I learned something new while studying the Kabbalah. I learned why the Mark Of the Beast must go on the forehead or hand.
Revelation 13:15-18
The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
Or in Kabbalist numerology, that number is shim (ש).
Why only those two locations? Presuming that the MotB is an implantable microchip connected to your bank account… the current interpretation, which now seems inevitable even apart from Biblical eschatology… you could stick it in any portion of your anatomy. The right hand is a sensible location because it’s easy to wave over a scanner, but I always wondered about the forehead. Any scanner that can reach that, could just as easily read a microchip in, say, your buttock. And some of us are exceptionally hard-headed… donkeys.
Here’s the answer.
Deuteronomy 6:4-8
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Hidden in plain sight.
Judaism loves that phrase “The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” They use it to discredit Christ Jesus, arguing that Father & Son imply two gods. That’s stupid bordering on gaslighting, but it’s also consistent with the Ashkenazi genetic tendency towards paranoid schizophrenia, “intimacy anorexia” and various other psychiatric terms used to describe persons incapable of understanding, appreciating or participating in the heteronormative concept “family”.
There is a type of phylactery called the Tefillin.
h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin
The tefillin are to serve as a reminder of God's intervention at the time of the Exodus from Egypt. Maimonides details of the sanctity of tefillin and writes that "as long as the tefillin are on the head and on the arm of a man, he is modest and God-fearing and will not be attracted by hilarity or idle talk; he will have no evil thoughts, but will devote all his thoughts to truth and righteousness". The Sefer ha-Chinuch (14th century) adds that the purpose of tefillin is to help subjugate a person's worldly desires and encourage spiritual development. Joseph Caro (16th century) explains that tefillin are placed on the arm adjacent to the heart and on the head above the brain to demonstrate that these two major organs are willing to perform the service of God.
Maimonides was also instrumental in the Seven Noahide Laws, which are meant as a world religion for all non-Jews.
h ttps://noahide.info/contents/7-commandments/
For those who foolishly deny the Oral Torah, please note that the Oral Torah is mentioned in the Written Torah, Exodus 24:12, Where “G-d said to Moses, “Come up to Me, to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets, the Torah (the [verbal] teaching, i.e. the Oral Torah) and the Mitzvah (the [written] commandment, i.e. the Written Torah), which I have written to instruct them.”
We Christians use the word Torah as a synonym for the Old Testament, but Jews define it oppositionally to mean verbal teachings later codified by the teachers of the law. Whose stinking guts Christ hated. That was one of many linguistic barriers in my studies.
In fact, most esoteric writings I’ve sampled are written to deceive and misdirect. The intent, I believe, is that only a fellow deceiver will recognize the signs and follow the correct path through the bafflegarble. Christ did the same thing when He used parables… or should I say, memes? So, the righteous and wicked have divergent thought patterns that can be tapped to confound the enemy.
Thus, don’t assume that I’m correct about anything occult, because I’m not meant to understand it, I won’t force myself to understand it, and sometimes, I can’t even see or remember the pages. It’s simultaneously disturbing and reassuring.
I just want to recognize evil when I see it, and thus far, God seems to be permitting that within certain limits.
According to rabbinical teaching, the Seven Noachide Commandments were actually repeated to Moses on Mount Sinai, two days before the revelation of the Torah, as the verse states: “Moses came and told the people all the words of G-d and all the Mishpatim (laws)…” (Ex. 24:3).
The Seven Noachide Commandments were later codified into the Jewish Legal Code called the ‘Mishneh Torah’, by Rabbi Moses Maimonides (Rambam), in the section called Hilchos Melachim (The Laws of Kings), Chapters 8, 9 and 10. Quoting the Midrash Genesis Rabbah 16:6, Maimonides states that six commandments were given to Adam and the seventh was given to Noah after the flood, as until the Flood Mankind were not permitted to eat meat.
The Seven Noahide Laws, give or take a rabbi:
No idolatry. There is only G-D.
Do not blaspheme.
Do not murder/injure.
No sexual immorality.
No theft.
Do not eat blood.
Obey the Talmud.
To be an authentic Noachide, one must have the right intention, and this is explained by Rambam in Hilchos Melachim 8:11: “Any person who accepts upon himself the Seven Commandments and is scrupulous in their observance is considered one of the ‘Righteous Gentiles’ and he is given a portion in the World to Come. This is provided that he accepts them and observed them because G-d commanded so in the Torah, and made known to us through Moses, our teacher, that the descendants of Noah had already been commanded in these laws. However, if he observes them due to personal conviction he is not considered a ‘Ger Toshav’ (foreign resident) nor a ‘Righteous Gentile’ nor one of their Sages.”
The coming world religion will be Zionism. That is, humanity will be a slave class to Jewish priest-kings. Many so-called Protestant churches are already hanging out there, and Donald Trump has conspicuously encouraged it.
For now, the takeaway is that obeying the seven laws is insufficient. You must believe in G-D. The way you will demonstrate this, since obedience is not enough, is the way the ancient Israelis demonstrated it: by wearing marks of loyalty.
Man wearing tefillin, sourced from Wikipedia. It is sometimes worn on the arm, often close to the heart, but the right hand has also been a valid location. Wiki also has a closeup:
On both sides of the head-tefillin, the Hebrew letter shin (ש) is moulded; the shin on the wearer's left side has four branches instead of three.
The knot of the head-tefillin strap forms the letter dalet (ד) or double dalet (known as the square-knot) while the strap that is passed through the arm-tefillin is formed into a knot in the shape of the letter yud (י). Together with the shin on the head-tefillin box, these three letters spell Shaddai (שדי), one of the names of God.
So, the MotB must be on (or in) the hand or forehead, as a verifiable, personally accepted display of loyalty to G-D. That is, the Antichrist, the False Christ, the First Beast of Revelation. I bet it won’t be just the microchip, but also a tattoo of some kind. It certainly won’t be just a credit card.
As I’ve said before, now that the Great Commission has been completed and all have heard Christ’s offer of salvation, the next step towards Eternity is taking sides. The devil intends to write “mine” on everybody who belongs to him, and so does Christ per multiple references in Revelation. It will not be a forced decision, only a punished decision. Like the vaccine passports.
Neutrality will not be an option.
Some people think that there is no need to connect the laws of ethics and morality with Divine authority, and try to rationalize these principles instead. The fallacy of this thinking is abundantly clear, as we saw in the middle of the last century, a whole nation which had boasted of great philosophic advancement and ethical systems sink to the lowest depth of inhuman depravity and unprecedented barbarism, and the reason for this was that they thought that they could establish a morality and ethics based on human reason, not subject to the authority of a Supreme Being, having themselves become a super race, as they thought.
Meaning the French Revolution, I think. Which was also known for beheadings.
In essence, the Seven Noahide Commandments establish a stable, humane and just society, which accomplishes G-d’s command of inhabiting/settling the world. This is the basis of civilization, for “He did not create it as a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited/settled.” (Isaiah 45:18). Observing these Laws helps everyone accomplish his or her true purpose: to make a dwelling place for G-d in this world.
''The coming world religion will be Zionism. That is, humanity will be a slave class to Jewish priest-kings. Many so-called Protestant churches are already hanging out there, and Donald Trump has conspicuously encouraged it.''
Yes every time john hagee would praise jews and secularized as well as talmudized israel back when i was watching his show in the late 90s 'till about '03 i thought ''why doesn't he just get it done and become a full skullcap-wearing jew already?''
Same thing with all the ''praise the jews and israel'' Christians that loved w.bush too i would see and hear back then that had nothing to do with hagee's cornerstone church in texas.
So what your saying seems highly plausible bro.
Derek sends:
Gunner,
Regarding your mark of the beast explanation, as I say here (https://derekramsey.com/2024/03/12/its-a-military-term/#comment-11539), you are right to look to the OT for an explanation, but a phylactery doesn't fit the requirements of the prophesy:
– The image will come alive
– The image will speak
– The image will be worshiped
– Those who do not worship the image will be killed
– The mark is received on the hand or forehead
– The mark is received when the image is worshiped
– No one without the mark will be able to buy or sell.
– Ugly and grievous sores on those who received the mark
Only unleavened Passover bread (in the Roman Mass) fits them all.