Texas Pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church in Flower Mound recently shared why he believes the “mark of the beast,” as mentioned within the Bible in Revelation 13, is “energetic even now.” In a video posted to Instagram, Chandler spoke on the mark of the perfect and that folks his age view it as a bank card, a phone, or a chip embedded in people’s hands. In his view, nevertheless, Chandler says that perspective is “to miss the purpose that’s being made” in Revelation.
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“The perfect number is number seven, and so if seven is complete, six is incomplete,” he explained. “We also know that the number three means complete. And so 666, the mark of the beast, is actually to point out that the work of the enemy is totally—three sixes—incomplete. And so that is, really, what the enemy produces: complete incompleteness.”
The mark of the beast “just isn’t Elon Musk putting something in our brains or something like that,” Chandler continued, noting the number 666 on people’s foreheads represents “ideological belief,” and the number on people’s hands depicts “the practice of that ideological belief.”
Chandler went on to contend that the mark of the beast is currently energetic in society.
“I believe the way in which you’re even seeing this today,” he said, “is there are specific, especially within the business community now, ideological beliefs you need to have with a purpose to take part in the economy. And I believe we’re going to see this worsen.”
“That means I feel the mark of the beast is energetic even now on this moment of history that we’re in,” he concluded.
As reported by Church Leaders, Chandler recently published his latest book, “The Overcomers: God’s Vision for You To Thrive in an Age of Anxiety and Outrage,” which uses Revelation to stipulate how Christians can live in victory in the current time.
“Revelation read rightly doesn’t have you ever forget the current on the expense of the longer term,” Chandler told Dr. Ed Stetzer on The Stetzer Church Leaders Podcast in a recent interview. “It anchors you in future hope for present boldness.”
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Milton Quintanilla is a contract author and content creator. He is a contributing author for CrosswalkHeadlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast dedicated to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.
