Tattoos are an ancient tradition of pagan initiation rites. The
tattoo bonds the initiate with the entity symbolized by the tattoo and enables
him to communicate with that demonic power. The meaning and function of
tattoos in initiation rites are explained in Jean Chevalier’s
Dictionary of Symbols, which defines the tattoo as
“the permanent mark of that
initiation.”
“In some pictures of a tattooed man
we are faced by a permanent prayer to and identification with the heavenly
powers, at the same time as a basic means of communication with them. Such is
the most generalized meaning of tattooing bestowed in consequence of a rite of
initiation which allows this communication to take place. At the same time,
this initiation is a rite of admission into a social group and the tattoo is
the permanent mark of that initiation, the badge of the tribe.
“All in all, tattooing belongs among
symbols of identification and is interfused with all their magic and mystic
potency. Identification always carries a double meaning: it tends to invest
the individual concerned with the properties and strength of the creature or
thing to which that person is assimilated and, at the same time, to immunize
the latter against its potential power to cause harm. This is why tattoos
depict dangerous creatures such as serpents or scorpions, or animals which are
symbols of fertility, such as bulls or of power, such as lions, and so on.
Identification also carries a sense of surrender or even of consecration to
whatever the tattoo symbolically depicts. It then becomes a badge of fealty.”
(pp. 975-976)
Like a
wedding band which symbolizes the indissoluble union of a man and woman, the
initiate’s
tattoo
“becomes a badge of fealty”
to the
“creature or thing to which that
person is assimilated.”
Since Lucifer aspires to be
“like God,”
in his pride he will enter into a union with his devotees in a
Sacred Marriage
Ritual—a Satanic counterfeit of the Marriage of
the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, to His Bride, the Church (Revelation 19:4).
John MacArthur has assured his people that they may take the
false mark of the Beast during the Tribulation period, but he is also
setting them up to receive the real mark of the Beast. During
the first half of the Tribulation there will be a counterfeit Church and many
counterfeits
of end-time prophetic characters and events: a
counterfeit Antichrist, a counterfeit False Prophet, and a
counterfeit Mark of the Beast, to name a few. To understand the stages of this
very sophisticated end-time deception, please see our expose of Satan’s
Tribulation counterfeits:
HEEDING
BIBLE PROPHECY
Understanding Satan’s
Plan to Counterfeit
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ & Restoration of All Things
Christians have
been misled to believe that the mark of the Beast will be the microchip
implant. When this counterfeit mark arrives on the world scene, multitudes
will choose to starve to death rather than receive it; which will save the
perpetrators of the global conspiracy the trouble and expense of exterminating
them by other means.
Many church members, however, will
take the chip implant with the idea of repenting later, since popular
ministers like John MacArthur have assured them it is possible to still be
saved. These church members will then be told that genuine repentance
requires receiving the “Seal of Solomon” or “Star of David” on their right
hand or forehead. By means of this deception, the real mark of the Beast
will be willingly received during initiation ceremonies performed in churches
as well as synagogues, temples, mosques, shrines, groves and other sacred
sites and places of worship.
Theosophist Alice Bailey disclosed in her 1957 book, Externalisation of the
Hierarchy, that the Church and the Masonic Fraternity will be centers for
initiations into the Mystery religion of the false Christ.
“In
the esoteric group...found in all exoteric occult groups, in the church,
by whatever name it may be called, and in Masonry you have the three paths
leading to initiation. As yet they are not used, and one of the things that
will eventuate—when the new universal religion has sway and the nature of
esotericism is understood—will be the utilisation of the banded esoteric
organisms,
the Masonic organism and the Church organism as initiating centres...
“The Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of
the Church and the Masonic Fraternity... When the Great One
comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have...the restoration of the
Mysteries and their exoteric presentation, as a consequence of the first
initiation... the Christ...is the Hierophant of the first and second
initiations and He will, if the preparatory work is faithfully and well done,
administer the first initiation in the inner sanctuaries of those two bodies.”
(Externalisation
of the Hierarchy) 1.
A more recent book
by Lee Penn, False Dawn: The United Religions Organization,
Globalism and the Quest for a One World Religion (2005), reveals that
Wiccans and Druids already participate in a “Mark of the Beast”
ritual:
“The public face of Wicca seems benign. The reality is otherwise. Each
February in San Francisco, the neo-pagan Ancient Ways bookstore hosts a 3-day
‘PantheaCon’
convention for witches which is increasingly well attended (more than 1,200 in
2000, double the 1999 attendance). The convention offers workshops that
include a full range of ways to explore sacred sex, holy drug use, occultism,
and black magic...
“The
2004 PantheaCon offered more of the same—or worse: ‘Chaos Magic Within the
Hypnosis Paradigm,’
the ‘Ritual of the Mark of the Beast’
(a group performance of Aleister Crowley’s
ritual...designed to invoke the energies of the Aeon
of Horus’),
‘Kali Maa: Tradition, Devotion, and Puja,’
a Gnostic Mass presented by the Ordo Templi Orientalis, ‘Understanding
Aleister Crowley’s
Thoth Tarot,’
‘Teonanacatl—The Visionary Mushroom Transforming Global Culture,’
‘Nuit—The Limitless Goddess,’
and a participatory ‘Druid Underworld Ritual.’”
(False
Dawn, pp. 143-144)
“THE STRONG DELUSION”
Phil Johnson of Grace To You defends John MacArthur’s
false teaching by portraying those who received the mark as merely naive
victims of deception:
“Revelation
19:20 indicates that multitudes will take the mark of the Beast because they
are deceived. Scripture does not say that they are thereby
automatically hardened forever against repentance. That is not the point of
the strong warnings.”
(Unforgivable?)
On the contrary,
Scripture does say that those who worship the Beast and receive his mark will be
hardened forever against repentance. For there is a progression toward
committing these abominations which is chronicled in the book of
Revelation. Consider the fact that following the devastating 7 Seal
judgments and 6 Trumpet judgments there is a remarkable lack of repentance on
earth:
“And
the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not
of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils and idols
of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can
see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of
their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” Rev. 9:20
Even the severe
judgments of the Tribulation, which God sends to bring men to repentance, will not persuade
hardened sinners to repent of their idolatry, sorceries, fornication, murders
and thefts. Therefore, because they “believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness,” God Himself will send them a “strong
delusion”:
“And
then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thess. 2:8-12
This idolatrous multitude will have had ample opportunity to repent, but will defiantly
refuse and instead blame God for their suffering. Revelation 16 states that those who receive the Mark
of the Beast have hardened their hearts to the point of blaspheming
God:
Revelation 16
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go
your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first
went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and
grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them
which worshipped his image…
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God,
which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give
him glory.
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and
his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their
sores, and repented not of their deeds.
The Tribulation period
will not be the first time in history that God has extended mercy to
transgressors
who defiantly refused to repent. Other familiar passages in Scripture record
God graciously striving with men who hardened their hearts and were given over
to a reprobate, delusional mind incapable of
repentance:
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh:… And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and
it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I
have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have
made them.” Genesis 6:3-7
“And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would
he let the people go...
“And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were
ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his
servants.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew
these my signs before him:.. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart,
so that he would not let the children of Israel go... But the LORD
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.” Exodus 8:32;
9:34; 10:1, 20, 27
“…Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring
their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake,
they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in
which I delighted not.” Isaiah 66:3-4
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
malignity...” Romans 1:28-29
John MacArthur has assured those who take
the counterfeit mark of the Beast that they may still be redeemed. However, those
who receive the real mark of the Beast will do so because God himself has
sent them a strong delusion, so they will believe a lie and be
damned. “Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul
delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions.” Isaiah
66:3-4
The strong delusion of the Tribulation
period will be the same lie the
serpent told Adam and Eve, that eating of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil would not cause them to die but make them omniscient like God:
“And the serpent
said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”
Genesis 3:4-5
There
are strong parallels between Satan’s
lie, that eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
makes man divine, and John MacArthur’s
lie, that those who receive mark of the Beast may be redeemed. The following
insightful commentary from F. B. Hole’s
Creation and the Fall of Man explains Satan’s
strategy and also relates the serpent’s
lie to the strong delusion:
“We must carefully notice the way that the serpent went to
work. It will not only instruct but also forewarn us, for his wiles are
always similar. He aimed to undermine the creature’s
confidence in the Creator, labouring first and foremost to produce distrust
of God.
“He took three steps to accomplish this.
“The first was the questioning of Divine Revelation.
‘Yea, hath God said?’
were his words. He knew that if once the word of God were weakened in the
woman’s
mind a breach would be made in the walls of defence. Notice that he
misquoted the words in order to question it, ‘Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden?’
The woman corrected his misquotation but herself exaggerated the Divine
prohibition, adding the words, ‘neither shall ye touch it,’
to what God had said. This proved that the poison of doubt had begun to work
in her mind.
“Following up this initial advantage the serpent said,
‘Ye shall not surely die,’
thus denying the threatened penalty of ruin and death
and giving the lie direct to God. He represented God’s
judgment as being but an idle threat.
“Thus far the serpent had dealt in negatives, but now he
comes to a positive assertion and dangles before the woman’s
mind a tempting bait. ‘Ye shall be as gods,’
were the words by which he asserted deity for man as the result of
disobedience, and he insinuated that God knew that this would be the result
of their eating of the forbidden tree, and that the real reason why the
prohibition was given was that He desired to withhold from them this coveted
prize from motives of jealousy.
“Even the devil, however, does not trade in nothing but
lies. He added the words, ‘knowing good and evil’
(ver. 5), which was true as far as it went. He did not add that they would
only know both in finding themselves under the power of the evil and
without desire for the good. Facts partially stated often do efficient
service in an evil cause.
“These same three things are much in evidence in the false
religious systems of to-day. However varied they may appear if subjected to
only a surface inspection, a deeper analysis reveals that underneath they
all agree in
“(1) Questioning revelation, i.e. the Word of God
“(2) Denying ruin and death
“(3) Asserting deity for man.
“Putting the three together we have ‘the
lie’
to which probably reference is made in 2 Thessalonians 2:11.”
Like the serpent, John MacArthur has cast doubt on
the Word of God regarding the third angel’s warning
against receiving
the mark of the Beast:
“...if you’re
living in the Tribulation period, and you take this mark, in other words, you
identify with the beast’s
empire, will you still be able to be redeemed? And I think the answer to that
is yes. Yes!”
(John MacArthur)
“Yea
hath God said? ... If any man
worship the beast and his image,
and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand...he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone...for ever and ever.”
(Gen. 3:1; Rev.
14:9-11)
Like the serpent,
MacArthur denies that eternal ruin will be fate of those who receive the mark
of the Beast:
“So
I don’t
think the fact that someone takes that is a sentence to, to permanency...”
(John MacArthur)
“Yea
hath God said? ... he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone...for ever and
ever.” (Gen. 3:1; Rev.
14:11
Like the serpent, John MacArthur has set a trap for multitudes to believe the strong delusion,
that they will be redeemed if they worship the Beast and receive his mark. MacArthur
implied that the mark is a computer chip. Many will therefore take the
chip implant with the idea of repenting later. When the Antichrist comes to
power, at mid-Tribulation, they will be told that genuine repentance
requires receiving the “Seal of Solomon” or “Star of David” on their right
hand or forehead. By means of this deception, the real mark of the
Beast will be willingly received during initiation ceremonies performed in
churches as well as synagogues, temples, mosques, shrines, groves and other
sacred sites and places of worship. These deluded souls will be assured of
forgiveness if they receive the Seal of Solomon as the “Mark of Israel” or
“Mark of God.”
John MacArthur’s sleight of hand is setting up the
apostate Church to be double crossed during the Tribulation. Instead of
becoming gods, they will become slaves of the Antichrist and of Lucifer. (Rev. 18:13, “slaves,
and souls of men”) John MacArthur has, in fact, written a book which teaches that the Christian’s
relationship to God is one of abject slavery. This strange book is
largely based on the heretical and blasphemous teachings of anti-Christian
scholars whose own books portray God as an evil slave driver who abuses his
Christian slaves. The next four sections of this report are an in
depth analysis of John MacArthur’s
heretical book Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ.
PART 2
JOHN
MACARTHUR’S “SLAVE”
BOOK
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE MARK OF THE BEAST
JOHN MACARTHUR’S
“SLAVE”
BOOK
BASED ON HERETICAL SOURCES
CHRISTIAN SLAVERY?
FALLING AWAY FROM THE FAITH
JOHN MACARTHUR: FREEMASON
MACARTHUR’S
DRUID FESTIVAL
CAMP REGEN
MIND CONTROL
THE
WICKER MAN
THE
ONCE & FUTURE CLAN
THE BRITISH DRUIDS
EVANGELICAL DRUIDS
HISTORY OF THE DRUIDS
Footnotes:
1.
It is
probable that the
Luciferic initiation
will take place on a global scale during a counterfeit Christian feast, such
as
Christmas which is a Christianized
version of the pagan Saturnalia, the festival of Saturn.
“Thus
saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the
signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the
people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the
work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and
with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.”
Jeremiah 10:3-5
The
Christmas season would be ideal for the Luciferic initiation because nearly
everyone who has survived the global holocaust will be observing some form of
the pagan
Saturnalia Festival, a
commemoration of the pre-flood era, Atlantis, which was ruled
by the god Saturn.
“And
they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and
shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them
that dwelt on the earth.”
Rev. 11:10
2. The ‘Ritual of the Mark of the Beast’
which is performed at
the Wiccan PantheaCon in San Francisco is
designed to invoke the energies of the Aeon of Horus’,
the Sun-god who rises from the dead as the reincarnated Osiris during the
Saturnalia, which is the Christmas season.
