7th day his whole life, period. The list is long and all in error.
Bottom line: The 4th Commandment is CLEAR and SPECIFIC. The Commandments have not been "overridden" in any way shape or form (yes they were summoned into Love your God and Love your Neighbor, but just a summary). The Sabbath is DIRECTLY linked to worshiping the CREATOR of the Universe - they cannot be separated. Aligning with the "Church" which admits that the Sabbath is the 7th Day (Saturday), and also admits to CHANGING it to the first Day (Sunday - worshiping the SUN instead of the SON) and adhering to that TRADITION of men, is a choice and hence the mark IMHO.
Sunday is not the Sabbath. The Sabbath is Saturday. Sunday, though, is the Lord's Day, the day of resurrection when the stone which the builders rejected became the head of the corner. This is the day that Jehovah has made; Let us exult and rejoice in it (Ps. 118:22-24). It is the day that Jehovah installed Christ upon the throne on Zion and declared that He was His Son (Ps. 2).
The Sabbath commemorates the old creation and the old covenant (Ex. 31:17). The Lord's day commemorates the new creation and the new covenant. It is the new creation that matters (Gal, 6:15).
What Christian's traditionally believed until a couple hundred years ago was that it was about the upcoming destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by Rome's armies and ultimately God's judgment on the generation that killed Jesus.
The tribulation, the bowls of wrath, The destruction language in the book of Daniel and The book of Revelation all lines up with events from the Roman siege on Jerusalem and the judgment that happened there. It's even confirmed in secular sources like the histories of Josephus and other works of antiquity.
It was not about the end of the world, it was about the end of the age, that age being the sacrificial system that was never supposed to be permanent, it was always pointing towards Jesus's sacrifice.
The Bible doesn't teach that the world ends. It teaches that the gospel goes throughout the world and continues to grow and that Jesus is kingdom never stops expanding.
All we have left is final judgment which is where the wicked are swept off the Earth just like in the days of Noah except this time in a fiery judgment. Those that are in Christ (who was symbolized by the ark in the story of Noah) are safe from the judgment at hand.
That's when Jesus puts an end to sin and death and the world is restored back to the sinlessness, perfection, and relationship with God that Adam and Eve had in the garden.
God's favorite Bible verse is When he says to Jesus "sit at my right hand while I make all of your enemies your footstool" which is a verse that appears more times in Scripture than any other.
Jesus is reigning right now. He wins. God wins. There is no rapture. That is not a traditional Christian belief in the slightest. Also neither the modern state of Israel or a rebuilt Temple or a red heifer sacrifice on the Temple Mount, or anything like that has place in future fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
If you want to read a great book that shows clearly how all of these prophecies were fulfilled and lines them up with historical events and gives you an understanding of how the church traditionally understood all of this, a great book is "Before Jerusalem fell" by Dr Kenneth Gentry (and there's countless books on this and surrounding subjects but that would be my first recommendation as a starting point. Also you can look up post-millennialism discussions, debates, and sermons on YouTube and find some Well respected theologians like Jeff durbin, Douglas Wilson, RC Sproul, and others dive into this)
Please don't "pile into Florida." Stay where you are at and fight to make your area better. We don't need more people flooding into this state. We already have more than enough. Our aquifer levels are at a critically low point statewide. Moving here only makes it worse.
Instead of fleeing, stay where you are at and fight to change the course of whatever area you currently reside in. It's the only way to truly fix whatever messes your pols and bureaucrats have put you in. It's been he only way to fix our society. Fleeing only admits defeat. And Florida DOES NOT WANT DEFEATISTS!!!!!! We ONLY want people here who will fight to save our precious land and water resources.
The only people capable enough for that are our own Native-born Floridians. We don't want failures coming here who have shown to be weak and defeatist. Those types of people are the ones who flee the areas they grew up in, admitting defeat when the fight gets tough. Those same people will also inevitably move from their new home when they encounter hardships they helped create. Like a virus, or a plague of locusts, consuming resources until little remains and then leaving to find needed resources elsewhere.
We DO NOT trust outsiders with our resources because it has been proven time and again that it's the outsiders who are most at fault in helping to destroy our precious Florida. They have no real allegiance to this State. We hear it all the time. "That's not how we do it back home." "In [insert origin here], we did things in [blahzey blah] way." Hell, we don't even trust "Floridian" Families until they have, at a minimum, 2-3 consecutive generations of natively born residents. It shows up in how the children are raised. It shows up in the politics of those who "claim" to be Floridians but grew up somewhere else. It shows up in their children, too. But it begins to change in the 2nd generation and is only solidified by the 3rd generation.
So please, stay where you're at. Fight to fix the messes you helped create through your apathy. Fight to fix the messes you helped create by following the wrong leaders. I don't say this as a way of pointing the finger. We here in Florida share the same kind of failures in our State that you have in yours. I say this because whether you like it or not, you have a duty to your State and to your fellow residents. You have a duty to the land you were raised in. No one knows your State better than you. No one knows your State's needs better than you, just like no one knows Florida like true Floridians. It's why people make fun of Florida Man. Florida Man gets made fun of because no one born outside of Florida understands Florida Man. Florida Man is the way he is BECAUSE he IS Florida. You don't become Florida Man, you are BORN that way. It takes generations to create Florida Man. You can't just move here and become a Floridian. It's not how Florida operates and it never will be, either.
Also, I agree with DemPanic. This idea of "The Mark" that most people believe in is all wrong. It's not a physical mark. It's spiritual.
AND YOU HAVE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD SQUARE with that wonderful worded screed!!!!!!
YES, please stay where you are and improve it...BECAUSE IT WILL LAST IN THE LONG RUN!!! I live outside of Orlando and the home building is through the damn roof and the aquafers ARE GETTING LOW AND WE HAVE NOT HAD A GOOD RAIN FALL IN SOMETIME!!!! The lake behind my house is low due to NO RAIN!!!!! AND the people who are moving here are bringing their DAMN POLITICS WITH THEM!!!!!!!
What are you (the hell) saying in your headline? No, don't pile into Florida. Change the law in your own states.
Anyway. Yay. Aside from hurricanes, alligators, underwater level humidity, outdoor furnace heat, and tourists who don't know how to drive, living in Florida is great. I can't wait not to get vaccines. Not that I got them before, the poison covid ones, which I have never regretted.
All this tells me is that we are further away from the actual Mark arriving than we may have thought. There will be no safe haven when the real Mark hits the scene. You will not be able to live in a certain state/area and get away from it. It will be required EVERYWHERE.
Too hot and humid, just get fake paperwork the next go around on jabs. What are they gonna do, snitch themselves out when they can't see your MAC address?
I’m happy for Florida and like the general drift of their policies and laws. I have friends and relatives who live there. But I still don’t want to move there. I think they have more than enough population and I am a mountain/4-season kinda person. I like Virginia weather and if the Dems manage to make us go to shit, West Virginia looks better to me than Florida.
Dr. Ladapo was the only Surgeon General (during covid) who had the strength to tell the truth. He would make a great US Surgeon General, but there is no way the left would allow that.
“Your body is a gift from God.”
This AG is a gift for America.
Definitely.
Amen! And the fact he, as AG, says it is doing God's work, bravely.
A great example for us fellow Christians! This is how we turn the tides against the Godless.
As a Floridian who first chose private Christian school, and now homeschools, instead of caving to mandates (although exemptions were easy enough to get), I'm over the moon.
The private school I attended often let some of the homeschoolers in the community participate in sports and school retreats. Either way, your family is blessed away from a lot of the woke ,
You had to screw up a perfectly good title with a garbage understanding of Christian theology built on Dispensationalism.
The idea that the mark of the beast is a syringe, a barcode, or whatever the latest headline is peddling says more about our news cycle than it does about Scripture.
Start with the obvious. In Book of Revelation, the mark is tied to worship and allegiance, not accidental participation in commerce or medicine. Nobody in that text “accidentally” takes the mark while scheduling a doctor’s appointment between errands. The mark is bound up with bowing the knee to the beastly system in conscious defiance of Christ. It is covenantal, not clerical. You do not stumble into it like you grabbed the wrong grocery item.
From a postmillennial angle, this gets even clearer. The thrust of Revelation is not “brace for inevitable defeat,” but “Christ has already won, and His kingdom is advancing.” The beasts rise and fall in history. They are judged. They do not get the final word. If you read the book like a code for next week’s headlines, you will end up seeing the Antichrist in your toaster. If you read it as a prophecy of Christ’s triumph over rebellious powers, you start to breathe again.
Historically, Christians have had a bad habit of slapping “mark of the beast” labels on whatever scares them this decade. Social security numbers, credit cards, RFID chips, now vaccines. It is a bit like a man who calls every barking dog a wolf. Eventually people stop listening, and for good reason.
The mark, biblically speaking, is a parody of God’s own marking of His people. In Scripture, God marks His people on the forehead and hands as a sign of loyalty and obedience. The beast mimics that. It is about who owns you, who you worship, and whose commands you obey. It is not about whether a pharmacist handed you a Band-Aid afterward.
So unless your doctor is asking you to renounce Christ, burn incense to Caesar, and swear eternal allegiance to a blasphemous empire before giving you a shot, you can relax. The mark of the beast is not hiding in a vial. It shows up when men knowingly trade the lordship of Christ for the lordship of something else.
In short, the mark is about worship, not wellness. And Christ is not wringing His hands in heaven hoping nobody invents another needle. His kingdom is advancing, and the beasts are on borrowed time.
Good on Florida. I hope other states follow suit because vaccine mandates are tyranny and God hates the fact that they use aborted fetal cells in them.
Edit: now that I have a little bit more time off kind of explain who the beast is and give you a much more likely example of the mark....
If you want a candidate that actually fits the text without turning Revelation into tomorrow’s conspiracy blog, Nero is sitting right there like the obvious suspect.
First, the number. Revelation gives you 666 and practically dares you to “calculate.” When you take “Nero Caesar” and run it through Hebrew gematria, you land right on 666. That is not creative guesswork. That is first century readers nodding along instead of scratching their heads.
Second, the historical context. Nero was the first emperor to unleash a full scale, state sponsored persecution of Christians after the Great Fire of Rome. He turns Christians into human torches, and John writes about a beast drunk on the blood of the saints. That is not a coincidence. That is a match.
Third, the money. In the Roman world, you did not buy or sell without using coinage stamped with Caesar’s image and titles. Nero’s face was on the currency circulating throughout the empire. That lines up neatly with the idea of economic life being tied to allegiance to the beast. You want to participate in the marketplace? You are handling his image, his system, his authority every day. No microchip required.
Tie it together and it reads cleanly. A persecuting emperor, a name that equals 666, an empire where commerce runs on coins bearing his image. That fits the bill far better than trying to find the Antichrist hiding behind a pharmacy counter or inside a QR code.
In other words, Nero fits like a key in a lock. The modern guesses tend to be more like trying to open the door with a banana.
Let me then ask you how most church goers worship on Sunday? Did they change the Bible? If you think Satan will make sure you know exactly that this the Mark so you can accept or reject, I think you must rethink Satan's way.
Just going to point out that DemPanic does have a point in that the Mark of the Beast is not accidental, it must be chosen. The vaccine is automatically NOT the mark- children were forced to take the vaccine, just like SS numbers are also forced onto children (our parents, in most cases, got our SS numbers for us).
It’s a war, and you have to declare which side you’re on.
Yes, I know it's not accidental just like the Covid wasn't accidental. You were forced to take it.
I chose not to.
'you were FORCED but I got to CHOOSE'. Every adult got the same choice you did. Nobody had to take the free donuts.
Some if us refused were fired, lost careers, homes and security
Are any of those things more important than your bodily sovereignty?
Nope. Just meaning that although it technically was a choice it’s wasn’t as simple as choosing red or white wine.
Children can never make such a choice though. We discussed this in Sunday school when I was a kid.
Adults on the other hand....
I go to church to sit in Gods house and worship God, not to listen to what the man behind pulpit is spouting.
God's house is IN you and your are IN it whether you know it or not.
God doesnt live in a building made with mans hands. He dwells in His people.
I learn sometimes but I also use my brain and listen to God's voice.
But yet you have to listen to the pastor more often than not spew their bullshit to separate you from your money.
Did Satan write the Bible? No.
Is God a God of confusion? No.
This entire framework you have of biblical eschatology is your problem. (That's just a fancy word for your view of the end times)
The issue is that you're holding to a future interpretation view of Daniel and the book of Revelation. That's not what Christianity understood for roughly 1800 years and didn't become a thing until the publication of the Schofield reference Bible about 200 years ago which was the first Bible with the footnotes that pushed this virtually unheard of position of premillennial dispensationalism or Darbyism.
Unfortunately this Bible was the first of its kind and widely adopted by pastors and seminaries so it quickly became the prevalent view. Guess which famous family funded the publication distribution of this Bible that radically changed how Christians viewed the end times input Israel central to future fulfillment of prophecy? The Rothschilds.
Let me go ahead and point you towards something that Christians back when this was written that could read and write Hebrew understood perfectly...
(I'll also edit my original comment and add this)
If you want a candidate that actually fits the text without turning Revelation into tomorrow’s conspiracy blog, Nero is sitting right there like the obvious suspect.
First, the number. Revelation gives you 666 and practically dares you to “calculate.” When you take “Nero Caesar” and run it through Hebrew gematria, you land right on 666. That is not creative guesswork. That is first century readers nodding along instead of scratching their heads.
Second, the historical context. Nero was the first emperor to unleash a full scale, state sponsored persecution of Christians after the Great Fire of Rome. He turns Christians into human torches, and John writes about a beast drunk on the blood of the saints. That is not a coincidence. That is a match.
Third, the money. In the Roman world, you did not buy or sell without using coinage stamped with Caesar’s image and titles. Nero’s face was on the currency circulating throughout the empire. That lines up neatly with the idea of economic life being tied to allegiance to the beast. You want to participate in the marketplace? You are handling his image, his system, his authority every day. No microchip required.
Tie it together and it reads cleanly. A persecuting emperor, a name that equals 666, an empire where commerce runs on coins bearing his image. That fits the bill far better than trying to find the Antichrist hiding behind a pharmacy counter or inside a QR code.
In other words, Nero fits like a key in a lock. The modern guesses tend to be more like trying to open the door with a banana.
If Nero already fulfilled the role of 666 and the rest of Revelation of the Antichrist, does that mean we can party all we want and we do not need to worry about that at all?
I would love that.
Really?
That question lands with all the theological precision of a toddler asking if vegetables are optional because dessert exists.
Nero fits the bill for the beast in Book of Revelation, that does not mean the moral universe suddenly turns into spring break in Cancun. It means one particular dragon got his teeth kicked in. It does not mean dragons as a species have been domesticated into lapdogs.
Postmillennialism is not a permission slip for sin. It is a declaration of victory. Christ reigns now, which means your obligations increase, not decrease. When a king takes the throne, the subjects do not say, “Splendid, now we may ignore him with enthusiasm.” They straighten their backs.
The confusion here is simple. You are treating “the Antichrist” like the last boss in a video game. Beat him once and credits roll, morality optional.
So no, you do not get to “party all you want.” You get to live under the triumphant reign of Christ, which is a far more demanding arrangement. Grace is not gasoline for your sin. It is the fire that burns it up.
In short, the beast being judged in history should make you more serious, not less. When God topples tyrants and vindicates His church, the appropriate response is not a keg stand. It is obedience with a backbone.
It also speaks to the accuracy of scripture and the supernatural prophetic nature of God and His prophets.
The real question you should be asking here is why the devil wanted Christians to think that they lose down here and why rich and powerful Jewish globalists like the Rothchilds were funding this propaganda and trying to deceive Christians.
God wins. Act like it.
If God wins, which we know from the end of Revelation, then we do not need to worry about Matthew 24:4, "**And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. **"
That's why I said the Antichrist is not Nero because if he comes and said, "Take a shot or take my money and worship me. Otherwise, you do not live." Everyone will reject that and no one will obey because we will know immediately it's the Antichrist. That's why Christ gave that warning. Nero was a tyrant, that's for sure. Everyone avoided him if at all possible.
Why would Christ said something like that? I will not believe it's Nero because I am going to believe Jesus and WATCH OUT.
When Christ warns in Gospel of Matthew 24 about deception, He is not preparing His people for a villain who shows up wearing a name tag that says “Hello, I am the Antichrist.” If the deception were that obvious, the warning would be unnecessary. “Take heed that no one deceives you” only makes sense if the deception is, well, deceptive.
The Torah (Old Testament) had a specific window for when the Messiah would come and that was before the destruction of the Temple (Which happened in 70AD) and THE AUDENCE JESUS WAS SPEAKING TO would have undoubtedly encountered one of the MANY people claiming to be the messiah in those days. There were ALOT.
Nero did not need to stand on a street corner yelling, “I am the Antichrist.” The Roman system already demanded what belonged to God. Caesar was hailed as lord. Loyalty to the empire had religious overtones. Christians who refused to say "CAESAR IS LORD" were not applauded for their discernment. They were punished, often killed. That is not a hypothetical threat. That is historical fact. He was killing christians in mass for fun. He would tie them to stakes and light them on fire to light up his dinner parties. He was the beast in every single way possible. This was common knowledge for over 1000 years and countless Church fathers and theologians wrote and preached about this. You must not do much reading outside of the last 200 years.
Postmillennial hope does not cancel Christ’s warnings. It explains them. Christ is reigning, His kingdom is advancing, and along the way there are real deceptions, real impostors, and real pressures to compromise. The victory is certain, but the battle requires clear eyes.
So yes, watch out. But watch for the kind of deception Jesus actually described, not the cartoon version where evil introduces itself with a drumroll. Nero fits the biblical pattern to a tee and within the lifetime of the audience the apostles were addressing.
The Torah (Old Testament) had a specific window for when the Messiah would come and that was before the destruction of the Temple
I would not confine God and Jesus to such a box. You understand. God is outside time. You want to interpret that as during Nero. I got it. But God is also Alpha and Omega. There could be other fulfilling just like the Bible is not dated. Otherwise, you are only reading a history book, right?
So many miss this point. It literally aligns with the above post calling out WORSHIP.
The blind say something like: "It doesn't matter what day...", or "That was done away with..", or "That's just for the joos..." or "That's the 'old law', we're in the 'new law'" (whatever that means). Jesus worshiped on the 7th day his whole life, period. The list is long and all in error.
Bottom line: The 4th Commandment is CLEAR and SPECIFIC. The Commandments have not been "overridden" in any way shape or form (yes they were summoned into Love your God and Love your Neighbor, but just a summary). The Sabbath is DIRECTLY linked to worshiping the CREATOR of the Universe - they cannot be separated. Aligning with the "Church" which admits that the Sabbath is the 7th Day (Saturday), and also admits to CHANGING it to the first Day (Sunday - worshiping the SUN instead of the SON) and adhering to that TRADITION of men, is a choice and hence the mark IMHO.
Sunday is not the Sabbath. The Sabbath is Saturday. Sunday, though, is the Lord's Day, the day of resurrection when the stone which the builders rejected became the head of the corner. This is the day that Jehovah has made; Let us exult and rejoice in it (Ps. 118:22-24). It is the day that Jehovah installed Christ upon the throne on Zion and declared that He was His Son (Ps. 2).
The Sabbath commemorates the old creation and the old covenant (Ex. 31:17). The Lord's day commemorates the new creation and the new covenant. It is the new creation that matters (Gal, 6:15).
Well said, Came here to say the same but struggled with the verbiage.
Thank you. I went and added some more to it this morning to my original comment that gives more context and pence the beast tail on the donkey Nero
This is a very interesting post to me.
How does this view translate to the world unfolding with respect to revelations timeliness? When are we living?
I dont know how much sense those questions will make to you, but it's sort of the only way I could think to ask.
Okay first, it's book of Revelation. Singular.
What Christian's traditionally believed until a couple hundred years ago was that it was about the upcoming destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by Rome's armies and ultimately God's judgment on the generation that killed Jesus.
The tribulation, the bowls of wrath, The destruction language in the book of Daniel and The book of Revelation all lines up with events from the Roman siege on Jerusalem and the judgment that happened there. It's even confirmed in secular sources like the histories of Josephus and other works of antiquity.
It was not about the end of the world, it was about the end of the age, that age being the sacrificial system that was never supposed to be permanent, it was always pointing towards Jesus's sacrifice.
The Bible doesn't teach that the world ends. It teaches that the gospel goes throughout the world and continues to grow and that Jesus is kingdom never stops expanding.
All we have left is final judgment which is where the wicked are swept off the Earth just like in the days of Noah except this time in a fiery judgment. Those that are in Christ (who was symbolized by the ark in the story of Noah) are safe from the judgment at hand.
That's when Jesus puts an end to sin and death and the world is restored back to the sinlessness, perfection, and relationship with God that Adam and Eve had in the garden.
God's favorite Bible verse is When he says to Jesus "sit at my right hand while I make all of your enemies your footstool" which is a verse that appears more times in Scripture than any other.
Jesus is reigning right now. He wins. God wins. There is no rapture. That is not a traditional Christian belief in the slightest. Also neither the modern state of Israel or a rebuilt Temple or a red heifer sacrifice on the Temple Mount, or anything like that has place in future fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
If you want to read a great book that shows clearly how all of these prophecies were fulfilled and lines them up with historical events and gives you an understanding of how the church traditionally understood all of this, a great book is "Before Jerusalem fell" by Dr Kenneth Gentry (and there's countless books on this and surrounding subjects but that would be my first recommendation as a starting point. Also you can look up post-millennialism discussions, debates, and sermons on YouTube and find some Well respected theologians like Jeff durbin, Douglas Wilson, RC Sproul, and others dive into this)
Thank you very much for taking the time to post this. Looking forward to the reading.
Cheers friend!
My pleasure!
Please don't "pile into Florida." Stay where you are at and fight to make your area better. We don't need more people flooding into this state. We already have more than enough. Our aquifer levels are at a critically low point statewide. Moving here only makes it worse.
Instead of fleeing, stay where you are at and fight to change the course of whatever area you currently reside in. It's the only way to truly fix whatever messes your pols and bureaucrats have put you in. It's been he only way to fix our society. Fleeing only admits defeat. And Florida DOES NOT WANT DEFEATISTS!!!!!! We ONLY want people here who will fight to save our precious land and water resources.
The only people capable enough for that are our own Native-born Floridians. We don't want failures coming here who have shown to be weak and defeatist. Those types of people are the ones who flee the areas they grew up in, admitting defeat when the fight gets tough. Those same people will also inevitably move from their new home when they encounter hardships they helped create. Like a virus, or a plague of locusts, consuming resources until little remains and then leaving to find needed resources elsewhere.
We DO NOT trust outsiders with our resources because it has been proven time and again that it's the outsiders who are most at fault in helping to destroy our precious Florida. They have no real allegiance to this State. We hear it all the time. "That's not how we do it back home." "In [insert origin here], we did things in [blahzey blah] way." Hell, we don't even trust "Floridian" Families until they have, at a minimum, 2-3 consecutive generations of natively born residents. It shows up in how the children are raised. It shows up in the politics of those who "claim" to be Floridians but grew up somewhere else. It shows up in their children, too. But it begins to change in the 2nd generation and is only solidified by the 3rd generation.
So please, stay where you're at. Fight to fix the messes you helped create through your apathy. Fight to fix the messes you helped create by following the wrong leaders. I don't say this as a way of pointing the finger. We here in Florida share the same kind of failures in our State that you have in yours. I say this because whether you like it or not, you have a duty to your State and to your fellow residents. You have a duty to the land you were raised in. No one knows your State better than you. No one knows your State's needs better than you, just like no one knows Florida like true Floridians. It's why people make fun of Florida Man. Florida Man gets made fun of because no one born outside of Florida understands Florida Man. Florida Man is the way he is BECAUSE he IS Florida. You don't become Florida Man, you are BORN that way. It takes generations to create Florida Man. You can't just move here and become a Floridian. It's not how Florida operates and it never will be, either.
Also, I agree with DemPanic. This idea of "The Mark" that most people believe in is all wrong. It's not a physical mark. It's spiritual.
Totally agree from a native Florida fren! Also, this is an old video. The Florida House still has not passed this.
AND YOU HAVE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD SQUARE with that wonderful worded screed!!!!!!
YES, please stay where you are and improve it...BECAUSE IT WILL LAST IN THE LONG RUN!!! I live outside of Orlando and the home building is through the damn roof and the aquafers ARE GETTING LOW AND WE HAVE NOT HAD A GOOD RAIN FALL IN SOMETIME!!!! The lake behind my house is low due to NO RAIN!!!!! AND the people who are moving here are bringing their DAMN POLITICS WITH THEM!!!!!!!
Screamfest is over...FOR NOW!!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Years ago I and a couple of friends visited Florida and was not impressed. Felt like a swamp. Actually depressing. The obesity was overwhelming.
DO NOT PILE INTO FLORIDA. My friends and family cannot afford homes because of this shit.
Florida is full. Go somewhere else OR stay put and run for office and do the same thing for your state
Now mandate liberals can no longer move there from blue states they destroyed
Nobody is giving me a shot. Dont care if they they to force it they can die trying.
If everyone 'piles into Florida', what happens to the other 49 States? Hold your ground and dig in your heels. Your God-given rights work EVERYWHERE.
Mandates are communist in origin! IMHO
yeah, don’t come to Texas either. Hold the line or take it back in your own state.
What are you (the hell) saying in your headline? No, don't pile into Florida. Change the law in your own states.
Anyway. Yay. Aside from hurricanes, alligators, underwater level humidity, outdoor furnace heat, and tourists who don't know how to drive, living in Florida is great. I can't wait not to get vaccines. Not that I got them before, the poison covid ones, which I have never regretted.
All this tells me is that we are further away from the actual Mark arriving than we may have thought. There will be no safe haven when the real Mark hits the scene. You will not be able to live in a certain state/area and get away from it. It will be required EVERYWHERE.
Someone said Nero already hit the mark on The Mark so we don't have to worry about it. Do you believe?
Too hot and humid, just get fake paperwork the next go around on jabs. What are they gonna do, snitch themselves out when they can't see your MAC address?
Know some Peruvian who actually did that.
I’m happy for Florida and like the general drift of their policies and laws. I have friends and relatives who live there. But I still don’t want to move there. I think they have more than enough population and I am a mountain/4-season kinda person. I like Virginia weather and if the Dems manage to make us go to shit, West Virginia looks better to me than Florida.
You know I only make a joke. I am not going there myself. I will just say no.
If we all pile into Florida then it will tip over like Guam did.
How many times has this story been run just in the last year? Have they ended mandates like 5 times or do we just keep repeating the same story?
The state of Florida did not kill itself.
Thanks be to God. Hopefully it is not those laws like the chemtrails banning that Florida ended up of not forcing it.
Dr. Ladapo was the only Surgeon General (during covid) who had the strength to tell the truth. He would make a great US Surgeon General, but there is no way the left would allow that.