Welcome to the program today. My name is Mono Gonzalez, and I'm here with the Prophecy Update for the week of September 13th.

And last week we discussed a variety of things, especially as it relates to the way that our country is losing its freedoms and really some of the policies that are seeking to be implemented regarding passports and health passports and other things.

And one of the things that I would like to discuss today is when we think about the mark of the beast,

there's a lot of comments, a lot of questions, even confusion, especially among believers

who are familiar with prophecy.

And the question comes up is, is this the mark of the beast?

Are we on the precipice of what we are expecting

in the future? And so because of the confusion, one of the things that I mentioned last week

was that the things that we are seeing is what I would call the conditioning. And so for a short

answer is, do I think, or do other prophecy teachers think that based on scripture is what we're seeing now the actual mark of the beast?

And the answer is no.

And I'll explain why.

And I hope that you bear with me as we go through the scripture.

Because what I really want to do today is to share from the text, from the Bible.

It's the inspired word of God.

It's our guidance.

It's what gives us security and confidence.

And so as we think about our times, we don't want to minimize what's going on.

Because for those that have been watching prophecy for a long time or even a short time,

there are a lot of people who are wondering and asking what is going

on, even some family members or friends, as you might experience yourself, people are starting

to ask questions, which is great. It's great for us to have answers. It's great for us to be

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