Discussion

• November 21, 2008

  8:09 AM

  Tom writes:

  "The cardinal compared the effects of Obama's election to Jesus Christ's suffering in the garden of Gethsemene where he was in agony before his crucifixion.

  "For the next few years Gethsemene will not be marginal. We will know that garden," Stafford said. He added that America's time of trial will stem from Obama's "extremist anti-life platform," including his support for Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion."

  This is why the archbishop is saying this
  and he is anti choice.

• November 21, 2008

  8:19 AM

  SASQUATCH writes:

  Nobody really knows Obama other than that he's a committed socialist who joined a hate-America cult grop in Chicago and who palled-around with certain known unrepentent terrorists. Other than that, who is this guy? He's a mystery--and he's less than 60-days from the Oval Office. The only thing that we can say some certainty so far is that he probably doesn't jog with naked priests.

  His recent AG appointment is ominous to say the very least.

• November 21, 2008

  8:24 AM

  Anthony1979 writes:

  Obama isn't the AntiChrist...I think other than being the first black president he does have some other significant role in World History. Guess time will tell...

  I personally believe that it's possible for him to unite us w/ Europe to begin a One World economy but I don't think that makes him the AntiChrist.

• November 21, 2008

  8:39 AM

  Frank writes:

  Comments by Stafford and Chaput illustrate why it is so critical to keep the Church out of government. Such ridiculous, unproven comments are believed by many with no facts to support them. There is great danger in what Eric Hoffer called, "The True Believer" rule in public and commercial lives. Religion is fine if kept and contained in the Church - - we must never let it spill over into government where we need fact-based decision making.

• November 21, 2008

  9:02 AM

  Insignificant Other writes:

  Narrow minded Religious leaders focused on fetal issues while ignoring carnage of war. Why do they support unjust wars, yet condemn abortion ? POLITICS They don't want to jeopardize their tax exempt status with various governments. OBAMA wants to end war & talk about abortion ... why are they strongly opposed ? I really think it's time to review tax breaks religious organizations get.

• November 21, 2008

  9:15 AM

  SASQUATCH writes:

  OBAMA PROVES TO BE APOCALYPTIC FOR STOCKS:

  Hours before the polls closed on November 4th, the S & P 500 stock index closed for the day at 1005.75. Yesterday, after 12 trading sessions since the election results were known, the S&P closed at 752.54. That is a drop of 253 S&P points--25.2%.

  There has NEVER been such a reaction to an election result in American history. The loss is $2.5 trillion in market value, just for for the S&P 500. The broader Wilshire 5000 (actually including overt 6,500 stocks) stock index is down by a similar percentage these last two weeks with a total loss on that index of well over $3 trillion since election day. While many Americans and the national media seem to be experiencing a kind of rapture about their new President elect, investors are not as euphoric.

  The market is always looking foreward, discounting what it sees ahead. The gains by the Dems in Congress and the Senate, and the possibility of a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, the appointment of hard core anti-business Congressman Henry Waxman to head the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the President's fixation on dealing with global warming (that is actually freezing over), the overtures that are sure to come to assist trial lawyers, and union organizing efforts (card check), the prospect of higher taxes on dividends, capital gains, earned income, estates, and corporations, and the likelihood of much heavier regulation of business and trade barriers, are all things noticed on Wall Street.

  Its time for this messiah to start walking on water before we all get Deep 6ed!

  
  

• November 21, 2008

  9:20 AM

  SASQUATCH writes:

  OBAMA PROVES TO BE APOCALYPTIC FOR STOCKS:

  Hours before the polls closed on November 4th, the S & P 500 stock index closed for the day at 1005.75. Yesterday, after 12 trading sessions since the election results were known, the S&P closed at 752.54. That is a drop of 253 S&P points--25.2%.

  There has NEVER been such a reaction to an election result in American history. The loss is $2.5 trillion in market value, just for for the S&P 500. The broader Wilshire 5000 (actually including overt 6,500 stocks) stock index is down by a similar percentage these last two weeks with a total loss on that index of well over $3 trillion since election day. While many Americans and the national media seem to be experiencing a kind of rapture about their new President elect, investors are not as euphoric.

  The market is always looking foreward, discounting what it sees ahead. The gains by the Dems in Congress and the Senate, and the possibility of a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, the appointment of hard core anti-business Congressman Henry Waxman to head the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the President's fixation on dealing with global warming (that is actually freezing over), the overtures that are sure to come to assist trial lawyers, and union organizing efforts (card check), the prospect of higher taxes on dividends, capital gains, earned income, estates, and corporations, and the likelihood of much heavier regulation of business and trade barriers, are all things noticed on Wall Street.

  Its time for this messiah to start walking on water before we all get Deep 6ed!

  
  

• November 21, 2008

  9:31 AM

  leftside writes:

  This is why the Republican party needs to shun the religious right.

  As long as these "dark age's" theorists are allowed to have a voice in either of the two mainstream parties women rights are always going to be threatened and this country will be under constant threat Iranian style rule.

  Religion's are ever vigilant in their efforts of controlling countries and subsequently the people. The weak minded allow them to do so, the strong minded do not. This is why this country has prospered and will continue to prosper as long as we hold religious leaders and organizations at bay.

  The good cardinal should be thanked for reminding us of this fact.

• November 21, 2008

  9:36 AM

  DEMSBETTER writes:

  The GOP is like a guy that borrows your truck wrecks it and brings it back on empty then blames you for loaning it to him. Most Catholic religious scholars think the apocalypse is historical. These guys are playing politics from the pulpit and they will have to face their own demons.

• November 21, 2008

  9:42 AM

  james bernath writes:

  If Obama turns out to preside over the apocalypse, it will be because the neo-cons did and continue to do everything in their power to usher in their "rapture," so they can beat everybody to heaven. The arrogance and hypocrisy of the Catholic church over "the unborn" is nothing but a smokescreen to hide the corruption at its core.

  Let's let secular government, that seeks, like Jesus, to help the lowest of the low, have a chance to improve the world for awhile.

• November 21, 2008

  10:00 AM

  Shaggy writes:

  jimi bernath writes:

  "If Obama turns out to preside over the apocalypse, it will be because the neo-cons did and continue to do everything in their power to usher in their "rapture," so they can beat everybody to heaven."

  Nothing like pre-blaming the Republicans for Barry's future f...ups and protecting the little plastic messiah..
  LoL toooo funny...

  What about his many lies/promises, when the man cub can't produce is that going to be blamed on Bush and the Republicans.

  You loons are too much.
  Stupid doesn't even scratch the surface.

• November 21, 2008

  10:18 AM

  Tbone writes:

  Nothing like pre-blaming the president elect for problems that occurred under Bush.

  Funny that as prez, Bush has little power over the economy. But the prez elect holds the key to the kingdom, as far as the economy is concerned.

  Strange. Obama's not even in office, but it's already his fault.

• November 21, 2008

  10:46 AM

  am 760 writes:

  Maybe the catholics and right should be calling for universal health care if they had morals. It would also mean more money for employees since your employers aren't having to pay this burden anymore.
  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/21-0

  Shag, the attention starved idiot here again to validate his pathetic existence.

• November 21, 2008

  10:55 AM

  McGowdog writes:

  "Is Obama Apocalyptic or The Anti-Christ?"

  This is the headline that drew me into this blog. So, Mark Wolf? What are you asking here? Is this multiple choice or what?

  Hopefully neither, right?

  Comments to the stocks and I voted Republican; Obama/Biden aren't even in office yet! What did you expect? For the stocks to rise to never before seen highs? How about gas prices? How are you with those?

  You guys elected him. Let's see what he can and can't do.

  Get back to work, idiots! Or the stocks are gonna crash even further!

• November 21, 2008

  11:16 AM

  DEMSBETTER writes:

  January 20th is when Obama takes office. Until then it is still your watch. I know your guy is halfway out the door and his other side is on vacation but it is still your watch. But it is pretty much what I have expected from the worst President in history George W. Bush.

• November 21, 2008

  11:17 AM

  Bob writes:

  Pitiful. These people are foresaking every other aspect of their faith for one issue: abortion. THAT'S antithetic to their faith and what Christ taught. So they'll turn their backs on the world by denouncing someone who wants to focus on national health care, choose diplomacy before war, focus on education, the economy and the general welfare of PEOPLE because of this one single issue? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater (sorry for the pun).

• November 21, 2008

  11:19 AM

  DEMSBETTER writes:

  The guy who spent the first six months of the job on vacation leaves early. What a shock.

• November 21, 2008

  11:23 AM

  jay writes:

  we should probably allow the republican track record and legacy to remain the republican track record and legacy, right mcgowdog?

  no reason to try to shift the blame for such blatant failures to obama before he even sits in the oval office, no?

• November 21, 2008

  11:29 AM

  history buff writes:

  "OBAMA PROVES TO BE APOCALYPTIC FOR STOCKS"

  LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
  LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
  LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

  This conclusion reminds me of the biology student who does an experiment to see how far a frog can jump.

  The student puts the frog on a table and yells, "jump frog." The frog jumps one foot and the student records the result.

  Next, the student cuts off one leg and repeats the experiment, again yelling "jump frog." The frog jumps six inches and the student records the result.

  Next, he cuts off another leg, repeats the experiment, yelling "jump frog," recording the result of three inches. He repeats the experiment after cutting off the third leg, yelling "jump frog," and records a result of one inch.

  Lastly, the student cuts off all the legs and yells, "jump frog." The frog doesn't move. The student repeats the experiment half a dozen times, each time yelling "jump frog," and each time the frog doesn't move.

  The student concludes: frogs become deaf if you cut off all their legs.

  The stock market is crashing because supply side economics and trickle down theory cannot be embraced as the be all and the end all of government monetary and fiscal policy.

  “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.�? -- John Maynard Keynes

• November 21, 2008

  11:33 AM

  Kevin J Jones writes:

  Mark Wolf, including that dopey streaking priest in this post really distracts from the issue and is simply unprofessional. There'll be enough controversy without that puerile distraction.

  It's sad only the cardinal's political remarks found the most attention. His theological remarks, which make his political comments more understandable, should be newsworthy, too.

  "Pitiful. These people are forsaking every other aspect of their faith for one issue: abortion. THAT'S antithetic to their faith and what Christ taught."

  This is just what pro-abortion rights Catholics do, forsaking their faith in service to the extermination of the unwanted unborn.

  If some politician is the best man ever in other respects, but also denies protection to the weakest among us, should he really get a free pass?

• November 21, 2008

  11:38 AM

  SASQUATCH writes:

  OBAMA'S RETREAD CABINET:

  RECYCLED RETREADS....CLINTON II....NO CHANGE!

  http://www.tireyard.com/images/33.25R29%20retreads.jpg

  Let's hope Clinton II doesn't include his last cataclysmic 18-months--the big crumble. But it sure looks like THE ONE has no imagination and doesn't understande the meaning of CHANGE. Old monkeys always peel bananas the same old way, they never CHANGE. If the recent abysmal stock market action since election day--down $3 trillion--is any indicator, then it doesn't look promising.

  IS THIS MESSIAH JUST WALKING ON THE ROCKS RIGHT BELOW THE SURFACE?

  
  

• November 21, 2008

  12:16 PM

  LetsThink writes:

  Many of us are deeply concerned about the moral values of president-elect Obama.

  His voting record as Senator was the most liberal of the Senate.

  Americans need to be in prayer that President Obama will make the right decisions for America.

• November 21, 2008

  12:32 PM

  Whunt writes:

  NEWSFLASH : GEORGE W. BUSH IS STILL THE PRESIDENT.
  In fact, the 2008 election has not even been certified. This recession began 14 month ago before Obama was a Presidential nominee. Face the facts idiots...the republican conservative agenda has failed. Stop trying to blame Bush's failures on others.

• November 21, 2008

  12:49 PM

  Lucifer writes:

  How can Obama possibly be the antichrist when he is Muslim?
  Quit comparing him to me, that is an insult.

• November 21, 2008

  1:08 PM

  SASQUATCH writes:

  "Americans need to be in prayer that President Obama will make the right decisions for America."

  The foreward looking stock market, that normally discounts 6-12 months out into the future, is betting against any favorable outcome--its down $3 trillion since November 4, the worst post-election financial flop in American history!

  CHANGE is not in the cards when the new team is nothing more than a bunch of recycled retreads from the prior century. The market is projecting a replay of the last 18-months of Bill Clinton's regime--the collapse.

• November 21, 2008

  1:29 PM

  Ben writes:

  Change? It's all you will have left in your pocket with bammy.

• November 21, 2008

  1:57 PM

  Anonymous writes:

  "$3trillion down sing November 4th."
  Yes the bush/repub polices are still coming to fruition. No regulation or accountability, you get a bunch of cheaters and crooks who just cost us, the taxpayers trillions. Thanks repubs for voting for neo cons, well done. And keep defending them right.

• November 21, 2008

  2:44 PM

  history buff writes:

  Squat? Have ever considered owning a bridge? Yes, you could own part of the Speer Boulevard viaduct. Just send $1000 to this email address and you can tell your friends every time you drive underneath, "I own that bridge."

  gimeur$chump@neoconswillbelievanythingrushsays.com

• November 21, 2008

  3:19 PM

  Holier Than Thou writes:

  Cardinal Stafford is wrong on so many levels that there isn't enough space here to describe them all. Since blasting little Iraqi kids to Kingdom Come doesn't seem to bother him, my best guess is that the Catholic Church hate abortion because doesn't want to run out of troubled young children for their priests to rape.

  Ordinarily, I don't like to be quite this hyperbolic but my remarks about Catholic priests raping children for sport has a plenty of historical precedents while the Obama presidency itself has none. I reckon that Cardinal Stafford is probably a flaming racist at heart and is upset about the decent intelligent man who will be replacing the murderous moronic Bush come January. The Cardinal's diatribe has no apparent factual basis other than he just doesn't like the looks of our man, Barack Obama.

  Or perhaps the Cardinal is drinking more than his fair share of communion wine. He wouldn't be the first clergyman to pour himself into drooling wet brain oblivion with the stuff.

  If someone like Cardinal Stafford wants me to support his drinking habits or sexual perversions then I prefer that he asks me for the money first. That gives me the opportunity to say no. So, what chaps my ass these days are the giant tax subsidies given to certain businesses just because they wear funny hats and falsely claim to have exclusive knowledge of what God thinks.

  It's time to amend the US Constitution to enhance the First Amendment where it says that the government shall respect no establishment of religion. It's time to tax all churches because they're businesses and they have an agenda that isn't necessarily nice.

• November 21, 2008

  4:06 PM

  Anonymous writes:

  HTT, STFU

• November 21, 2008

  9:40 PM

  fadedcharacter writes:

  I agree with Kevin J Jones, the headline is ridiculous and unprofessional. It is obvious that you are trying to discredit the priest. On another note, I am amazed that someone out of the Vatican has taken such a controversial stand. I agree with priest (even though I'm a Protestant).

• November 21, 2008

  9:42 PM

  fadedcharacter writes:

  I agree with Kevin J Jones, the headline is ridiculous and unprofessional. It is obvious that you are trying to discredit the priest. On another note, I am amazed that someone out of the Vatican has taken such a controversial stand. I agree with priest (even though I'm a Protestant). Holier Than Thou, you are a sad pathetic little person who must have suffered some type of incestous molestation or you wouldn't be so angry and adamant about it.

• November 22, 2008

  3:00 PM

  Amaka writes:

  I wonder how you select your comments.I am no longer going to post my comments since they will not be published.

• November 22, 2008

  3:02 PM

  Annoyed writes:

  I wonder how you select your comments.I am no longer going to send mine since they will not be published.

• November 22, 2008

  8:39 PM

  Holier Than Thou writes:

  Let's talk about apocalyptic. What does that mean?

  The Papal Bull of 1280 AD initiated the Inquisition. Good Catholics and other honest Christians were imprisoned by the church, charged with heresy, and burnt at the stake. Many other cruel tortures were invented for the church during this time, including forced immobilization in a device called an "iron maiden", racking where people were stretched until their arms came out of their sockets, slow disembowelment, and branding of genitalia with red hot iron. How Christian of them!

  Thank goodness for the Black Plague! Loosing a third of Europe's population to yersinia pestis gave folks a respite from church terror because they were running short on labor to build those enormous cathedrals.

  That sounds rather apocalyptic to me.

  What's worse is having idiots like Bush in powerful positions during a time when nuclear weapons are available. Nuclear weapons have turned our planet into a very small place. A small exchange of H-Bombs could wipe out humanity making all discussions of any apocalypse moot.

  Those who believe that God will show up to rescue us from our stupidity may be sadly disappointed. The sky would turn brown. Blast survivors would slowly starve to death while nursing burns that will never heal. Why would an all-knowing God want to keep company with a moronic species of two-legged animals who cannot find it in themselves to make peace with each other?

  Is this what Cardinal Stafford wants? A proper end for the human race? The real apocalypse is the one going on inside his head.

  Many of us disagree with the proposition that if we screw up then God will fix it for us. We reckon that electing intelligent leaders who will work with our global neighbors is better. It gives everyone a chance, not just to survive, but to thrive and share the blessings of peace.

• November 23, 2008

  8:56 PM

  Dr Ward Ciac II writes:

  Catholic Church came out against the Iraqi War since before its start. The Neocons that want the Iraqi War are the Evangelicals and some Jews.

• November 24, 2008

  12:47 PM

  Charlotte Watkins writes:

  All you religious freaks out there: Can you say and spell Hypocrite? Give me a break. Isn't your meaning of faith: the teachings of "hate?" I'm really sick to death of so called Christians condemning other people while you should be looking in the mirror and pointing your finger. And what have you done that's so righteous for other people???!!! This priest is just pissed cause the Republicans are about to get booted out -- and righeously so...Ah...there is a God!

• November 24, 2008

  12:59 PM

  joe writes:

  >The Papal Bull of 1280 AD initiated the Inquisition. Good Catholics and other honest Christians were imprisoned by the church, charged with heresy, and burnt at the stake. Many other cruel tortures were invented for the church during this time, including forced immobilization in a device called an "iron maiden", racking where people were stretched until their arms came out of their sockets, slow disembowelment, and branding of genitalia with red hot iron. How Christian of them!

  Not defending Stafford's statements or the inquisition here, but the Catholic Church did not "invent" most of these tortures; they were in use by the pagan Roman Empire, and were used by many secular rulers in the middle ages.

• November 24, 2008

  4:16 PM

  Lee writes:

  Can't we all get along?

• May 9, 2009

  7:00 PM

  RICHARD SCHURZ writes:

  Hi,

  Enclosed is a Bible study of the 7 Bible clues which reveal the identity of the coming antichrist of the Great Tribulation. Hoping for your comments and feedback.

  Your eternal friend in Jesus,

  Richard

  WHAT ARE THE 7 BIBLE CLUES WHICH REVEAL THE IDENTITY OF THE COMING ANTICHRIST OR BEAST OF THE END-TIMES??

  Revelation 13:17b,18: "The mark of the Beast {Or antichrist} is the *NAME* of the Beast or the number of *HIS NAME*. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, *LET HIM* calculate the number of the Beast {Even in AD 96 when Revelation was written}, for it is a man's number {Or "Number of a MAN"}. *HIS* number is *666*." God has promised in the above inspired passage that any saint {Even in AD 96--which implies that the name was known in AD 96} with spiritual wisdom and insight may calculate the name of the Beast which is a *MAN'S NAME* and adds up to 666.
  In Thess 2:3 the Beast of the End-Times is called a "*MAN* of sin or lawlessness" or very SINFUL MAN and therefore the name of the Beast which adds up to 666 is a *MAN'S* name which is also confirmed in Rev 13:17b,18 above. Therefore, the NAME of the Beast which adds up to 666 is a sinful *MAN'S NAME* and could not be the name of a woman or a city, country, computer or Satan, etc.. Rev 13:16,17: "He {The False Prophet} forced everyone... to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead. No one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the BEAST {Nero Caesar??} or the number of his name {666}. The antichrist is called a "BEAST" 36 {6x6} times in Revelation and is a much better name than antichrist since antichrist is mentioned 4 times in God's Word {I John 1:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7} and each time the word encompasses all who are against Christ. Surely all who receive the Mark of the BEAST are antichrists.
  Actually there are 7 BIBLE CLUES that show who the BEAST of the future 1260-day Tribulation will be. By an amazing coincidence all 7 Bible clues can be applied to Nero Caesar!!
  {1} The BEAST will be a "MAN OF SIN" or very sinful MAN as per 2 Thess 2:3 above.
  {2} The number of this sinful man's name is 666 as per Rev 13:16-18. The Bible was written by 40 divinely inspired Hebrews in Hebrew and Greek; so then it is highly probable that this man's name adds up to 666 in Hebrew or Greek. Nero Caesar's name adds up to 666 in Hebrew which we will show later in this Bible study.
  {3} This sinful man whose name adds up to 666 died BEFORE AD 96 when Revelation was written.{See Rev 17:8 below} We will show later why Revelation was written between Sept AD 95 and Sept AD 96. Nero Caesar lived from December 15th, AD 37 to June 9th AD 68.
  {4} This sinful man who was alive and then died before AD 96 was FATALLY WOUNDED by a sword wound to his head. Nero Caesar committed suicide with a sword wound to his head on June 9th, AD 68. {See Rev 13:3 and Rev 13:14 below}
  {5} This very sinful man who died before AD 96 was a KING in the Roman Empire as per Daniel 7:24. There were 11 Roman Kings or Caesars who died before AD 96 including the 6th Roman Caesar who killed Paul and Peter in AD 66; and whose name adds up to 666 in Hebrew. Domitian Caesar was the 12th Caesar who was alive when Revelation was written in AD 96.
  {6} The beast is also called an 8th KING who ruled before AD 96 as one of 7 KINGS crowned by the city on 7 hills. {Rev 17:9-11} The identity of these 8 KINGS will be discussed later in this article.
  {7} This very sinful ROMAN KING whose name adds up to 666 and who was fatally wounded by a sword before AD 96, will "COME UP FROM THE *ABYSS* or hell as per Rev 11:7 & Rev 17:8. We know that the ABYSS is HELL by comparing 2 Peter 2:4 with Luke 8:30b,31. We can be sure that Nero Caesar is now in the Abyss or Hell since he killed Paul and Peter and thousands of Christians and sent Vespasian {the father of Titus and Domitian Caesar} to kill the Jews and destroy their Temple. The MAN OF SIN or Nero also killed his own mother and killed his pregnant wife by kicking her in the stomach.
  Revelation 17:8: The beast, which you saw, once was {alive}, Now {in AD 96} is not {alive} and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book life.. .. will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was {Before AD 96}, now {In AD 96} is not {Alive} and yet will come. Rev 13:14: He {The False Prophet} will order the inhabitants of the earth to set up an image in honor of the beast who was {FATALLY-Rev 13:3} wounded by the sword and yet lived." Rev 13:3: One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound. but the fatal wound had been HEALED!! The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

  When I was a missionary in Israel I studied the Hebrew language. One of the first things that you learn when you study the OT Ancient Hebrew language {Which is also the language of Israel today!} is that the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet ALSO represent 22 numbers! When you read Psalm 119 you will note that the 176 sentences are divided into 22 sections; each section with 8 sentences or verses praising the Word of God. These 22 sections are each headed by one of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet in the exact same order as shown below. The ancient Hebrew language {Which is exactly the same as the modern Hebrew language} frequently used the letters of their alphabet to designate NUMBERS IN THE OT as follows:
  ALEPH=1. BETH=2. GIMEL=3. DALET=4. HE=5. VAV=6. ZAYIN=7. CHETH=8. TETH=9. YODH=10. KAPH=20. LAMED=30. MEM=40. NUN=50. SAMEKH=60. AYIN=70. PE=80. TSADHE=90. KOPH=100. RESH=200. SHIN=300. TAV=400.
  NOTE: Most vowel sounds excpt "O" {VAV} are not used as letters in Hebrew. These vowel sounds are designated by dots and dashes under their *PRECEDING* consonants. In Hebrew "N" is added on the end of all foreign names ending in "O". Therefore, the foreign name of Nero would be "NERON" in Hebrew. The name Nero Caesar would be pronounced Neron Kaysar in Hebrew. The "E" in Neron and the 2 "A" sounds in Kaysar {There is no "C" in Hebrew} are designated by dots and dashes under their preceding consonants and therefore are not letters in the 22 letter Hebrew alphabet, and so have no numerical value. Neron in Hebrew would use 4 letters with numerical value: N-R-O-N and Kaysar in Hebrew would use 3 letters with numerical value: K-S-R. There would be a dot under the first N to show the "E" sound in NEron There would also be 2 dots under the "K" to show the "AY" sound in KAYsar and a dash under the "S" to show the "AH" sound in KaySAHr.
  The 4 letters with numerical value in NERON would be {SEE TABLE ABOVE} N = 50; R = RESH = 200; O = VAV = 6; and N = NUN = 50 and 50+20+6+50 equals 306. The 3 letters with numerical value in "KAYSAR woyld be K = KOPH = 100; S = SAMEKH = 60; and R = RESH =200 and 100+60+200 equals 360. And so the numerical value of Nero in Hebrew is 306 and the numerical value of Caesar in Hebrew is 360, and therefore the numerical value of Nero Caesar is 306+360 or exactly *666*!
  There is a very interesting footnote in the revised Standard Version concerning the number 666 which states that some ancient manuscripts have the number **616** which *DOUBLY* confirms that Nero Caesar may be the Anti-Christ!! You will note that the Hebrew language adds an "N" to all foreign names eding in "O". Now "N" or "NUN" in Hebrew has a numerical value of **50**!! and so if you decided not to add the last "N" in NERON then Nero Caesar would add up to exactly **616** in Hebrew. I think you will admit that this is an absolutely amazing coincidence!!
  Any honest Hebrew language scholar will confirm that the letters of Nero Caesar's name add up to 666 in the Hebrew language whose 22 letters are also 22 numbers as shown above. Since all of the prophecies concerning the Antichrist are written in OT Hebrew {Like Daniel 7:8-25} or NT Koine Greek it would then seem logical that God would use one of these 2 Bible languages to identify the Name of the Beast whose letters add up to 666. One of the problems of doing this in NT Koine Greek is that the letters of their alphabet are not also numbers. And therefore you can only assign a numerical value of 22 to the 22nd letter, etc.. Using this formula you could not get any name to add up to over 250, let alone 666. You have the same problem with English and all other languages other than the Hebrew language!
  NOTE: The 3 different Greek words used in Revelation 13:18b to arrive at the number 666 are the 3 different Greek words for 600 and 60 and 6 and not 6 + 6 + 6.
  Will the 6th Caesar {Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius & the *6th* is NERO who ordered the execution of Paul & Peter in AD *66*} be the Beast who comes up from the Abyss {Or Hell-See Rev 11:7 & Rev 17:8} in the coming Great Tribulation??

  Rev 1:8,9: "I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos beacuse of the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus." We know that the island of Patmos was the site of a Roman prison in the first Century and that the Apostle John was suffering in this prison because of his religious beliefs. {As per Rev 1:8,9 above} The island of Patmos is about 30 miles from the port of Ephesus in Western Turkey.
  History tells us that the second huge Roman persecution of Christians {The first was NERO'S PERSECUTION OF JULY AD 64 {When Rome burned} TO JUNE AD 68 OR 47 MONTHS} occurred in the last year of the reign of Domitian Caesar which would have been from September AD 95 to September AD 96. During the last year of his rule Domitian Caesar decreed that everyone in the Roman Empire must worship idols of former Roman Caesar's or else they would be killed or put in prison. Historical documents show us that the Apostle John {Who then lived in Ephesus} lived to about AD 100 and therefore would have been alive during Domitian's evil decree of September Ad 95 to September of AD 96. Since we can be sure that the Apostle John would never worship an idol of a Roman Caesar it is then highly probable that John was put in prison on Patmos Isle sometime during Domitian's evil decree from September AD 95 to September AD 96. Rev 1:10,11: "On the Lord's Day I {John} was in the spirit and I heard a loud voice {Jesus} said, 'Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the 7 churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatria, Sardis, Philadelphis and Laodicea." The last 6 churches are all in Western Turkey within 77 miles of Ephesus. About 50 years earlier Paul had started churches in these 7 cities. Paul always had Jewish converts in the cities where he preached since he had the habit of teaching in Jewish synagogues on the Sabbath. It was then highly probable that all 7 of these chuches had Jewish believers who were very familiar with the Hebrew language and of course knew that the 22 letters of the Jewish alphabet are also 22 numbers and also remembered the first Roman persecution by Nero or the "MAN OF SIN" about 30 years earlier when Paul & Peter and thousands of Christians were martyred because of Nero Caesar. Nero also sent Vespasian, the father of Titus and Domitian; to kill the Jews and destroy their Temple. He also killed his mother and killed his pregnant wife by kicking her in the stomach.

  Christian writings in the early 2nd century AD show that many Christians at that time believed that Nero Caesar {Who adds up to 666 in Hebrew} would return as the BEAST of the End-Times. Rev 13:18: "This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight {Even in AD 96}, let him {Even in AD 96} calculate the Beast, for it is a man's number. His {Nero Caesar's} number is 666!" And so the above Scripture absolutely guarantees that anyone with spiritual wisdom and insight could figure out who the Anti-Christ of the End-Times would be even when Revelation was first given to the churches in AD 96, and that the number of his name adds up to 666. This would of course mean that the future antichrist must have been alive before AD 96 when this Scripture was given to the churches. Nero Caesar {Whose name adds up to 666 in Hebrew} certainly qualified since he lived from Dec 15th, AD 37 to June 9th, AD 68 when he was fatally wounded by his own SWORD.
  Revelation 17:8b: "Those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life will be astonished when they see the beast {666}, because he once was {Alive--AD 37-68} now in AD 96 is not {Alive}, and yet will come." {During the Great Tribulation} The Beast once was {Alive before AD 96} now is not {Alive in AD 96}, and will come out of the ABYSS {Or HELL} and go to his destruction." {On the last Day-See Rev 19:20b}
  The fact that the ABYSS is HELL is confirmed by comparing 2 Peter 2:4 with Luke 8:30b,31: 2 Peter 2:4: "God did not spare the angels when they sinned but sent them into HELL, putting them in gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment." Luke 8:30b,31: "Many demons {Or Hell's Angels} had gone into him {A demon-possessed man}. And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them into the ABYSS! {Because they had already been in Hell or the ABYSS before!!} Also in Luke 16:22-24 we read that there was a rich man already in HELL at the time of Jesus. Now we can be absolutely certain that an evil Roman king from the city on 7 hills; who was fatally wounded by a sword *BEFORE* Revelation was written in AD 96; and whose name adds up to 666 is presently in this ABYSS or HELL!!
  All historical documents agree that Nero Caesar {The 6th Caesar who ordered the execution of Paul & Peter in AD 66 and whose name adds up to 666 in Hebrew} was fatally wounded by his own SWORD on June 9th AD 68. In Revelation 13:14b we learn that the False Prophet of 666 will order the building of a statue of 666 "Who was {FATALLY-See Rev 13:3} wounded by the SWORD and yet lived!" {AGAIN} Nero Caesar {Whose name adds up to 666 in Hebrew} again qualifies for this inspired clue as to the identity of the BEAST. Nero's 4-year Roman persecution began when he blamed the Christians for the burning of Rome in AD 64; and ended when Nero was fatally wounded by his own SWORD on June 9th, AD 68.
  Almost all conservative Bible theologians agree that the 4th Beast of Daniel 7:7,19 is the *ROMAN* Empire. In Daniel 7:20,21 we learn that a little horn who is also called a *KING* in Daniel 7:24 will come from this *ROMAN* Empire. Daniel 7:24b,25-27: “A *KING* {From the *ROMAN* Empire--Nero Caesar??} will arise…. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints. The saints will be handed over to him for a Time, Times and ½ a Time.” “But the court will sit, and his {666 or the Roman King or the Beast or Nero Caesar-See Rev 19:20,21 and 2 Thess 2:8} power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. *THEN* the sovereignty, power and greatness of the kingdoms under the whole Heaven will be handed over to the saints, the people of the Most High. His Kingdom will be an everlasting Kingdom.”
  Revelation 6:7,8: When the Lamb opened the 4th seal, I heard the voice of the 4th living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death {666, who will cause the death of millions} and Hades {The False Prophet who will cause millions to go to Hades by receiving the mark of 666} was following close behind him. THEY {Nero Caesar and the False Prophet} were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. Daniel 7:8,20,24 says that an evil Roman King will conquer 3 of the 10 kingdoms {which will cover one fourth of the earth??}--Russia {Combined with former Soviet Union}, China and India cover one fourth of the earth and have over one fourth of the world's population! These 3 kingdoms may object and become jealous of 666 and his False Prophet ruling every country in the world.
  The following 10 powerful nations have about 50% of the world's population and about 70 % of the world's military power and certainly have the military, political and "religious" power to control and rule all the nations of the world: #1. United States #2. Russia #3. China {1.3 Billion} #4. Great Britain #5. France #6. India {1.1 Billion} #7. Germany #8. Japan #9. Brazil #10. Egypt. Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile. Egypt is the university, intellectual and theological center of Islam. After appointing 10 kings who have never before ruled {See Rev 17:12,13} in these 10 nations 666 will then have "authority over every tribe, people, language and nation" as per Rev 13:7b, from his headquarters in Rome. 666 and his False prophet will then quickly gain complete control over the radio, tv, internet, newspaper, book and magazine medias. There are some who suggest that these 10 nations will all come from Europe and will not include Russia, China, India, Japan and the USA and will therefore only have about 5 % of the world's population and about 20% of the world's military power.
  Revelation 13:4: Men worshipped the dragon {Satan}, and they also worshipped the beast {666 or Nero Caesar} and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?
  The next 4 paragraphs are an interesting SPECULATION about what might happen at the beginning of the 1260-day Great Tribulation and who might be the future false propet of 666.
  And so Nero Caesar with the help of the armies of the False Prophet {Obama??} and other nations aligned with him will conquer 1/4 of the world {See Rev 6:8; 13:4b} and then 666 will appoint 10 kings over 10 kingdoms to rule the world who have never before ruled {see Rev 17:12-14} and who will then take orders from 666 and his False Prophet from their headquarters in the evil city on 7 HILLS or Rome.{See Rev 17:9}
  Revelation 6:6: "A quart of wheat for a day's wages!" This phrase can also be translated "A loaf of bread for a day's wages." This event will occur at the coming of the black horse rider {Rev 6:5} which will take place just before or at the beginning of the Great Tribulation. Because of the world's present economic crises the peoples in the 40 poorest counties now have to pay a full day's wages for a loaf of bread as per Rev 6:6. And if the world experiences a world-wide depression this event could occur in over 100 countries. The world economic crises is rapidly accelarating. Many countries are far worse off than people in the USA during the Great Depression when there was 20 % unemployment. The world economic crises is rapidly accelarating. There are now 40 countries with unemployment rates of over 30 % and this should rapidly increase. And then the world will certainly be looking for an Economic Savior such as 666 and his very deceptive False Prophet. They will be looking for someone who promises CHANGE!! If the Great Tribulation would begin in the near future is there a well-known, powerful world leader that may qualify to be the deceptive False Prophet of 666 who will promise CHANGE you can believe in!! Will this powerful world leader try to bankrupt the USA which will in turn cause a worldwide depression and cause the price of a loaf of bread to cost a full day's wages??? 666 is called a beast 36{6x6} times in Revelation and the false prophet is also called a beast in Rev 13:11. Obama has nicknamed his presidential Limoisine "THE BEAST". The False Prophet is featured in Revelation 13:11-17; 16:13; 19:20 & 20:10.
  Do Obama's religious beliefs qualify him as a False Prophet?? Some insight into Obama's "Christianity" comes from an interview he gave in 2004 to Chicago Sun-Times religion editor Cathleen Falsani for her book, "The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People."
  I'm rooted in the Christian tradition," said Obama. He then adds something most Christians will see as universalism: "I believe there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people." Jesus says of Himself, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." That sounds exclusive, but Obama says it depends on how this verse is heard. According to Falsani, Obama thinks that "all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God. "Obama doesn't believe he, or anyone else, will go to hell. But he's not sure he'll be going to heaven, either." The False Prophet will certainly teach that you can have your cake and eat it too, and that you will not go to hell if you receive the Mark of the Beast; allowing you to buy or sell everything. However, Rev 14:9-11; 19:20 & 20:10 confirm that he and all who receive the Mark of the Beast will be tormented day and night for ever and ever in Hell!
  
  NOTE: There are many statues of the exact likeness of Nero Caesar including a 151 foot statue in the "Golden House" in Rome. The Statue of Liberty {Without pedestal} is also exactly 151 feet high... hmmm. At the beginning of Great Tribulation the False Prophet of 666, Rev 13:14: "Will order the people of the earth to set up a statue in honor of the beast who was wounded {Fatally-Rev 13:3} by the SWORD and yet lived!" {Again} This staue of the Beast will be the "exact likeness" of Nero Caesar and could possibly be seen on World Wide TV so that people of all nations will be able to worship this statue as per Rev 13:15b. Obama's Air Force 1 plane just had a photo op with the Statue of Liberty....Hmmm.... WARNING: The possible identity of the future False Prophet of 666 is just an interesting SPECULATION.

  "Babylon" is called a CITY 7 times in Revelation, chapter 18, and a SEAPORT in Rev 18:17-19. Peter was inspired to call Rome "Babylon" in I Peter 5:13. Rome is a CITY and a SEAPORT built on 7 HILLS! Babylon and Jerusalem are not seaports and are not built on 7 hills!
  Rev 13:14-17: The False Prophet deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was {FATALLY-Rev 13:3} wounded by the sword and yet lived. He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast {666}, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. He also forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast {NERO CAESAR} or the number of his name {666}. And God will supply all the needs of His faithful and corageous Tribulation saints just as He miraculously supplied all the needs of the Israelites for 40 years in the wilderness. {See Matt 6:31-34}
  Rev 13:5-10: The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for 42 {30-day} months {Or 1260 days or time, times and 1/2 a time-See Dan 7:25 & Dan 12:1,2,6b,7b}..... He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb.... This call for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.
  Matt 24:9-12...Matt 24:29-31: Jesus says, "Then {During the 42-month Great Tribulation} you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by ALL nations because of Me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved... Immediately after the distress of those {1260} days 'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from the sky.' At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the **CLOUDS**{See Rev 1:7; Mark 14:62 & I Thess 4:16,17} of the sky, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud **TRUMPET**{See Rev 10:7; 11:15-18; I Cor 15:51,52; I Thess 4:16} call, and they will gather His elect from the 4 winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." {Mark 13:27 adds, "From the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.
  There will be 2 Comings of Jesus on the same Last Day: The first above was *FOR* His saints and then after the Marraige Feast of the Lamb Jesus will come *WITH* His saints as per Rev 19:6-8; 11,14,19-21: "Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns, Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! For the Wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready, fine linen, bright and clean was given her to wear.... I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True... The armies of Heaven were following Him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean... Then I saw a beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the Rider on the horse and His army {See Rev 17:14 & Jude 14,15}. But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs and his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshipped his image. The two of them were thrown ALIVE into the fiery lake of burning sulfur {See 2 Thess 2:8}. The rest of them were killed by the sword that came out of the mouth of the Rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. Rev 20:10b: They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
  
  WILL THE CITY ON 7 HILLS OR ROME BE THE END-TIME BABYLON?? AND WHO ARE THE 7 KINGS {REV 17:10} FROM THE CITY BUILT ON 7 HILLS??

  Most Bible scholars believe that the book of First Peter was written shortly after the beginning of Nero’s Roman persecution of Christians in AD 64 because of I Peter 4:12,13 & 5:8,9. We know that Peter and his wife were living in Rome at this time. Peter was inspired to write in I Peter 5:13: “She {Peter’s wife} who is in *BABYLON* {Nickname for *ROME*!} sends you her greetings, and so does my son Mark.” Apparently some Christians including Peter were inspired to call ROME “BABYLON” after Nero’s terrible persecution of Christians starting in AD 64. This is very interesting since the evil city of the End-Times is called “BABYLON” 6 times in Revelation 14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2,10,21. Ancient Babylon Had destroyed God's Holy Temple and God's Holy City, Jerusalem; and killed, exiled and persecuted God's people for 70 years. Actually all encyclopedias agree that Babylon was completely evacuated in 275 BC and completely destroyed by 141 BC. The Wikipedia encyclopedia states, "By 141 BC, when the Parthian Empire took over the region, Babylon was in complete desolation and obscurity." The only question that remains is: Was Babylon rebuilt so that there could be people living in Babylon around AD 65 when Peter wrote 1 Peter 5:13??? Which leads us to the promises of God in Jeremiah 50:1-3,13: This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah concerning Babylon.."Babylon will be captured... A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both men and animals will flee away!" Jeremiah 52:52:61-64: When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud. Then say, "O Lord, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither man nor animal will live in it; IT WILL BE DESOLATE FOREVER When you finish readiing this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates. Then say, "So will Babylon SINK TO RISE NO MORE because of the disaster I will bring upon her." And God ALWAYS keeps His promises.
  And God kept His promise for about 2284 years; since ancient Babylon is still a pile of rubble to this very day, and will remain that way until the Last Day of the Planet Earth; for God always keeps His promises. In Revelation “Babylon” {Nicknamed Rome by Peter} is a “GREAT SEAPORT” in Rev 18:17-19; JUST LIKE ROME and UNLIKE Babylon whose ruins are NOW 4 miles from the very shallow Euphrates River; or Jerusalem which is 2000 to 3000 feet above sea level and 35 miles from the Mediterranean Sea. Babylon is also completely FLAT whereas the End-Time "Babylon" will be a city built on 7 Hills JUST LIKE ROME!!
  Rev 17:18: “The woman you saw {Rev 17:3--Who sits with the Beast with 7 heads} is the great *CITY* {Rome--nicknamed Babylon in I Peter 5:13--See Rev 17:5a} that will rule over the kings of the earth.” {During the Great Tribulation} Rev 17:9-11: “This calls for a mind with wisdom. The 7 heads are 7 hills on which the woman {Or city of Rome} sits.” Rome is a city built on 7 HILLS!! They {The 7 Heads} are also 7 KINGS {From the city on 7 hills or Rome}. Five {Of these 7 KINGS} have fallen {Or died before AD 96}, one {the 6th KING} *IS* {Or reigning when Revelation was written in AD 96}, the other {or 7th KING} has not yet come, but when he {The 7th KING} does come, he must remain for for a little while. {Possibly the False Prophet of 666 {Or Black Horse Rider} who will be anointed by Satan just before the coming of the 8th KING {Or Pale Horse Rider} who ruled before as one of the 7 Kings} The beast {Nero Caesar who once was {Alive from Dec 15, AD 37 to June 9, AD 68}, and NOW {In AD 96} is not {Alive} is an 8th KING. He belongs to the 7 {KINGS}, because He once was {Alive-AD 37-68} NOW {In AD 96} is not {Alive}, and yet will come {1260 days before the Last Day}."
  WHO ARE OR WILL BE THE 8 KINGS OF REV 17:10,11?? ROME APPOINTED THE JEWISH KINGS AFTER THEY CONQUERED ISRAEL IN 63 BC AND THE 7 KINGS OF REV 13:1B all had "blasphemous names" so we can assume that they were evil kings who had killed or persecuted Jesus and His followers. And so the first 3 EVIL KINGS {Who are all called KINGS in God's Word{See Matt 2:1; Mark 6:25,26 & Acts 12:1} were all Israeli KINGS who killed or persecuted Jesus and His followers} and who were appointed by the evil city on 7 hills or Rome:
  
  AND SO THE 8 KINGS WERE OR WILL BE:

  ** {#1} ** Herod the Great who tried to kill the baby Jesus: Rev 12:3-5: "Another sign appeared in Heaven : An enormous red DRAGON {Or Satan-See Rev 12:9} with 7 heads {Or 7 KINGS-See Rev 17:10a}... and 7 crowns on his {7} heads {Satan crowns the 7 kings whereas 666 crowns the 10 horns}. The DRAGON {Or Satan} stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her Child the moment he was born {Thru his first evil king or Herod the Great as per Matt 2:13b,16!!} She gave birth to a Son {Jesus} a male Child, who will rule the nations with an iron scepter!!"
  **{#2}** Herod who killed John the Baptist and ridiculed and tortured Jesus {See Matt 14:1-12; Luke 23:7-11}
  **{#3}** Herod Antipas who killed the Apostle James and tried to kill Peter. {See Acts 12:1-5,19-23} **{#4}** Nero Caesar who will come again as the 8th KING who will be the BEAST of the End-Times.
  **{#5}** Titus Caesar who killed thousands of Christians when he destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70. Titus is also mentioned as a "Prince" in Daniel 9:26. Titus Caesar was the oldest son of Vespasian Caesar who was Caesar from Dec AD 69 to AD 79; and therefore heir and Crown *PRINCE* to the throne in Rome and was Caesar from AD 79 to AD 81.
  **{#6**}** Domitian Caesar the 6th KING {"NOW IS"} was ruling in AD 96, and decreed in the last year of his reign {Sept AD 95 to Sept AD 96} that everyone must worship former Roman Caesars {Like Nero} or be killed and put in prison. {Like the Apostle John who was living in Ephesus at that time.}
  **{#7}** Possibly the False Prophet of 666 who will be crowned the 7th evil King of Rome by Satan shortly before the coming of the:
  **{8th}** KING or Nero Caesar {The End-Time Beast or Anti-Christ}; who ruled before as one of the **7 KINGS** The 4TH & 8TH KING will come up up from the Abyss or Hell exactly 1260 days before the last Day to rule from the evil city on 7 hills or Rome.
  Rev 17:6: “The woman {ROME} will be drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bear testimony to Jesus.” While in in Rev 13:7 we learn that the Anti-Christ will be given “power to make war against the saints and to conquer them.” And in Rev 13:15b we read that 666 will “cause all who refuse to worship his statue to be killed.” We must therefore conclude that the evil city “on 7 hills” or Rome will be the HEADQUARTERS of 666 during the Great Tribulation.
  666 will very quickly conquer 1/4th of the world with many miracles {See Rev 6:8; 13:4} and will then appoint 10 Kings who have never before ruled over the 10 most powerful nations of the world {See Rev 17:12-14,17}. The following 10 powerful nations have about 50% of the world’s population and certainly have the military, political and “religious” power to control and rule all the nations of the world: #1. United States #2. Russia #3. China {1.3 Billion} #4. Great Britain #5. France #6. India {1.1 Billion} #7. Germany #8. Japan #9. Brazil #10. Egypt. Brazil borders every country in South America except for Chile. Egypt is the university, intellectual and theological center of Islam. And then 666 will have “authority over every tribe, people, language and nation” as per Rev 13:7b, from his headquarters in the evil city built on 7 hills or Rome.