Shabbat Shalom kol beit Yisra'el and Mishpachah and welcome to Part 51 of our Book of Revelation series and to the third and final part of our study of the Second Beast or False Prophet. It will be Aviv 1 or New Year's Day in the biblical creation calendar in two days' time at which time we take a spring break as we celebrate the spring moedim or festivals.

Today I am going to do something I don't usually do and that is indulge in a major piece of speculation about the 'Mark of the Beast'; or to be more exact, I am going to examine critically an hypothesis being put out by various Christians and Messianics who have asked me to comment on their speculation. I think it's important to do so because their conviction that this hypothesis is true is taking them on a very different spiritual trajectory from most of the rest of us, and that worries me. Books are coming out on this topic that are sparking the interest and imagination of many. I hope, then, that my reasons for advising extreme caution will become clearer as we get into today's material.

Last week we spent quite a bit of time considering the fake resurrection of the First Beast, Antichrist or Anti-Messiah and why Satan needs this counterfeit in order to get the kind of worship he craves... coupled with threats of death to be absolutely sure...to get the significance across. However, a supposed resurrection for one man is one thing, but 'what's in it' for the rest of humanity? Why would anyone be interested? The 'wow-ing' factor, backed up by the fear of losing one's life for non-compliance, can only last 'so long'. Put yourself in humanity's position - you've witnessed a miracle - in fact, a thaumaturgy or resuscitation posing as resurrection and immortality for one man, but will you be content with just that? You're going to want to know what this miracle-worker claiming to be a 'saviour' and demanding worship can do for you? How can you be 'saved' or rewarded? For the great quest of man has been the search for immortality. It has obsessed alchemists for centuries.

So what is the Antichrist's answer going to be to the claim of Christians/Messianics that through the resurrection of Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ) there will be a future resurrection and immortality on the basis of faith? Human - or rather, fallen human - nature being what it is, the flesh is an impatient creature. Those with the Mark of the Beast are going to want to know what's in it for them...now. Offering world peace, security and 'free stuff' (like a guaranteed wage) through a system of global totalitarianism is one thing - we're already seeing the willingness of people to trade freedom for security. Satan knows, and exploits, this weakness to the full. Threatening the masses with death for non-compliance doesn't work indefinitely - he needs 'candy' or 'sweets' to bribe his children too...a little bit of each to manipulate and maintain control. Voluntary slavery is far preferable to him than compulsory slavery because it's more efficient and less expensive. He wants as near as possible 'natural' devotion, the same that we give to Yahweh.

The massacre of believers in the last 3½ years of his short rule will convince most of the compromisers that Christianity is a lost cause, that the Dragon is more powerful than the Creator who appears largely to be inactive, and to therefore get on the winning side. People will be prepared to take the Mark of the Beast both to save their lives and because they see - through carnal eyes - that there is no 'alternative' to the beast's globalist, Babylonian political and social system. He does, after all, weild considerable (supernatural) power. It's the only 'thing' on offer and pretty much everything else man has invented has failed...so, they say, let's try one more thing: the New World Order (NWO) and see if that turns out to be an improvement on all the political systems that went before.

So what will the Dragon's bait be - his alternative to execution for non-compliance? Immortality for the masses...and without all the Bible 'rules' which the flesh hates. His bait will be an elixir conferring immortality. The only problem is - how is the devil going to 'sell' this offer when he is so obviously systematically culling the world population by means that is politically incorrect (i.e. 'forbidden') to talk about in the public arena? (The culling has been going on for some time but it's going to rise dramatically in the years to come). The éites have openly stated they want to reduce the world population of billions down to just a few million. How do they imagine the masses would ever accept that when there's a hight probability they could slated to be amongst the culled?

A Brazilian science fiction series which I saw last year gave me an important clue. I forget it's title off the top of my head (I may have mentioned it to you before) but the story-line is that the world has been struck by some disaster leaving impoverished millions with no hope of situational improvement. Resorces are scarce. A small élite sets up a paradise on an offshore island that has everything anyone could ever want, but like all satanic utopias it needs a slave class to serve those at the very top. The story goes along the lines that rebuilding the devastated world will take a lot time and a lot of effort. Every year there is a competition in which a fixed quota or selection will be made from the masses to allow them to participate in this off-shore paradise which is only reachable by a submarine. To qualify they have to pass numerous intelligence and social tests. The masses, wanting a better life, will do anything to get on board with this program, even to turning in their rebelling friends and family to the police in order to score 'social credit' points. It's an artifically constructed 'us' and 'them' system. They're told they can raise their own families in abundance and peace on the island only to discover that they have been lied to and must choose to be sterilised to go any further. If they refuse, they are sent back to the impoverished masses to eek out a living in misery. Most compromise because they're willing to trade family life for creature comforts, as they suppose. Of course, the island community is totally dystopian and is run along totalitarian lines too. Things only 'work' for the compliant.

It's actually a very good picture of the Beast System and what our own élites are building today. They now own nearly all the wealth in the world and are still greedily grabbing what's left. In fact, they recently made a killing of trillions of dollars selling us a product we both don't need and which is seriously harming and even killing, us. It's not for nothing that we call them an 'élite' because they are élitists, and an élitist is someone who thinks of himself as superior to others with the right to rule or dominate. The nazis wanted to create a superior 'master race'; the Bolshviks wanted to create the ideal 'communist man'. And the modern totalitarian 'liberals', so called, have their own ideal highly complient and unthinking 'woke' person in mind. Satan exploits greed and the willingness of carnal people to crush others on the way up to the top. He promises - or will promise - immortality if they join this 'servant class' and all the other benefits of their dystopian paradise. Everyone will have work but no one will have a salary. Nobody will own anything but 'be happy' (or else). Everyone will live in self-contained '15 Minute Communities' and be expected to stay there as voluntary prisoners. Everyone will eat reprocessed protein from insects and recycled human poop. All money will be digital. You've heard all this tripe being spouted in the media by Klaus Schwab of the élitist front organisation called the Word Economic Forum (WEF) but they really mean it and intend to implement it. Indeed, they are implementing it as I speak.

So people will be happy enough to trample on others to become part of the élite's slave class when immortality is being offered without the imagined 'constraints' of Christian morality. They'll be able to have as much sex as they want and with whoever they want and without age barriers but they won't be able to have families. But know this: the lure offered this 'slave class' is a giant con. Even the és themselves are being conned by the Dragon. Every human being in every stratum of this pyramind system is being conned by the people in the stratum above it; and the top stratum is the invisible demonic realm where all the conning originates. Even the two Beasts (who are human beings) are being conned, but the higher up you are, the longer you will last. Yes, as we have seen, the Beasts are given power and authority by the Dragon but it takes only the swish of his metaphorical tail to take that power and authority away, leaving them as helpless and powerless as the masses who were deceived by them and took the Beast's mark.

Satan only needs human beings for one thing ultimately - their physical bodies. And to have their bodies, he must have their DNA, the Divine Biological Code, and tweek it to serve his own ends. He doesn't have the power to confer immortality but he can, and already does, genetically modify human DNA to halt the ageing process...or at least that's the plan of the human élites who, remember, are themselves being conned. Genetically modified humans are living on average to be around 100 hyears old now - about 20-30 years more than your average non-élite human being, and you have probably seen the news when some powerful banker has died and noted his great age. They look awful (from all the experimental treatments artificially keeping them alive) but they managed mostly to reach a century or thereabouts. Satan knows more than he is making out and sharing only enough science to keep his human stooges hooked with an offer he believes they can't refuse. However, what if he could not only prolong the human lifespan but keep them young too? He has all kinds of options. We don't need to get into all the methods he has tried and is working on.

What, then, is the ultimate goal of the Dragon? To permanently incarnate himself and his demonic minions into physical bodies stolen and modified from humans and live for ever. But intelligent though the Devil is, he doesn't know nearly as much as the Creator and Designer, and is first forced to 'reverse engineer' humans to find out how they work. This takes a lot of time and resources because the human body is unbelievably complicated. A few years ago I bought a copy of the latest edition of a Biochemistry textbook we used at university in the 1970's and much of the content was completely different. I was amazed at the progress that has been made. That's, of course, knowledge in the public arena. The élites have their own laboratories, which should come as no surprise, and are decades ahead of what we in the public see and enjoy. Offering this secret tech to the needy and greedy masses, as I have mentioned already, will be one of the baits offered by the Antichrist. They will likely always be half a century or more ahead of anything that the masses have access to in medicine and technology, for example, and they obviously won't release all their high tech at once. - that's the 'carrot' part of their 'carrot-and-stick' method of control. If you hand out all the candy at once you'll have nothing left with which to entice and seduce in the future, so the élites release it in trickles whilst keeping the best back for themselves. This motif appears in science fiction movies a lot too. Those of you who are familiar with the original Stargate movie will know that the aliens, posing as an advanced Egyptian-like civilisation to an enslaved class of primitive peoples had a machine that could heal any illness. That motif has been used since many times in subsequent movies. Instead of an offshore Brazillian island they have put it into outer space, making it even more inaccessible to the plebian masses who need spaceships and not mere submarines to reach it.

What is the ultimate satanic plan? To use humanity as a slave class on multiple levels for as long as it is needed and then destroy it altogether when it has served their purpose. Simple as that. The offer of immortality without moral accountability is the ultimate bait to get humans to surrender their souls, playing on their fear and lusts in equal measure. They have no idea, of course, what they are getting themselves into anymore than decent, family-loving German men did when they were recruited into the SS Einsatzgruppen for the extermination of 'undesirables' races; they allowd their consciences to be destroyed supposedly in the alleged 'best interests' of a 'higher cause'. (Always take with a pinch of salt any politican who claims to be acting in someone's or some group's 'best interests' because it's usually their own interests they are serving). Never believe anyone who says that the ends justify the means because they never do. Rather, a fearful judgment awaits those prepared to sacrifice ethics and morals to fast-track an imagined Utopia. Never mind that every such 'Utopia' in the past has turned out to be a hell-hole; none but the Utopia Yah'shua (Jesus) sets up and remains to rule in the Millennium has any chance of success because autocratic man does not know how to govern wisely and righteousnly without properly functioning checks and balances in place in the form of accountability structures - these the ungodly ruler will always seek to suppress or overturn by claiming that certain liberties must be forfeited in exchange for security.

This brings us to the apparently insoluble dilemma over which is more important: love or power? Truth tells us that love is the greatest of all (1 Cor.13:13) but it also tells us that power is necessary. The difference between love and power is the difference between female and male. They're actually complimentary but for them to work properly together something has to exist that at first sight seems contradictory: there has to be both harmony and hierarchy. The purpose of the hierarchy is to ensure that love prevails in truth. Sometimes, in the short term, it must be draconian to prevent chaos, but love will always follow up afterwards, and in greater abundance, to restore harmony and balance.

Life is full of strange choices that teach us how these two must work together. They say - and I have myself said - that you can have love or power, but not both. That is true only in the most general sense because that proverb clearly doesn't work in every situation. In real life, which is all about the relationships between very different sorts of people, both are actually needed. It's the execise of them - when, and in what quantity, and for how long - that's key in both the political, ecclesiastical and marriage relationships. Life is rarely black-and-white and to be tackled successfully requires the kind of wisdom that only experience can bring.

That's why the Bible contains so many 'Wisdom' books to augment the Torah books, the history books, and the prophetic books. We need all to function successfully. There are five Wisdom books in the Tanakh (Old Testament) - Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs. And if you're Catholic you'll also have two more, Sirach (also known as Ecclesiasticus), and the Wisdom of Solomon. Every society has its wisdom literature and it doesn't matter what religion prevails, because wisdom proceeds from the human experience of life wherever it may be. The Book of Proverbs acknowledges that and is actually several different collections of wisdom literature, some of which is Egyptian in origin that is made mention of in chapter 22:

"Have I not written for you thirty chapters of advice and knowledge, for you to be able to expound truth and with sound words answer those who question you?" (Prov.22:20, JB).

But back to 'love and power'. A good ruler will exercise both love and power. A good pastor will do the same. Likwise, good husbands will love and exercise power over their wives and children, as must wives over their children in the absence of their husbands. Those in positions of authority have to learn to govern using love and power in proper measure. This is not easy and mistakes are inevitably made. Yahweh governs us perfectly by means of love and power which at times we find frustrating and may even rebell against because we don't understand the love or purpose of righteously exercised power. What is discipleship? It is spiritual discipline, and discipline can only be exercised through authority and power. The word 'disciple' comes from a word meaning 'a learner', and learning comes from instruction and correction. We, like wandering sheep, are constantly in need of instruction and correction. Sometimes we will respond to gentle persuasion, other times only to the chastening rod, and Yahweh uses both...as does the Beast in dark imitation. Blessed is the one who needs the rod seldom. Everything Yahweh does is based ultimately in love. And you'll find this spoken of a great deal in the Bible's wisdom literature:

"Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid" (Prov.12:1, NIV).

Man, in his stupidity and over self-confidence, has tried to rewrite the equation of the love-power dynamic in creation. The egalitarianism of liberal secularism and socialism is a perfect example. We complain at the political state of the world as it now is but invariably fail to recognise or acknowledge our own complicity. The word 'patriarchy' is now the object of intense hatred and loathing. Why? In part, because it has been exercised unrighteously in the past. There is nothing wrong with patriarchy per se because it is Yahweh's system of national, ecclesiastical and family government and nothing can change that. The universe is built the way it is and with sound reasons. Yahweh governs with the perfect mix of love and power, as is His right as Creator. Our modern liberal secular and socialist world, with its latest postmodernist iteration, is a confused mess because of its attempt to find man-made solutions to the abuses of patriarchy in the past. Egalitarianism and Feminism are Satan's alternative to Patriarchy in the same way the Beast's Resuscitation is Satan's alternative to Yahweh's Resurrection.

Lesson #1: there will always be rulers and the ruled just as there are always Empires and Client States. Make peace with that and you will find life a lot simpler. You'll not change it. Even systems which claim to be egalitarian or anarchistic (as one hippie community in Copenhagen, Denmark claims to be) always end up with power structures. Of the Rulers-and-the-Ruled systems, there will always be righteous systems, semi-righteous systems and outright abusive and evil (i.e. totalitarian) systems. Marriage in the West and throughout history was, in nearly every single society, patriarchal. The changeover to what we have now was a gradual process as those seeking to address legitimate grievances sought to change the system rather than address the abuses and readjust back to the biblical balance. In marriage, at any rate, the first experiment was with coheadship. 'The only way to contain abusive patriarchy or male-headship is to share headship', the reasoning went. Initially this showed some promise but as in any system where a hierachy of authority is removed, the result was, first, compromise, and then, chaos. Husbands and wives started despising each other - wives despised husbands for not 'manning up' and husbands despised wives for taking their Yahweh-given authority from them and making everything a matter of democratic vote. Since harmony did not result, the only solution left - to prevent a complete rift - was the Helegian dialectic, a system of 'compromise' in atheistic Marxism to resolve conflicts. The result, like devaluing a currency, is inflation and...in the end...the collapse of relationships.

With the failure of coheadship clearly evident, with husbands and wives despising each other for not living their God-ordained biblical rôles which everyone instinctively knew were right, the West opened itself for something that had never been tried before: feminism or female-headship. With that failure, and with men and women despising - even hating each other - even more than in the days of coheadship, the satanic goal (which is also the Marxist goal) has largely been achieved: the destruction of the divinely-appointed institution of marriage and of the family as the core unit of society. The antichrist society as it is now evolving has become atomised with the only 'marriage' left being society (the 'wife') as a whole being 'married' to the State (the 'husband'), without a conventional marriage unit being its building blocks. The result is the New World Order, an ant-like autocratic, authoritarian régime were all the checks and balances are gone leaving all power in the hands of the few at the top and the rest, powerless, beholden to every whim of the élies, in one giant slave class. In a word, feudalism.

Though man naïvely believes he is in control of his destiny apart from any divinities, and that what we are seeing 'evolve' for us is perfectly 'natural' and therefore 'right' - the 'New Society' is, in reality, simply the working out of a demonic program in the invisible which the Book of Revelation exposes in stark detail. Which brings us back to the original question: what is Satan's objective? And again, the object is the destruction of humanity - its utter eradication - when it has finally served his evil agenda. And what is that agenda? To get him, the Devil, and his angelic hosts, physical bodies like humans, and to enjoy them forever outside the authority of Elohim (God) as the unchallenged rulers of the earth and, ultimately, the universe, with 'God', as they suppose, impotent to do anything about it.

Now you might think that a being as intelligent as Satan is extremely stupid. Well, he is both, as 'wise' Solomon was for a while. If Satan knows he is defeated and it's just a matter of time before Yahweh puts an end to his freedom to do what he has been doing for millennia, why still eagerly go about trying to get physical bodies and perpetuate ones existence in a kind of 'immortality'? Because evil is not always rational. It can't be, because a component of evil is emotional, the driving satanic emotion of hate. Why do you suppose that Hitler, with his empire in ruins and his armies defeated on the battle field, and surrounded by Soviet armies in Berlin slowly advancing on his underground bunker, still entertained any sort of idea of final victory? Because he was demented. He was irrational. He was delusional. Like Stalin shaking his fist at God on his death bed, a God he proclaimed didn't exist, Satan comes to both disbelieve and believe his own lies. Hitler, towards the end, refused to read about ther military disasters in the reports made by his intelligence ifficers and instead elected to read the propaganda in the nazi newspapers like the Völkische Beobachter and Die Stürmer. Emotionally he couldn't cope with the lies he himself had propagated and caused his own people to swallow; faced with imminent capture or suicide, he chose, up until the final hour, to believe in a fantasy. All unregenerated created beings, whether angelic or human, do that. They hope against unreasonable hope until the inevitable stares them in the face and they can no longer pretend. Death is the great leveller of illusion.

Satan is feverishly embarked on a program to save himself...still...even though part of him knows this is impossible and instead goes about 'enjoying the war while it still lasts'. At any rate, consumed with hatred for Yahweh's images - human beings - he still intends to wipe all human beings out if he can, which is why Yah'shua (Jesus) says that He will intervene to prevent that from happening (Mt.24:22). Satan will have his human cull, the unrighteous who deserve their fate, and the righteous who will be resurrected to glory for their willingness to be martyred whilst metaphorically waiting patiently under the altar in the Throne Room for that day. So as promised, I will now tell you the story of triple-helix DNA, at least in the broadest of outlines.

Satan needs the biological 'tech' of Yahweh that is in human bodies to make himself and his angels live forever, or at least much longer than our "threescore years and ten" or "fourscore" (KJV):

"The length of our days is seventy years -- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away" (Ps.90:10, NIV).

There are those who believe the age span can be lengthened by genetic tinkering, which supposes there is an aging gene, or set of ageing genes, that became altered after the Flood. Others believe the lifespan of man became severly reduced after the Flood because of a radical change in weather conditions, not least a diminution of the earth's magnetic field. Yet others think the long age span was on account of the mingling of angelic or nephilim genes. I myself have no idea and no definite opinion on the matter so what I am now about to present to you isn't necessarily my own opinion. But you ought to be aware of it because there are those claiming this has something to do with the Mark of the Beast which I pesonally think is non-physical like most of the other symbolism in the Book of Revelation.

I have no problem accepting that Satan and his fallen malakim (angels) want physical bodies that will either last forever or be continuously replacable when they wear out. Demons can, and do, physically manifest in our time and space as some of us here know from personal experience, but they cannot remain that way for long. They are still essentially non-physical beings, or if they are physical, then it is in some other way to our own physicality. Energy and matter, as we know from Einsteinian physics, are interchangeable; but to make matter requires enormous amounts of energy. And though demons are supernatural entities possessing great power, they are finite, unlike Yahweh who is infinite and possesses limitless power. For this reason, I believe, demons can neither be stable physically nor be resurrected in their own power. Satan's 'solution', as I understand it, is to pirate human bodies by modifying its biological software - DNA - to make bodies last a long time and to thereafter be replaceable. But to be able to use these bodies, he must ensure human spirits cannot occupy them...or be expelled 'naturally' from them upon the DNA being modified. So humans would 'die' without their physical bodies actually dying. Their bodies would, in essence, be hijacked, rather like a person being evicted from their home.

To 'do the research' Satan must do one of two things:

• 1. Use human scientists to do the lab work as his proxies by offering incentives (which we'll come to); or
• 2. Using nephilim agents, posing as 'aliens', to abduct humans against their wills, and experiment on them. If you know anything about UFO abductions, greys, and the like, you'll know what I am talking about.

GMO's or 'Genetically Modied Organisms' are 'big' in the science world and research is heavily subsidised by governments and corporations. You all know about the infamous GMO company Monsanto, and Bayer which took Monsanto over. It's not been in the news much lately as there have been too many other things going on...other distractions. The élites have been doing GMO research for decades, much of it illegal. Enormous pressure has been brought to bear on legislatures to permit GMO research to be done on humans. When I was young it was a hugely controversial subject and there was rightly a lot of resistance to it in the then still Christian-minded society. But with Christianity in retreat, those safety nets have all but been removed. As we enter a non-Christian totalitarian age, democratic legislatures become less and less relevant and the élites pretty much do as they like now and what they are doing is becoming more and more public. Sometimes they get over-confident and careless and draw unwelcome public attention to themselves when they go too far. How will they persuade the public that what they are doing - effectively, genocide - should be enthusiatically accepted? Because they mean to offer this 'biotech of immortality' to the general population, the only catch to having longer lives being the requirement to bow down to the Beast and worship him. For those with few or no moral scruples this will not be a problem. Humans have been selling their souls for supposed personal gain for as long as humans have been on the earth.

Many people will happily bow down and worship the beast to save their lives, let alone prolong them. They will not care a hoot about Yahweh's morality and ethics. But like I said, this will be a con - a massive lie. Satan has no intention of prolonging the existence of the lives of his slave-class followers, including the very élites themselves at the very top who are facilitating everything Satan wants done, even to the extermination of billions of their own human kind through diabolical population control programs. All humans are 'useful idiots' to the Devil and some of them are only kept around so that he can exploit them for divers purposes. As AI and robots proliferate, Satan will have less and less need of humans. In the meantime, the élites, will offer 'gene therapy' which will result in the creation of an artificially modified biological life-form incompatible with the human spirit which has a design specificity requiring them to only inhabits the unmodified human bodies with which we are familiar. There are, as it were, our 'space suits' for life in the physical dimension. Those bodies - these bodies - possess a Divine Signature or 'Mark', if you like, that makes them human and Yahweh-owned. Yahweh's hallmark is impressed in our genetic code, the design for which comes from His Mind.

So by changing that signature or mark through genetic manipulation, Satan will render physical bodies uninhabitable for human spirits...like space suits that no longer fit, leaving these bodies 'available' for other entities whose own spiritual signature is reflected in these genetically modified or tampered bodies. The result of this 'gene therapy', if it works (and it's a big 'if'), is that the occupying human spirit will be expelled and a demon will instantly replace it as sole occupant. All the experimental trials to achieve this genetic change have been underway on a global scale over the last two or three years, with different trial groups of human guinea pigs being selected to find out what works and what doesn't. The casualty rate in this monstrous experiment has been high and is still mounting - 1 in 800 of the millions of people used in these experiments has either died or suffered serious, permanent health damage. Some of these trials include placebos because every scientific experiment needs controls with which to compare the active tests. That is why not everyone subjected to this experimentation experiences the same symptoms, gets ill or dies. The 'official narrative' concealing this illegal experimentation contains within it 'plausible deniability' of any conspiracy to use humans as laboratory guinea pigs should anyone ask probing questions. It's why attempts to take legal action take so long to get moving. Meanwhile the diabolical scheme continues.

The claim has been made that what Satan is doing is more than merely tweeking a few genes here and there. They say he is creating an entirely new DNA replacing our own double-helix DNA with triple-helix DNA. Now I must admit when I first heard this claim I was extremely sceptical. As a scientist I, of course, demand evidence. Can triple-helix DNA even be made? The answer to that is, yes but - and this is the really important question: can such triple-helix DNA actually operate a fully functioning biological system? DNA, as biochemists now know, is an extremely complex set of polymeric molecules. It's not just a two-dimensional string of nucleotide bases spelling out a formula like a computer program, though it is that too at a primary level. DNA folds, and each fold itself contains information. That's the secondary structure. But even the secondary structure can be folded again making for a tertiary structure containing even more information. And if the strands are long enough, it can be folded again to make a quaternary structure containing yet more information. Human beings were designed with two strands of DNA. But what if angelic body coding were of a different order possessing, at least in their dimension, the equivalent of triple-stranded DNA? Who knows. No one has ever taken biological samples from malakim (angels) to test that hypothesis, not that I suspect such would even be possible.

If we believe, as Scripture teaches, that malakim (angels) can mate with human females to create offspring, and if these offspring are abnormal giants, and are inhabited by demons who live and die on earth like regular physical human beings, and with long lifespans, then clearly there is some sort of biological compatibility even if the offspring are unnatural. Malakim (angels) were forbidden to mate with humankind but they rebelled, as we know. By the time of the Great Flood, all humanoids were hybrids except Noah's immediate family. And as you know from earlier teachings in this course, Satan's purpose was to destroy the messianic seed, which he came close to accomplishing, though in reality he never stood a chance against the Creator who outwitted him every time. He was allowed to go as far as he did only because of the right to exercise free agency. But there are limits even to free will and Yahweh drew the line with eight genetically pure souls...one must assume that these four marriages - Noah's and his three sons' - were in some way 'arranged' by Yahweh to preserve the human race and messianic lineage.

I am sure Satan has done a lot of research and genetic tinkering since the days of the Flood. Nephilim, which are almost certainly around in large numbers again, aren't necessarily giants this time. Just as humans are able to genetically breed little dogs from big dogs through selection, the same has undoubtedly been underway with us. Hence the UFO abductions and the genetic research by the satanic powers in our own advanced technological generation. He has AI to play with too, human-machine hybrids, and so on. There are many more options available to Satan's evil agenda than there were 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. This means that in all likelihood any nephilim on the earth today will, though genetically different from the rest of us, be phenotypically similar, if not indistinguishable from us. They will look like us. What will distinguish them is their strange, unhuman-like behaviour. Now you will come across those who say that there are humans with black eyes and that these are the nephilim though that would hardly be a good disguise in the public sphere. They would be spotted immediately. You may also have heard of so-called 'star-children', human hybrids created on UFOs. In any kind of genetic experimentation there will always be unexpected spinoffs. As a biologist myself, I can still rememeber the experiments we did at school on Drosophilla or fruit-flies. We irradiated them and then examined the mutations that caused. Most were standard but sometimes we were able to produce little monsters, some with two heads, extra legs, fewer legs, wingless bodies, etc.. The double-headed ones were pretty rare (I think I only ever saw one) and most mutants didn't survive for very long.

The 'greys', supposed 'aliens' flying around in many UFOs, are almost certainly artificial life forms. These are short hairless beings with huge heads and large almond-shaped black eyes. They're not human or humanoid. They have no spirits as such. They are like machines without moral scruples. Back in the days when I was researching UFOs for Contact International in the UK, I interviewed some people who had had encounters with these entities. I am now of the opinion they are products of nephilim GMO technology. There are all sorts of beings like this. Part of the problem is sifting through all the fictional stories out there which don't interest me, anymore than I am interested in doing experiments on fruit flies today. They exist, they're a menace and people must be warned who encounter them that they are not 'aliens' - they are not extraterrestrials' - and they are abolutely not our 'friends'. Their place of origin is earth. They are anti-life beings and will be eradicated in the same way the first batch of nephilim had to be at the time of the Flood.

So how far advanced is this tech for modifying human DNA? That's hard to say. Up until the end of 2019, gene therapy experimentation was on a small scale; but since 2019 the whole world population has become a massive experiment with a high casualty rate. And the final casualty rate is still not known as otherwise healthy people, often young and otherwise fit, suddenly drop down dead from heart failure. The immediate evidence at hand, which is being collated outside the 'establishment', suggests that this genetic 'therapy' was conducted no so much as to experiment on humans to manufacture triple-helix DNA (I have seen no evidence of that), which it seems to me the powers-that-be would be more likely to conduct in secret, but an experiment in population control, that is to say, population reduction through the spreading of numerous non-fatal, as well as fatal, diseases. The sharp rise in aggressive cancer and heart failure caused by bood vessels being blocked my massive amounts of graphene, for instance, have been noted in those who have had two or more 'gene therapy sessions'.

So I am not so sure that this latest global experiment has anything to do with the development of triple-helix DNA because doing so in the public eye would make no sense. Some diligent scientist would be bound to eventually stumble on triple-helix DNA in a patient and raise the alarm. More likely, triple-helix DNA research would be done with victims kidnapped or bred for the purpose in secret. These people are expert at covering their tracks and coming up with 'plausible deniability' scenarios should their work ever get leaked. Just see how the corrupt political establishment has protected and perpetiated itself even when 'official enquiries' have been launched exposing them.

Let's, for the sake or argument only, posit that the élites successfully develop a 'therapy' such as I have described. Would it be reasonable and scripturally accurate to suggest, as some are doing now, that those human beings who receive these hypothetical gene therapies (modifications) have somehow 'received the Mark of the Beast' even though they have been tricked or uninformed about the true nature of therapy they are receiving? My answer to that question must be a 'No'. Why?

• 1. First, because no genuine choice to apostacise was made otherwise being raped (as in the Islamic world) would make the victim guilty of crime, which she would not be - it's the rapist's fault; and
• 2. Second, because if they have been genetically modified to have triple-helix, they won't even be in their original bodies anymore - they will have been ejected.

Genetic contamination wasn't the only, or even the primary, reason pre-Flood humanity was condemned to death, but for idolatry and apostacy. Since, according to Yah'shua (Jesus), the very last days will be like the days of Noah (Mt.24:37; Lk.17:26), may we not reasonably assume that both elements - genetic contamination from deadly gene-therapies and/or hypothetical triple-helix modified double-helix DNA - and apostacy - will be cause for the condemnation of such vast swathes of humanity as the Book of Revelation predicts?

Read all the passages associated with the Mark of the Beast in the Book of Revelation (13:17; 14:9.11; 15:2; 16:2; 19:20 & 20:4) and what do they tell you is the reason for the condemnation of so many millions? Idolatry and apostacy. Moreover, it's clear from these passages that those who do receive the Mark of the Beast are still alive and have not been ejected from their bodies because they are subsequently prevented from buying and selling (for one), meaning that those who do receive the Mark of the Beast may continue trading...as ordinary (albeit morally and spiritually compromised) human beings. Those who receive the Mark continue doing what gave them the Mark in the first place - consciously making a choice to worship the Beast. This does not sound like demons in artificially-modified human bodies to me, so for the triple-helix hypothesis to work humans would have to remain in these new bodies, thus weakening the case for a seizure of human bodies by demons for the exclusive personal use.

Revelation 14:10 tells us that those who receive the Mark of the Beast and worship him shall be tormented with 'fire and brimstone' in the presence of the qadosh (holy, set-apart) malakim (angels) in the presence of the Lamb. From this passage most Christians deduce that these people will be punished in hell for all eternity:

"If anyone worships the Beast and his image (statue) and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of Elohim's (God's) fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of His wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulphur in the presence of the qadosh (holy, set-apart) malakim (angels) and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises forever 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" (Rev.14:9-11, NIV).

That was from the New International Version (NIV) which is fairly typical of Protestant and Catholic translations. We'll be talking about this more when we come to chapter 14 after the spring moedim (appointments). Suffice to say, verse 11 is a terrible translation even in Messianic versions. The scene is not at all unlike having a torture chamber in your own living room where your worst enemies are punished day and night for you to gloat over as you gleefully savour your revenge. Yet there are millions, sadly, who believe Elohim (God) is just like that. A far better literal traslation is that the smoke of their torment ascends "for the æons of the æons" (CLNT), that's to say, for the duration of the last two æons of the seven æons of time (Rev.1:6). Please notice that the tense of the verb, 'to worship', is here in the present, and not the past, tense. In other words, this torment is happening while they are alive on the earth. No one is going to be worshipping the devil in hell, are they? ...even if you assume, like most orthodox Christians, it is eternal rather than age-long. No one will be worshipping anything or anyone because the lies they believed and practiced are before them, in their faces. Notice also that the present tense is also used in "receives the Mark of the Beast" - it isn't "received". The æons or ages are on earth, where they will be punished, IN Sheol, until the old earth is burned up and a New Earth is created without Sheol!

Now if the scenario I have been painting for you is correct - and it's a big 'IF' - it would mean that humans (that's to say, their spirits) remaining in these triple-helix-converted bodies would be unable to commune with Yahweh because their bodies would be purposefully tuned to Satan's 'wavelength', if I can put it that way. (We're now assuming they won't be ejected). What this would mean is that any human spirit resident in such a gene-transformed body - so long as they are alive - would belong to Satan. They would be in his domain, on his 'territory', in his 'space' and 'matter'. But what after they are dead? In that scenario, they would be free of the influence, limitations and isolating restrictions of the artificial bodies they once occupied and be in a similar (though arguably worse) spiritual condition to those who died in the Flood because of what Yahweh says will happen to such who take the Mark in the current chapter of the Book of Revelation under study.

If any of what I have been speculating on is true then we are still left with some unanswered questions or 'imponderables'. How would all of this factor in to, on the one hand, the traditional Catholic belief in 'eternal punishment' in an endless hell, and on the other with the principle of Universal Reconciliation that we believe in in this community. Would those temporarily trapped in these effectively 'alien' bodies for as long as they are alive, cut off from communion with Yahweh because of gene therapy they were tricked into taking, then find themselves being tormented in hell forever? That does not accord with Divine Justice, but contradicts it. Yes, there are always short-term consequences for wrong choices made in ignorance or contrary to our ability to resist or refuse, but surely such cannot be translated into eternity? We're told that Yahweh "in the past...overlooked such ignorance, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30, NIV), because now they're in-the-know and can, and must, repent or suffer the consequences. What I am saying is you can't believe in the triple-helix theory and eternal condemnation because they are mutually exclusive unless you went into gene therapy with your eyes fully wide open, fully knowing what you were doing - losing your humanity for a false promise of immortality.

That's just one consideration. There are all sorts of complicated twists and turns in the triple-helix theory if you believe it, or the 'vaccine' that administers it, is the Mark of the Beast as well. My own view is that if Satan is trying to create human bodies that have extremely long lifespans for himself and his demons (which would seem to be a thing that would definitely interest him), in spite of his knowing he won't survive as a free agent for very long even if he does succeed (or has succeeded, in whole or in part), then there would be little point in the project given his inability to make use of it for very long (because he will have run out of time), though I have offered a psychological explanation why he would go ahead with the plan anyway. He isn't going to be allowed to get away with his escapades any more.

Personally, I consider it very unlikely that if triple-helix DNA is the 'DNA of angels' (and that's a big, unsubstantiated 'if') or that triple-helix DNA could work biologically (it would be one thing to synthesise a static form of it, quite another for it to become a living code able to run a complicated biological system); what I am not convinced of is that if such triple-helix based bodies could be made and human spirits ejected so that demons could take up permanent residency without having to dupe human beings into having them inside, manipulating a pre-existant system they cannot fully control because of human agency, resistance and unpredictability (from their point-of-view), that it may be said to be the 'Mark of the Beast' which I believe is the mark of satanic ownership based on conscious choices to progressively reject Yahweh's Torah and Messiah and to finally break completely with Yahweh by choosing to worship His arch-nemesis and opponent to righteousness. All sin progressively 'marks' us as moving away from Elohim (God) and toward the Devil; the final break comes if we choose to openly worship the Beast and Satan in an act of brazen idolatry.

In the final analysis, we must in any case go with what the Book of Revelation says, namely, that when the day comes, the Beast and False Prophet are "cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone" while all those humans who took the Mark were "killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the (white) horse. And all birds were filled with their flesh" (Rev.19:20-21). In other words, their physical lives were cut short on earth. We'll talk more about this when we get to chapter 19.

Is gene therapy a reality? Absolutely. Is it a bona fide therapy? No. Personally, I think it is extremely dangerous, as we're seeing now from the 'new treatments' that millions have received to allegedly combat a deadly virus. I also think it is ethically wrong to tamper with Yahweh's biological software. Is Yahweh's Name, number or signature to be found in double-helix DNA? Maybe, possibly, but I am not absolutely sure. If it is, do I think Satan would want to destroy that signature, if only out of spite, never mind any thought of reverse-engineering DNA to create a new type with which to create bodies for demons? Possibly. Do I think having this DNA is the Mark of the Beast? No. Do I think the gene-therapy leading to any of this is to receive the Mark of the Beast? No. I do not believe that having injections for the covert purposes of gene manipulation to be an act of receiving the Mark of the Beast. Do I think this 'therapy' is evil and should be refused? Absolutely. It's endangering human life, as the evidence now conclusively shows; it is polluting the Temple of the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit). Absolutely. It is defacing the Image of Elohim (God). Do I think those taking the jab will go to hell? No, I do not, but I do think they are risking their lives and participating in the suffering and destruction of any children they may subsequently have, assuming they are even still fertile. And if they are pregnant, they are risking the lives of their unborn. That is my very firm opinion.

Triple-helix DNA may be a scam and the offer of immortality is most definitely a con. No one can escape death and judgment. All will be resurrected by Christ at the last day, some to glory (if they genuinely choose Christ) and some to condemnation (if they refuse His offer of salvation) (Jn.5:29). Moreover, even if they do genuinely choose Christ, but consciously and knowingly refuse to obey His mitzvot (commandments), though they be saved, it will be to a lesser glory and not the glory like unto the sun which He promises only to the faithful Bride (1 Cor.15:41). We are free to choose, it's not all set in stone or pre-ordained as Calvinism claims. My body is my stewardship, mine to choose what I do with it, though ultimately it is Yahweh's who created it. No other human being or government can dictate to me what I must do with it other than to prevent me from interfering with the free use by others of their own bodies, for which they alone are accountable before Elohim (God). To genetically manipulate me without my consent is a gross violation of my rights as a freeborn agent of Yah'shua (Jesus) and I am not obliged to comply. The government has rights and obligations, as do we toward it, but they are limited, not limitless. If you're not familiar with it, please see my important study, The Limits of Obedience to the State: A Study of Romans 13:1-7 which a lot of conservative Christian leaders do not understand or follow. Those who control governments do not always have our best interests at heart but are pursuing their own wicked agendas in compliance with the Beast's demands.

I hope that has answered any triple-helix questions that anyone has. I have not dealt with the physical side of the Mark of the Beast which could be anything from a chip implant to a tattoo making it easy to identify followers of the Antichrist and to so permit them to buy and sell. The verdict is out on that one still. With this we not only come to the end of our study of chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation but, in two day's time, to the end of the biblical year, as well as a pause in our studies of the Apocalypse for about a month as we focus on the spring festivals and a all the new things that are about to happen. So until we resume later in the spring, Yahweh bless you and keep you in Yah'shua's (Jesus') Name. Amen.

Acknowledgements

[1] Tom Wright, Revelation for Everyone - The New Testament for Everyone Commentary Series, Vol.19 (SPCK, London: 2011)
[2] E.W.Bullinger*, Commentary on Revelation (Kregel Classics, Grand Rapids, Michihan: 1984)
[3] David H. Stern, Jewish New Testament Commentary (JNT Publications, Clarksville, Maryland: 1992)
[4] ESV Study Bible (Crossway, Wheaton, Illinois: 2011)
[5] The NIV Study Bible (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan: 1995)
[6] Ed. J.R.Dummelow, A Commentary on the Holy Bible (MacMillan, London: 1909)
[7] David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible: A Unique Overview of the Whole Bible (Collins, London: 2007)

*E.W.Bullinger was a brilliant Anglican clergyman and scholar whose works merit careful study by serious students of the Bible. He was, however, seriously in error in at least three main areas, namely, (1) he believed the 'Church' has been raptured before the Book of Revelation opens, (2) he believed that the 7 churches in Revelation 2-3 are 7, literal Jewish churches or assemblies yet to come, and (3) he believed in a pre-tribulation, pre-millennial rapture.

• 1. White horse - military aggression
• 2. Red horse - bloodshed
• 3. Black horse - famine
• 4. Pale Green/Blanched/Pallid/Sickly-looking horse - disease, epidemics

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• 5. Persecution & prayer
• 6. Tremour & terror

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  INTERLUDE I (Ch.7)
  (The 144,000 Redeemed)

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• 7. Silence in heaven, listening to prayers which are then answered in a final catastrophe: a severe earthquake I

• 1. Scorched earth
• 2. Polluted sea
• 3. Contaminated water
• 4. Reduced sunlight

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• 5. Insects and plague (for five months) (1st Woe)
• 6. Oriental invasion (200 million army) (2nd Woe)

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  INTERLUDE II (Ch.10-11)
  (The Malak with the Little Scroll)
  (The Two Witnesses)

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• 7. The Kingdom comes, the world is taken over by Yahweh & Yah'shua (Jesus) after a severe earthquake II (3rd Woe)

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  INTERLUDE III (Ch.13-14)
  (The First & Second Beasts)
  (The Lamb & the 144,000)
  (The Messages of the Three Malakim)

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• 1. Boils on the skin
• 2. Blood in the sea
• 3. Blood from the springs
• 4. Burning by the sun

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• 5. Darkness
• 6. Armageddon

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• 7. Hailstorm (OB 368:11-12) and severe earthquake III, leading to international collapse