The Mark of The Beast and The Second Coming

By Sigurjon Helgi Kristjansson

For centuries, people have claimed, that the Bible is full of 'parables' and half of the stories never took place, and that they are copies of other stories like the Epic of Gilgamesh etc.

In this book, the author, sets forth PROOF, that the Exodus took place during the reign of Ahmose, when the destruction of Sodom and Gommorrah took place, The hidden meaning of the first eight words in Genesis, as well as the misinterpretation of 666 in the Apocalypse (Revelation) of St. John the Divine, and that 666 is NOT a code for emperor NERO.

It also covers prophecies regarding the BEAST and other prophecies already coming true, to be followed up in another book later this year.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sigurjon Helgi Kristjansson
• Release date: Mar 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201678890

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The Mark Of The Beast

And The Second Coming

Beware the Beast the comes as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the Dajjal is a silver-tongued devil who will use his fitnah (seductive powers) to deceive many world leaders and even religious leaders.  Those who follow him will (regrettably) willingly put on the mark of servitude (slavery), and he will get them to believe, that what he is asking them to do is Kaffara or Fidya, (penance or acts of contrition) to overpower the greater and lesser Jihads; When in fact, it is no more than Taqiyya and Hudna (lies or deception) he is using, not just against the world leaders and other religious leaders, but even his own, as the end justifies the means.  – Beware the Dajjal, and do not take upon yourself his mark of servitude, for you will then be forever in his power.

It is for this reason, that the word ‘number’ in Revelation 13:18, should be translated as ‘multitude’, as in Greek, things are implied by intonation, thus the sentence could read:

Here is wisdom.  Let him that have understanding, count the multitude of the beast: for it is the multitude of a man; and his multitude is ‘in the name of Allah’.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Prologue

Chapter 1 In the beginning thou shalt examine the end

Chapter 2 Genesis – In the beginning

* Day One 1st Millennium, 1-1000

* Day Two 2nd Millennium, 1001-2000

* Day Three 3rd Millennium, 2001-3000

* Day Four 4th Millennium, 3001-4000

* Day Five 5th Millennium, 4001-5000

* Day Six 6th Millennium, 5001-6000

* Day Seven 7th Millennium, 6001-7000

* Day Eight 8th Millennium, 7001-8000

Chapter 3 The Lord’s appointed times or Holy Convocations i.e. Solemn Assemblies

The spring feasts

* Pesach (Passover)

* Matzot (Feast of unleavened bread)

* Bikkurim (The feast of first fruits)

* Ruach Ha’Qodesh (Pentecost)

The autumn feasts

* Yom Teruah (The feast of Trumpets)

* Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)

* Sukkot (The feast of tabernacles (booths))

The other feasts

* 8th day Semini Atzeret Return to Permanent Dwellings

* Hanukkah (The feast of Light)

‒ First Night

‒ Second Night

‒ Third Night

‒ Fourth Night

‒ Fifth Night

‒ Sixth Night

‒ Seventh Night

‒ Eighth Night

THE SANCTUARY

Courtyard

- Inner Court

- Altar of Sacrifice or Burnt Offerings

- Brazen Sea or Laver

Sanctum

- Table of Shewbread

- Menorah or Lampstand

- Altar of Burning Incense

- The Veil

Sanctum Sanctorum

- Ark of the Covenant

Chapter 4 G-d’s Wedding Plan

The 12 steps of The Wedding of The Lamb

* Step 1 ‒ Selection of the Bride

* Step 2 ‒ Price of the Bride (Dowery)

* Step 3 ‒ Betrothal and giving of the Ketubah

* Step 4 ‒ Consent of the Bride

* Step 5 ‒ The Cup of the Covenant

* Step 6 ‒ Gifts for the Bride

* Step 7 ‒ Cleansing the Bride  ‒ The Mikvah

* Step 8 ‒ Departure of the Groom

* Step 9 ‒ The Waiting Bride

* Step 10 ‒ Return of the Bridegroom

* Step 11 ‒ The Huppah Covering

* Step 12 ‒ The Marriage Supper

Chapter 5 Solemn Assemblies and suggestions on how to keep them

* Pesach (Passover) – 14th Nisan

- What is a Seder?

- What are some of the key symbols of the Passover Seder?

- What are traditional Passover foods?

- Why don’t Jews eat leavened bread during Passover?

* Matzah (Unleavened bread) – 15th Nisan

* Bikkurim (First fruits); Day after the Sabbath after Pesach - Nisan

* Shavuot (Pentecost); 50 days later - Sivan

* Yom T’ruah (Trumpets); Rosh Hashanah – New Moon – 1st Tishri

* Yom Kippur (Atonement) 9 days later – 10th Tishri

* Sukkot (Tabernacles) lasts 7 days – 15th Tishri

* 8th Day – Semini Atzeret (Return to Permanent Dwellings) – 22nd Tishri

Chapter 6 Lunar calculations and encryptions in the Torah

Chapter 7 The flood of Noah (The Royal Ark Mariners)

Chapter 8 The Ziggurat of Babylon(Tower of Babel (Babil))

Chapter 9 Sodom and Gomorrah

* The resurrection of the dead

* Why were these souls born?

Chapter 10 The Exodus

* The Ten Plagues

* Egyptian gods against whom the ten plagues were possibly directed

* Counter arguments

* Stele of Merneptah

* Decalogue

Chapter 11 The Mark of the Beast and the Second Coming

* Signs of the Times

Chapter 12 The unveiling in the scriptures

Chapter 13 The Shape of things to come

* Meaning of the word Masih (Messiah)

* Why is the Dajjal called Masih (Messiah)?

* Meaning of the word Dajjal

* Description of the Dajjal and the ahadith narrated concerning him

* Attributes of the Dajjal

* Hadiths about the Dajjal

* Is what is written between the eyes of the Dajjal real?

* Where will the Dajjal emerge?

* Places which the Dajjal will never enter

* The followers of the Dajjal

* The fitnah (seduction) of the Dajjal

* Protection against the fitnah of the Dajjal

* Prophetic guidelines on how to protect yourself from the fitnah of the Dajjal

* Who will kill the Dajjal?

* Hadiths about the death of the Dajjal

Chapter 14 Non-biblical prophecies and instructions given to mankind

* Alois Irlmaier

* Georgia Guidestones

* Chilbolton Crop Circle

Chapter 15 Joseph Smith Jr. was a prophet of G-d

* Scriptures from other nations

* Articles of Faith

Chapter 16 The Rosetta Stone and The Xochicalco Stela

Chapter 17 Personal revelations

Epilogue

Addendum

Bibliography

Filmography

Annex 1 – Get Your House In Order.

Annex 2 – Our Genesis according to the Book of Genesis in The Bible, and Book of Moses and Book of Abraham in The Pearl of Great Price.

About the author

A Letter from the author

The Mark

Of The Beast

And The

Second Coming

By

Sigurjón Helgi Kristjánsson

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to our heavenly father, the grand architect of the universe, and his only begotten son, the prince of peace, Yahushua the Christ, יהוה,who by the command of his father, and the power of the everlasting priesthood created the universe in which we live in, as is stipulated in The Book of Hebrews in The Bible, without whose blood sacrifice, mankind would not stand a chance of returning into the presence of our heavenly father and mother, and to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Comforter, without whose guidance mankind would fall flat on its face, and last but not least, to our heavenly mother, whose sacred role in creation is so sacred, that she is barely mentioned, for the fear of dishonouring her name, and thus breaking the commandment which states: „Honour thy father and thy mother".

There are undoubtedly those, who will moan at me, for not having written out the name of our Lord.  To these un-enlightened people I say, read Genesis 3:13-14, where Moshe (Moses) asked the Lord to tell him what he should reply, when the people want to know who sent him (Moses).  The reply was: Eheyeh Asher Eheyeh – I AM THAT I AM.  But G-d tells him to tell them that ‘Eheyeh’ – ‘I AM’ sent him.  יהוה or YHWH, means ‘I AM’. – G is always called according to his actions (see Exodus 3:6 in the Midrash).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To all the prophets from the beginning of time, who worked so diligently at bringing us the pure and undefiled word of G, and the Lord’s servants who go out and preach the Gospel of his beloved son, Yahushua the Christ, יהוה pure and undefiled.

I should especially like to thank Chaimbentorah.com for their invaluable lessons in Hebrew, for without their instruction, this work would have taken much longer or even been an insurmountable task.

I should also like to thank those who permitted the use of their photographs in this publication, as well as Smashwords.com that enabled me to start my career as a author, and Draft2Digital a.k.a. D2D which has now acquired smashwords.com as this book is being completed, thus giving a larger distribution network, without making it more expensive for the consumer.

There are those, who will be annoyed with me, for repeatedly typing G, G-d etc. instead of writing the words out in full.  To these people, I refer to the Table of Contents, where they will see the word Decalogue.  In it they will find that we should not take the name of our Lord in vain.

Hence, the abbreviations.

The Mark of

The Beast

And The

Second Coming

By

Sigurjón Helgi Kristjánsson

יוחנן הקדוש בנו המנצח של כריסטיאן

Copyright © Sigurjón Helgi Kristjánsson 2022

By

Sigurjón Helgi Kristjánsson

יוחנן הקדוש בנו המנצח של כריסטיאן

Introduction

As I contemplated continuing with my creative writing, I felt the need to pause.  I decided to heed this prompting and ask the LORD, what he would have me write.  The result was a vison of the scriptures with images, images which were worth tens of thousands of words.

I realized, that the LORD wanted me to write about his second coming, but not just say that he is coming soon, but to prove it to my fellow men, and how they can know.

If this case were to go to court, you would need at least two witnesses for the courts to consider the testimony irrefutable.  One is not enough, although having a witness is always good

The scriptures have many witnesses to the events contained therein, including the resurrection of Jesus Christ and those who died in him, but people seem to ignore this fact, and just pick and choose what to believe, just to pacify their conscience as they cannot accept responsibility for their actions, and so they ridicule and make fun of others who have listened to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, and want drag them to hell with them, as it is easier than to admit there is only one G-d, who delegated it to his son to create this Earth, became as we are and was sacrificed to atone for our sins.

Just like there are eleven men who witness to having seen the brass plates the Book of Mormon were written on, and though some left the Church, the never recanted their testimony of having witnessed having seen the plates.  But do people accept their testimony, or the testimonies of those who have lacked wisdom and fasted and prayed Heavenly Father to reveal to them the validity of the book, and received confirmation via The Holy Spirit.  No, they do not, irrespective of it being another testimony of Jesus Christ, when he came to the Americas.

Irrespective of the saviour having said to his disciples, that he had other sheep that he had to visit, which these people acknowledge, all of the miracles he wrought, his resurrection along with all those who died in him, they still go so far as to say: Bible, a Bible?  What do I need another Bible for?

Furthermore, their logic behind it, are the words at the end of the Book of Revelation: "...If any man shall add to these things, G-d shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, G-d shall take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."

They go so far as to say, that John, was talking about the Bible.  But how could he, since the Bible hadn’t been collected into one book in 78 A.D.  Moreover, the word Bible, is taken from the Greek word Biblía, which means books.  Hence John was referring to THE BOOK OF REVELATION and not THE BIBLE, as I just said, it hadn‘t even been collected into one book.

Many archeologists, theologians and other scholars, decline to acknowledge, that the stories in the Bible actually took place, instead, they prefer to believe that they are only stories, allegories etc. and if any scholar dares to contradict them, they are laughed out of their respective academies.

However, when these same scholars bring physical and scientific proof of the stories, there are very few comments, if any.  Even psychiatrists say: Praying to G-d is fine, but if you start hearing answers, come see me.  If people followed their advice, we wouldn’t have prophets.

Surely the Lord G-d will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Amos 3:7

People disregard everything that points to a higher power, that they must answer to, as they feel it interferes with their free agency.  Well, I can tell you, that it does not.  They can do as they please, just like they can in any country.  They just have to accept the consequences of the laws of the land, just like they must answer to the laws of G-d.

In this book, I desire to show people, that the scriptures are indeed the word of G-d, and that we should not just read them, but study them, and ponder them in our hearts, and then ask the Lord, i.e. pray G-d, ‒ yes, I said pray G-d, for the word pray means to ask, so if you Pray G-d, you ASK G-D, ‒ if they are true and more importantly, your understanding of the scriptures.

If the scriptures you are reading, are true, then, The Holy Spirit will testify to you about the matter, by letting your heart burn.  If what you have read, is not true, then you will have stupor of thought. — But beware, for you must also ponder if your understanding is correct.

What can also influence this, is the translation of the scriptures, for a play on words, or things of a double meaning, may get lost in translation, and what is worse, is that a jot or tittle not or incorrectly translated, can change the meaning of a whole sentence, paragraph or even a whole chapter or book, if the error is perpetuated.

Take for example the Lord’s prayer, which is recited by so many, instead of offering up a prayer from the heart.  People thoughtlessly repeat it without batting an eye, and say: ...and lead us not into temptation..., I ask you, would an all good G-d, lead you into temptation?  The answer is: Nay.  The prayer should read: ...and allow us not to be lead into temptation..., this is made abundantly clear, if we were to actually study the scriptures, instead of just reading segments, for in the Book of Job, we see where the adversary (Satan, as that is the meaning of his name), has to petition the Lord, to tempt Job.

Later in the New Testament, the Lord himself teaches us, Whosoever is not with me, is against me.  Put differently Whosoever is not with me, is my adversary (or Satan, albeit servant of Satan, or Devil’s advocate).

Let us now examine Psalms 27:13, where we read: [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  Amazingly enough, In Psalms 27:13 the words I had fainted are not in the original text, yet there is nothing in the text to indicate what David would have done if not for his belief to see the goodness of God.  So it is left to the imagination of the reader and/or translator to determine what would have happened to David after experiencing the trauma of war.  The word in Hebrew for unless is Lula, which has the idea of but for, if not for, were it not for, etc.  Hence the sentence could be translated as Were it not for David’s belief in the goodness of God, he would have fainted, given up, albeit to use a term from the period, his heart would have failed him.

The word belief is a verb which is in a Hyphal perfect form. Thus, he was made or caused to believe that he would see the goodness of the Lord.  David witnessed or experienced something that caused him to believe in the goodness of God in the midst of the horrors of war.

The word to see is indeed an in infinitive form in a simple state. The word see comes from the root word ra’ah and can mean either physical or spiritual seeing or both.  Hence, it can also mean to experience.  Thus, one interpretation, which I believe is a good interpretation, is that even in the midst of war, one of the most evil experiences one may have, even there he could experience the goodness of God or maybe even see it.  The compassion was given to the wounded, the many evil things that could have happened but didn’t.

The Lord himself, taught us to weep with those who weep, and mourn with those who mourn.  Put differently, we should not say the hollow words: I know how you feel, without actually knowing it from our own experience; Therefore, instead of showing sympathy, we should get out of our comfort zone, and experience their pain with them, thus enabling us to show empathy.

Let us a look at a related example: Isaiah 63:9: In all their affliction he afflicted...  Matthew 5:18: For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  Here is something I have never understood about the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia or the Kittle which is the standard Masoretic text used by our Western Christian translators as well as in seminaries and Bible Colleges.  For you Hebrew students, check out the word lo in Isaiah 63:9 in your Hebrew Bible. You will notice a (.) above the word.  In your Kittle or Stuttgartensia you will see a (o) above the word.  What that little mark means, that even translators tend to ignore is that this is not what is found in the original text, it is Oral Tradition.  To those of us who believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God, that little mark is very important, for Jesus warned us in Matthew 5:18; For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

The misinterpretation of the scriptures, and lack of dedication by translators is scary, as they could lead a whole nation or even many generations astray, because of them not paying attention to detail.  The standard Christian teaching was that the tittle was the tagin (crown on the letters) found in the Sefer Torah and the Magilan Esther (handwritten portions of the Bible).  You also find it on the terrillin and mezuzah.  This made little sense to me, as the tagin each have special meanings which are not inspired, so why would Jesus condemn the changing of something that was not inspired.  So I examined the secondary explanation that the tittle was like the foot on the Tav and if you eliminate that, you have a Cheth, until a Hebrew scholar who was an ultra-orthodox rabbi, pointed out that in the Greek the word that has been translated as tittle is keraia.  The word tittle comes from the Latin which was first used in the 11th Century to distinguish the letter i from strokes of nearby letters.  Although originally a larger mark, it was reduced to a dot when Roman-style typefaces were introduced. It is called a diacritic. Hence the word tittle means the dot above the lower case i or j."  In Greek the word keraia means a hook or serif and was most likely referring to a Greek diacritic, (i.e. left and right accented commas above letters, whereas in the Nordic countries they only have right accented commas ‘´’, two dots above letters, like the German ‘umlaut’, i.e. ‘¨’ or a little ‘o’, as referenced above ‘°’.  Iota is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet and was used as a small diacritic called a hypogegrammeni.  The word jot is derived from Yod in Aramaic and means Iodine.  The Iota is like the Yod in the Hebrew and Hebrew as the smallest letter of the alphabet.  I am ok with that, but it is the keraia or tittle that has me wondering.  The Aramaic word for tittle is serta which means a scratch, line, point of a letter just a stroke of a pen.  In its Semitic root it is used for a scratch like wound or mark.

That leaves it open to a number of possibilities, but Jewish scholars tend to point to Isaiah 63:9 and the mark over the word lo as a title.  If this is the case then what Jesus is telling us in Matthew 5:18 is to go with the original manuscript and not what Oral Tradition tells us.  Hence your Kittle or Stuttgartensia will not give you the original word, it only gives what oral tradition dictates with a little tittle above it to alert you to the fact that there is another word used here and it could only find that word in the Sefer Torah or other Jewish copies of the original Hebrew.

You see the word ‘lo’ in this verse is written differently than it is read.  It is originally written as ‘lu’. The original uses a Vav and not an Aleph. ‘Lo’ means no or there is not.  ‘Lu’ means he. Both readings were meant to be combined so it could be translated correctly.  Because our English versions overlook this tittle our rending of this passage in Isaiah 63:9 is a reference to the coming Messiah, Jesus: In all their afflictions, he was afflicted. i.e. He suffered as they suffered or it broke his heart to see them suffer.  That is comforting, but there is more to it.  If we pay close attention to this tittle and as a good Christians should, we see this passage when speaking of Jesus, to also be rendered as: In all their afflictions, He is afflicted, THEN THERE IS NO AFFLICTION.  Put differently, we are taught, to pray G-d to remove our sufferings, albeit role them over on him, Rabbia (who see the He as God and not Jesus) point out this little oversight Christians make and add: When one knows how to praise God in this way, the suffering will disappear by itself.  In other words, when a person realizes that God is present in all his afflictions, then your affliction is shared with Jesus, and He can make the afflictions themselves cease to exist. — Thus, if we want to be more Christlike and good ministers (neighbours), then we should mourn with those who mourn and weep with those who weep", by sharing their burdens, albeit make their burdens light, by making them cease to exist.  Hence the expression, many hands make light work.

Since I started work on this book, a few things have happened, that caused delays with the setting up of this book, and I think it was the guiding hand of the Lord in this work.

The reason being, that as I was approaching what would normally classed as the ‘finishing touches’, I felt prompted  by the spirit, to tweak a chapter here, and add a little bit there, and then things I had already written about, came to pass, so I decided to highlight that, and give a relevant scripture quote, and to see if the scripture quote would get a response, I put the quote on my personal Facebook page, and I got a ‘shocked emoji’😮😲 – which told me, that I was on the right track, and that the Lord’s hand was in this work as well.  He want’s people to notice, the signs of the time and the shape of things to come, and wants his children to repent and come unto him with a broken heart and a contrite spirit and come into his rest.

As I was working on the finishing touches on this book, I came across a program called Finding Magic Mike Live. – I must be leading a very sheltered life, living in the U.K., as I thought it was akin to Britain’s got talent, but had to do with Conjurers and Illusionists or Magicians (Those who implement great knowledge; i.e. derived from the word Magi or wise men).

No such luck.  It had all to do with teaching men how to find their charisma and inner magic, to work on women, but by doing a strip tease and lap dancing.

This is exactly, the kind of decadence that was at the time of Noah, when the Lord, washed the sins away from the earth, and the decadence and lasciviousness that has reigned among the worlds greatest empires, just before they fall, be it the Roman empire or the Third Reich.  The Lord’s cup runneth over, and neither Henor his Spirit will tackle mankind much longer.

The inevitable result is, that places of decadence and people of lasciviousness will be done away with one way or another.

The Lord covenanted with Noah, that He would never flood the whole earth again, and placed the rainbow in the sky as a reminder of that covenant.

However, He never said that He wouldn’t flood parts thereof, be it with tidal waves, dam breaches or mudslides during heavy rain.  But He has revealed to his prophets many times, that He will use volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and utilize nature with other disasters to bring about His recompense upon those who hate Him and do not keep his commandments and upon those who have defiled themselves in various ways and not kept their covenants.

Upon those, He will show no mercy, lest they repent quickly and for the right reason, just as he did with Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities of the plains.  They were given ample warning, but ridiculed Lot, just as Noah had been ridiculed in Antediluvian times.

History then repeated itself at The Tower of Babel.  This shows, that where people go astray from G-d, destruction follows.  This happened to the Roman Empire, as it did many empires before that, and it will happen to Babylon the great as unveiled in the scriptures.

He will come quickly, and as is written in this book, it will be on the feast of Trumpets, that He will call the covenant keepers.  The rest shall suffer The Great Indignation, and many will try and flee the calamities; The Pope will flee Roma, the islands will flee and gather together and create one landmass as Pangea in days of yore, mountains will be made low, and mountains appear where valleys once were.

Sigurjón Helgi Kristjánsson

יוחנן הקדוש בנו המנצח של כריסטיאן

Prologue

There are many faiths in this world, many are more philosophies than religions.  Regrettably, through the seduction of charismatic leaders, be they dictators or whatever names they use to glorify themselves and to deceive others, claiming to be acting as G-d’s emissary, when in fact, all they are doing is the bidding of the adversary, The Great Pretender, the destroyer of souls and worlds.

I spent years investigating different faiths, and I must admit, some are ingeniously seductive, but if you truly investigate them, and are not dissuaded by the cunning of religious leaders, then you will find The Holy Grail of Truth which you seek.

A ’priest’ of an unnamed denomination, was interviewed back in the 80’s, when Iceland had nearly 4% unemployment, which according to economics is the ideal point to create balance in society.  During the interview, he was asked what people should do, to get through the financial difficulties, as inflation was running rampant.  He sat there very calmly, and said, that people should have savings, just as the governments are always preaching to people, but unfortunately, the savings accounts on offer, are absolute rubbish, as are other forms of savings like ISA’s, which even bank staff, have made the mistake of placing additional funds into up to the amount of £5 000, only to have it eaten up by changes in inflation and other governmental actions or measures.  When asked, how much people should save; He said, oh around £200.  Back in the early 80’s the average wage was around £750 if you were in a well-paid job in the U.K.  Based on inflation, the savings suggested, would be equivalent to £500 today, and I can tell you in no uncertain terms, that neither amount is within the financial capabilities of any family; In fact, they would be lucky if they could save £20 a month the way prices keep shooting up.  When asked how much HE was earning, He admitted, that HE was earning, in excess of ISK 100 000, which was equivalent to £1 000 back then.  This caused his parishioners to investigate their ‘church’s’ finances, and they discovered, that the lion share of their tithes and offerings went to pay HIS wages, and MORTGAGE.  No wonder he could afford to put £200 aside each month. – Needless to say,