I read from an old book and decided to share. Reading this helped me understand a truth. When people work for the love of money instead of for love of their fellow man, evil flourishes. The prophecy of the mark of the beast involves money. People will even forfeit their salvation in order to continue to buy or sell. If they only knew that the Lord could provide for all their needs! But most today do not believe in a loving God who provides for everything. Instead, they put their trust in money.
Ever heard the saying,
Money talks?
The following is from: SPIRITISM IN THE BIBLE AND CHURCH - Franz Schumi
The Soothsayer, or interpreter of signs
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John writes (Rev 13): And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke as a dragon. Two horns mean the love of the manufacturers for themselves and for their workers, and talking like a dragon-spirit, means the great power of capital, under which all things must bow.
263.
He also exercised all the authority of the first beast before his eyes, and caused the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
264.
Meaning: The first beast means the scholarly world, which also conducts the leading language of the state; thus the rule of capital connected itself with the scholarly world and the artists helped them out of their inferiority through capital to power and dominion, in that these two great factors of the state reached out their hand to exploit all power and dominion in the state. Therefore, the whole people, including the working class, came under their ruling power.
265.
It does great signs, so that it even makes fire come down from heaven before the eyes of men.
Meaning: He does great signs of disaster, even such that he destroys all the love of men for God and thus makes the people godless.
And it deceives the inhabitants of the earth by the miraculous signs which it is permitted to do before the beast, and it tells the inhabitants of the earth to make an image to the beast which had the wound of the sword and had come to life.
Meaning: And blinds the people by the power of the development of capital in such a way that the people regard industry as their nourishing god, although it inflicted on them a wound like a sword and yet was brought to life by the working participation of the people.
266.
And it was given to him that he should give the Spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should speak, and make those who did not worship the image of the beast, to be killed.
Meaning: And it happened that the industry grew in power and began to rule, so that the poor people were forced to lend their labour to the capital rulers if they did not want to starve and suffer.
267.
And it makes that all, small and great, rich and poor, free and servant, wear the sign on their right hand or on their foreheads.
Meaning: And industry makes everyone, small and large, rich and poor, free and servant, wear the sign on their right hand, that they are capable workers, craftsmen, artists, mechanics, or wear the badge on their foreheads, that they are officials, scholars, or otherwise educated people who have or earn a secure living.
This explanation had to precede in order to make you understand who the interpreters of the signs are today: It is the parents who, when a man is courting their daughter, ask: What is he, what can he do, what position does he hold in the factory, in the office, at school, in the shop, etc.? These signs are used to research and interpret whether one should and can give him the daughter.
Once the scales of love tipped, now the signs of the right hand or the learned or scientific education, is the sign on the forehead. Yes, it has come to the point that nowadays nobody can and will acquire or give away a daughter, unless the identity and the name of the family are proven, or one's status, or ability to provide bread, or one's office.
