August 31, 2026 · 17 min
You Cannot Take The Mark Of The Beast By Accident
You cannot take the Mark of the Beast by accident. Nobody is going to slip it into a vaccine or implant it while you sleep. The Mark requires your consent, and when a person makes that choice, everyone around them will know which way they went. Every generation names its own candidate. Barcodes. Social Security numbers. Credit cards. Implanted microchips. Biometric scanners. Whatever technology is newest and least understood becomes the leading suspect, a wave of fear moves through the Church, and then the technology becomes ordinary and everyone quietly moves on. That instinct has kept us looking in the wrong direction for a hundred years. The Mark is not primarily about technology. It is about allegiance. Once you see it that way, the question stops being which device is the Mark and becomes something much harder to avoid: whose economy are you depending on to live? In this episode I walk through what Revelation 13 says about the function of the Mark, why the hand and the forehead were chosen, and the detail out of Exodus that I almost never hear anyone discuss. The Beast did not invent that pattern. He stole it. When the Lord instructed Moses on the garments of the high priest, He specified a plate of gold worn across the forehead, and He gave the same pattern to all of Israel. One forehead reads holiness to the Lord. The other reads compliance. I also cover the second mark described in Revelation 14, the two economies it creates, and why no neutral ground will be left when a system controls buying and selling. The last section is the one that matters most. You cannot refuse the Mark if refusing it means watching your family go hungry. That is exactly the pressure the system is designed to apply, which means the ability to say no is not a matter of courage. It is a matter of whether there is another place to get food. That other place is Zion, and Zion is what we are supposed to be becoming right now. <b>Scriptures referenced</b><br> Revelation 13:16-17<br> Revelation 14:1<br> Exodus 13:9, 13:16<br> Exodus 28:36-38<br> Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18<br> D&C 45:69<br> D&C 115:6<br> D&C 38:30<br> D&C 78:14<br> <b>Free chapter</b><br> I give away Chapter 8 of my book, the chapter I get asked about more than any other. It makes the scriptural case that the seven seals have not opened yet. <a href="https://firsthorseman.world/free-chapter">https://firsthorseman.world/free-chapter</a> <b>The book</b><br> <i>The First Horseman, Donald Trump and Biblical Prophecy</i> is available in print, digital, and audiobook at <a href="https://firsthorseman.world">FirstHorseman.World</a> I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Everything I teach here is my own understanding and study, not doctrine of the Church.
August 26, 2026
The First Horseman
The opening episode of Kelly's Podcast — a look at prophecy and Revelation as it applies to our day.