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The Path to 666: 5 Signs of the Mark of the Beast

  • Dr. Ray Pritchard
    Dr. Ray Pritchard is the president of Keep Believing Ministries, an Internet-based ministry serving Christians in 225 countries. He is the author of 29 books, including Stealth Attack, Fire and Rain,… More
  • Updated Oct 24, 2022

Consider these recent headlines:

“What in the World is Wrong with This Country?”
“Putin Threatens to use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine.”
“Biden Says Putin’s Nuclear Threat Brings Risk of Armageddon.”

“Americans Rapidly Losing Hope as We Head Toward 2023.”
“Will Nuclear War Be the End of Our Civilization?”
“This Winter, Europe Plunges Into ‘The New Dark Ages’.”
“World War 3 is Coming.”

“We Are Headed for Big Tech Tyranny.”
“Biometric Blockade: Political Critics could have Bank Accounts Frozen as Governments Tend Toward Total Control.”
“Actor Russell Brand Links Amazon’s Palm-Payment System to Mark of the Beast.”
“Israel Moves Closer to Cashless Society Following Latest Legislation.”

And then there was this from Rod Dreher;

“Cheer up! The World is Ending.”

None of those headlines are made up. They all describe real-time events or movements happening in our day.

“Cheer up! The World is Ending.”

None of this is fictional.
None of this comes from a Sci-Fi thriller.

All of it is real.

Lately I have heard numerous people say “something big” is about to happen. Someone told me this “something big,” whatever it is, will happen before the Mid-Term elections in November.

Of course, we don’t know whether that is true or not.
But this much is certain.
We live in dangerous, unstable times.

Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, wrote these chilling words:

"I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals."

That comes from an article called Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us in the April 2000 issue of Wired Magazine. Nothing in the article references the Antichrist, but his use of the word “evil” is telling. The technology that makes modern life so pleasant is also paving the way for “the further perfection of extreme evil” in the days to come.

You can read the rest of the article online.