And he causeth all...

Revelation

{13:16}And he causeth all...

All, not just a few, not many, not some, not a million, but all, all.

Dict.

all

all (ôl) adjective
1. Being or representing the entire or total number, amount, or quantity:
2. Constituting, being, or representing the total extent or the whole: all Christendom.
3. Being the utmost possible of: argued the case in all seriousness.
4. Every: got into all manner of trouble.
5. Any whatsoever: beyond all doubt.
Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary

He causeth ALL.
He causes the ENTIRE human race.
He causes EVERY human.

ALL both small and great.

Small- little ones.
Great- large ones.

Children and adults.

ALL rich and poor.

Rich- wealthy, well-to-do.
Poor- not wealthy, not rich.

We ALL fall somewhere inbetween these two- Rich and Poor.

All free and bond.

Free- people from a democratic society.
Bond- people in a dictatorship.
Free- people not enslaved by any other human.
Bond- people enslaved by others.

Again, we all fall somewhere in between these two extremes.

All.

Is there a doubt that ALL human beings are being accounted for in this statement?


{13:16}And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond...

All.

No doubt that everyone in the world is being accounted for in this statement.

Let's not leave anyone out, let's make sure everyone is accounted for. Young, old, small, great, rich, poor, free, or bond. You fall in there don't you? You're part of the all. I'm part of the all. I'm in between all those examples. We all are.

What is HE going to cause ALL beyond a doubt to do?

{13:16}...to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads

With ALL the seemingly countless numbers of people in this world from the movie stars in California, to the poorest street urchin in Africa, to the most prominent figure that can scarcely get a single moment of privacy to the least prominent person in the remotest part of the world, all will receive a mark.

How would that even be possible? How, seriously? What sort of system could ever mark all, even those who do not rely on outside help to survive. Those who have their own source of water, their own source of farm land, those who need no electricity, no telephones, no cars how will these people be marked?

To be a *real* mark we do mean a tattoo, or a brand, or a chip implant, or some other physical mark, right?

How then? In lands so remote that they have little to do with the world as we know it how will these people be marked?

All.

Remember that word, all?

All are going to receive this mark or...what's the exception to all? Can you refuse to be part of the All? Can you refuse to be part of the collective whole?

Yes, you can but there will be consequences for not becoming part of the collective whole, for not being part of all, for being a dissenter. If you don't get the mark whether literally or figuratively, and by figuratively I mean you can be marked by your beliefs.

What? Marked by our beliefs?

Yes you can be marked by your beliefs. You can be marked by your actions. You know you can. You can watch a person for a bit and say, 'He has the mark of a very meticulous man.' What do you mean by that? Surely he's not walking about with a mark only meticulous people receive, the meticulous mark. What is meant clearly is the fact by that man's actions he has marked himself to be someone who is meticulous. This holds true for all sorts of *people*, slothful, exacting, rigid, careless, the list is really endless. We can see someone for a little bit and label them according to our opinions of their behavior, their dress, their mannerisms all of this, will be right though? That's unknown from first glance in most cases, but study a person for a period of time and you'll be able to say that this or that person has the mark of a *supply adjective* man.

People can be marked by their actions. If a person goes to church they're marked by that action as being a church go-er. If they go to a bar then they're a bar patron. The beast that will cause all to be marked will do so in such a way that those NOT marked will not be able to buy or sell anything. Read this...

{13:17} And 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. {13:18} 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.

Unless they have the mark OR the name of the beast OR the number of his name.

Obviously the mark is attainable in more ways than one. The mark, the name, or the number. This mark, this name, this number will come from the beast, it will mark those that have the mark as his. They will be marked by their actions.

Think about it, in Germany during the Holocaust people were marked- the Jews had to wear stars on their clothing to label them as Jews. This wasn't that long ago, not really, 65 or so years ago. Forced to wear something that marked them. Those that weren't marked were labeled instantly and known to be non-Jews. The labeling, the marking went both ways really. Here to it will go both ways. The marked and the unmarked. Those who follow after the beast will be marked in some way so they will be able to buy and sell, they'll have his mark, his name, or the number of his name. In some manner people will be known to be the beasts. We can speculate what that mark might be, we can come up with all sorts of ideas on the situation. There have been movies made where *the beast* himself as an anti-Christ has a literally birth mark of six, six, six. Other moves have many people having this mark. Even in real life there is a group of fanatics sporting tattoos of 666. Certainly for something that ALL will receive it will have to be something that labels a person. If you think about it, even confessing the beast's name is marking you. Remember the 'Heil Hitler' and the salute? Those words marked people didn't they? Supporters of Hitler. No, Hitler wasn't THE beast, but it goes to show you again how a name can label you. Refusal to say the name in such a way as to show support, refusal to wear anything that might mark you as his, refusal to be labeled under the beast's banner will keep people from doing business with you. They won't sell you anything and they won't let you sell them anything. This on a much smaller scale was enacted already during World War II, in Germany under Hitler, an example of things to come. We say no way! We've learned from our mistake, nothing like that will ever happen again. Watch, you'll see. We don't like to believe it can happen but it will and in such a way *ALL* will be compelled to take part. ALL but very few. It won't be blatant, stand up and receive the beast's mark, no, in fact most everyone will believe they're following the right way, the good way, the best way. Deception.

Deception. Deceived.

Proverbs {14:12} There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Don't be deceived!

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{14:9} 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
{14:10} 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
{14:11} 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.
{14:12} Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
{14:13} And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

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One precaution you can take perhaps as you open your Bible and study earnestly, praying for enlightenment, for guidance from the Holy Spirit, is to hold those words close to your heart. Know that the beast will seem like a *GOOD* thing and the *GOOD* thing will have almost everyone deceived. If you jump into any situation to follow the crowd and the seeming good I hope and pray that before it's too late you won't receive the mark of a follower of the beast.

Matthew {24:24} For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

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Shall show GREAT signs and wonders! Beware! Beware of any that show great signs and wonders! These messengers of Satan will deceive almost everyone, all but the very elect! BEWARE! Don't be fooled! To God's Word and His Word only we must cling.


Mark
{13:20} And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
{13:21} And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here [is] Christ; or, lo, [he is] there; believe [him] not:
{13:22} For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] possible, even the elect.
{13:23} But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

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Romans
{8:31} What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?
{8:32} He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
{8:33} Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? [It is] God that justifieth.
{8:34} Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
{8:35} Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
{8:36} As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
{8:37} Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
{8:38} For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come
{8:39} Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

AMEN!