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REVELATION 13 STUDIES By Nyron Medina

c-The item that is enforced is the Mark of the Beast, although the name and number of the beast is also exalted. Rev 13: 16, 17.
i) The mark of the beast is exalted for people to accept. Rev 13: 16.
ii) The name of the beast which points to the chief office in the beast is thus accepted in connection with the mark, for this office is also exalted rev 13:17.
iii) The number of the beast is the number of his name, and this number is 666. Since the name of the beast-his chief office- is exalted, then so is the number exalted. But it merely identifies the name of the chief office. Rev 13: 17
d) What is so evil about the mark of the beast?
i) Accepting it causes worship to the beast. Rev 13:12.
ii) Accepting it causes worship to the image of the beast. Rev 13: 15.
iii) Accepting it causing, most of all, the worship of the dragon-Satan. Rev 13:4.
e) It is specific. It is God alone that should be worshipped. Matt 4: 10. 
11) Thus the real issue in the latter days, the final issue is about worship.
a) To worship the beast is to worship the name of the beast. This means to accept the name or antichrist office that heads the beast. Rev 13: 12, 17.
b) To accept the name or antichrist office that heads the beast is to worship the name or antichrist office that heads the beast; this causes the person to worship the dragon or devil that is behind the beast. Rev 13:4.
c) Worshipping the dragon is exalting Lucifer to be God with God. (Isa 14: 12-14, Eze. 28:1, 2).
12) The messages that are to be preached to deal with the issues of Revelation chapter 13 are the following:
a) The third angel’s message threatening the plagues and hellfire for the worshipers of the beast and his image. Rev 14: 8-12.
b) This message tells us that those who resist the beast and his image keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. Rev 14:12.
c) The fourth angel’s message denouncing false religion and urging people to come out of false religion to escape the seven last plagues. Rev 18: 1-4.
13) The issue of “worship” in Rev 13 relates to the “commandments of God” in Rev 14. Those who refuse the worship of the beast and his image, worship God according to the Commandments of God.
a) Worshipping God according to the Law of God is having no other gods before God. Ex 20:3.
b) It is not creating false-gods images in the mind and thus not worshipping or serving them. Ex 20:4, 5.
c) It is not taking YHWH’s name in vain. Ex 20:7.
d) This means that a person must exalt YHWH as the true God alone while downgrading all idols. Isa 42: 8.
e) The best way to downgrade all idols while exalting God to be God alone is by presenting the messages in the Sabbath that exalts God to be God alone. They are:
i) YHWH is the Creator hence He is God alone. Ex 20: 11
ii) YHWH has the Right to command obedience as is seen in His call to remember the Sabbath day and how to keep it. Ex 20: 8-10.
iii) By commanding the seventh day, a day on which YHWH Himself rested to show that His completed creation was very good on the sixth day; YHWH shows that He is perfect hence God alone. Ex 20: 9, 10, 11. (Gen 1: 31, Gen 2: 1-3) 
f) Thus by showing the following truths from the seventh-day Sabbath, YHWH shows that He is God alone.
i) YHWH is the Creator.
ii) YHWH has the Right to command obedience
iii) YHWH is perfect.

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