Someone sent me an e-mail, entitled "The Mark", with nothing but this link:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/swedish-biohacker-promotes-implanted-microchip-covid-passports-in-your-hands/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa

To reply to the sender of the above email:

With all due respect, I still have what I believe to be a good question: Where is the Antichrist -- the Beast? What is his name, and where is he right now?
I can't help but notice you've dropped "of the Beast" from the famous phrase "Mark of the Beast" and are just calling it "the Mark" now?
Is that to draw attention away from the obvious weakpoint in this argument -- namely, that the Antichrist or Beast has NOT manifested himself yet?

I have never heard ANY prophecy that the Mark of the Beast will precede the Antichrist. The very idea is ludicrous. The whole thing is supposed to be a sign of capitulation, of submission, to the Beast (the Antichrist) and his rule. How could he institute such a system before his coming?

That would be like the Catholic Church (New Testament) forming almost completely, with Sacraments and all, before Our Lord's manifestation at age 30.

Again, I wouldn't touch this "jab" with a 100 foot pole, and I make no distinction between being shot with a gun, and being "shot" against my will with this poison jab. And I will react (in self defense) accordingly.

But to say it's the literal Mark of the Beast, on your forehead or hand, as foretold in Scripture? That's a bit of a stretch, to say the least.

By the way, there have been fearmongers and "scares" like the above article ever since the 1970's.  I've been in Tradition a *long* time, and I've heard it all. Alarmists have been wrong about the imminent Antichrist or Mark of the Beast every single decade since Vatican II pretty much. There's Maitreya (I read about him on the back of a book cover published in the 70's), UPC codes all have 6-6-6 on them, there is some government system called The Beast, etc. That was all before 1995.

I haven't seen any widespread, or mainstream push to implement ANYTHING COVID-related in the hand or forehead -- the fearmongering article by LifeSiteNews notwithstanding. Mainstream word on the street, and in the Mainstream Media is that the coming vaccine passport(s) will take the form of a phone app. It's that simple. Most people aren't game for an invasive install of a chip in their hand. We're not there yet.

Yeah, it's definitely not the Mark.

Here's what Fr. Berry has to say about the Mark of the Beast:

16.  The followers of Antichrist will be marked with a character in imitation of the sign that St. John saw upon the foreheads of the servants of God.  This indicates that Antichrist and his prophet will introduce ceremonies to imitate the Sacraments of the Church. In fact there will be a complete organization—a church of Satan set up in opposition to the Church of Christ. Satan will assume the part of God the Father; Antichrist will be honored as Saviour, and his prophet will usurp the role of Pope. Their ceremonies will counterfeit the Sacraments and their works of magic be heralded as miracles. A similar project was attempted in the fourth century when Julian the Apostate counterfeited Catholic worship with pagan ceremonies in honor of Mithras and Cybele. He established a priesthood and instituted ceremonies in imitation of Baptism and Confirmation.

And Fr. Herman Kramer:

Verse 16

All classes of people whom the doctrines, and signs of Antichrist will captivate and mislead are named in this verse. Those who will not accept the true faith shall then be at the mercy of error. Another idea is contained in this verse: Antichrist will abolish all class distinction and make his followers alone the elite. It points to something like communism. The educated and refined, the uneducated and rude will submit.
The mark of distinction borne by antichristians will be a brand like that seared on the forehead of slaves in Roman limes. Those who are steeped in vice, who are enthusiastic about Antichrist and are stupefied by the marvels of his signs will proclaim themselves his slaves and have his stamp put on their foreheads. Others will go still farther and have their right hands dedicated to him becoming his soldiers. This alludes to the signing of the faithful in chapter VII. The foreheads of all Christians are signed in the sacraments, while the hands of the priest are also anointed. The False Prophet may institute secret rites, through which the followers of Antichrist will be advanced by degrees into the deeper mysticism of his cult. A sort of diabolical sacramental system would thus be instituted conferring the graces of Satan and consecrating people to the service of the Beast. They will bear this mark of disgrace openly and thus easily recognize one another and those who do not follow the Beast. The adorers of the Beast will worship the animate statue in awe and reverence. And in the spiritual darkness into which sin has led them they are convinced, because they wish to be, that Antichrist is God.
All commentators who try to force this chapter as fulfilled in St. John’s time are constrained to admit that they are confronted with a fact prophesied and not fulfilled, for those provincials who conformed to the caesar-cult were not branded as here stated. Since the preceding part of this chapter only uses the Roman empire existing then as a model for the description of the empire and times of Antichrist, so do these last verses. The Apocalypse is a genuine prophecy and depicts future history, whether we hold verbal dictation or not, and is not a mere poetic embellishment of existing conditions. Those commentators who do not see the foretelling of real future events in this prophecy find no satisfactory explanation for anything contained in it.

Neither speak of the Mark preceding the Antichrist, who is synonymous with the first Beast in both commentaries. It only arrives after the Antichrist as a sign of loyalty to him. The shot does not do this, although the technology is certainly there with luciferase.
Fr. Berry's interpretation actually supports the idea of MHFM on the Novus Ordo rites being the Mark of the Beast (not that I really believe this myself).

Fr. Berry's interpretation actually supports the idea of MHFM on the Novus Ordo rites being the Mark of the Beast (not that I really believe this myself).

Fr Berry also destroys the Diamonds' belief that JP2 was the antichrist.    I can't believe they are still talking about it. 

Secondly, while his blasphemies were horrible, not to mention the mass spiritual death he influenced with his heretical teachings; he did not embody the outward vice and ruthlessness that Antichrist will have.

This.

In short, we have to distinguish between sinful/terrible/bad things to be rejected, and SPECIFIC evils like the Mark of the Beast. Just because you have a horrible blasphemer, doesn't mean you're looking at the Antichrist. We've had countless "types" of Antichrist up to the present day. Nevertheless, the Man of Sin is not yet here.

Yes. And yet, will we have faith enough to recognize him when he does? I sure hope so.

We don't need to make 50 false positive IDs over the years to assure ourselves we'll believe him when we see him -- or that we "still believe in" the Antichrist.

I don't think there's going to be a lot of doubt when he appears. Kind of like the restoration of the Church -- it will be glaring and obvious that something has majorly changed. It will not be a subtle change.

I don't have a firm view on this and I'm looking at all angles...

but I wonder...

Do you think it will be obvious?

Why does Jesus say that even the elect will be deceived?

Yes, He does [Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:22]

That's why I'm not at all convinced of the "oh, he will be easy to spot" argument, because it simply won't be true. The Man of Sin will do great signs and wonders in order to convince men that he is god, which is why a cult develops around him when he seats himself in the holy place. The Mark will come once he has thoroughly convinced most that he is god, it will be something people will take willingly to show their devotion, not something forced upon everyone like this shot.

Those elect who have been deceived will only really wake up to it once the Two Witnesses come and start preaching against Antichrist.

This is also why the Dimond argument that JPII is the Antichrist doesn't work, because while he has deceived many that he was the Pope, people did not believe him to be god or worship him as a god. He may have taught that man is god, but that's just basic Masonic doctrine being passed off as Catholicism. Further, they assert that his image is "worshipped", which undermines the Catholic teachings of latria versus dulia, since he was declared a "saint", not god.

Therefore, we as Catholics, need to be very careful that we are not deceived. As Our Lord will come in all power and majesty from the clouds [Matthew 24:30]. Anyone else who comes claiming to be the son of god in any other manner will be a deceiver.

Yeah but just be sure (((they))) don't Project Blue Beam such a deception. Make sure the doctrines/dogmas are the same as taught by the real Jesus Christ and His Church before the Vatican II eclipse by Counterchurch.