Mark of the Beast


The Number of the Beast


Control over Three Essential Global Activities


The Second Beast seeks authority and control over three essential activities in the world. First, he wants to control the world politics. “And he exercises all the authority of the first beast” which indicates he wants to conquer the world like his Islamic predecessor Mohammed. Second, he wants to control the world religions. “. . . and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” (Rev. 13:12) It means he wants to make Islam the dominant religion in the world. Third, his actions will effect the world economy. “And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one can buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” (Rev. 13:16-18)


The Number 666

Let me share with you what I think about the number of the beast which is the number of a man. God created man on the sixth day therefore the number of man is six (6). There are three main activities in the government that belong to man. They are politics, religion and economics. The number of a man who is also the Second Beast 666 indicates the Beast’s politics, the Beast’s religion and the Beast’s economics.


The Beast Politics

The Beast wants to control the world politics. Osama bin Laden hates America because our nation is the only one that can stop him from achieving his evil ambition of world domination. Secondly, we are the staunch supporter of Israel that he seeks to destroy. Thirdly, we have vast interests in Saudi-Arabia. One of his doctrines is that no infidel (non-Muslims) can occupy any land belonging to a Muslim nation. Osama and the Al Queda terrorists are trying to muster the support of all Muslim nations to fight against America.


In the Old Testament the number 666 appears in the elements concerning Goliath, the champion of the Philistines who were the enemies of Israel. Goliath stood six cubits and a span tall, his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels, and he had six different types of armor and weapons: a helmet, a coat of mail, bronze leg protectors, a javelin, a spear, and a sword. His shield was carried by an assistant, so Goliath personally had only six different weapons and armor.


What is the significance of this? Goliath defied Israel and therefore the God of Israel, and challenged the Israelites to a physical confrontation. He was a giant who was forcing himself onto God's people, like the Second Beast and Extreme Muslims have done and will do. David said:

"Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God." (1 Samuel 17:36)

Here the 666 is connected with those who were waging war against God's people. The enemies of God's people are identified by the number 666. The greatest enemies of both Jews and Christians today are the Extreme Muslims such as Osama bin Laden, Al-Queda terrorists, the Talibans in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya and other Islamic nations that support terrorism. Goliath started the attack but David killed him with a stone, with God's help. Extreme Muslims have started the new war, but America and Israel will be victorious with God's help. Like the stone of David the destruction of the Beast system under the Talibans have been accomplished by accurate pinpoint bombings by the U. S. Special Operation forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.


The Beast Religion

If we count the Roman Catholic Church separately from the other Christian denominations the Islamic religion has the most members worldwide. It is in a period of rapid growth. It is expected that, if current trends continue, Islam will become the most popular religion sometime in the mid-21st century. The World Almanac 2002 gives the world membership of Muslims as 1.2 billion and 4.5 million in North America.

Six is the number of man and also the number of the Beast (Rev. 13:17-18). There are six major beliefs of Islam. These are: one God, God’s Prophets, Sacred Books, Man’s relations with God, angels and other spirits, and the Day of Judgement. Islam is the religion that has the number of the Beast.

Seven is the number of completion because God ended His work of creation on the Seventh Day and He rested, blessed and sanctified the seventh day (Gen. 2:1-3). God commanded man to worship Him on the Seventh Day Sabbath (Ex. 20:8-11). Daniel prophesied the beast would change times and law (Dan. 7:25). The beast had changed the day of worship from the seventh day to the sixth day. Muslims, all over the world, worship on Friday that is the sixth day of the week. This day of worship is not ordained by God but by the Beast.

The Beast Economics

“And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one can buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Rev. 13:16-17)

Why did the Beast choose the World Trade Center as its primary target? This is a demonstration of his evil power that anyone in the world who does not accept his mark, which is his political ideology, his perverted form of Islamic religion and his system of economics, cannot “buy or sell.” In addition to the immediate devastating impact of the attacks, there has been a significant disruption of national, state and local economic systems, including, financial, transportation, trade, business and tourism activities. The terrorist attack on the United States affects world economics.


The International Monetary Fund has forecast a sharper slowdown in the world economy, following the terrorist attacks in the United States. It forecasts a sombre short-term outlook for the Japanese economy, with significant implications for the rest of East Asia. The dramatic collapse in American consumer confidence, following the World Trade Center attack, increases the likelihood that the US economy will slide into recession. Until now, consumer spending was the key factor underpinning the US economy.


Analysts warn that the US economy could be plunged into recession should consumer confidence collapse in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The economic impact on developing countries of the attack on the World Trade Center was already being felt on day after the attack.

Government ministers in developing countries moved to reassure citizens and investors but expressed fears about the outlook for their countries. Their economic programs, often formulated with the IMF and World Bank and reliant on foreign investment, could be undermined.

Exports by these countries to the US, the world's biggest consuming nation, were already flagging before the attacks and could now fall further as consumer confidence is eroded.

Economic impact

The attacks are expected to deal the blow to US consumer confidence that would delay Asia's recovery from the sharpest export slowdown in a decade.

Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma, speaking at the Asian and European Economic Ministers meeting in Vietnam, expressed alarm over the implications, but added he hoped they would not be lasting.

"In the short term, there is a very big economic impact," he said on Wednesday.

That position was echoed around Asia and the world.

China's junior trade minister Sun Zhenyu said the extent of the fallout was already clear.

"We know the stock markets have already been adversely affected. Exports to the US will go down to a certain degree," he said.

Blow to revival hopes

Taiwanese computer makers said the disruption to flights into the US came just as sales were picking up ahead of Christmas. Even if the airports reopen, tighter security could cause pile-ups and backlogs, they said.

South Korean Trade Minister Doo-Yun Hwang said the attacks would have a "negative impact" on trade, investment and the exchange rate but added he hoped it would be "short-lived."

"Do not panic," said Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on national television after Russians rushed to sell the US dollar, sending the rouble plunging.

Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso also warned there could be economic difficulties for Latin America's largest country.

"It is probable that considering the virulent nature of these acts there will be consequences in the whole world, mainly economic," he said.

"The whole world is in a turmoil," said Somkid Jatusripitak, finance minister in Thailand.


The Number of the Man and the Beast named Mohammed


“Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” (Rev. 13:18)

The Beast referred to here is the confederacy of the Radical or Extreme Islamic states that includes the Taliban, Al Queda and other nations which is to take shape during the End Time. The man is Mohammed --- the identification coming from Gematria, the ancient Hebrew science which assigns numerical values to words.

In Gematria, the value of a word is determined by adding the numerical equivalents of the individual letters that form it. Here, then, are the steps necessary for identifying Mohammed as the "name" and "number" of the beast:

The simplest phonetic transcription of the word 'Mohammed' is:

(1)      M      O     H       A       M       E      D

In ancient Hebrew, the closest counterparts of those sounds are:

(2)    Mem   Waw   Hey   Aleph   Mem    Yod   Dalet

The proper character representation for the word Mohammed in John's Vision is:

(3)    

1