So what is the Mark of the Beast? Many have proposed all sorts of theories about the Mark of The Beast. Some say it is a branding or a tattoo; others say it is a microchip placed under the skin. Many interpret the Mark as a sign of allegiance to the Beast showing them to be followers of the Beast. I propose that the Mark of the Beast is a spiritual sign that you acquire through the Idolatry of the Self. I believe that many already have this spiritual Mark and worship the Beast wittingly or unwittingly. As St John tells us The man who denies that Jesus Christ is the Christ – he is the liar, he is the Antichrist; and he is denying the Father as well as the Son. (1 John 2:22). This describes a large proportion of the human race who deny God exists and live only for themselves.
St John tells us that the Second Beast, the False prophet alias the Antichrist: causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. (Revelations 13:16-18). How can the Antichrist “cause all” to be marked? I propose that the Mark is something spiritual and intrinsic to the self that you acquire as you commit yourself to worshiping and acting for the Beast. I propose that the Idolatry of Self allows satan claim you as his own and to sign you with his Mark.
As this Mark is a “human number”, it is something that all of us have in common as human beings which makes it easy for satan to claim us as his own. Jesus was able to identify us, in general, as “evil” (see Mathew 7:11-18). I contend that this Mark is something spiritual and characteristic to ALL of us. It is our passions, our inherent selfishness that we all have to some extent; some more than others. It guides us to put ourselves first. If we allow this human trait to take over our lives, we forget God and lead selfish lives to the detriment of others. However, at a basic human level, the fact that we feel pain motivates us to protect ourselves and put ourselves first. We all do it! Try as you might, this innate selfishness is hard to resist.
This trait or characteristic comes to all of us from the Fall (see Genesis Ch 3). Adam and Eve were tempted by the devil and desired the forbidden fruit. Their sin was in consenting to the temptation. We want things that we think are desirable or please us. Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was given a plethora of visions about the life of Jesus Christ and other Biblical revelations. She described the Fall in the following manner: I saw enclosed in Adam and Eve the corporal and spiritual life of all mankind. I saw that by the Fall it became corrupted, mixed up with evil, and that the bad angels had acquired power over it…..By the reception of the fruit, Adam and Eve became, as it were intoxicated, and their consent to sin wrought in them a great change. It was the serpent in them. His nature pervaded theirs, and then came the tares (i.e. the darnel) among the wheat. (“The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations” Vol 1, page 15)
Spirit became matter; flesh an instrument, a vessel. At first they were one in God, they sought self in God; but afterward they stood apart from God, they sought their own will. And this self-will is self seeking, a lusting after sin and impurity. By eating forbidden fruit, man turned away from his Creator. (ibid, page 16) Like satan, who refused to serve, we became self-seeking and selfish and this trait or mark was impregnated in us at the Fall. It is a trait that we all have. As directed by Jesus Christ, many use their will to resist this selfishness, but many are subservient to it.
In 2 Timothy 3, Saint Paul gives us a good description of people in “the later days” commonly regarded as these End Times: But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people (2 Timothy 3:1-5). Does this sound familiar? This is the personification of the Idolatry of Self. Basically, it is putting oneself before God and others and is a contravention of the first and second commandments.
Our Holy Mother Mary explained the Biblical symbolic language of the Mark of the Beast to Father (Fr) Gobi (Marian Movement of Priests) in 1989: Our Lady told Fr Gobi: These are the times when the followers of him who opposes himself to Christ are being signed with his mark on the forehead and on the hand. (Locution 410, “To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons” 1998, page 660-661). Given this has been happening for several decades; why aren’t we seeing myriads of people with 666 or some other Mark on their hands and foreheads? Because it is hidden in plain sight!
Clearly, this Mark is not an overt visible sign; yet we get a sense of those who have the Mark when we encounter them. Their narcissism tends to given them away. Our Lady told Fr Gobi that The Mark: signifies the complete belonging of the person thus marked to the army of him who is opposed to Christ and who fights against his divine and royal dominion. (ibid) The forehead indicates the intellect, because the mind is the seat of the human reason.
The hand expresses human activity, because it is with the hands that man acts and works.
He who allows himself to be signed with the mark on his forehead is led to accept the doctrine of the denial of God, of the rejection of his law and of atheism which in these times is more and more diffused and advertised. (ibid). (People who believe in God are a minority these days.)
He who allows himself to be signed with the mark on his hand is obliged to act in an autonomous manner and independently of God, ordering his own activities to the quest of a purely material and terrestrial good. (ibid).
Our Lady further told Fr Gobi that he who is marked on the hand works for himself and his own gratification, well-being, pleasure and the satisfaction of all his passions especially that of impurity. This person makes himself the centre of all his actions, objectifies and exploits others, makes money his god and becomes a victim of materialism. This person is egotistical and loveless (ibid). In effect, they idolise themselves.
The Idolatry of Self gives you the Mark of the Beast. It is a spiritual sign. It is yet another form of paganism as we worship the human being instead of God. As St Michael told Vassula in 1994, the world is already following satan (“True Life In God” Message: 14/10/1994, see also 1 John 5:19). The idolatry of self is pushed to us from every aspect of secular society: the media, the internet, television, shopping, politics, our interactions with others, etc, etc. The behaviour typifies a very large proportion of the human race. Satan therefore already has many who are “Marked” and our current society encourages it.
How would the Antichrist and the Beast or satan know who was not worshipping him? I dare say the same way that satan already knows who is against him and who is for him. Satan is already aware of our most intimate personal details, likes and dislikes that he uses to tempt us individually and draw us into sin. For those who need an education in this I suggest you read the four full volumes of “The Mystical City of God” by Blessed Mary of Agreda (TAN Books). This saint died in 1665 and her body was found to be incorrupt in 1909. Her body was examined again in 1989 and found to be unchanged. Her body is now on display, incorrupt, at the Conceptionist Convent at Agreda in Spain. Blessed Mary of Agreda was given a detailed account (by Our Lady) of the life of Our Holy Mother Mary and Jesus Christ which she wrote down. This is available today. Apart from the lives of Our Lady and Our Lord, Blessed Mary of Agreda also details the modus operandi of satan and his minions along with other Biblical revelations. It is fascinating reading to say the least and confirms the Bible.
How then do you avoid this Idolatry of the Self, given that we are all selfish to some extent and usually put ourselves first? Start by “marking” yourself with the “Sign of the Cross”. . Start down the road of repentance and conversion. Bear in mind satan will see this and try to stop you. Renounce yourself! As Jesus said: If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow Me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it: but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it. What gain then, is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self? (Luke 9:23-25; see also Mathew 16 24-26). Our Lady asks us to: Allow yourselves to be nourished and formed by me allow yourselves to be led by me with docility; allow yourselves to be signed by me with my motherly seal. Our Lady forms us to follow her Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Holy Mother seals us with the Sign of The Cross (Locution 410 “To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”, 1998, page 662).
If you resist the Mark of the Beast, how could you be stopped from buying or selling anything? It is probably easier than one might think. Who does not have a Tax File Number these days? Most countries around the world employ a Tax Identification Number or Social Security Numbering system of some description that individually identifies most of their population. It is usually linked to your bank account. These numbers are required for the taxation system and employment. You need to have a bank account to get your pay these days.
Most transactions in our times are done electronically which makes them recordable, identifiable and traceable. Our banks love EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer). Most of this EFT is managed by huge multinational corporations (i.e. Banks) with large scale computer systems. I dare say that many, if not most, of these organisations already worship the Beast either wittingly or unwittingly. Money is certainly their god. Cash is used less and less by the population now because EFT is more “convenient”. All that has to be done is to stop printing cash and to no longer accept it as legal tender. If you don’t have a card number (credit or debit) you won’t be able to buy or sell anything! You won’t be able to buy or sell anything without being known or traced. It is therefore conceivable that if you do not worship the Beast, satan will know and your bank account will be frozen and you won’t be able to buy or sell anything.
After a previous natural disaster in my home region, the power went off and was off for weeks because all the powerlines were destroyed. It took weeks to rebuild them. Refrigerators stopped working, petrol stations could not pump fuel. Some people had generators, but no one in that region could buy any food because EFT did not work. The supermarkets were initially closed because they had no refrigeration and no EFT. The roads were blocked with debris so initially supplies could not get through. Fortunately, the government stepped in and provided cash and disaster relief, but that took time. This demonstrated to me just how vulnerable we were and dependant on “modern ammenities”. If the same thing happened today in a large city, it is likely that people would start starving after a few days and civil unrest could erupt.
May Jesus and Mary be Loved by All Hearts.
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