“Makes the earth and its inhabitants WORSHIP the first beast…”
In Romans 12 St. Paul defines spiritual worship as a presentation of our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Worship thus is an offering of one’s body. It’s kind of hard to read this and not think of the 100’s of millions of people who have offered their bodies in order to get the vaccine (hereinafter referred to as “quaxx”). Are these folks worshiping, in Biblical language, a Beast?
I mean without the current mark (quaxx) of the statist beast it is being hinted at from some quarters we will not be able to buy or sell (Rev. 13:17). Could not the quaxx be seen as a sign from heaven (Rev. 13:13) working widespread deception? I think that is quite believable.
Now, I don’t believe we are living in the tribulation. Indeed, being a Partial Preterist, I think the Tribulation the Scripture refers to is passed. However, that does not, therefore, mean that I refuse to see any linkage with that past statist Beast (Nero) and future (to Nero) statist Beasts that would arise. I think we can learn a great deal about the nature of Beastly statism by understanding how it was that Nero was the Beast.
We are living, again, in times where marks (in this case the vaccine) are being required and some of us might see the quaxx as akin to the original mark of the Beast brought in by Nero. The Mark of the Beast was to the end of worshiping that which was contrary to worshiping God. In the book of Revelation, I identify the beast as the tyrant state, embodied in Nero and as in league with anti-Christ religion. The Mark of the beast served as a way to make people bow to the Roman State. Elsewhere in scripture, we find God marking His people (Ezekiel 9, Revelation 9) as belonging to him. So, yes, I see the reception of the quaxx as a receiving of a mark of our current Statist tyrant beast — a mark that may well circumspect those who refuse the quaxx in their commerce.
Now, this is NOT to say that Pastor Bret believes if you got the quaxx or get the quaxx you have the mark of the beast and so are going to hell. I don’t necessarily believe that is always the case. What it does mean is that Pastor Bret does think if you’ve gotten the quaxx you may not have thought this thing out as well as you might have. I do think that in getting the quaxx you are bearing the mark of our current beast and that getting the quaxx is an act of worship and communicates that the recipients of the quaxx are acolytes (whether epistemologically self-conscious or not) of the God-state beast.
