These little boxes (Tefillin) were temporary, and actually were worn on the arm or forehead during ancient Jewish prayer services of worship.  Major Dames defines the Beast as the animal nature of man as opposed to the divine nature of man.  Can the mark of the Beast, described in Rev 13:17, involving the animal nature of man, be also a parody of temporality connected to a small square-shaped box in the forehead or hand, instead of some tattoo?  Perhaps, this concept of Beast is in our very midst not as some RFID chip but as a branding of some sort associated with www and a box.

     The Bible describes the “Mark of the Beast” as being in the hand or the forehead and the entire concept states that the False prophet would cause all the inhabitants of the Earth to receive the mark of the Beast on their forehead, or on their right hand.  Let us transpose this whole concept to the modern day era; including Signs in the Sky.  

     Allow me to note what Rev. Stefano Gobbi said about the mark of the Beast.  At first, he believed television would be the instrument of the Adversary (Message 374) commensurate with the rise of the False Prophet, and then expanded with Message 405 where Gobbi said: ...If the Lord has communicated His Law with the Ten Commandments, Masonry is everywhere spreading a law which is completely opposed to that of God, with the power of its ten horns.   Gobbi stated Masonry (Freemasonary) will work its deception through social communication, branded by the power of the horns—which could be like the horns of a devil or, also the horns of a seven-headed sea beast, yet, if one looks deeper into this, in the Bible a horn was a form of communication. 

     Do you remember the movie The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston, where in one part of the movie is the loud blasting of horns?  As they say, the horn in the biblical world was always an instrument of amplification, a way of making one’s voice heard, and a means of communication.  In our modern era, a mobile phone is an important form of communication, a million times over the b/w TVs of the 1950s, and color televisions which stayed in the home/hotel; in fact, TV type programs can now be seen outside a residence and are internationally viewed through Smartphones via the internet.

     But that’s not enough.  Notice this. #1. 666 x 3 = 1998.  #2. Gobbi’s most important communication comes in the form of Message 407, commensurate with electricity and the status of the hand-held device: “Milan: Marian Movement of Priests, 1998” page 499:  666 indicated thrice, that is to say, for the third time, expresses the year 1998, nineteen hundred and ninety-eight.  In this period of history, Freemasonry, assisted by its ecclesiastical form, will succeed in its great design: that of setting up an idol to put in the place of Christ and of his Church.  A false christ and a false church.  Consequently, the statue built in honor of the first beast, to be adored by all the inhabitants of the earth and which will seal with its mark all those who want to buy or sell, is that of the Antichrist.  You have thus arrived at the peak of the purification, of the great tribulation and of the apostasy. The apostasy will be, as of then, generalized because almost all will follow the false christ and the false church.  Then the door will be open for the appearance of the man or of the very person of the Antichrist!

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      Our prior links in this ebook involve technology.   Plus you came from the link which describes briefly the 1950s.   As a reader, you recognize the adjacent importance of technology, of which humanity has benefited and prospered. 

      Smartphones are a derivative of the initial portable telephones of the 1980s.  All cell phones were unknown in 1950-1980, but precisely in the next decade, they not only became a precious gift to many, an avenue to knowledge, good or bad, something else was born.  Juxtaposed with the present is not electricity, TV, or any old portable telephone, exists the flower for the future in the power of the past and the present.   Rev. Gobbi gave the world an exact date as to when the prophecy of the mark of the Beast would be fulfilled: in a period of history beginning in the year 1998, and technically, although it was still in the inventive phase in ’98, he came very close as it was not fully realized until 1999.   In 2023, we have gone beyond a point in history which I dare say began in 1999.  Here is something that may blow your mind.  1999 was the year of the release of the first internet-enabled mobile phone.  

 

      These mobile phones have become an instrument like the horn of ancient days, an instrument of amplification in ways undreamt of.  And, unfortunately, as a great form of communication it is working hand-in-hand as a means to the identity of the idol or mark of the Beast; as an instrument of social communication for nefarious and evil ways.  I am not saying all modern technology is bad and evil.  When it is in the hands of those who will use it as such, its power is awesome.  

     Smartphones and electricity cannot exist without each other, or as an added thought, the flow of electricity is vital for the survival of Smartphones or any hand-held cell phone device.  Be thee in Beverly Hills or in some poor abode in a Third World country [unless you’re one of the few who charges your devise by a solar panel] no electricity, no juice, means a dead device.  Gobbi directly associated the mark of the Beast with a form of modern social communications technology, however, what is also added is the link to the three w’s.  

      The www, is as some futurists claim, one day, used with Smartphones, will replace credit cards as a means of commerce using the mark—the www mark for “all those who want to buy or sell.”  You have thus arrived at the peak of the purification, of the great tribulation and of the apostasy, so stated Fr Gobbi.  The hand-held devise in the form of a small, square-shaped box in the hand, like a Tefflin but, instead of bringing exclusively the Word of God, like the Tefflin,  this little box-like object brings a darkness away from the light of Jesus Christ, a wondering in time unforeseen a century ago, a slipping-away from the Word of God,  that (temporarily?) will help bring the rise of the next Antichrist.   The internet-enabled mobile phone is not some amorphous concept.  It is said in virtually all Christian religions, the mark of the beast in the New Testament’s book of Revelation signals an allegiance to Satan or those who reject God’s memorial.  It can be useful in political system rule, useful to locate references in countless subjects, useful as a learning tool, or used to communicate or find geographic bearings.  

      It can also bear evil and subjective features like pornography, and hate.  

      In terms of the young, how can one not see that rather than bringing millions into the fold of Jesus Christ,  the internet-enabled mobile phone is followed with so much admiration, it is driving them to the point of worship—they think about it, they eat and drink with it, they ride cars and buses with it, they cannot shop and wait in line without it.  They seem to always talk about it with their friends.  Their mind sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber of worship of their own making, as crazy as that may sound.  The whole social network of today’s young is governed by the power of that little box.  Something, that did not exist pre-1999.  Caution, this is not to say that anyone who uses some Smartphone is binding him or herself to the demonic darkness of evil, but its power may lead people on the wrong path and will signal the coming of the Antichrist.