Although I believe end-time prophecy will become clearer as we continue to draw nearer to its fulfillment, none of us can presently be too dogmatic about the fine details of how it will all unfold. Still, the book of Revelation's predicted Mark of the Beast has never been brought into clearer focus than it was by government mandated vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. If vaccines with a digital ID, which more than anything else in human history fits the bill for the book of Revelation's Mark of the Beast, are ever universally mandated in some upcoming pandemic, by either our own government or by some beastly global authority, like the United Nations’ World Health Organization, then, as Revelation predicts, all who refuse to be vaccinated—receive "the mark”—will be unable to buy or sell (Revelation 13:16-17).

In light of the above, this seemingly standard news story below, at least standard in today's topsy-turfy world, takes on added, not to mention alarming, significance. The Supreme Court of West Virginia has ruled against religious exemptions to mandated vaccines. In other words, as famed Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said during the COVID-19 pandemic, Big Brother does have “the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm.” According to Dershowitz, as well as the Supreme Court of West Virginia, no one, for any reason, not even a religious one, has "a right not to be vaccinated.”

Truly, the setting of the end-time stage is occurring today right under our noses, but few are seeing the signs of the times that are suddenly appearing all around us. Although our world will be taken by it unawares, it should not overtake us, the children of light, like it will the children of darkness, as a thief in the night (Luke 21:34-35; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-5). Instead, we, like the children of Issachar, should be men and women who understand the times and know what we ought to do (1 Chronicles 12:32).

WEST VIRGINIA RESTORES EXCLUSION OF RELIGIOUS REASONS FOR SCHOOL VACCINE EXEMPTIONS AFTER LATEST COURT RULING