5-01-05 - “THE MARK OF THE BEAST” Part 1
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Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts  
Treasures of awesome truths from God’s Word 
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

My brothers and sisters in Jesus, “Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts” will be going into the most serious warning that God has given in the entire Bible. That is the warning against receiving the mark of the beast. Why is it that you should not receive the mark of the beast? Because if you do, you will have to endure the wrath of God poured out in the seven last plagues. All that will receive the mark of the beast will be lost. Now listen closely, God gave this warning because most Christians will receive it and be lost. Before you can ever know what the mark is, you must know who the beast is. For the next several weeks we will stay with this topic and expose the beast, his mark and the image to the beast. This message is not being preached in most of the churches today, rather any references to the mark of the beast is in absolute error, because they do not correctly identify the beast. Do not miss a single broadcast on this subject. If you do, you may receive the mark in ignorance.

Before we start today, shall we seek God’s guidance? “Heavenly Father, as we explore this subject today, a subject of paramount importance to every believer in Jesus, we ask for your Holy Spirit to guide us in to all wisdom and understanding, in Jesus name, AMEN.”

Friends, I believe that we are on the edge of eternity, and we are into the last remaining sliver of time that is left in the final probation of mankind. I am committed to preaching in the spirit and power of forerunners such as Elijah, Ezekiel and Isaiah. That is why each week I am going to repeat my pledge to you which is from Isaiah 58 verse 1.  I intend to cry aloud and spare not, to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to show God’s people where they are transgressing God’s law. More than 99% of the Christian world today is trampling on the very Ten Commandments they believe they honor and uphold. Most do it in ignorance and indifference, but I am here to tell you that God’s cup is just about to the full, and His mercy and grace is about to be withdrawn from this planet, and replaced by His cup of wrath. The overwhelming majority of Christians are on the broad road that leads to destruction and will surely fail in passing God’s final test of loyalty.

Friends, In the last few months, I have become painfully aware of something that happened, in the fall of the year 2000, that makes me believe that 2005 is the year that our beloved country is going to suffer an event of cataclysmic proportions, and it will never be the same again. 

I believe it is necessary that I no longer hold back, but to give the warning God would have me give, with no words to tone it down. The stakes are too high and if you miss the truth on this subject, you will get the object of God’s explicit warning.

Friends I am talking about the mark of the beast and it is relative to God’s Ten Commandments. No one has the mark of the beast yet, but that will soon change, as something that will take place in these United States will usher it in, and it’s all in Bible prophecy.

Christians of all denominations will be lost taking a stand for Satan’s banner, when they think their upholding God’s seal. But it will be God’s commandment that will be disregarded and by default they will have the beast’s mark in their forehead. This is so serious friends, and you better pay attention. I will make it so clear you can’t miss it, but if you do, you will certainly be lost.

Jesus Himself addressed this in Matthew 7:21-23. It is time for everyone to wake up and listen with your understanding. Jesus is talking to the majority of Christians who are on the broad road, thinking they are secure. Jesus says, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Let me stop right here and say that Jesus is not addressing the world in general, He’s addressing specifically His followers. Those people who call Him Lord, Lord. Going on Jesus says, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” The iniquity is the transgressing God’s law that I am speaking about. There it is. He will tell the majority of Christians I never knew you. Why, because they refused to stop breaking His commandment. 
And friends you’re doing it right now. Your pastors are doing it. 99% of the Christian world is doing it and because of it, the commandment that is being broken, puts transgressing Christians on the broad road that leads to destruction that Jesus mentions in Matthew 7:13. God wants you on the narrow way, but Jesus said in verse 14 that few will find it.
God is no respecter of persons. It doesn’t matter how much money you have or how poor you may be, it doesn’t matter how educated you are or what little education you have, it doesn’t matter what church you attend, because your denomination can’t save you. It doesn’t matter what your social standing is or your political persuasion. It doesn’t matter what race you are, but it will matter how you run the race.

And so friends it is time for me to reveal to you which commandment you are all breaking. And if there are any pastors listening, it’s time for you to listen up, because if you don’t make a decided change for the sake of your flock, they will be lost and their blood is on you.

God is calling His people out of Babylon, that means out of confusion, and that call is given in Revelation 18:1-5 “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”  

I’m not going to beat around the bush here as I am going to identify the religious power that has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Friends, this religious power is the same little horn power of Daniel 7, it’s the same man of sin and son of perdition in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, it’s the antichrist of 1 John chapters 2&4 and 2 John, it’s the first beast power of Revelation 13, it’s the Babylon of Revelation 14, 16, 17 & 18 and its the same Great Whore, the mother of harlots in Revelation 17, and that power is the head of the Roman Catholic church, it’s unmistakably the Papacy.

	I’m not teaching something new. The reformers all taught that the Papacy is the antichrist power. You must understand that antichrist in the spiritual realm does not mean against Christ. Rather antichrist means in place of Christ. It is a man who is called God on earth, one who calls himself the vicar of Christ. In the coming weeks we will identify this power as the beast power of Daniel 7 and the first beast power of Revelation 13. In both cases we will show with 12 points of identification, that it is the power that is the beast that is the source of the mark. The second beast of Revelation 13 shall form an image to the beast and enforce the mark of the beast. 

Now friends, I’m not talking about the Roman Catholic Church members, as there are over a billion of them throughout the world and many of them are sincere worshippers who love the Lord and many will come out of Babylon and join God’s remnant believers before the end. No I am talking about the antichrist power, the Papacy that deceives the whole world. She has almost all non-Catholic Christians deceived and I am going to prove it in the weeks ahead. Nothing you will see or hear will be as important to your salvation as these programs today and in the weeks ahead. And I pray that God has many Pastors listening, as they need to make decided changes before the time of probation ends for this generation.
	Friends, Satan Hates God, he hates God’s law, and he especially hates God’s seventh-day Sabbath. So God’s seventh-day Sabbath became the special target that Satan set out to do away with. Has he been successful? He certainly has, as almost all the Christian world keeps Sunday as a day of worship, and there is nothing holy about it. God never blessed it. He never made it holy. And He never changed His day that He did bless and make holy. Listen, Jesus as the Creator made the Sabbath on the seventh day of creation. And He did three things. He rested, He blessed that day and He sanctified it or set it apart for holy use. 

On Mt. Sinai, Jesus wrote the words of the 4th commandment in stone, and He said Remember the Sabbath day, because He knew the time would come when an antichrist religious power was going to change the seventh-day Sabbath of God, into a tradition of worshipping on the first day of the week, Sunday, a carryover from paganism.

When Jesus was here as a man, He had kept over 1700 seventh day Sabbaths holy, and He said not one jot or title would pass from the law till the heavens are no more.

Friends the papacy is the beast power of Revelation and scripture says it gets its power from Satan himself. They changed the Sabbath in the 4th century after Christ and they boast about having changed it. They claim that changing God’s seventh day Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday is a mark of her ecclesiastical power, and that the Papacy can overrule God. Are you listening? I will prove it all.

Sunday worship is what Satan set out to accomplish and he has done a masterful job. People not only keep Sunday holy, they defend it. But no one can find anything in the Bible that shows God approved the change. I will give $5,000 to anyone who can prove, with the King James Version of the Bible, that the change, from the seventh-day Sabbath, to Sunday, was approved by God. It’s not in the Bible. Sunday is the mark of the beast and in subsequent programs I will prove it with scriptures.
 
But first let me read you this warning from God’s word about receiving the mark of the beast. It is the most fearful warning in all the Bible and is found in Revelation 14:9-11 “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, 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: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”

Listen to me now, as time is running out on this final generation. The warning is if you receive the mark in your forehead or your hand, you will be lost and you will suffer the wrath of God as poured out in the seven last plagues. The mark in the forehead is not a literal mark, rather the forehead is where your frontal lobes of your brain is, in your forehead. This is where you think and reason, it’s where your belief system is established. If you embrace Sunday, you will have the mark of the beast in your forehead. If you embrace God’s seal, which is His seventh day Sabbath, you will receive God’s seal in your forehead.

Time is up for this week, so be listening to Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts next Sunday at 8:45 am. Tell your friends to listen in.

God bless you friends and study your Bibles daily,

Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Even so, Come Lord Jesus.