On his radio broadcast today, Bryan Fischer took a call from a listener who suggested that Obamacare’s individual mandate was really a Mark of the Beast; an assessment with which Fischer agreed, saying that, in fact, we had already gone pretty far down that road before Obamacare was even passed.
Pointing to a case out of Louisiana where the state board of funeral directors unsuccessfully sought to prevent a local monastery from selling caskets without a funeral director’s license, Fischer said that government licensing requirements were actually the Mark of the Beast.
“Well what is that?” Fischer asked. “That’s the Mark of the Beast. You can’t buy, you can’t sell without permission from the Beast, without permission from the government. So anytime you’ve got the government involved in deciding who gets to engage in commerce and who doesn’t and they can’t engage in commerce unless they get some kind of official permission from the government, that’s the Mark of the Beast”:
