REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Eight - The Mark of the Wild Beast

John now sees how Satan maneuvers the political parts of his visible organization to cause the maximum suffering for the remaining ones of the seed of God's woman.  (Genesis 3:15) He returns to describing "the wild beast" itself: "And it puts under compulsion all persons the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves they they should give these a mark on their right hand or forehead, and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person  having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.  Here is where the wisdom comes in: Let the one who has intelligence calculate the number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six." - REVELATION 13:16-18. 

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