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02-JUN-2016

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It's daft(and also invites judgements from other self-confessed Christians like a dog turd invites bluebottles)to get too concrete about number symbolism: it frequently is self-created and post-hoc in nature: ie, NOT intended by the artist, as (s)he is too stupid to have made symbolic connections apparent in his/her work, and so these are ascribed by the viewer or audience later.

This gives "depth" and "meaning" with hindsight to where there was none in the artist at the time of creating!

Count the saws: how many? 5? (pillars of this, baskets of that, number of loaves, number of 5 returned Samarian tribes under Assyria to North Galilee, 5 portico pillars at the pool). Suggestive of weakness, sickness, brokenness, and in need of being fixed.

6? Oh here we go. Look it up. Man's number, the world; tripled as 666 as it is a 3-dimensional net of 6... er, OK: 666 is a cubed and therefore spatial concept of a number that has no substance. The "mark of the beast" thus is merely the unbridled, 3-dimensionally and empirically outworked inclination of the heart that the mind and will has obeyed, rather than what is knows it should have obeyed (God).
That is, as with Cain, as with Ezekiel, as with Revelation: you're either marked by the Holy Spirit or you are marked for destruction by the spirit in the world...and it's YOU that does the behaviour and mental preparation to receive either mark.
That is, as you read this, you are already marked: you have had free will to accept either: whose mark is upon you, dear reader? The mark for salvation or destruction? This tips predestination into the sink somewhat, as if Calvinism needed any pushing. Your behaviour secures you the mark you receive: if you have known God, then reject Him, then you in free will exchange your "new" mark for your default one of destruction.

We're marked at birth: pre-selected legally by the enemy: how's that for predestination! When saved we receive the seal of the Holy Spirit.
Note that the whole nation of Israel were marked for salvation in Exodus, yet most became marked for destruction by the angel in Ezekiel: THEY WERE THE SAME PEOPLE AND THEY THREW AWAY THEIR SALVATION.
Read Romans 9 and decide REALLY if you think your own spiritual regeneration in Christ was valid then and persevering now. Cos if it wasn't, no amount of Bethel sozo or emergence will rescue you from the fur-lined shopping-trolley to hell that you born on. Presumably your church loves you scripturally enough to teach you these passages in context...?

Cos you are marked, either way, already: which is the whole point of the Body of Christ daring to say "repent, the kingdom of God is at hand" in the 1970s, yet also the reason why today instead, she practises divination (Bethel Sozo and its variants), channelling and NLP ("soaking") and secular humanism: a complete humanised unscriptural interpretation of Phillippians 2 which denies Christ's divinity and makes us "empowered" by our humanity raher than disempowered by the grace of God.
Sadly, "Christian" churches in Bath(and in the spirit of equality, in every town) push out much of the above, believing they are the trendy, emergent, new apostolic transformed uber-Christians awaiting a divine rescue before the pot to boil the frogs is even on the fire!

[Er, don't think so. No pre-trib rapture: read on to find out why, by the way.]

This is partly why these lovely Christians snarl like the wolves they have let in, if you even gently suggest we read our bibles with understanding and good teaching.

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