THE MYSTERY OF THE "MARK OF THE BEAST" AND THE "CITY OF DESTRUCTION"

Rev 13:11  And I beheld ANOTHER BEAST coming up of the earth with two horns like a LAMB speaking as a DRAGON. 12 He exercised all the power of the FIRST BEAST .., causing the earth and them who dwell therein to worship the FIRST BEAST, whose deadly wound was healed. 15  He had power to REVIVE the IMAGE of the BEAST, that the BEAST'S REPRESENTATIVE should SPEAK and CAUSE as many as would NOT WORSHIP the RESEMBLANCE of the BEAST to be KILLED.  16 He caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a MARK in their right hand, or their foreheads: 17 That no man might BUY or SELL, lest he that had the MARK, or the NAME of the BEAST, or the NUMBER of his NAME.

Isa 19:18  In that day FIVE CITIES in the land of Egypt shall speak the doctrine of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; ONE shall be called, The CITY OF DESTRUCTION. 19  In that day shall there be an ALTAR unto YAH in the midst .. of Egypt, and a PILLAR at its border unto YAH.  20 He shall be for a SIGN and a WITNESS unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry unto the LORD because of the OPPRESSORS, and HE shall send them a SAVIOR, and a GREAT ONE, and He shall DELIVER them.

Isa 23:8  WHO took this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose MERCHANTS are PRINCES,...  24:1  Behold, the LORD lays the land waste, ...  2  .. the BUYER shall be as the SELLER, the lender as the borrower, the creditor as the debtor. 5  For the earth is polluted by its inhabitants. They TRANSGRESSED LAWS, violated statutes, BROKE the EVERLASTING COVENANT.  (Zech.9:1-10, Rev.ch.18)