Revelation: Demystified
“The Mark of the Beast” (Ch. 13)
Main Thing to Know:
What if the mark of the beast is ?
The Two Beasts:
• Deployed by
• Seek to destroy
• Appear during
• Represent the
And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
(1 John 4:3)
1. What did the beasts represent in the 1st Century?
Guardrail for Interpreting Scripture:
It can’t mean in this century what it didn’t mean in the first century.
Beast from the Sea:
(v. 1-10)
Beast from the Earth:
(v. 11-18)
To honor Erk, let’s GATA one more time”
How do we apply this today?
• Don’t be driven by
• Don’t be deceived by
2. What does the mark of the beast look like?
“right hand” = like the world
As He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
(1 Peter 1:15-16)
“forehead” = like the world
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
(Ephesians 5:15-16)
3. How do we fight against the beast today?
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might . . . For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:10, 12)
• Spiritual
• Spiritual
• Spiritual
Jesus, my Lord will love me forever,
From Him no pow’r of evil can sever,
He gave His life to ransom my soul;
Now I belong to Him;
Now I belong to Jesus,
Jesus belongs to me,
Not for the years of time alone,
But for eternity.