The key to understanding anything in Revelation is to see a pattern in the Old Testament that is undeniably similar, and to determine what the typology between it and New testament teachings are, such as the Passover lamb being the type of Jesus when we see the passover lamb in
Revelation 5:6.
First, we must recognize there is such a perfect pattern between the name of God on the foreheads of the 144,000 in
Rev 14:1 and the placement of God's Law on the forehead and hand in
Deut 6. The name of God on the forehead in
Rev 14:1 corresponds to the Law of God on the forehead in the Exodus. And just as the people of God backslid just when God was ready to give them the Law, and worshiped the image of the beast in the form of the golden calf, we see satan's responding similarly to the name of God on the forehead by issuing his own mark for the forehead and hand.
In order to determine the nature of the mark of the beast, therefore, we have to learn the nature of the worship of the beast in the form of the golden calf and compare it to the reception of God's law from the hand of Moses. That will help us contrast the name of God in the forehead from the mark of the beast in the forehead in
Rev 13-14.
The bible interprets itself in this fashion. Unless we utilize THIS KEY to reading Revelation, we will be a million miles off target.
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