The Book of ‘Allegory’?
Prophecy – Signs
Friday, November 17, 2006
Jack Kinsella – Omega Letter Editor – www.omegaletter.com
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17)
Take a moment with me to reflect on this prophecy, penned by the Apostle John sometime in the latter part of the 1st century. In John’s day, there were perhaps 200 million people living in the known world of the Roman Empire.
None of them had driver’s licenses. There was no such thing as an identity card. There was no central database containing the names and addresses of the Empire’s citizens. There was no central banking system in place. There was no global economy, no Federal Reserve, no paper scrip, and no way to track either the movement or the economic activity of the general population.
In John’s day, such strict governmental control was utterly impossible. It would be more than eighteen hundred years before any of the elements necessary to fulfill John’s prophecy were even dreamed of, let alone invented.
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