I hear what your saying, but you are thinking today's nations is the one scripture speaks, in ww2 or ww1 those folks probably thought the very same thing your thinking right now,, but the truth is I don't know niether you know when it will take place..
Me and you and every person here could be long gone from the physical world before that takes place.. That how conspiracies form. It may appear as everything around you points to it happening in your life time. In times of old around the 1400's the Black Plague killed half of Englands population and over 150 million world wide when the worlds population was about 350 million whole groups of people thousands of people were going around flogging themselves because they thought it's the end times.
There have been many time since revelations was written any one of those serious events could have been a depliction of the end times especially from the prospective of the people who witness those events..
More clues that this is yet futuristic.
Out of the 3 angels mentioned in Revelation 14:6-11, this had never happened yet.
Revelation 14:[SUP]9 [/SUP]And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,[SUP]10 [/SUP]The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:[SUP]11 [/SUP]And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Eternal torment awaits those that receive the mark to be able to buy and sell in this coming new world order.
This explains what the mark will do... give the bearer the ability to buy and sell in the coming new world order.
Revelations 13:[SUP]11 [/SUP]And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.[SUP]12 [/SUP]And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.[SUP]13 [/SUP]And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,[SUP]14 [/SUP]And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.[SUP]15 [/SUP]And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]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:[SUP]17 [/SUP]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.[SUP]18 [/SUP]Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
It is common sense that the mark will be the biochip that people are using now to buy & sell in Europe but it is not the mark of the beast yet because it is not the only means to buy and sell.
The new world order will make it mandatory if any one wishes to buy and sell as resources will be pooled and controlled on that side of the world because one third of the earth got burned up.
That is the hour that shall try all upon the earth as Jesus promised one of the 7 churches in Revelation that they will escape from by not being on that earth to undergo that trial.
Revelation 3:[SUP]10[/SUP]
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.[SUP]11 [/SUP]Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Jesus also warned those that do not repent from spiritual fornication being committed in the church at Thyatira that they will be cast into the bed of the coming great tribulation.
Revelation 2:[SUP]20 [/SUP]Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.[SUP]21 [/SUP]And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.[SUP]22[/SUP]
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.[SUP]23 [/SUP]And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
So no one can say that this had happened yet in our past nor happening in our present yet.
So that is why I see this as yet to happen and why we should be going before that throne of grace for help from Jesus Christ, trusting Him to prepare us and have us ready to go when it is time because the Bridegroom is coming soon.