The Longest Summer Vacation

Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.  Revelation 13:16-17

This seemed a great distance off just last year, as if the disappearance of many was required for it to happen. However, the recent masking of us all brings to mind this mark, particularly the why of the forehead. The social distancing brings to mind the right hand and something that would relieve us of touching or passing payment to a clerk. The prohibition against gathering together has run into the freedom of religion. We have also lived through the shortages of first one product and then another and more. And just like that, in about six months time, we see quite clearly how quickly the unveiling comes upon us. 

The mark required by the second beast has not come upon us just yet, but we can see how the world has been prepared for it. Even as I write this, there is somewhere upon the Earth a government or group planning to implement this thing as soon as it is called for by this second beast. A vaccination may well be the trigger event for it. Marked you may go into stores and do business, unmarked you may not. The Covid-19 vaccination may not be the one to cause this, but we can see how swiftly it could happen to the world. All of us I think can remember just several months back to when we had never heard of Covid-19, and another economic depression, and stay-at-home orders, and masking, and no human contact, and of a shortened school year.  (They've been out of school for how long?!) For most of us, this is the longest school summer vacation we have never expected to see in our lives, and it isn't over yet. What else have we looked for in Bible prophecy but maybe not really expected to see in this life? 

He is coming so very soon! 

Bucky