Lux Lucet

[L]et it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.

            – Daniel 3:18

The Book of Daniel records for us one of the most famous of all acts of civil disobedience, the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego to go along with King Nebuchadnezzar’s command to fall down and worship his golden image. 

In like fashion today, Christians are being asked, ordered is more like it, to fall in line and worship a new golden image, this time in the form of mask mandates, social distancing, lockdowns, and forced vaccinations where one is given the choice, take the jab or lose your job.

Indeed, the vax fanatics are so filled with confidence and their own sense of moral superiority that they seem not to realize that the policy prescriptions they so ardently pursue sound as if they were lifted right out of Revelation 13.  There we read the famous passage about the mark of the beast and the consequences for not taking it. 

He [the beast] causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name (Revelation 13:16-17).

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My point in citing this passage is not to argue that the Covid jabs, so beloved by authoritarians the world over, are the mark of the beast which John wrote about.  But I do mean to suggest that at the very least, the maniacal effort on the part of Western governments – and that in the face of mounting, hard evidence that the jabs are both unsafe and ineffective – to force vaccinate their populations is most certainly an act that is of the same spirit as the mark of the beast described in Revelation.

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