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666 is the number of the beast's name.
No, it doesn't; that only amounts to the number 18. What John wrote for the calculated number of the Sea Beast was a six-hundred-and-sixty-six amount. This was six-hundred-sixty-six YEARS that the Sea Beast had been in existence, ever since Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian empire had deported the first group of Jews from Jerusalem in 607 BC. As of the time John was writing Revelation around AD 59 / 60, the Sea Beast had existed for six-hundred-sixty-six YEARS until then. With a bit of wisdom thrown in, John's readers could count backward in time those 666 YEARS and recognize Israel's old enemy of all the pagan empires which had held control over the nation of Israel over the centuries (Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, and Roman).
Revelation 13 is about the last 42 months of the beast's rule before Jesus returns and casts the beast and the false prophet into the lake of fire. So, the vision that John was shown beginning in Revelation 13:1 was not of John's day, but far into the future to the end times.
I think the mark, inscription, of the beast's name, whatever that inscription will be, is directed as being an economic control measure.
Thanks for time line Doug, what interests me Ezekiel 39:12, this has me wondering again ??? Who is Gog's army ?
No, He did not and NOTHING in the Revelation 13 has been shown to be about any of the things speculated in the op. ALL of those speculations violate the most basic principles of sound exegesis.
Don't change the subject. We're discussing the mark of the beast, not the son of perdition.
Cop out. You have not evidenced anything remotely consistent with the end-times as Jesus (or the NT writers) described it AND you know what I am asking.
imo, Gog's army is the Russian military. GogMagog being a combined force of Russia and Muslim nations in the middle east, including Iran (Persia).
from Rev 13 we know --
Yes, it is. We give names to things at the point of their origin all the time, do we not? A business, a newborn baby, a school, a new church being founded, a club, a nation, etc., etc.. The 666 YEARS was the length of time since Rev. 13's "Beast from the Sea" began its named existence as of the time John was writing the book of Revelation. The Sea Beast began with King Nebuchadnezzar, and continued through the Medo-Persian empire, then the Greek empire, then its final phase being the Roman empire in John's days. That was the reason for the Sea Beast's conglomerate features of the lion, the bear, and the leopard (Rev. 13:2) because these features represented a conglomerate mix of all those former pagan empires who had held control over the nation of Israel over the centuries.
No, Rev. 13 has absolutely nothing to do with our future. Revelation 13:2 informs us that the Sea Beast was given the throne of the Dragon / Satan, (which "throne of Satan" was in Pergamos, according to Rev. 2:13). The entire Pergamos kingdom along with "Satan's throne" in the idolatrous city of Pergamos was bequeathed to the Roman Republic back in 133 BC by the last, dying King Attalus III. That identifies this Sea Beast as being connected with the Roman Republic, which is not a Beast that will appear in our future.
