I started reading through this topic, and in the OP, @messianicman1986 asks us to watch “The only video IN THE WORLD identifying the mark of the beast as money”. The included video (part 6 of 10, btw) uses the phrase “Decyphering Revelation” in the subtitle. When I read that, I knew already that I was in for a ride. The irony of the phrase “Decyphering Revelation” informed me of what genre of “teaching” I was about to expose myself to,because “decyphering” infers we are dealing with an esoteric incoded message and “revelation” (“apocalypse”) infers an “unveiling”, or a message that clears things up for the reader. The juxtaposition of these two opposites actually brought a chuckle to my heart.
This is the only point I am hoping to interject into this discussion. God gave mankind His “Revelation” (not just the book by that name, but God reveals unseen reality to us in multiple ways (see Hebrews 1:1-4)). That means, by definition, God is clearing up ideas about reality that we can not percieve with our five senses. He is openly exposing parts of the unseen world. “Revelation” means He is not playing games by hiding the unsen reality behind some encoded message that must be decyphered by illuminati, code breakers, shamen, or priests. God is graceously showing the common man something (not everything) of unseen reality, then God enbles His ecclesia to accept what He says (faith).
My advice, when encountering God’s Revelation, expect God to accomplish that intended enlightening in you. He is very capabable of helping you to know what He wants you to know, and has no reason to say it in secret code. If God says it, you can accept it, by faith. The rest, may our “hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Colossians 2:2-3
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