Padraig Martin (@PadraigMartin)

What if you feared the wrong "Six"? God's Word and the Star of David There is only one book of the Bible in which the reader will be blessed by God for reading it in its entirety: the Book of Revelation. "Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near." Revelation 1:3. No other book of the Bible confers a blessing upon the reader. One specific part of this important book described the coming of an enemy of God, "The Beast." He is followed by a second Beast, who compels the worship of the first Beast. It is this second Beast that causes a great deal of concern for many global Christians, especially American Christians wary of national registers and IDs. "He 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. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666." Revelation 13:16-18 It has long been assumed that this mark would be some form of tattoo or chip implant. The mark would be a human barcode of sorts. As we race through the ever expanding technological landscape, our human minds conceive of every possibility as it pertains to this mark. But what if the author and withess of the Revelation, the Apostle John of Patmos, had a more simple explanation of the "six mark." I believe that the mark is foretold in both the Books of Amos and Acts as that which we now call "The Star of David." Prior to the Babylonian Captivity, the Israelites are clearly a corrupted and fallen people. This collapse of God's original Chosen would lead God to say through the Prophet Jeremiah that He divorced Himself from the seed of Abraham and would create a new marriage through a new covenant of a reborn people whom God would save (Jeremiah 3). Among many of the prophets admonishing the Israelites was a "lesser" prophet who is often ignored by many, but is in fact one of the most important as it pertains to messaging: Amos. While Amos warns of a reckoning with God, he lays out a compelling argument as to why the Israelites are calling down eternal damnation upon themselves. This is most pronounced in the fifth chapter of the book that bears his name. Among the charges he lays out, Amos says something that is profound: "You [Israel] also carried Sikkuth your king, and Chiun, your idols, the star of your gods, which you made for yourselves." Amos 5:26 Sikkuth and Chiun are Mesopotamian gods. Chiun is known to be Saturn - the star god - represented by a six pointed star that we call the Star of David today. It was anything but "of David." There is nowhere in the Bible at which David embraces any idolatric star emblem for himself or the Israelites. Rather, this appears to be a post-Davidic embrace of a false god by the Israelites. Amos is warning them that such an embrace is an affront to God Himself. The star is a symbol as to how far they have fallen away from the one true God. Amos would be killed by Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, for admonishing him. Worn proudly by Amaziah was the Star of Chiun - the six pointed star of David. Amos knew that symbol to be evil. Fast forward and we now have our Messiah and His word. After Jesus ascends to Heaven, His apostles continue to preach the Word. Under constant threat, they speak the truth of Christ. Thus, the Jews embraced freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach in the immediate aftermath of our Lord's Resurrection. The Apostle Stephen is in the heart of Jerusalem, bodly professing Christ, when he says something that enrages the mob of Jews so much, they kill him. Quoting God's words through the prophets, Stephen says: "You have taken up the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon." Acts 7:43 Many know Molech, but few know Rephan. The god Rephan is an Aramaic word for the Mesopotamian god Chiun. It means the god Saturn. In other words, Stephen is admonishing the Israelites for continuing to engage in the same anti-Godly behavior that got them in trouble in the first place, which led to the formation of a foreign faith called Judaism - an amalgamation of the original Israelite faith (which had no name) and regional practices codified in that which Jews call the [Babylonian] Talmud. Among those actions is the continued use of a six pointed star - Rephan / Chiun - which has been called "The Star of David" since the 17th Century.. The six pointed star has long been associated with a defiance of God. It is an emblem that explicitly means, "I reject your Word." It is by definition Satanic. More importantly, it is an antichrist symbol. The same author of Revelation, John, also wrote epistles. One epistle, 1 John, lays out who and what is an "antichrist": "Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son." 1 John 2:22. Who denies that Jesus is the Christ? The Jews. Who defiantly flies a Satanic star that symbolizes the worship of other gods? The Jews. Who murdered the Son of God and yelled -“His blood be on us and on our children” (Matthew 27:25)? The Jews. Today, if you are a Christian who wonders if and when the end times are coming, you may have your eyes wide open for a mark of "6." Your guarded nature demands you to shun such a Satanic imprint. But what if that imprint is the same as that of an anti-God, antichrist people? A six pointed star instead of a barcode or a microchip. Did the Apostle John warn of us of a more simple marker to represent the coming of a Beast who who would destroy Christiandom, lead to wars, and forbid anyone from questioning or chastising his followers? Surely John would have been familiar with the same criticism of Judaism that got his fellow Apostle Stephen killed - the demonic origins of the Star of David. If you were a Satanic Beast, would you come at Christians with an obvious "666" marker, or would it be more subtle - through your own Bibles and Schofield notes that undermine the words of the Saints? Would you not imprint into their hands - the pages of the Bibles you read - your mark to lead them astray? Would it not be easier to imprint into the minds of billions of Christians the six pointed Star of David/Chiun/Rephan/Satan? Of course it would be. Today, if you are accused of antisemitism, you are ostracized from society. You can lose your job, your friends, your family, and in some cases, your freedom. Your politicians swear fealty to an antichristian state. They cannot get elected without embracing thr six pointed star. If they question the antichrists, they lose their elected status. Does this not meet the revealed threshold that John warns of: "no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name"? Dear Christians, you have long guarded yourselves from the number 6, while many of your churches are adorned with a star that literally means "I reject Jesus Christ." Wake up! The Star of David is the Beast's "six."