666 - The Number of the Beast!

As a young unsaved man I was very much into the heavy metal scene, not just participating in the lifestyle and culture, but also in the playing of this music. A song that we use to play and listen to was a song by Iron Maiden called, “The Number of the Beast”. The intro of this song begins with a man with a very ire voice quoting Revelation 12:12, 13:18.

"Woe to You Oh Earth and Sea for the Devil sends the beast with wrath because he knows the time is short.Let him who have understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number,its number is six hundred and sixty six"

Today millions of heavy metal fans across the world know this intro of this song as they know their very own names. They can quote this passage verbatim as unsaved religious folks can quote the Lord’s Prayer. I truly wonder how many - lost and saved today - fully comprehend the full magnitude, weight and depth of this exponential super abounding time called the Great Tribulation; in which there will be the exponential demonic oppression and tyranny of the "Devil" and his anti Christ (i.e., the Beast) (Rev. 9, 12:7-17). The very ones who can quote these same Scriptures fused into this Iron Maiden song (Rev.12:12, 13:18) will most likely be alive when this very Satanic institution goes into full affect (Matt. 24:15). What this song has done is to take the sting out of Almighty God's horrific warning and has neutered these Bible verses by twisted them to subtly promote the acceptance of the demonic agenda of 666, which will reign over the world very shortly (Rev. 12:12; 13:18).

"The very ones who can quote these same Scriptures fused in this Iron Maiden song will most likely, be alive when this very Satanic intuition goes into effect". .The words despotic, authoritarian, tyrannical, autocratic etc. with all of their deepest and fullest descriptions, fall so exceedingly short when seeking to describe the Satanic tyranny and oppression during these last 3 ½ years called “The Great Tribulation” (Matt. 24:21-22). So horrific a time this will be that the Lord Jesus stated that, “if the days were not cut short NO ONE (flesh) WOULD EVER SURVIVE” (Matt. 24:22)! This "time period" is experientially far more horrific then all the world wars and global pestilence ever put together. To add to man’s global woes during this time, the inhabitants of the world will have a supernatural oppressor and tyrant whose power, strength and genius exponentially surpasses the limited confines of mankind.

This fallen evil genus (Lucifer - aka. Satan) and his rebellious host of untold millions of fallen angels will be - because of their expulsion from any access to the third heaven - confined and concentrated to this little o’l planet called earth (Rev.12:7-17). Planet earth will become their new temporal prison cell (Rev. 18:2) till Christ’s glorious return to earth in which these demonic hordes will be placed back in the abyss until they are assigned into the Lake of Fire FOREVER(Matt 25:41, Rev. 19:11-21). It has been this very time and hour that has been the most haunting and dreadful thought in the minds of the fallen angelic hosts, for they now know indeed that their time is very short (Matt. 8:29, 25: 41 Mark 1:24, 5:7, Luke 4:34, James 2:19).

In this last century - with all of the new mediums available to mankind - no other medium has been more powerful a tool in the hand of Satan (i.e., Lucifer) than the godless music industry. By it he has single handedly changed the course of history and the landscape of the world's global social order (Luke 4:5-6, 2 Cor. 4:3-4, Eph. 2:1-2, 6:12).

My friend, put away all such forms of evil and by faith place your trust in Almighty God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him in to your heart as your personal Savior (John 1:12, 3:16-17, Acts 4:12, Rom. 6:23, 10:4, Gal 1:4) That my friend, is what this whole little life is about! Satan's godless system is but for a moment when compared to the vast expanse of ETERNITY future (Matt. 25:41, Rev. 20:11-15).

My friend, place your trust in the Savior today and instead of drinking and singing from Satan's musical kool - aid selections. You will truly know what true happiness is and what comes from a heart that has been forgiven. You will be singing "Amazing Grace" all the live long day. May it be even so for you!

. I truly wonder how many - lost and saved today - fully comprehend the full magnitude, weight and depth of this exponential super abounding time called the Great Tribulation

Clearly the author of this article doesn't comprehend the passage at all and knows nothing of the Great Tribulation that took place in Judea around 70AD.

The author assumes many things that are in direct conflict with the text. For example, taking the passage that the author butchered by chopping off the last phrase of the sentence "but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.". There is a very good reason why the writer chopped off that phrase - because it refutes the wild claims of the writer. Who is the "elect" and why would the "elect" be on Earth during the Futurist's imaginative "Great Tribulation"? Aren't the "elect" enjoying a seven year party and rave in Heaven?

Then there are other clues to the fact that the author replaced the elect physical and spiritual children of Abraham with "the whole world" in the context to who was being warned. Our LORD said "take heed that no one deceives you" where the most natural context would be the people who He was talking to, not a generation of reprobates who already "rejected Christ" and are passed over and "left behind" from an alleged "rapture" thousands of years later.

Then there is the phrase "those who are in Judea flee to the mountains". Why is it that the Futurists who replace "Israel" with "the whole world" always delete this passage? Because it puts the scope of the warning to the people actually living in Judea who could escape the tribulation by "fleeing to the [nearby] mountains"

"Pray that you flight may not be in the winter..." Doesn't the author know that while one hemisphere enjoys a summer, the other is in the midst of a winter? Would Jesus, the Creator of Heaven and Earth forget this detail, or is it possible the scope of the warning was to those living in Judea?

"...or on the Sabbath" How is it that the Replacementarian Futurist misses this phrase? What religion actually observes the Law on the Sabbath regarding travel? Back in the first century, the people to who Jesus was speaking to, on the Sabbath not only kept indoors, but the gates of all the cities and towns were kept shut and barred. This statement would only make sense to the people of Judea up until 70AD, not to six billion plus people wandering around the Earth in the twenty-first century.

"Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house." How relevant is that warning to anyone today? But it was a helpful survival tip to those in Judea during the first century.

So the context is clearly of Judea in the first century. Flavius Josephus, Jewish Historian records in War of the Jews, book 5 chapter 10 the horror of women and children who perished by the famine, taking food from the mouths of their own children. In Book 6 chapter 3, we read of Mary, daughter of Eliezar who killed, boiled and half eaten her own suckling child until discovered. How do you think those historical facts correspond to the warning "And woe to unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days." (v19).

Never mind the lunacy of suggesting that a future generation of people who have rejected Christ are now going to escape the Tribulation by hiding in the hills of Judea - these warnings were given to the disciples and those of faith who were still in Jerusalem at the time the Roman armies encircled the city and began the siege.

The evidence is overwhelming that the author is either clueless or is deliberately reckless and deceiving concerning the Scriptures and through the vehicle of lies perversely thinks that people can be scared into the Kingdom.

I'm assuming that the author has given up on the Gospel and is now using terrorism to "win souls for Christ". I guess if you don't know the Gospel then you can't really use it to further the kingdom. Go with what you know - self-absorbtion and fear.

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