[highattainlet]

a mark on the forehead and hand represents an influence on our minds and actions. the mark of the beast is metaphorical and it symbolizes adherance to the "beast". this beast is a human government and sitting upon it is a woman, which represents a church and its beliefs. this mark is indeed meant to close our mind's eye and brainwash us into accepting a human religion enforced by the a one world government (uniting church and state). the "religions" created by humans have their origins from sun-worship and that comes from the forgetting the creator who made the sun. sun-worship infiltrated christianity less than a century, thus spreading lies about christ and his message in order to take advantage of people (serving self). this issue has existed ever since the begining of human civilization. human beings wanted to govern themselves and play god but rejected love and its principles. these goverments have always had a belief system or religion behind it, but they were always far from the truth of love.

the money system is actually based on the idea that you have to work to live, but this is actually an illusion of the ego-mind (service to self). this parallels the concept of works without faith. the truth is you have to be alive to work. in other words, if you believe you have god's unconditional gift of eternal life, then you will be love as god is love. you don't have to work for love and life because god freely gives it to you.

what is this one world government? what will be it's religion? i think we can all answer that. it's really anything we want it to be because we all form a government and it's belief systems.

the purity of christianity in many minds has been corrupt by luciferism. it has become a merely religion serving ego and not god. the church is no longer an organized assembly because the members' minds have become disorganized. love has been lost, causing ego to create a disorder, yet an illusion of order.

i'm not judging members of the "mother church", but the ego-system that has infiltrated it. in this human ego belief system is where we get taught sunday worship, eternal soul torment, christmas (december 25), and veneration of saints. this is no diferent than sun-worship. ancestor worship, and animism. the "mother church" obligated their ego-minded traditions to be kept and they banned the bible which would tell them the truth. this is where protestism came out of (because they protested the roman catholic church). today though, many protestants have forgotten the abuse that they've been protesting against. they call others pagan and yet are pagan themselves. i don't hold myself guiltless of paganism though and i can't really judge without judging myself lol

i hope this has shed a little more light on the topic of the mark of the beast :d

a little side note i'd like to mention
the word "sorceries" in the new testament comes from the greek work "farmakeia" and it's where we get the word 'pharmacy". basically, its is anything that "drugs" up the mind like as substance abuse, junk foods, entertainment addiction, etc. they caclify the pineal gland and make you vulnerable to mind control (mark of the beast). the goverment, the fda, the media....it's all trying to control us.