I have a question. The “mark of the beast” … Is the mark an actual 666 or something else?
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I personally believe it will be both physical and spiritual.
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Microchips in your hand and head.
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It’s either his name or the number of his name on either you forehead or hand. It is either a tattoo or brand. Not I chip under the skin.
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We’re told to “calculate the number of the beast” so I don’t think the mark is the actual number… Rev.13:18
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We don’t actually know but it will certainly be associated with the number. Here is my theory on it. Look at the last 5 numbers in this patent and look at what the technology is used for
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606
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It’s not a microchip, it’s in plain sight…
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Look up every word in the Greek, it’s not what you think it is, stop guessing and ask God for his spirit, then study to show yourself approved
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Looks like a study on Revelation 13 is needed.
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We dont know
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It is a literal mark. You won’t be able to by or sell without it
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It’s symbolic.
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We are already born with the mark of Satan on us, with dead souls and that needife through Christ, faith the mark God puts on bis Children by faith.
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It could mean 616, 666, and Nero.
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It may be a tattoo
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Mark of something else.
What can this make a church? John 3:16 can make one church foundation.Church of anti christ will put 666 on each believer forehead.
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*616, according to some manuscripts.
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It will be an actual mark, because people will not be able to buy or sell without the mark or number or name of the Beast.
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It was Nero
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I’m not sure the mark is going to be a simple 666 on the hand or forehead. It might be part of a barcode or serial number in a microchip to identify you as part of the system. That is just me speculating though. I very well could be wrong.
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yes, and it is probably not a vaccine or anything laid by the government but rather something laid by a religious organization.
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we Dont know what it Will look like but it will be used to control commerce. many speculate or use a religious approach and make up its meaning to suit there theory. but the bible makes it clear if you choose the mark your counted with the antichrist at judgement.
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In Greek it is 616. So, as the language changes, the number changes…
well, we can rightfully deduct from this truth that the numbers here are code for certain letters…
Now… I would like to refer you to someone way more qualified to explain this than I. His name is R.C. SPROUL
YouTube him and mark of the beast. It will change your eschatology. -
Can I ask, are we saved purely by faith, or by faith and a restraint of a microchip? God forgives ALL sin, APART from unbelief. If we love and know the Lord Jesus Christ, we need not worry!
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Study all that is written about this abomination of desolation, who will sit /stand in the Holy Place of the re-built temple in Jerusalem “as if” he is God (satan’s ultimate desire) – which shall happen in “troubled times”, …. Dan., Gospels, NT/OT, 2 Thess. 1 & 2, Rev. – some are noted here: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Mark-Of-The-Beast/ but, you would be “marked” (in olden days it was like a tattoo) and will be exactly …. as the Holy Scriptures say it shall be. For so it is written, so shall it be.
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it says ” he that has understanding” so right off that makes me think it is not an actual 666 number. It is cryptic somewhat
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If I remember correctly Scripture says only my elite will figure it out…now I gotta look it up.
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666 is the number of a man not actually the mark. We do not know what the mark actually looks like there is a spiritual component that requires an allegiance to the cause/opt in be it forced or not and there is a literal type mark, be it a tattoo or a chip…. The literal mark must be something that can track everything we do and every place we go. It must enable the powers that be to turn off our ability to buy and sell. This can be done now almost completely with the touch of a few buttons in the time to come it will require a cashless society to be effective. The system China has now is the closes the world has on this. They can locate a non-citizen in China in 7 minutes. They continue to improve this. China is nearly entirety cashless and has highly advanced tracking systems.
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It’s not something that’s coming for us. John was warning the Christians then of not denying Christ as their Lord, trusting that He would deliver them from the hand of Nero. During Nero’s persecution of the Jews and those in the Church, Nero was forcing those who would participate in the market places to acknowledge Cesar as Lord. Many were martyred for their faith in Christ.
Remember the Jewish leadership when wanting to see Christ crucified; Pilot was wanting to release Jesus, and they claimed “we have no king but Cesar!” That was the “Mark of the beast”. Nero was the beast, the 6th head of the Roman Empire, who was given power to persecute the Church for 42 months, 3 and a half years before dying by his own sword.
Judgement was coming against the Harlot that rode that beast system of Rome, mystery Babylon Jerusalem; who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her.
Microchips and barcodes are not the mark of the beast.
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Ever hear of the term “he’s a marked man” it’s not referring to a literal mark like a tattoo it’s an expression of what one thinks he does with his hands. The 666 was a code so they would Know who this beast is the number 666 translated from Greek to Hebrew letters spells neron Caesar. Stop reading text at face value in a book riddled with symbols or you’ll spend your time trying to guess these things. It was written to the people of That day not this day
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The mark of the beast will be spiritual and physical. The number 6 is man’s number, it means incomplete. In Israel to repeat something 2 or 3 times is an emphasis on something. For example, when Jesus says truly truly I say…He’s emphasizing something and should take it as or important.
So, to say 666 is equivalent to say man man man or not God not God not God. It will be a man and nothing could be more blasphemous against God than you worship His creation, rather than Him the creator.
As a person takes the mark they are giving themselves to that kingdom, their identity is now of that kingdom and they’ll serve that kingdom. The persons actions will follow. So the mark of the beast will be wholly against Christ both spiritually, physically and their actions, thoughts will follow. -
Dont forget, before the Mark of the Beast, God gets to mark His people first!
Revelation 7:3 NASBS
[3] saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.” -
Again the mark isn’t physical
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Most likely a micro chip placed in or under your skin to track you, used for currency and track viruses
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It is like your SS number in a chip implanted in wrist or forehead for global gps location connection of you so you can be located by the minions of antichrist.. That’s how the Antichrist number is. No number, no selling or buying and therefore no food. And if you want the number because you have been left behind after the rapture, then you’ll be beheaded.
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God does not trick His church. The mark is not a microchip that’s not in the Bible
Look up every word in the Greek. Study
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It’s something else.. they are 3 Arabic symbols, which are “Bisma Allah” which translates “in the name of Allah”
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There are no less than six interpretations of the Book of Revelation in contemporary study of eschatology. We might all come to different conclusions, especially as it concerns the “number of the beast” or “the number of a man”. Whenever Scripture is unclear, I always return to Deuteronomy 29:29, “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.” So, as believers in Christ, we need to cling to those things which have been revealed. Christ is God’s final revelation to us. When we apply this truth, then we can see that the number of a man (or beast) can mean anything that elevates man above God. Man becomes his own god. Believers are truly God’s children and our identity is with Christ. We do not belong to this world. We are the Bride of Christ. We belong to Him. Heaven is our home. When we place our hope and trust in Him alone for our salvation, then we need not fear anything the world system may throw at us. Be at peace.
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It was probably vivivi ?
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The book of revelation iwas a warning to the 7 churches of what Jesus said in Matthew 24 was about to happen shortly for the time is at hand. It’s about judgement on unbelieving Israel
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Google it please
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Google what
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616
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We are Christians right! Brood of Viper are not allowed they had a patches within their understanding be shalom brothers!
Deuteronomy 29:29, “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.” God bless evryone -
This has also been suggested, a phrase vice a number. I had no idea arabic and greek had such similarities.
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STOP TEACHING HERESY
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THE MARK of the BEAST is not a microchip… the bible soes NOT say that
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The book of Revelation says: Revelation 22:18-19
A Warning About Adding To This BOOK
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. -
You should FEAR GOD!
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So why are people adding to it
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Dont lead these little ones astray
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These groups are filled with FALSE PROPHETS proclaiming things they KNOW NOT!
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Like what
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Taking MANY down the wrong road
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Explain
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KEEP YOUR FOCUS ON JESUS ONLY!
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Dont place your trust in some guy speaking HERESY in this group. Learn of God yourself
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Well that’s obvious but that’s not explaining leading people down a path
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The book of Revelation was written during a specific time period to the audience at the time which it says about things that will soon take place. The mark of the beast or 666 from history of that time period is about a mark declaring your allegiance to Caesar or the Emperor so that you could buy and sell goods. As a Christian, this offered a challenge as the allegiance was to Christ and not to Caesar (some of them said they were gods). In history, the beast was most likely Nero who encouraged this practice.
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Julie Paler and talk about leading some down the wrong path. Let scripture interpret itself not the opinion of others case closed
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book of opinions… sad state of the church.
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for NARROW is the GATE, and FEW find it
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you’ll know them by their FRUIT
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You post a you tube from a man then you tell us don’t listen to others opinions but yours and this guys give it a rest
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Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice, dont argue with those that will not hear
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blind guides, leading the blind
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Jesus never knew them
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dont link yourselves to them’
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RUN!
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they are spiritual magicians, now you see Jesus, now you dont
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RUN!
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people have already chosen their mark, they choose everyday in whom they will serve
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do you have the mark of God in your forehead, does it show through your right hand?
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There is a massive amount of disinformation around this. One thing is for sure. You won’t be able to buy or sell.
Now if it was some mark put on your hand it could be removed easily. If it was a chip or card it can be avoided in today’s system. If it is what is circulating on social media – DNA vaccine – it becomes near impossible to reverse and you will be controlled. You can’t hide then and you can’t survive without it.
If that materializes then it was the mark or number being implemented through a microchip or nano chip or whatever. The chip is not the number or the mark, but the carrier or enforcer of it, because man throughout all the ages couldn’t achieve what this system can if implemented. -
Josephus records how rome surrounded Jerusalem and didn’t allow food in that people were eating there babies. That was certainly Jacobs trouble/tribulation
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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.
There are 3 parts to the mark read it lest you be deceived
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Wow people are trying to interpret signals I need a rest from this script torture
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I hate to say it like this but its Sunday Worship as opposed to the Sabbath
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it will have to do with something the whole world will have to move to………my suggestion is dont always go in that direction….possible that it will be a physical mark too
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No one knows the mark of the beast. The Bible does not tell us.
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No
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my concern is that we already have it…the original mark of ownership of Satan.
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Question: “What is the meaning of 666?”
Answer: At the close of Revelation 13, which discusses the beast (the Antichrist) and his false prophet, we read, “This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666” (Revelation 13:18). Somehow, the number 666 is a clue to the identity of the beast. Revelation 13 also mentions the “mark of the beast” (verses 16–17), and popular thought often links 666 with the mark; however, the mark of the beast and 666 appear to be two different things. The mark of the beast is something people must receive in order to buy and sell. The number 666 is somehow associated with the beast/Antichrist as “his” number.
The meaning of 666 is a mystery, and it appears that the apostle John, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, intended it to be that way. Calculating it, John says, requires “wisdom.” Some, using gematria (assigning a number value to each letter of a name or word and then combining the number values to arrive at a total number), have identified the Antichrist as various people in world history. Some of the popular targets have been “Caesar Nero,” “Ronald Wilson Reagan,” “Mikhail Gorbachev,” and various popes in Roman Catholic history. The lengths some will go to in order to get a person’s name to add up to 666 are amazing. Virtually any name can add up to 666 if enough mathematical gymnastics are employed.
Six hundred, sixty-six will somehow identify the beast, but precisely how 666 is connected to the beast is not the main point of Revelation 13:18. The Bible often uses the number 7 to refer to God and His perfection. Traditionally, 6 is thought to be the number of man, created on the sixth day and always “falling short” of God. The beast/Antichrist will strive to be like God. He will likely even claim to be God. But, just as the number 6 falls short of the number 7, so will the beast/Antichrist, with his “trinity” of 6’s, ultimately fail in his effort to defeat God.
Addendum: Interestingly, in some ancient Greek manuscripts of the Book of Revelation, the number is given as 616 instead of 666. The manuscript evidence is strongly in favor of 666, but the alternate reading of 616 should give us pause before we start pounding away on the calculators.
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Thank you to all that have commented and gave me your thoughts. I appreciate you all.
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Simple, 666 was Johns numerical indicator for the leader of the beast in that day. 6 is the number for man. As ceasers crown was handed to papacy in the last part of tribulation the crown when one world religion is reborn the crown will be handed back to me shitbags himself. Bringing back 666.
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I would say yes
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I’ve heard the oldest manuscripts actually say “667”….
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So, the MOST important parts of the mark of the beast are two things, a placement of something on the hand or fore head, and that something will be used to allow or disallow buying it or selling. This will ennable lost people, thus disallowing believers, to shop at grocery stores, restaurants, mail things for postage, buy anything, and could enable, or restrict people to get jobs possibly as part of hiring requirements. You might not even be able to make money except under the table without it, but you DEFINITELY won’t be able to buy or sell without it.
What this does is it disables the believer from living a normal life in the end times. You might not be able to get a job, might not even keep your job, they might restrict people from gaining money because it might have to go into a mark of the beast only account, like a RFID chip account. Sure, at first, the RFID chip is optional, just one of the options. Suddenly, remove the other options and all you have left is the mark of the beast technology. We would need to prepare for extreme Oppression, it would be extreme prepper season and the Bible suggests those that refuse, might have to hide in the hills. Those that don’t, would have to have stockpiles of black market goods or rely on people with the mark to buy them anything. But how will you keep your home when you can’t pay rent, mortgage or property tax? You can’t pay anything. Currency might be outlawed by then. It might all be digital, bitcoin eventually or communistic. We don’t know.
Here’s what we definitely know. The possibility of this happening in modern day is skyrocketing. First, there was the RFID chip, a chip implanted in your hand. Once normalized, why not put it in your head. Who cares? Right? Normalized, legitimized, and legalized. Next, the datoo, digital tech tatoo is up. Now, they can put digital tech on your hand in tatoo form, put a number on you like Holocaust victims. By the way, this technology is not brand new, they’ve been talking about it for over a decade at least. I read it in a college textbook ten years ago, in a speech class, not science or economics, speech class. I keep hearing more and more about it. What matters is these technologies have the potential to be turned into mark of the beast. Anything that could, we need to avoid.A company in Michigan forces people to get RFID, just to work there. Sound familiar. Sweden, it’s becoming very popular. Other European countries are starting to get them. See a pattern? Look it up. It’s already normalized in pop culture. An IBM commercial in the 90s advertised technology where you wouldn’t even have to go to register, where your body already had something to scan everything and just walk out of the store. Remember that one? How about the hit Sc fi show Helix? Very first episode, just to get into the facility, they had to get an RFID chip implanted, just to walk in. Know who else did? Super spy James Bond? When James Bond gets an RFID chip, it’s cool right? That was in Casino Royale, the first of the new ones with Daniel Craig.
And we are already trained to use our hands for entry everywhere. To get back in the bar, to get back in Chuck-E-Cheese, to get back in six flags, what do they do they stamp your hand? Now, of course, that’s innocent enough. Obviously, a hand stamp with bugs Bunny at six flags isn’t the mark of the beast. But guess what? Culture is already training us. Teach your children. When they become teens, teach them the end Time stuff, show them what they’re being set up for. Satan is alive and well and using culture against us. That doesn’t mean stop getting your hand stamped. Debit cards are an early form of being trained for Mark of the beast anyways. Seriously, out of the thousands of years of human history, we’ve always used currency, whether it was bartering goats and chickens for wagon wheels or pottery, or whether it was using currency such as shells, coins, paper or literal gold and silver, most of human history has used currency. Using a debit card trains us, trains society, to no longer feel money, to give control to a card, to think about and use money differently, just like Dave Ramsey says in financial Peace University. Now, he’s talking about getting out of debt and not really at all about the end times, but he’s right. You don’t think about money the same with a debit or credit card. You’re not giving them anything real. In fact, you’re not giving them anything at all. You just swipe, and the cards magic let’s you purchase the items. Sounds a lot like mark of the beast. So, where do we draw the line. Well, six flags hand stamps and debit cards definitely aren’t going to be the type of technology that we’re talking about. So, they are fine, but we need to realize psychology of it. We need to worry about is never getting RFID chips or dattoos, or any technology that could soon be used as Mark of the beast. Stay away from these technologies as much as possible, all technologies, but these technologies.
Now, 666, it’s one of the things people disagree on most. The important thing is that it’s just a number between 665 and 667. It’s not an evil number. No such thing as luck or evil numbers. 13th floor of a hotel is just the same as the 14th or 12th floor. Getting 6 6 6 or $6.66 on a store receipt, doesnt mean anything evil. 666 is simply a number that refers to the Antichrist, a way of identifying him when the time comes. Someone will be able to figure out that something about him has to do with 666, True believers will see it and figure it out, but we’re not there yet. So, don’t put too much stock or worry in something with six six six. Mark of the beast stuff is what you really got to worry about, not worry so much as be aware and vigilant. But don’t be afraid, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of peace and a sound mind.
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