What is the Difference Between the “Image of the Beast” and the “Mark of the Beast”?
This is another article in my series about the book of Revelation in the Bible and "End Times" prophecies, with possible interpretations presented in light of modern events currently happening in the world around us since the COVID Scam in 2020. I am writing from the premise that modern-day events point to the United States and American Christianity as "The Great Prostitute" and "Babylon," with the first "Beast" mentioned in Revelation being the financial system, and NOT the Anti-Christ, which others besides myself also interpret as the "Beast," and that the second "Beast" that gives voice to and works together with the first Beast, is Big Tech. In this article, I want to identify what modern-day evidence leads to as identifying the "mark of the beast," which is different from the "image of the beast." In Revelation chapter 14, for example, we see these three identities all mentioned in the same verse: "If anyone worships the BEAST and his IMAGE and receives his MARK on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." (Revelation 14:9-11) So what is the difference between the beast's "image" and his "mark"?