Rubik’s Cube, the New World Order, and the Mark of The Beast.

We have all heard the stories of subcutaneous transponders, global computer systems being designed for subjugating mankind into slavery, barcodes imprinted upon our foreheads or hands, all under secretive and demonic masters (or the 1%, per some sources).  We have shivered at the prospect of an antichrist raising the One World government to plunge the world into darkness, of torment, of Tribulation, and we fear of ending up in hell for eternity ourselves.

 I posit that these things are all only symptoms of something much greater, and much simpler, if you care to dig and think things through.

 The Biblical book known as “The Revelation of St. John the Divine” has terrified and mystified people for millennia.  If this one book doesn’t scare you into repentance and submission, nothing will, really.  Full of hard to understand imagery and concepts so fantastic, as to stagger the imagination, it is easy to understand how power-hungry and manipulative religions and individuals have used this to rise to power, creating fear among the poor and uneducated throughout history. 

 

…And yes, they still do.

 As I have stated repeatedly, and continue to state, I cannot prove anything, and only offer my thoughts for discussion.  It is up to you to engage or not, but I think you might find this entry as intriguing as I do.

You can do your own Bible-study with me, if you like.   The First thing to do is to gather your study materials; A Bible, a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (for the version of Bible you are using), perhaps several other versions of Bibles and Concordances.  NOTE:  You will hear that the “Direct Translation” versions are the King James, and the NIV.  This is a lie because there is no such thing as a direct translation, as many of the words are un-translatable from the original Hebrew and Aramaic texts.  Worse, many words, phrases, and passages, were deliberately mistranslated because they didn’t sit well with those doing the translating.

I use a KJV, and an NIV, my Strong’s, Lost books, Gnostic texts, and even the internet.  I have to admit that, because I am digging through the leavings of several millennia, and because no one from that time is alive now (that we know of) to corroborate or disprove that which has been rammed down our throats; all we can do is try to make sense of it all.

 So…  Let me start by explaining my technique, which I call the “Rubik’s Cube approach”.  This is Keyword searching, and laying out the correlating passages, to expose something.  This is where your Strong’s comes in, as passages are much easier to find when you know the words within the passage you seek. 

Here is where (and how) we start the argument.

We need to look at the BASIC questions; Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How. (Not necessarily in that order).

Let’s start with one of the most simple, and defining questions facing us:

Why are we here? 

Most Christians and Hindu understand the concept of being tested (or evolving, becoming enlightened) as the reason for mankind’s existence.  I agree with this train of thought.  However, without invoking God, or spirituality, one can simply look at our Form, which follows function.  Physically, we are here to procreate and beget life.  As the highest order of intelligence on our planet (Yes, some will debate this), we have the added responsibility to safeguard and manage the world, not only for the other life forms, but also for ourselves.  Many would agree that we’ve done a very poor job so far, and those who have lined their pockets at the expense of God’s creation, highlight my FIRST premise:

Matthew 6:24-  “No one can serve two masters.  Either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one, and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and Money.”

 This defines the game as choosing a side, either choosing God, or his enemy, Money.  Now we know What the game is, and Who the players are.

Now, let’s define the “Mark of the Beast”:

What is a mark?  The first mention is in Genesis, after Cain slew Abel.

Genesis 4:15-  “…Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him”

It is an identifier.

The Beast:  (Keywords in Red, Comments in Blue)

Revelation 13:1- “And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.  And I saw a beast coming out of the sea.  (I suspect this refers to the passage where “the waters are the people, languages and nations of the earth”, and that this beast arises as a byproduct of human society, perhaps our economy?) He had ten horns (Hard growths deriving sustenance from the system) and seven heads (Perhaps 7 countries or even continents?), with ten crowns on his horns (Some think this to be the ruling banking families, which includes the Rockefellers), and on each head a blasphemous name. 

2) The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. (Hosea 13:4-8: “…So I will come upon them like a lion, like a leopard I will lurk by the path.  Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open.  Like a lion I will devour them; a wild animal will tear them apart.”) The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. (I find this very interesting as we see Satan clearly identified as the dragon, which is God’s enemy, and money competes with God as a “Master” over people.)

3) One of the heads of the beast seemed to have a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed.  The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.  (I’m making a leap here, but I suspect this refers to the American stock market collapse of 1929, and how we rebuilt, and now have led the world into capitalism.  FDR removed the US from the Gold Standard in 1933 and Bretton Woods was a collusive venture on a global scale.) http://useconomy.about.com/od/monetarypolicy/p/Bretton-Woods-International-Monetary-System-And-1944-Agreement.htm

“The Bretton Woods system was a remarkable achievement of global coordination. It established the U.S. dollar as the global currency, taking the world off of the gold standard. It created the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the two global organizations to help monitor the new system. In effect, since the U.S. was the only country with the ability to print dollars, it established America as the major power behind these two organizations, and the global economy.”

4) Men worshipped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshipped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast?  Who can make war against him?” (See Keynesian economic theory, how tying all the world’s economies together makes it impossible for any country to attack the US, without facing economic suicide in the attempt.)
5) The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. (3 ½ years or “half a time”)

6) He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 

7) He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them.  And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 

8) All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast- all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
9) He who has an ear, let him hear. 

10) If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go.  If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed.  This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.  (Basically, this is unstoppable and all we can do is to endure)

11) Then I saw another beast coming out of the earth.  He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. (Has the trappings of gentleness, respectability and piety, but speaks and acts boldly)

12) He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 

13) And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 

14) Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth.  He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. (Perhaps this refers to currency which represents Gold?)

15) He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.  (Ever heard the saying “Money talks”?)

16) He also forced everyone small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, (Genesis 48:17-18-  The Right hand being the hand of blessing which was placed on the forehead of the one being blessed.  Exodus 15:6- regarding deliverance of Israel from bondage in Egypt “Your right hand, O Lord, was majestic in power.  Your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.”  Isaiah 41:10- “… I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”  Putting marks in these places would clearly then be done as an insult to God.)

17) so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. (See below)
18) This calls for wisdom.  If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is a man’s number.  His number is 666.  (This is what drives the entire argument home for me.  Wisdom and Insight seem to point to Solomon, then you find there is only one other place in the Bible where 666 is mentioned.  See 1Kings 10:14- “The weight of the Gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,” 

“A man’s number” also screams salary to me.  Do we not judge each other by how much money we make?  Do we not look up to those who have vast wealth, or down upon those who make less than we do?  I strongly believe that all of this validates all my previous comments.)

 

So, it kind of looks like the conspiracy theorists could well be right.  We see the United Nations and the IMF and the World Bank driving Bush’s “New World Order”, sovereign nations bowing to demands in order to receive financial assistance, we see Keynes’s plan coming to fruition, and we see the rise of fascism threatening to return people into slavery, albeit by a different vehicle, and without bloodshed.  This is not the world I grew up in, and I do not like where we find ourselves now.

The only way to stop this, in my opinion, is revolution.  No, I am NOT advocating violence or war, not unless it is the very LAST resort.  

It seems far simpler to me that people could identify the sources of production and stop using common currencies, which are regulated by banks, but it would require a unified act of rebellion, by all the people around the world.  Barter, and other systems of exchange, could remove the threat of enslavement and abject poverty, by removing the power that these people, governments, and corporations control.

Smart decisions about what you buy and whom you buy it from, is the best first action I can think of to recommend.