Good evening Lucy,
Actually, it is mentioned in scripture. You have to put yourself in John's time period. He is seeing the future where people are receiving a mark in/on the hand or the forehead. John has zero technology to compare and explain what he is seeing the vision that he is being shown. Therefore, John can't describe what he is seeing using our terms of understanding. For example, john can't say:
"He also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a chip implant in/on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not perform electronic crediting and debiting on their bank accounts unless they had the electronic chip device implanted, which contains the computer code of the first beasts name within the chip device."
John can't say that! The closest that he can come to is the Greek word "charagma" which is defined as "an etching, branding, engraving, impress like a coin or a seal, etc." The use of this word is as close as he can come to describing something 2000 years in the future.
Forgive me if I have seemed to be on a wild tangent, but I am zealous for the truth and accuracy of God's word. I always provide scripture to back up my claims. I am not speaking off the cuff, but am providing information from years of study.
Preterism, along with Amillennialism are two of the most destructive false teachings in the world today.
I'm all for discussing end-time events and any Biblical topic, but there is only one correct view of the order of chronological end-time events. I have been telling MatthewG that there is no way that Jesus could have already returned. For one, he said: "I will build my church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." Yet, the church is still in the process of being built. It will not be completed until the Lord comes to gather it. If Jesus had already come, the church would no longer be here. But even worse than that, he is claiming that Christ has already returned to the earth to end the age.
I'm not missing any of it, because I've gone over all of the other teachings comparing them to scripture, over and over and over and over, etc. I've done the studies and know the answers as to why those views cannot be possible. I can't pretend to not know the word of God regarding these issues.
All the electronic chip implant technology is not a definite in scripture.
"He also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a chip implant in/on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not perform electronic crediting and debiting on their bank accounts unless they had the electronic chip device implanted, which contains the computer code of the first beasts name within the chip device."
John can't say that! The closest that he can come to is the Greek word "charagma" which is defined as "an etching, branding, engraving, impress like a coin or a seal, etc." The use of this word is as close as he can come to describing something 2000 years in the future.
It would be nice to actually DISCUSS end time prophecy. If there is only one view,you are missing a huge chunk of it.
Preterism, along with Amillennialism are two of the most destructive false teachings in the world today.
I'm all for discussing end-time events and any Biblical topic, but there is only one correct view of the order of chronological end-time events. I have been telling MatthewG that there is no way that Jesus could have already returned. For one, he said: "I will build my church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." Yet, the church is still in the process of being built. It will not be completed until the Lord comes to gather it. If Jesus had already come, the church would no longer be here. But even worse than that, he is claiming that Christ has already returned to the earth to end the age.
If there is only one view, you are missing a huge chunk of it.
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