THE MARK OF THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

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P A R T Ø N E
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THE MARK OF THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
A PROTESTANT REFORMATION PUBLICATION By RAND
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In A. D. 1582, the Jesuits published, for the
first time, a Roman Catholic English translation
of the New Testament, commonly called the Rheims
version. The Latin Vulgate was its basis.
This Bible contained annotations whose purpose
was to counteract the teachings of the
Protestants which were in direct opposition to
the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Protestants had translated the New Testament
into the language of the common people, contrary
to the command of the Catholic authorities. The
Protestant annotations explained salvation and
prophecy in ways the people had never before
heard. Because of Protestant teachings, untold
numbers left the Catholic Church to worship God
in spirit and truth.
As part of their Counter-Reformation, the Jesuits
wished to prove, using their Bible version, that
their Church was the true Church, while the
Reformers were the false, even the precursors to
Antichrist.
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In this slide presentation, we shall concentrate
on one important point of contention between the
Roman Catholic Jesuits and Protestant Reformers
.the Cross of Christ as the very Mark of the
Beast prophesied in the Revelation. By
recognizing this mark we are to understand the
Bishop of Rome, the Pope, to be the very
Antichrist, his church, Mystery Babylon.
Specifically, in this slide presentation we will
prove the mark of the number of the Beast, Rev.
152, is the Cross.
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To begin, let us review what the Jesuit
annotation on Rev. 1317 declared
..And here it must be noted that the
Protestants, plucking down the image of Christ
out of all Churches, as well as prohibiting the
sign of the Cross to be placed on mens
foreheads, in addition to taking away the honor
and reverence due the name of Jesus, by so doing
prepare themselves for receiving Antichrists
image, mark and name. And when Christs images
and ensigns or arms shall be abolished, and the
Idol of Antichrist set up instead, as it is
beginning to already, then will be the
fulfillment of the prophecy of the abomination of
desolation foretold by Daniel and our Savior.
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The reader need note that by the phrase Christs
ensigns is meant the innumerable ways the Cross
of Christ is utilized by the Roman Catholic
Church in their rituals, oaths and idols.
Examples will be forthcoming.
The Roman Catholic Church deemed their use of the
Cross of Christ as godly and biblical. The
Protestants deemed it as abusive and blasphemous,
positing magical powers in an inanimate object.
By so doing, the Roman Catholic clergy proved
themselves to be advocates of Sorcery and
Witchcraft, not biblical Christianity.
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It is of great import the reader grasp a
fundamental truth regarding the different
translations of the noun, mark, as in mark of
the beast, Rev. 1316-17.
The Jesuit Rheims NT translates mark of the beast
as character of the beast.
This is due to use of the Latin Vulgate as their
source for translation. The Vulgate Latin term
for mark of the beast is characterem of the
beast.
All Bible versions, both Catholic and Protestant,
ultimately find their origin in Greek
manuscripts, not Latin or English.
All Greek manuscripts use the Greek noun,
caragma, charagma.
All English Protestant Bibles, beginning with
Tyndale, translate this Greek noun as mark.
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Essentially the two terms, character and mark
denote the same thing that mysterious symbol or
sign by which Christians may identify the
Antichrist that unique thing which characterizes
him and his followers, by which they may be
marked out, avoided and set apart as damned.
Greek lexicons (dictionaries) will testify to
similar definitions of the noun, charagma. The
common theme is that of a stamp, an imprinted
mark which is recognizable, either engraved or
burned into the person or object, distinguishing
one from another.
The Roman Catholic Church openly admits to giving
an indelible character to those initiated into
its mysteries or sacraments of Baptism,
Confirmation, and Holy Orders.
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The Roman Catholic opinion concerning the Mark of
the Beast differed radically from the
Protestants. The Jesuits refused to speculate on
what it was exactly. In their view, the Mark or
Character could not be known until the Antichrist
appeared. Their interpretation was Futurist. The
Antichrist had not yet appeared, and would not be
revealed until the last 3 ½ years of the world.
Thus, until the Antichrist appears to give his
Mark or Character, it cannot be known what that
Mark or Character will actually be.
This false Jesuitical view, called Futurism, is
predominate in Evangelical Christianity today
thanks to the efforts of Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey
and other false prophets.
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The Protestant Reformers, on the other hand,
understood the Antichrist to be in their very
midst, and his Mark clearly evident.
They believed, proved and taught that Antichrist
was the dynasty of Popes in office, one man at a
time, all of whom claimed to be the Vicars of
Christ, rulers of the Christian Church, usurping
Christs Headship and rule. Though the Popes came
in the name of Christ, they opposed Christ, and
were enemies of Christ.
The Mark of the Beast was the Cross of Christ
used extensively to perpetuate the myth that the
Antichrist was Christian. Feigning piety and
faith in the atonement of Christ, the Antichrist
and his false church used the Cross of Christ to
deceive the ignorant and proud. Furthermore, the
Antichrist incorporated it into religious rituals
and oaths, all of which were necessary to prove
ones obedience to Antichrist and his false
church.
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The history of Christianity is filled with
instances of true Christians who, demanding
purity in worship, destroyed the graven images
brought into the churches, many of which included
crosses and crucifixes.
Beginning with the Paulicians in the 7th 8th
centuries, these Christians were called
Iconoclasts, meaning image destroyers. They
frequently died as martyrs for their faith.
In the year 1025, an assembly of true Christians
were deemed heretics by the Roman Catholic
Council of Arras, France. They were accused of
many so-called heresies, including disapproval
of the adoration of relics, images and the cross.
In A. D. 1126 a true Christian, Peter de Bruys,
was burned in France by an angry mob for the
crime of heresy. Among his so-called heretical
beliefs was the doctrine that crosses should be
broken and burned, not worshipped as objects of
veneration, since they symbolize that upon which
Christ was so cruelly tortured and killed. He was
burned along with a broken wooden cross he had
removed from a local church.
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The Iconoclast movement continued from the first
millennium through the second millennium,
culminating in the Protestant Reformation. The
Reformers loathing of Cross Worship called
Staurolatry - is reflected in the Jesuits
Rheims Bible annotation cited earlier.
In 1593, Scottish Protestant and Mathematician,
Lord John Napier, inventor of logarithms,
published A Plaine Discovery of the whole
Revelation of St. John.
In this work, Napier confirmed the Protestant
belief that the Pope was the Antichrist, his
church, Mystery Babylon. However, Napier went
beyond conventional wisdom when he discovered the
Holy Spirit had hidden the Mark of the Beast in
the Number of the Beast, 666.
It is the purpose of this presentation to explain
how the Spirit accomplished this and to prove its
credibility.
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By using a Greek Interlinear Bible, in this case
one which uses the Textus Receptus, i.e.,
Received Text, utilized by the Reformers, we see
that the number 666 is actually represented by
three Greek letters Chi Xi Stigma.
The Greeks, like the Romans after them, invented
a numbering system based on their existing
alphabet. Thus, they did not use numerals as we
do today.
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The graphic above depicts the Greek alphabet -
numeric system. The reader need note the Greek
alphabet is composed of only 24 letters, yet 27
letters were necessary to complete the numerals.
Thus, the three bracketed letters over the
numerals 6, 90, 900 were additions, completing
the number series. By the first century A. D.,
when John wrote his Revelation, the Greeks
represented the numeral 6 by the invented letter
STIGMA, whose origin, linguists say, is from the
combining of two Greek letters Sigma and Tau.
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Another View of Greek Alpha-Numeric System
The Three Missing Numbers(6, 90, 900)
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Strongs Concordance
The reader need note Strongs connects the letter
stigma with a cross. We will address this
important point later.
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It is possible to transliterate the Greek
alphabet into the Latin alphabet. This is
necessary because by so doing we will prove the
mark of the number of the Beast, 666, is the
Cross of Christ profaned by the Roman Catholic
Church, whose headquarters is the City of 7
Hills, Rome, and whose official ecclesiastical
language is Latin.
To review, the original Greek letters
representing 666, the number of the Beast, are

600
?
60
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GREEK
LATIN
CH

These three letters symbolize crosses.
X

S
T
?

?
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St. Andrews Cross
According to tradition, St. Andrew felt unworthy
to be crucified like his Lord, so he begged that
his cross be made differently. It is allegedly a
symbol of humility and suffering.
The Tau Cross

The Tau Cross is the least ornate of all crosses.
It is often used as the cross of prophecy or to
represent the traditional sign the Israelites
made with lambs blood on their doorposts in
Egypt the night of the Passover.
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There are further evidences of the Holy Spirits
divine providence at work.
The Greek letter stigma is a ligature of sigma
and tau . These are the first two letters of the
Greek word for cross, stauros, sta???? .
This noun is 4716 in Strongs Concordance.
The Greek verb for crucify has stauros as its
root. It is 4717 in Strongs.
Thus, the letter stigma is directly linked to
both Christs cross and His crucifixion.
Our English noun CROSS has its origin in the
Latin noun CRUX. The Latin CRUX is not
derived from the Greek stauros. Yet it contains
the sign of the cross, St. Andrews Cross, X.
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Thus, the Latin word CRUX is directly linked to
both the Greek ? - whose number is 600, and the
Greek ? whose number is 60.
GREEK
LATIN
C
H
R U

X

?
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Furthermore, the Latin Church is directly linked
to the number of the Beast through its CRUCIFIXES
of CHRIST.
A crucifix is a graven idol representing Christ
crucified.
The words cross, crucify and crucifix all have
their origin and root in the Latin word CRUX,
which we just proved contains the number of the
Beast.
Our English proper noun, CHRIST, has its origin
in the Greek noun, CHRISTOS ???st??.
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The Latin noun for CHRIST is CHRISTUS. It, too,
contains the number of the Beast.
GREEK
LATIN
CH
RI
US

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