Revelation Answers

In the Book of Revelation, every man and woman must choose between loyalty to the Beast from the Sea or the Sacrificial Lamb . Discussions on the “ Mark of the Beast ” focus on the significance of its number, ‘ 666 .’ We wish to understand it so we may avoid taking it. To better appreciate the ramifications of taking its “ Mark ,” we must perceive that the  Book of Revelation  contrasts the “ Mark of the Beast ” with the “ Seal of God .”

Jesus is the key that unlocks the Hebrew scriptures, understanding the end-times, and the nature and mysteries of God . Jesus Christ unveils the Mysteries of God. Only he is qualified to reveal the nature and glories of the “ unseen God .”  In him alone , all the promises of God find their fulfillment.  Christ is the key that unlocks the Scriptures and unveils the “ times and seasons .” This is especially so in the  Book of Revelation  which discloses the sacrificial “ Lamb ” and how he reigns over the Earth, or at least, to men and women who can “ hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches .”

The arrival of Jesus will mean the resurrection of the dead, the commencement of the New Creation, and the final judgment . Several Greek terms are applied by the New Testament to the return of Jesus, including ‘ Parousia ’ (“arrival”), ‘ erchomai ’ (“coming”), ‘ apokalupsis ’ (“revelation”), and ‘ epiphaneia ’ (“appearance”). Regardless of which one is used, it is always singular in number, it always refers to only one future “arrival,” “appearance,” “revelation,” or “coming.”

Only God’s kingdom will prevail and endure. All other political powers and regimes are fleeting. Already they are passing away . Despite human pretensions, History demonstrates  without exception  the impermanence of political power, human ideologies, and governments. Rome endured for a thousand years, but that Empire fell all the same. Like human life, political power is impermanent, and regimes and even the greatest empires collapse unexpectedly and often quickly when their allotted time expires. Only the “ Kingdom of God ” will endure forever.