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| [[File:charagma.jpg|center|400px|thumb|The painting shows a Roman slave market with people wearing clay tablets to identify them and the owner of their labor. Identifying slaves or a citizen's eligibility for [[benefits]] and even a liability for taxes in [[Rome]] was often done with a clay plaque made with a ''charag'' to produce a "[[Charagma]]". The Greek word ''[[Charagma]]'' we often translate  ''"mark"'' in [[Revelation]] specifically means a “badge of servitude”. ''Beasts'' in prophecy are generally identified as governments. In [[Egypt]] the Israelites were bound by a different form of servitude as members of the [[corvee]] under the [[care]] of the [[Pharaoh]] but owing 1/5 of their labor.<Br>What is your government issued [[Employ|badge of servitude]] required [[Section 666|by law]] in almost every country in the [[world]] to get work, bank accounts, [[benefits]], even a [[Passports|passport]] or identification? <Br>
The “[[Mark of the Beast|“mark”]] is specifically a “badge of servitude” based upon the Greek word Charagma and its use in scripture is evidence to show membership where you are required to “labor” without compensation which is the definition of “servitude”. The “beasts” in scripture use of [[force]]. There is nothing in the text to suggest that the “[[Mark of the Beast]]” prophesied will be a chip and certainly it was not a chip under [[Caligula]], Claudius, nor [[Nero]]. <Br>'''See the [[Mark of the Beast]].''']]
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| If ''beasts'' are governments is the beast out of the “Law of the Sea”? are the horns and crowns governments with authority and office? The leopard, bear, and with a mouth of a lion express the means by which it functions but its strength or ''power''<Ref name="dunamis">{{1411}}</Ref> is of the dragon. The word power<Ref name="exousia">{{1484}}</Ref> is not what we see in [[Romans 13]].
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| [[Rome]] had a system of [[Corban]] like Herod and the Pharisees. Most countries started similar systems in the 1920s and 30s. The United States is [[Rome vs US|structured much like Rome]] but [[FDR]] brought in his [[Great Society]] and with its [[Social Security]] established a [[Corvee]] making their citizens [[human resources]] and [[Curse children|their children]] a [[surety]] for debt.
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|The beast comes '''OUT OF THE EARTH''', rather than the sea. If these beasts are governments, it could be presumed that the difference between rising from the land, verses rising from the sea, could have to do with the “Law of the Land” rather than the “Law of the Sea.”

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== The First Beast ==

[1] And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of [[blasphemy]].

[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

[3] And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

== Worshipped the dragon ==

[4] And they [[worship]]ped<Ref name="proskuneo">{{4352}}</Ref> the dragon which gave power<Ref name="exousia">{{1849}}</Ref> unto the beast: and they [[worship]]ped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

[5] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and [[Blasphemy|blasphemies]]; and power<Ref name="exousia">{{1849}}</Ref> was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

[6] And he opened his mouth in [[blasphemy]] against God, to [[blaspheme]] his name, and his [[tabernacle]], and them that dwell in heaven.

== War against the separate ==

[7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power<Ref name="exousia">{{1849}}</Ref> was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

[8] And all that dwell upon the earth shall [[worship]]<Ref name="proskuneo">{{4352}}</Ref> him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the [[world]].

[9] If any man have an ear, let him hear.

[10] He that leadeth into [[captivity]] shall go into [[captivity]]: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the [[faith]] of the saints.

== The Second Beast ==

[11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.<Ref name="drakon">{{1404}}</Ref>

== Exercise power ==

[12] And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

[13] And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

=== Deceiveth ===

[14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

=== Life to a similtude ===

[15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

=== Receive a mark ===

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark<Ref name="marks">{{marks}}</Ref> in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

=== Might buy or sell ===

[17] And that no man might<Ref name="dunamai">{{1410}}</Ref> buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

=== Here is wisdom ===

[18] Here is [[wisdom]]. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

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