[mnehring]

I was thinking more about your statement. Based on Revelation, the ‘Beast’ will come as a religious teacher and anti-Christ, a false Messiah. Maybe this is an instruction to us to be very discerning of our religious teachers teaching a false gospel and taking our hearts away from God? Think about all of the preachers we have now (no names) who teach a message that is an antithesis of the Gospel, some not even teaching of Christ's love. What would an anti-Christ want more than people who blindly run to his ‘Church’ to hide from an external threat, like a technology? How much are we playing into his design if, instead of focusing on Christ, the church focuses on fear?

[MonicaG]

Sounds like a 7th century backwards religeous figure, all right. Peep this out and see if you concur:
http://yourarmstoisrael.org/Articles_new/articles/PDFs/The%20Final%20End%20Time%20Beast%20-BYSW%20Conference%202006.pdf