THE MARK OF THE BEAST
It is amazing at the amount of speculation and gossip at what the mark of the beast is. Some say a micro chip, brain implant, bar codes, tattoos or just about any type of symbol or implant.
If you take the full counsel of the Word of God from Genesis all the way to revelations the Mark of the Beast is easily revealed. That is why the Word of God as it is written is a “mystery”. Why is it a “mystery” you might ask. Plain and simple. It is a mystery to keep you searching but NOT only searching in the Written Word but directly from the Living Word by revelation of the Holy Spirit. Why hasn’t it been revealed by the Spirit earlier in time? The same reason the seals of the Book of Revelation exist. There is no one worthy but Jesus to open the seals! Daniel was told to seal the book for the appropriated time to be revealed.
Jesus has told us all the way from Genesis to Revelations what the Mark of the Beast is. The reason it is not in plain sight is because you need spiritual eyes and ears to see and hear what the Lord is saying! If Jesus was your teacher does the teacher also give you the answers to the test so you will pass? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV)
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
If you read my blog post David VS, Goliath you would have better insight. What was Goliath called besides a giant! Goliath was called a beast! When David told Saul that he had killed a lion and bear they were “beastly animals” Kings of their domain so to speak! It was considered great courage if you defeated a lion or bear! Some native tribes there initiation of “manhood” was to kill a lion with a spear demonstrating courage! You were not considered a mature man until this was completed and established. You really should read that blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/12/02/david-vs-goliath-the-mark-of-the-beast/
Daniel 8:23–27 (NKJV)
23 “And in the latter time of their kingdom,
When the transgressors have reached their fullness,
A king shall arise,
Having fierce features,
Who understands sinister schemes.
24 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power;
He shall destroy fearfully,
And shall prosper and thrive;
He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people.
25 “Through his cunning
He shall cause deceit to prosper under his rule;
And he shall exalt himself in his heart.
He shall destroy many in their prosperity.
He shall even rise against the Prince of princes;
But he shall be broken without human means.
26 “And the vision of the evenings and mornings
Which was told is true;
Therefore seal up the vision,
For it refers to many days in the future.”
27 And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king’s business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it.
Those who have an ear to hear what the spirit is saying and eyes (vision as Daniel) will know the mark of the beast that was a “mystery” of the end of the age. That is directly why the beast system is called MYSTERY BABYLON. It WAS called mystery Babylon until the time of the seals being opened by the Lord. As the seals are opened so is the mystery! This teaching here and now is a direct witness to the times we are in and the end of the age!
If you are not walking in the fullness of the Spirit of Truth you will not know the mystery! I will let you read it in Paul’s own writing as Paul unfolds the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY. The mystery was given to Paul because Paul WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND NOT A FOOLISH VIRGIN! YOU CAN’T PRESENT WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE! WE KNOW IN PART AND PROPHECY IN PART! WE HAVE A LOVING GOD THAT WISHES NO HUMAN WOULD PERISH AND TODAY I AM WRITING ABOUT THIS MARK OF THE BEAST AS THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS INSTRUCTED.
2 Corinthians 11:2 (NKJV)
2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
What is a chaste virgin? Paul tells us directly in two passages of Ephesians. Why Ephesians you might ask? Ephesians is the book of spiritual warfare. It is how we do warfare and how we are prepared for warfare! If you are not a chaste virgin you are not equipped for warfare in the end of the age! You armor is not complete nor sufficient!
Here is the marks of a chaste virgin that is required. The same Apostle that wrote the majority of the New Testament tells us but the Epistles BRING CORRECTION TO THE CHURCH that is why the Apostles and Prophets were murdered just as Jesus was sentenced to be murdered! The church will not tolerate correction! Real apostles and prophets have dusted off their shoes to a stiff necked people!
Matthew 10:14–42 (NKJV)
14 And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!
16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues. 18 You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; 20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
21 “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household! 26 Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.
27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ 37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
40 “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. 42 And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”
1 Corinthians 2:7–9 (NKJV)
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
The carnal mind can not understand the MYSTERY AS IT IS HIDDEN WISDOM WHICH WAS ORDAINED BEFORE THE AGES OF GLORY! When was the Lamb of God slain, before the foundation of the earth/world being created! That is part of the mystery! Now let’s read the requirements to be a chaste virgin and at the same time reflect on the 10 virgins at the Wedding Banquet/Ceremony. The wise virgins were FULL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH IS THE WORD OF TRUTH! THE FOOLISH VIRGINS WERE NOT! WHAT DID THE SERPENT DO IN THE GARDEN? WHAT DID THE SERPENT SPEAK TO JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS AND WHAT WAS JESUS REPLY!
Here is the requirements to be a chaste virgin! Jesus also told us the requirements needed. I will get to that after I reveal what a completed chaste virgin looks like.
EXAMPLE ONE
Galatians 2:19–3:9 (NKJV)
19 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
What was the purpose of the law? To reveal sin and reach the point that you alone could not cleanse yourself of sin and unrighteousness! You needed a Savior! When Paul says he was crucified with Christ he died to the law so the fullness of grace could be established through faith in Jesus. Paul NO LONGER LIVED that is a chaste virgin which represents one attribute of the five WISE virgins being filled with the Spirit of God. If you deny this statement you deny Christ! In Jesus there is NO darkness so if you have darkness/sin you are not in the fullness of Christ Jesus.
What does Jesus tell us in Matthew 24 over and over again? SEE THAT NO ONE DECEIVES YOU! Jesus said IF THERE BE ANY DARKNESS IN YOU HOW GREAT IS THAT DARKNESS.
Darkness is un-crucified flesh NOT SANCTIFIED BY THE TRUTH OF THE WORD and the fallen nature of the Serpent all the way back to the garden. This is what John 1:1 states. John 1:1 is what I say over and over and over. YOU MUST NOT SEPARATE THE WRITTEN WORD FROM THE LIVING WORD CHRIST JESUS. Think Saul of Tarsus vs. Paul of Christ Jesus. Saul was a scholar’s scholar! Saul was master of the Word without Christ Jesus. What was Saul doing back in the days of Saul? Handing over Christians to be stoned to death. Have you read my blog post Saul and the Harlot Church? You really should: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/02/saul-from-tarsus-and-the-harlot-church-of-revelations/
John 1:1 (NKJV)
The Deity of Christ
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
In Galatians 3 Paul is telling the Galatians they were bewitched which is what happened in the garden when the serpent bewitched eve! The lies and deception were allowed back in which subjected them to the Law which was written for the fallen nature not the resurrected in Christ Jesus. Paul tells them they fell from faith and when you fall from faith you fall from grace.
This is the great Apostasy at the end of the age and the great apostasy comes before the revealing of the Antichrist. You will NOT PURSUE SPIRIT AND TRUTH WITH BELIEVING LIES. Once saved always save is the twisting of surely you will not die! All the way back to the garden! We see it here now. Adam needed faith to believe the Father even when Adam did not completely understand. When you fall from faith your belief is in your ability and not in Christ Jesus. Your ability is the same as Satan saying I will ascend! Who has bewitched you? This puts your right back into the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”. You do not just fall, you fall into something. The act of falling is not the landing point. If you are not justified by faith then all that remains is the law and the purposes of the law!
This same principle is behind the unbelief which creates the doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture. That is the doctrine of Babylon and the purpose of the tower of Babylon as “I will ascend to the heavens”. Again I wrote three postings on that you can read. I also wrote about the real events and hidden meanings of what happened in the Garden of Eden. When you fall from faith you embrace the law and the law was written to the “fallen nature of the serpent” which was in us! Read: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/15/what-really-happened-in-the-garden-of-eden/
As a man believes so he is! So all the way back to the garden is a sign of the beast. I will reveal it more as we go along.
When you partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you partook of the “image and likeness” of Satan! This is why Adam and Eve were cast out so sin could not enter into PURE LIGHT or there would be sin in heaven or and in the Father! The FATHER is the tree of life which is the fullness of the “image and likeness” of the Son Christ Jesus. That is why Jesus said IF YOU HAVE SEEN ME YOU HAVE SEEN THE FATHER. IT IS THE TRINITY UNFOLDING AND MANIFEST AMONG THE PEOPLE.
Galatians 3:1–4 (NKJV)
Justification by Faith
3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
Our sufferings are designed by Jesus to conform us into His “image and likeness” the devil is a tool used to do this! Job’s sufferings were a testimony designed to reveal the end of the age and to reveal Christ Jesus who would suffer our wages of sin. All of the sufferings of Job are a prophetic insight of the end of the age. IT was the friends/brethren that accused of Job of sin! Who is the accuser of the brethren in the spirit? Why did Job lose his family? What did Jesus say about Himself and the purpose of His coming? Jesus did not come to make peace but to create division. Jesus divided what was for him and against him. I truly believe Job’s wife was a Jezebel.
Why do I say that you might ask with so very little scripture about her! I have been subjected to many Jezebels since I was three years of age! How do I know that because it has been revealed to me by the Lord. All those who are called of the Lord suffer martyrdom even as far back as conception! Did Joseph have to move Mary as they wanted to kill Jesus all the way back to the womb! Why do you think there are so many abortions? How many of those aborted babies might have been called by the Lord? Job was a prophetic voice revealing Jesus testimony of Jesus as Job would not deny the Lord even when great suffering was placed upon him. That is exactly what the saints are called to do at the end of the age! When Job’s wife told him to curse God and die that is the same thing Jezebel did in writing AS THE KING to Elijah as Jezebel killed the prophets of God. What loving wife would tell her husband to curse God and die! It was in her heart but remember what the Lord told Satan. You may afflict him and take everything that Job has but do NOT KILL HIM! It was the desire of Job’s wife to kill Him but it was forbidden! So when Job’s wife said curse God and die, how is that different than what Jezebel wrote to Elijah? Let it be done to you as you have done to mine by the end of the day! Now you know! Elijah killed a total of 850 false prophets. That was thousands of years ago. He was outnumbered 850 to 1, how many false prophets are there today?
Genesis 50:20 (NKJV)
20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.
BACK TO GALATIANS
5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Without faith we can not please god! That is what prompted me to write a very controversial title blog post called SPIRITUAL HALF BREEDS. Yes the Lord had me write that! I suggest you read it:
https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/04/spiritual-half-breeds/
EXAMPLE TWO OF BEING A CHASTE VIRGIN
Galatians 6:14–15 (NKJV)
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
What Paul writes here is the fulfillment of what Galatians 2:20 produced! Dead to the world, the things of the world, the pride of life, lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh. Paul was the living example of a chaste virgin a new creation in Christ in the fullness of the “image and likeness” of the Son of God which is Christ Jesus. This is why even the demon spoke, Paul I know, Jesus I know but who are you! Jesus and the Father are ONE. That is why the book of Romans is so powerful when Paul expounds on partaking in the death and resurrection! Remember if you are not crucified to the world you are not crucified to Christ! If the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is not! Now let’s see what Jesus tells us on becoming a chaste virgin!
EXAMPLE THREE
John 17:14–19 (NKJV)
14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Just as we read in Galatians 3 and the spiritual bewitching of the serpent we read above you are only sanctified by the WORD OF TRUTH and believing any lies that are spoken, preached or prophecy which is NOT SPIRIT AND TRUTH you will NOT BE A CHASTE VIRGIN! Keeping from the evil one references the lies and deceptions of the evil one! If we were removed from the world there would be no living testimony within a “people”. With out the fullness of the Word of God and Living God which are ONE dwelling in you you will not be a chaste virgin. SO IF THE FULLNESS OF THE WRITTEN WORD IS NOT WITHIN YOU THE FULLNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT WITHIN YOU. While every man/woman thinks their wisdom shall sustain them it is total folly! The only way to achieve the fullness of the Written Word is achieved in one way!
John 15:1–11 (NKJV)
The Relationship of Believers to Christ
15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
Hebrews 8:10 (NKJV)
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
What type of people dwell in a house the Lord builds? It is the family of God or people that belong to the Lord by salvation and not a land, state or nation! Many are called few are chosen! Does that sound like a land, state or nation? Few are chosen!
2 Corinthians 3:1–3 (NKJV)
Christ’s Epistle
3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? 2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
I HOPE YOU ARE BEGINNING TO SEE ALL OF THE FALSE NONSENSE TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE BRETHREN. All the false expounding and teachings of scriptures and that you are not truly receiving SPIRITUAL FOOD! You are babes and not being preached unto maturity because the abundant life is a spiritual life in Christ Jesus. In order to receive in Spirit and Truth you yourself must be born of the spirit. In addition you must NOT remain a babe in Christ and seek to be a chaste virgin with a heart, mind and soul totally given over, sanctified by The Word of Truth by the Spirit of Truth by total surrender and abandonment of your own thoughts, feelings and beliefs. When you obtain the status of a chaste virgin then you will only speak and only do what the Father is doing and speaking just as Jesus did! None of you and all of Jesus.
Revelation 14:1–5 (NKJV)
The Lamb and the 144,000
14 Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. 3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. 5
And in their mouth was found no deceit, (lies because it came from the mouth)
for they are without fault before the throne of God.
1 Peter 1:25–2:3 (NKJV)
25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
2 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
How do you know you are listening to the pure Word so that you may grow. It is very simple yet complex at the same time. You must hear the voice of God for yourself and not through anyone else as what they speak must witness in the Holy Spirit within you. That is why Jesus told HIS disciples if they hear you they have heard ME/Jesus. The Apostles and Prophets spoke the true living Word of God in Spirit and Truth NOT AS PARROTS reciting what they others said, taught or believed! Seminary creates parrots not preachers! The Holy Spirit only comes from one source and it doesn’t require paid tuition! Those that are born again walking by the Spirit of God know when lies, deceit, manipulation and twisting of scripture is being spoken because it stirs up the Holy Spirit with in you that something is not right! Why does it stir up the Holy Spirit because it is NOT OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD. There are ONLY two primary spirits, Christ and Antichrist!
Acts 16:16–24 (NKJV)
Paul and Silas Imprisoned
16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” 18 And this she did for many days.
But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour. 19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
20 And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city; 21 and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.” 22 Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods. 23 And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. 24 Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Paul was greatly annoyed, grieved in the Spirit of The Lord that is what prompted him to cast out the demon. What the woman spoke was true but NOT SPIRIT AND TRUTH! The carnal minded man who does not walk in the Holy Spirit would say “praise the Lord”! But the spiritual man would cast out the demon! It is an “inner witness” not an outward emotion, feeling or belief.
Colossians 3:16–17 (NKJV)
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Are you seeing the mark of the beast as we go forward as I’ve laid almost all of the ground work. Now lets continue.
Matthew 24:36–39 (NKJV)
Illustration of the Days of Noah
Mark 13:32–37; Luke 21:34–36
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Noah is a precursor to Christ Jesus at the end of this age. Noah was a preacher of righteousness but was denied by those whom he warned. Noah was called, led and followed God and was not established by any seminary or false prophets! Called by God! The whole earth was deceived. People fell from Spirit and Truth (unbelief) and/or denied Spirit and Truth of God’s Word. The people were not born again as this is before Pentecost,but it takes faith to be saved! They were not saved because they had unbelief!
Genesis 6:1–8 (NKJV)
The Wickedness and Judgment of Man
6 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
This is what the Lord is referring to in Matthew 24 as in the days of NOAH. The intent, thoughts and heart were only evil continually! Think about that! There was nothing within humanity that desired anything good! It is the fullness of evil within humanity! It is the fullness of the tree of knowledge of good and evil developed within you which is the spirit of Antichrist rising throughout the world today. The revival by these false preachers, prophets and apostles is the spirit of Antichrist and too many deceived or professing Christians praise the revival of Antichrist because the have NO SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. Again read my post about Jesus and the Pharisees! The blind and deaf are leading the blind and deaf! If you are not “listening/seeking/verifying” by the Holy Spirit you rely on carnal knowledge which is your wisdom and NOT THE WISDOM OF THE LORD.
We are getting close to finishing. I want to reflect on David vs. Goliath as I wrote in my blog post:
https://abidingbread.com/2025/12/02/david-vs-goliath-the-mark-of-the-beast/
The battle of David vs. Goliath is very important and I am working on a second posting which will cover more. What I want to show you is that NOTHING IS CIRCUMSTANTIAL in the Word of God. Everything happens exactly as the Lord wills it to happen. Jesus is in total control.
When David killed Goliath where did the stone land? Why did it strike where it struck Goliath. Surely a greater miracle would have been to go right through the protective armor! See nothing is by chance! Why is Goliath not only referred to as a giant but a beast! How was Goliath conceived physically/spiritually and how does that compare to the virgin birth of Christ! Mary was a chaste virgin that the Holy Spirit conceived Jesus. Jesus could only be fully manifested by a chaste virgin! Are you a chaste virgin so that the fullness of the Spirit of God dwells within you. Is the manifestation of the SONS OF GOD coming forth in these last hours! TIME IS SHORT!
So now that I have revealed all of this let us conclude the number of the beast. It has been clearly defined right in the Word of God! This is not my opinion I am revealing to you it is Spirit and Truth.
Revelation 13:16–18 (NKJV)
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
The mark of the beast is not natural it is spiritual! That is why there is hardly any true spiritual discernment. If you can’t discern the demonic spirits do you really have the Holy Spirit? Is Jesus not omniscience and all knowing.
When a pastor says right from the pulpit that ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART that is from SATAN! Why because it is a partial truth and a partial truth is a lie! Jesus reveals the heart to those that belong to him. Jesus revealed the hearts of everyone that came to him! If Jesus reveals your heart to you why can’t Jesus reveal the hearts of others to you! Do we preach to intellect or to the heart! What was the very first thing Jesus revealed to Saul from Tarsus who was an ambassador of the Harlot Church! Jesus said Saul why do you persecute me! That pierced the heart of Saul as Saul replied who are you LORD! It is the Lord by the Power of The Holy Spirit that convicts the human heart and soul!
Now with all of the foolishness about micro chips, tattoos, bar codes, vaccines and about anything else you can pull out of your “junk drawer” let’s get down to real solid spiritual food!
The days of Noah their heart and mind was totally committed to evil and destruction! What does the soul contain which is your very persona and nature of your being? It is made from you heart and mind! What is a man created with? A mind, heart and soul! What are we trying to redeem, souls! The number of a man is his heart, mind and soul! That is the number of the beast! As I have said with absolutely no replies online what is the only thing in common with the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. The Lord wants to restore us in His “image and likeness” the tree of life from the garden and Satan wants to create in us his “image and likeness” from the tree of the knowledge of good an evil. How is a man created and what is the number of that man, 666!
The number 666 is the human mind, heart and soul of a man! Free will is of the soul! That is what the Garden of Gethsemane is all about! It is the crucifixion of the soul which the essence of a man! What happened was the separation of the SON OF MAN AND THE SON OF GOD! This might sound crazy to you but most of the professing Christians worship the Son of Man and NOT the Son of God. When you say that the fullness of Jesus was a Jew you are worshiping the Son of Man! Who is NOT DIVINE! I can’t say this enough!
Who created the world, who created a man. Don’t tell me it was a Jew! When Moses asked the Lord whom shall I say sent me the Lord replied tell them “I AM”! When you worship a religion/denomination, land, state or country are you really worshiping the Lord? The true Israel is a people redeemed by the blood of Christ and Born of His Spirit! How do we know this, we will expound more. Just think about this, flesh and blood will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. A man must be born again to even see the Kingdom! Jesus didn’t come to redeem a parcel of land as all the earth will be burned in fire! Again read my post on Jesus vs. the Pharisees. Many are called but few are chosen! This applies to the nation/state of Israel not all will be chosen even though all were called! This applies to the whole world and as there is no longer Jew or Greek (Gentiles) but only those in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 22:37–38 (NKJV)
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment.
The Lord by HIS divine wisdom does NOT allow any human to calculate this number because it must be spiritually revealed! IT MUST BE SOMETHING THE DEVIL CAN NOT MIMIC, TWIST OR COUNTERFIT. That is why the Mark of the Beast is spiritual not physical. There are only two kingdoms which represent the primary spirits, Christ and Antichrist! The mark of the beast is NOT man made or man applied! It is spiritually discerned! Anything other than spirit is subject to the fall of man/Satan. If it were something simple or obvious it would be easily twisted, manipulated and manufactured for greater deception! There would be the potential for a false witness which kingdom you belonged to.
So knowing this who do all the fools belong to that say it will be known by a fleshly mark and not by spirit. A foolish generation that seeks a sign and wonder! Show me a sign because I do NOT KNOW YOU ARE THE CHRIST JESUS! I NEED THE PHYSICAL SIGN BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT WITHIN ME. When you spread spiritual gossip you lead the sheep astray. It would be better to zip your mouth than to propagate deceptions about what you do not know! That is why the stone David slung hit Goliath in the forehead were “THE MARK OF THE BEAST” WAS! The right hand signifies the power given unto the beast as Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father! This has nothing to do with the physical it is TOTALLY AND ABSOLUTELY SPIRITUAL! IN THE LAST DAY YOU WILL EITHER BE A “SON OF GOD” OR A “CHILD/SON OF THE DEVIL” so while you are looking for a physical mark you will not find one!
My personal thought by knowing this revelation is that AI through facial recognition will enforce the world system and that is already in place waiting to be implemented. The reason I believe this is with all of the “retina” scanning as the “eye” is the gateway to the soul! How is this possible, go all the way back to Genesis 6 when the sons of god had offspring with the daughters of men. I suggest you read the forbidden book Enoch 1. Why is it forbidden because it tells you the wisdom and knowledge of the fallen angels gave instructions to men how to build swords and weapons for warfare. It is not in the divine nature to KILL. How do you think nuclear bombs were made, heck how was COVID created! By the inspiration of Satan, how was the vaccine for COVID created by the inspiration of Satan! As I told the doctor of the widow I take care of when they wanted to force the vaccine. I said COVID was created by man by the inspiration of Satan so I do not trust man inspired by Satan for the CURE. MY GOD IS ABLE BUT IF HE CHOOSES NOT I WILL STILL NOT BOW TO SATAN! Think of the fiery furnace once again!
Matthew 6:22–23 (NKJV)
22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.
What was going on in the days of Noah, and what was their mind totally give over too?
Genesis 6:5 (NKJV)
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The thoughts is the mind, then you have the heart and the two comprise the soul! There is your 6, 6, 6! The number of a man totally given over to the indwelling of the Antichrist! Who was hell originally created for, the Devil and his minions!
How do we recognize the Mark of the Beast? Scripture tells us! This is why there is so much hype on the state of Israel because it is the devil working by deception and very few understand because the eyes of their heart are filled with darkness yet they believe they walk in the light of Christ Jesus. Why did Jesus tell the Pharisees they were of the devil? Have you read my blog post of Jesus vs. The Pharisees: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/
When you read that post you will understand what is going on through the world! There were two great commissions in operation at the same time. The Pharisees had theirs and Jesus had His! Good verses Evil, two totally different “trees”!
Matthew 7:16–20 (NKJV)
16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Now do you see the mark of the beast and why Satan has blinded the church of today and why there is no spiritual discernment. Why people are still calling good evil and evil good!
See my post on what spiritually happened in the Garden of Eden:https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/15/what-really-happened-in-the-garden-of-eden/
If you can’t discern the spirits you are either fooled into believing you are born again or you have fallen in the Great Apostasy and under the spirit of delusion because you refused to love the Truth and Truth is the person of Christ Jesus. So you allowed Satan to blind you again just as the foolish Galatians!
Either way you believe you are serving Jesus when you are serving Satan! Total and utter deception and destruction. That is why I wrote that Saul from Tarsus was an ambassador of the HARLOT CHURCH WHICH WILL BE ENFORCED THROUGH ALIGNED GOVERNMENTS! WHAT IS THE BIG DEBATE ABOUT ISRAEL TODAY! WHO ARE GOD’S PEOPLE!
1 John 4:1 (NKJV)
4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 Corinthians 5:16 (NKJV)
16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
If you do not know Jesus as the PERSON/CHRIST by HIS SPIRIT you do not belong to Jesus!
John 10:27 (NKJV)
27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Matthew 7:15–20 (NKJV)
False and True Teaching
Luke 6:43–45
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Matthew 7:21–23 (NKJV)
True Way into the Kingdom
Luke 6:46
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Well the mystery of the mark of the beast has been settled. You either know Jesus by HIS SPIRIT or you don’t know Jesus at all! If the Lord does not speak to you then you have either fallen away in the Great Apostasy or you are not born again in Spirit and Truth. You do not have the Holy Spirit.
1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV)
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
People are looking for an outward mark of the beast but it is inward and spiritual! The carnal man looks for a carnal reality according to his own intellect but human intellect is far short of the Wisdom of God! Do you have the spirit of wisdom and revelation?
Ephesians 1:17–23 (NKJV)
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Why does the Book of Revelations specifically say “HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCHES?
Revelation 3:6 (NKJV)
6 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’
Hebrews 6:4–6 (NKJV)
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
I believe this is the condition of the church today as they have fallen from their first love after they were once enlightened, tasted the Holy Spirit and have fallen away from the Lord.
1 Peter 5:8–11 (NKJV)
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 11 To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
When you believe in once saved always saved there is no need to contend for the faith, spiritual growth and the pursuit of righteousness and holiness. You have allowed the Devil to repeat the same lie spoken in the Garden with different vernacular. What does Satan do, manipulate, twist and distort the Word of God!
May the saints be blessed, encouraged and victorious in Christ Jesus and may the Lord Jesus get the fullness of HIS inheritance from the finished work of Calvary on the Cross! In parting I leave this final chapter to wrap everything up with a nice bow! I hope and pray that the Spirit of the Living God bears witness to you about this writing as the end of the age and the last hour is about to hit!
John 15:26–16:15 (NKJV)
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
16 “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. 3 And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. 4 But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.
“And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.
5 “But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. 8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11 of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
THAT IS THE BOW I GIFT WRAPPED FOR YOU!
Matthew 22:37 (NKJV)
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
Philippians 2:5 (NKJV)
The Humbled and Exalted Christ
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
Romans 8:16 (NKJV)
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
You may ask how or what do you do? How to prepare spiritually perhaps this post will help explain the difference of “swords” between Hebrews 4:12 and Ephesians 6 as you will need the “whole armor” of the Lord! This article should help you understand!
https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/13/the-progression-of-spiritual-experience-and-growth/
