The mark of the beast is no mystery. We are told in plain languge in Rev.14:9-12 what it is;



huh ?? isn't very plain to me....

Sorry stepped away, Let's look at it..

14:9 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,

14:10 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:

14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

v.9-11 desribe those with the 'mark of the beast' and what happens to them. v.12 describes those without the mark.

This very issue is found throughout the Bible, the law and the prophets, or faith of Jesus.

Deuteronomy 6:2,8 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you....And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth.

Sodom and Gomorrah was a period of judgment or wrath from God on the wicked. The flood of Noah was a period of judgment of the wicked. The mark of the beast is a period of judgment on those who reject the Protestant Reformer's message (third angle's message, Rv.14:9) after coming out of babylon, the Roman Church.

Then we read in Rv.16 the vials pour on those with the mark..

16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God on the earth.

16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial on the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image.


so the 'mark' is an image ??



No, in the last part talking about anyone that worships the beast's image.