[NewParadigmGuy]

Originally Posted by 777 The Great Work

The mark of the beast is pledging your allegance to shadow.Those who take the mark, will perish along with those who are offering it.Some will become martyrs and ascend, and some will die in the chaos.These are xciting times.They are already telling us to A-void thunder and lightning on the skin.

This sounds like a fairly standard Christian interpretation of end-time events. Might as well just call the ascension "the rapture".