Lose Your Head

     My friend, Helen, sent me this scripture recently and reminded me to pray for the victims that ISIS are beheading. Although, I've read the scripture before, it had not had the impact on me as it did when I read it in light of these current events. 

     The other issue that came to mind in this scripture was the "mark on their foreheads or their hands." This mark is what end times citizens will have to use to buy or sell anything! Christians are called NOT TO TAKE THE MARK. We don't know now what that mark may look like, but it will be adhered to, injected in, tattooed on or in some other permanent manner put on a person's forehead or hand. If you accept the Mark of the Beast, you are rejecting God. 

     You may lose your head for refusing the mark, but you will "reign[ed] with Christ a thousand years." Sound crazy now? Maybe, but with the concerns over identity theft and daily news about hackers getting into bank accounts; it will be a simple solution that a world already covered in convenience and tattoos will accept and later regret forever.

Revelations 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.