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• MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.…

  It’s somewhat interesting to see how they align though

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  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is not interesting to take a single prediction of a totalitarian leader controlling commerce and play games with the number 666 while ignoring that earliest manuscripts had 616 and the beast is mortally wounded / crowned with ten crowns / originates from the sea / persecutes Christians etc etc

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    • bitcrafter@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also, as I understand it, the Book of Revelation essentially only barely squeaked its way into the Bible anyway under the belief that its author was the same John as the John that wrote the Gospel of John; if it had been believed to have been authored by anyone else then it would have been left out because it was hardly a unique representative of its genre.

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      • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        John went to and had visions on the island of Patmos, supposedly known for its abundance of psychedelic mushrooms. See also Jakub, whose stories are referenced by the “Nation of Islam.”

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    • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No previous attempt has been tied to having a specific number to buy and sell like this one does though as all accounts are essentially numbers.

      Then there’s all the other signs which are also metaphorical (you really should know that and it is noteworthy when someone doesn’t) . I don’t believe in this but it’s odd.

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  • aarRJaay@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not going to lie, but this is where the seed of this question came from but didn’t want to launch into an end-of-times discussion too fully and not get a well-rounded conversation going which it seems to have done and given me some interesting answers but it seems that you’ve connected the dots. This certianly is a worrying time based on this.

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