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Perhaps for many, the most memorable part of the book of Revelation is the mark of the beast. No one can buy or sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. And of course, that number is 666.

But these verses are a study in contrasts. Satan’s original sin was that he desired to be like the Most High God. Therefore, you see many ways that Satan imitates God.

This mark is placed on their right hand or on their forehead, and though it is very real, it is an imitation of the seal that God places on the foreheads of the 144,000 Jewish witnesses during the Tribulation. Interestingly, that seal upon them is the name of the Lamb and His Father.

The satanic mark is that of the Beast, or the Antichrist and the power of the Antichrist is Satan himself. But there is also another beast that arises in those days who will have two horns like a lamb but speaks as a dragon. Thus, you have what could be called the ‘unholy trinity.’

For much of our study through Revelation John described scenes of heaven. He saw a sea of glass like crystal. In the center was the throne and the One who sat on the throne was the Almighty God. In His right hand he held a scroll upon which was written the edicts and declarations of the events of the last days.

John also saw the Lion from the tribe of Judah, who also is the Lamb who was slain, who was worthy to open the scroll and to break the seven seals with which it was sealed. Each seal revealed awesome apocalyptic events of the Tribulation seven-year period that is coming in the latter days.

The seventh seal was broken, and it revealed seven angels with seven trumpets, each revealing cataclysmic events that will destroy and devastate the earth as the wrath of God is poured out.

But here the scene is on the earth. In John’s vision he saw Jesus standing on Mount Zion and with him were the 144,000 Jewish witnesses for Christ that we read about in chapter 7. These 144,000 have the seal of God on their foreheads. They have been going through the Tribulation and are victorious through it.

Today, I want us to contrast the mark of the beast with the seal on the foreheads of these 144,000 faithful witnesses and what each of them represent.

I. Victory Begins Where God’s Name is Written

 The mark of the beast is the name of the beast or the number of his name, which is 666. Verse 18 says the number is that of a man and that him whoever has understanding should count the number of the beast.
 Some have taken that to mean that to count the number of the beast they should use a method called gematria, which is a word from the Greek with the same root as geometry.

 Gematria is the process of taking names or words and finding the numeric value of those words by adding up the value of each letter. We use such number/letter methods even today.

 The next Super Bowl will be Super Bowl 55 written in Latin numerical values LV. That’s an example of gamatria.

 The Hebrew and Greek languages also used letters to represent numbers. We could do the same in English if we made the letter A=1, B=2, etc. Using that method, my name equals 966.

 The problem with that method, however, is that many names end up adding up to 666. Many people have made much of the fact that Caesar Nero’s name added up to 666; however, he died almost 30 years before John wrote this book.

 In the Middle Ages reformers often taught that the Catholic Church and various popes had names that added up to the value of 666. The Catholic Church shot back, however, showing the numerical values of Martin Luther and John Calvin was 666.

 In more recent history, others have suggested the names of various world leaders such as Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin. Even more recently, others have pointed out that Netanyahu, Recep Erdogan, Pres. of Turkey, all have names that add up to 666.


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