So I was watching "Hansen vs Predator" which is today's version of "Catch a Predator", and one thing I noticed was that in "Catch the Predator" the police would almost always yell "get on the ground" in a real graphic manner while in "Hansen versus Predator" they calmly say to get in the car. This just goes to show that police gets more and more humane as time goes on. This makes it really hard to imagine how those scenarios where police would torture and behead people for not taking the mark of the beast can possibly happen. In fact, even more obvious reason why it can't happen is that there are courts of law to be followed. So, ask any law student: how would modern day courts legally sentence someone for beheading for refusal to take the mark? I just don't see it happening.
This, however, does NOT invalidate biblical prophecy. You have to just read it more carefully. Bible never says people would be beheaded FOR refusal to take a mark. Rather it makes two SEPARATE statements at two SEPARATE chapters:
a) There are souls of people who are beheaded for the testimony of Jesus
b) People who refuse to take the mark wouldn't be allowed to buy and sell
The common assumption that is being made is that "a" and "b" refers to the same group of people. But it doesn't have to! It is entirely possible that "a" refers to Christian martyrs from the distant past, while "b" refers to the people in the future. Remember: "a" talks about SOULS of people that are beheaded. Since the SOUL is eternal, the SOULS of people that were killed back in the first century are still there somewhere -- so those SOULS is what "a" talks about. Meanwhile, here on earth, there will be people who would be stopped from buying and selling (part b), but no, those people will NOT be beheaded: these are two completely separate groups of people.
By the way, my observation about police getting so humane is part of the reason why buying and selling would be more than enough to get people to take the mark. You see, people are getting more and more spoiled. And when you are dealing with someone spoiled, you don't have to threaten them with death: just take away some of their comforts and you get them to do what you want.
Also if you ask me "well, if you think beheading is unrealistic, what makes you think buying and selling is realistic", the answer is pretty simple actually. If you look at the current events, you will find for example that you wouldn't be allowed to fly planes without taking "real ID" by a certain time next year. Would we have imagined it a decade earlier? No. But today it became a reality. So who is to tell that something else that we can't imagine today won't become a reality a couple of decades from now? If today you need real ID to board a plane, maybe a couple of decades from now you will need a chip implanted into your skin to buy and sell.
Now, I am not saying that buying and selling thing WILL take place in, say, 20 years from now. It might take a lot longer, who knows. But the point is that things are heading in that direction. In big contrast to that, no things are not heading in a beheading direction. The direction things are heading into is that
1. Everything is a lot more humane
2. You need more and more identity verification in order to be able to DO stuff
That would fit together with a scenario where you are stopped from buying and selling in some really super-humane way, and left alone to starve peacefully. At least thats what it seems like.
27 Oct 2019, 2:47 am
