A all-consuming Sinister Enmity” is swiftly enveloping the globe, and at present, as a Christian young woman living in the most perilous time in history, I pondered while searching the Holy Scriptures for answers why it is I feel like a small benevolent cog in a gigantic fierce malevolent machine……I was always led back to the safe harbor of my First Love, and what a most dangerous love Jesus Christ had turned out to be, because if I hadn’t been through my own trails and tribulations. I would never had believed fives years later. My life was wonderfully routine.

Dressed in my usual fair for the office a classic tailored  dress or a matching tasteful pantsuit. I was disappointed my best friend Judy had to take a rain-check for lunch today. She had the sweetest freckled face, with red hair to exemplify her own fresh and airy disposition.

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I still made the most of my time by spending it with the ” Word” and made it a point to sit apart in a semi-crowded cafeteria. I forged on ahead to read what was considered the most controversial material of our day and times as it is written in the Book of Revelation 13:11-18, And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon and exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worshiped the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the would by the sword, and live.

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And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: An that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. let him that hath understanding, count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Grace be to You the Dear Reader, and welcome to the peradventure, a Biblical Tale of Biblical Proportions. A damsel living through the perilous journey of the ‘Last Days,’ prior to the Second Coming of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The character Lily, a young woman in her med-twenties, sees herself as a Modern Woman with a 13th Century Romantic  Heart, and she is not without experiencing the hardship of being falsely accused and at the mercy of an immoral government. Compounded by the heartache of a lost love.

Lily is at present head over heels in love and engaged to be married to a wonderful man, and for the first time in a long time. Lily can optimistically look to the future and anticipate good things are ahead.

Yet Lily at this same time is living in a world where Bible Prophecy is currently coming alive, and unavoidably so. A ‘Global Beast System’ is on the rise, and right along with it is a fundamentalist hatred toward the Bible Believing Christian. Our heroine as a Believer in the Bible ‘As It Is Written.’ Lily hopes for the best, but at the same time in doing so. Lily has no delusions of the impending dangers on the road up ahead.

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Credits

Holy Scriptures, King James Bible

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Dragon image by Despin Dimo, on Pexels

Candle image by Nanne Tiggelman , on Pixabay

song title Midnight Forest, music by Syuki Takahashi, on Pixabay

Blog Titled “Mark of the Beast” Original Posted Date 9 / 1 / 2023