As recorded by St John the 'mark' looks like the Greek letters Chi, Xi and Sigma-Tau (a ligature of Sigma and Tau).
More usefully, here is an image of the so-called 666 from the Codex Vaticanus of Revelation which dates to around 350 AD - 200 to 300 years after John wrote Revelation. These marks are often - and erroneously - interpreted as '666' when they are in fact a simple image.
Let's look at that again:
Is there anything that looks like that? What could that be? I'm not sure, but it looks awfully familiar ...
That design is common in Islam. It is a pair of crossed swords next to the Bismallah - the Name of Allah.
It's not very clear, but you can just make out the X-shaped swords and the middle symbol on this piece of material:
And if we pull out a bit, we get the whole thing - this is an image of a armband belonging to Hamas:
I got these images from this PDF. It's well written and worth reading in its entirety. The Bismallah - the Name of Allah - worn on head and arm by fanatical jihadists the world over - is the Mark of the Beast.
Hope this is helpful
Very interesting!
Thanks for posting!
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Nully, check out # 15.