Tattoos and piercings (of all kinds, including earrings) have their origins in servitude and slavery. Such were used to mark a person as another's property or the property of a group, a culture (an ideological abstraction of a group), a sect or cult, etc., but never were the people of the true Ever Living God to be pierced or marked in the flesh in a way to indicate His ownership except for male circumcision. Completely unlike piercings and markings, which all added to the person something pertaining to another human being, male circumcision was the removal of something, typically indicating something related to origins (genitals are associated with procreation) and the hidden corruption within (under the foreskin, dead tissue will accumulate and decay if not regularly cleaned), and being that it is a very sensitive area hidden from view, removal of the foreskin was representative of removal of a facade which protected a man's corrupted secretmost parts, that being now revealed. In essence, it was the cutting away of pride to enable the cleansing from the accumulated sin hidden within. However, since Christ, we no longer require the physical form of circumcision (although it is still practiced throughout many cultures) since what is required is "circumcision of the heart", or, as the scripture puts it...
Rom 2:25-29 KJV For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. (26) Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? (27) And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? (28) For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: (29) But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
There is much scripture regarding circumcision but I will not dwell on it too much here except to say that true, spiritual circumcision is the cutting away of the outer layer, pride, to humble oneself before God, and to reveal the corruption that it hides so that it may be cleansed.
Tattoos and piercings, on the other hand, are a mark of subservience and, typically, to another human authority. The Israelites came out of Egypt heavily marked for, in the latter generations of their time in Egypt, they became accustomed to their servitude and markings of the flesh became almost as they are today, a fashionable excess, with their true meaning hidden behind cultural stories and rationalisation. However, in the Mosaic law, God required that no person cut himself (for the dead) nor make any marks upon himself:
Lev 19:28 KJV Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Although it indicates "for the dead" as a reason for the cuttings in the flesh, this does not constrain the limitation on making marks upon one's flesh and all manner of tattoos and piercings are marks. Remember that this law is of God and is not abolished as many would believe but, as with all of the law of God, should be part of the heart nature of the Christian for, although one as a Christian may or may not be aware of the details of each of the 613 Mosaic laws, their underlying purpose is found in God's own nature, His Spirit, so that any person imbued with His Spirit will sense, by his conscience, that such a thing is an affront to God. Of course, those who already marked their flesh with the marks of human authorities, or for the worship of ancestors, or whatever reason, are forgiven, and a wife would not be held to account for receiving an earring from her husband for they are bound to each other in the flesh (use the sense God has given you to discern and the scripture as your reference) but, in general, one should not, no... must not mark themselves in the flesh in deference to anything other than God (though God requires no such mark in the flesh) because to do so is to declare oneself the possession of something or someone other than the Ever Living God.
God marks His precious possessions, His children, with His Spirit, not in the flesh, for this current flesh is going to destruction since it is corrupted and has been so since the fall of mankind, but it will be replaced with a permanent and perfect flesh in which is no mark of the fall of Adam and in which is no corruption due to sin. Just as baptism is the rebirth of the spirit from corruption to incorruption, in essence spiritual resurrection, so too is the resurrection (or in the case of those in Christ who are alive when He returns, the immediate replacement) of the flesh the rebirth of the flesh from corruption to incorruption. It does not matter what the particular atoms are or where they came from for the flesh is not the atoms but it is structure, for nothing exists save that it has definable structure. Likewise the spirit body, which is the soul. The flesh is always renewing itself even as we breath, and your entire body is replaced every few years, even the brain cells, so what actually continues? The structure, the form that it has, which is an expression of the information it represents, that is what continues and that is precisely what it means for it to exist. Likewise, the soul, for the flesh body is a parable, an expression, of the spirit body, the soul. With the presence of the Spirit of God, over time the soul is being renewed day to day, not with one corrupt characteristic replacing another but, instead, being replaced with incorruptible, perfectly God-like characteristics. Over time the corrupt characteristics of the soul are being replaced with the perfect, uncorrupted, incorruptible characteristics of God's own Soul, God Himself, that is, the nature we call His Spirit. Upon the advent of one's death or the advent of the return of Christ (whichever may come first), the flesh is immediately replaced with that which is uncorrupted, and remains incorruptible as long as the soul occupying it remains uncorrupted, a permanent continuity of the characteristics, that is, the Spirit, of God, His image. An unrenewed soul cannot receive a perfect and renewed body of flesh in which to live for that flesh would be quickly corrupted by sin and would perish. God has no intention of doing this all again. The road of the cross and the tomb was once and once only, for all eternity. So, whatever good characteristics one acquires during this lifetime are those one takes to the other side. In that transition, all the remaining corruption of the righteous is immediately torn away so that what remains is whatever talents of gold, or precious and valuable pearls, characteristics expressing truth one has acquired during this lifetime (and remember that truth is a synonym of reality and only reality defined by God is actually reality). We DO take something with us when we die -- we take the nature and wisdom we have acquired. For the lost, the corruption they have constantly renewed in themselves becomes their entire nature for no longer is one's state restrained by the inertial nature of the physical, instantly going from where one is at the point of death to the eternal outcome of the direction one had upon crossing the river.
Hence, in steps the mark of the beast. To put it perfectly bluntly, to receive the mark of the beast is to declare oneself the possession of the beast or to accept servitude to the beast, which is, of course, the global power of the world, the money powers, the empire under the rule of Satan and, thus, one becomes the permanent possession of Satan. Since the fate of Satan is eternal destruction, so, too, is that of his possessions. No such person can then be born again of water and of the Spirit of God. They are completely off limits for the kingdom of God and lost in eternity. It is a choice one makes, to defer to the money powers which are under the authority of Satan or to God who is under no authority but of Himself.
The mark of the beast, which appears to be moving towards us surreptitiously via "digital ID" and then "global digital ID" and eventually its ultimate form, is the guarantee that a person will be forever lost, the mark of servitude to the money powers, to the kingdom of this world which belongs to Satan and is soon to be replaced. Therefore, all those who receive that mark of the beast, and it cannot be received without consent (it is still consent even if under duress), they will perish with the kingdom of Satan for his time is, even now, almost at an end.
Do not trust mankind, do not trust him when he speaks comforting or soothing words to you not of God but of his own, for those words do not have their origin with the eternal, Ever Living God, but with the enemy of God, of life, of creation and of humanity. They are the words of Babylon, of man declaring, "Let us build a tower and make a name for ourselves." Let God be the one to make a name for you, for that was the faith and righteousness of Abraham and it is only God, your Creator, who knows the true purpose of your existence. After all, what is a name but a description of purpose? Trust only in the Almighty One, the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, the Father of Yeshua and, hopefully, your Father, too.
