When you read today’s headline about the 87th TexasLegislature, if you know your Bible, you might feel a slight twinge of anxiety when the ‘Number of the Beast’ is used:
“On Wednesday, 666 new Texas laws will go into effect. Debated, passed and signed during the 87th Texas Legislature.”
This particular legislative session has been fraught with less than subtle religious undertones. So when the dark number ‘666’ popped up, it gave me ‘cause to pause’ at the irony — especially in view of current ‘Revelation reverberations’ in the fundamentalist community regarding current events.
Read:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/31/new-texas-laws-september-2021/
Background story regarding 666:
https://www.sciencealert.com/what-is-the-secret-meaning-behind-the-devil-s-number-666-mathematics
Biblical History (page 464) —
follows APOCALYPSE NOW? on page 461
“Why is 666 the Number of the Beast?”
Note: Many people will not read the above historical background regarding the meaning of 666, instead preferring a mystical interpretation not grounded in the reality that John of Patmos experienced. Without context, meaning is lost and misinterpretations flourish, thus creating self fulfilling prophecies that resist God’s Will.
Note: Even though Revelations wasn’t about our Latter Day times, it does fairly well represent what the Perfect Storm could be regarding that part of the world surrounding Jerusalem. If the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ever do ride, it will seem quite familiar to many.
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