American Greatness
Today, we have a new, modern beastly mark to beware. It is anything and everything with the prefix “multi.”
In the final, revelatory book of the Bible, we are told to beware the “mark of the beast”—that is, the mark of the devil or Satan himself. The number 666 denotes it.
“And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its head,” John writes. “And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.”
John, writing on the remote island of Patmos, was portraying the beasts already foretold in the Old Testament book of Daniel, representing a great empire—Rome—an uncivil, inhumane, and debauched place not supportive of its citizenry, which then turns its back on God and worships the devil. The pagan Romans are depicted as akin to a ferocious and devastating beast from the sea that eats all that is in its path.
