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HopeSS: God’s Seal or the Beast’s Mark? — 8 Comments

1. To God be the glory. My Students are enjoying singing your songs. The priesthood song is their favorite one.

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2. Your discussions are awesome but please i want you to send me daily summary of the lesson. Thank you.

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   • Hope Sabbath School does not send out "daily summary of the lesson."
     However, you may subscribe to have daily lessons emailed to you at https://ssnet.org/email-lists/feed-options-email/. There you may choose the timing that best suits the time zone where you live.

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3. The Question is “Are we sealed in our foreheads or on our foreheads”?
   It is interesting that the translators of the bible do not seem to understand the difference between the words "IN" and "ON". To better understand this I will use an illustration: If I tell you I want you to bake some bread so you can make me a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich, would you take the Flour, Water, Oil, Salt, Yeast, Peanut Butter and Jelly and mix it all together, then Bake the Bread, then slice it, and then hand me two slices and say “Here is your Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich”, or would you take the ingredients that would make the bread mix them together, bake them, then slice them and then take the Peanut Butter and spread it “on” the bread, and then the Jelly, and say “Here is your Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich”?
   The same is true about (in the forehead) or (on the forehead). “in the forehead) means inside the fore {forward} part of the mind {the frontal lobe where all the decisions are made. On the other hand, the phrase (on the forehead) means that it is placed on outside where everyone is able to see it just like the Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. If the PB&J were in the bread, you would not know that it was there unless you could taste it. With the PB&J having been spread on the bread, you can readily see that it is indeed a PB&J sandwich.
   I hope this clears up this misunderstanding that has confused so many people.

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   • I don't think that your idea of the difference between "in" and "on" is supported linguistically in this context Ken. Translators are about evenly divided between "in", "on" and "upon". That suggests that the big idea of "sealing" is not something that is dependent on the translation of a single word.

     I think that the big idea is that at some stage we are "sealed" either with the seal of God or the mark of the beast, as a result of decisions we make about our relationship with God. A seal was often put on a document at the end of the transaction to signify completion. For us, the big idea is that we are a work in progress but it is our choice of relationship that determines how we are going to be sealed.

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     • "in our foreheads will be in our minds of how and what we think, believe & worship, to believe in God and trust Him with all our souls. In our hands are what we do physically. "Whatever our hands set to do" do with all your might"

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4. Will the Seal Of God be a sign like a trademark sign or will it Seal the contents to keep the contents secure?

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5. The misunderstanding of the text in Mathew 16:18 by the Catholic system, "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The belief of Catholics is that the church is established on Peter, who is believe to be the Rock (Petros) and not Jesus (Petra). The Rock in the text is Petra The same Rock in Daniel 2 that struck the image of that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream which crushed the entire image. Because the Catholic system believe that they have the authority of God, they believe that they can change the laws and times.

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