Seal of God -vs- Mark of the Beast

Back in 2010 I placed the words “remove ten commandments” in Google and found 48,000 articles and websites discussing the topic. Today, (02-03-23) those same words bring up 5,910,000 websites. Placing just the words “ten commandments” in the search engine in 2010 popped up 5,030,000 articles and websites, today, 28,400,000 sites and articles pop up. Need I remind you of all the news reports concerning the Ten Commandments and the US Congress these last few years? Remember Judge Roy Moore for one? Yes, the Law of God is a topic on many lips these days, and most of those lips are lawmakers.

Now that we understand that we should, “keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13) You may be wondering why it’s so important that we keep the Sabbath of the Lord? Besides the fact that breaking it is sin, biblical fact is the importance of the Sabbath has to deal with who we will choose to obey. The Lord commands that we worship Him on the seventh day which is of course the Sabbath. The Devil under the authority of the men ruling the Roman Catholic church says we should worship on Sunday. In fact, they stated the following in writing…

“The Bible says, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church!” -Fr Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, History of the Sabbath, p. 802

“Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.” -James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73.

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Again, I ask, Why is the devil attacking the Sabbath? Why is the devil using the men in the Roman Catholic church to make such a bold and obvious stance against the Sabbath of the Lord thy God? Why are they making it such an issue in so many of their sermons, books, articles, tracts, websites, audios, and videos? And why do you suppose they’re doing it with so much more enthusiasm, today?

The Bible speaks of a mark that will be enforced directly before the second coming of Jesus Christ. The word “MARK” as it is defined in the “American Heritage Electronic Thesaurus” comes with numerous variations to the word. For example, the words, “evidence, sign, witness, symbol, indicator, stamp, token, signification, label, seal, brand, and imprint” can all be used alternatively just as easy.

• Revelation 13:16,17 says, “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: 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.”

Why is this mark so important and what are the actual features of a mark?

Have you ever signed a document to validate or confirm that it is authentic? Have you ever given your “seal of approval” on something? Have you ever “marked” an item of yours as proof of ownership? Well in all government halls, this is an undeniable fact of life. As we know, signing a document actually authenticates that document. Government declarations must always bear a mark, or an official seal of approval on it for validity. But what are the actual features of an official mark or seal made by governing bodies?

An official seal or signature must always have three distinct features to be considered valid:

1. The name of the official
2. The title of the official
3. The territory of the official

When the President of the United States signs a bill into law, he must sign it:

1.Name “George Washington”
2.Title “President”
3.Territory “of the United States of America”

Collectively his signature would read. – George Washington, President, of the United States”

Absolutely every document must be signed or sealed in this manner for it to become an official legal document. Without it, it’s a useless piece of paper.

Looking to the Creator we realize that He does in fact have a Heavenly Kingdom. And a Kingdom always has a governing body. In this case, God Himself. The Almighty also has a legal document containing His Law for that Kingdom. The Lord’s legal document is His Law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Looking directly into the midst of these Ten Commandments you will actually find the Seal of the living God! Within the fourth Commandment we find the words.

“For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth….” -Exodus 20:11

In that passage we see all the necessary features of an official seal. Without these three features the Law would be nothing more than words etched on stone. Again.

An official seal or signature must always have three distinct features to be considered valid:

1. HIS NAME = THE LORD (“I am the Lord: that is my name“ Isaiah 42:8)
2. HIS TITLE = CREATOR (Notice, “the LORD made“ in above verse)
3. HIS TERRITORY = HEAVEN AND EARTH (Notice, “Heaven and earth“ in above verse)

Collectively His signature reads.

• “The Lord, Creator, of Heaven and Earth”

One can easily see that the “seal” of the Creator God is actually found in the “Sabbath commandment” of the Creator God. It is an acknowledgement of His authority as the Creator as well as the Author of that Law written in stone. When we keep His Sabbath we are expressing that we recognize, “REMEMBER” and worship Him as our Creator. Psalm 77:11 literally says, “I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.” How should we remember Him? The fourth commandment plainly says, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

And why do we remember Him on this day…?

• For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8,11

Now do you see why the Psalmist said “I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.” The Lord actually used the word “REMEMBER” when He wrote Commandment #4. And the Psalmist said he will remember the works of the LORD.

Even if you were unable to step into a church on Sabbath you can keep that day holy. That alone makes a clear statement of your desire to worship the Creator God without ever having to speak a word. The act of worship alone can be seen far and wide. You could literally be deaf, blind, and paralyzed from head to toe and still have the ability to proclaim Christ Lord by keeping that day holy to the best of your ability. When you do this, the Lord proclaims unto you that, “…it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.” (Exodus 31:13)

With that said, it’s easy to see why the devil would try to attack the Sabbath day. It’s the ultimate threat to his agenda and his dominion. The devil wants to be worshipped as a god by as many as he can tempt. When you do his will, you make him your god.

• Romans 6:16, “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”

When you obey, you give worship. Is this not the age old controversy between Satan and Jesus? Is this not the plot of this Holy War we find ourselves engaged in? Who you choose to worship makes all the difference in this battle between truth and lies. Satan seeks your worship out of sheer arrogance. Did he not already say in his heart that he wants to be like the most High?

• The prophet Isaiah clearly stated, “…O Lucifer…For thou hast said in thine heart… I will be like the most High.” -Isaiah 14:12,13,14

Seeing how God has already SEALED the true Sabbath as His Sign, seal or “mark.” The devil’s only recourse is to counterfeit his own sabbath as a sign and or mark of dominion as a god. As we discover by studying the Word of the Lord, He declares unto all creation that if you truly love Him you will keep His commandments and therefore keeping the Sabbath day is proof unto all that you worship the Creator God.

Again, we see in Exodus 31:13 the Lord God telling us that, “Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations.“ This verse allows us to realize why the devil’s been working so hard for so long at hiding the truth about the Sabbath. It’s God’s sign! It’s God’s seal of approval! It’s God’s mark of ownership! Some will say that this is only for the Jews since it was only the Jews being spoken to in Exodus 31:13. Yet Old Testament prophecy and New Testament fulfillment reinforce that if you claim Christ Lord you are Israel…

Plus we know that all the Angels kept God’s Law long before mankind or any Jewish man or woman was every created. For it plainly says in Psalms 103:20, “Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.”

In short, if you are a follower of Christ Jesus the Lord, YOU are now considered biblical Israel! The reason Satan has twisted the truth on this is to get millions to believe in false prophecies about the Jewish nation, a third temple, and a host of other strange prophetic lies. Biblical fact remains, how can they be “God’s people” when most of them openly denied God’s Son for the last 2000 years? The Scriptures are plain here. You must embrace Jesus as Lord to be considered God’s people. Praise the Lord, some have done so and many have become Christians over the years.

So.. how does the beast plan to get this mark in the forehead or in the hand of his followers? I will share more on that in the next blog entry – God willing.