Once there was a gospel recording artist who weighed 350 pounds. In fact, he had such a spirit of gluttony that his body had been marked by God’s angels with a six, which is the number of fallen man. Well, one day he read in the Book of Revelation about the mark of 666. He wanted to know, what did it mean?
So, he asked a proud lawyer, who was president of a Christian bible college. But this man’s theology was actually so repulsive to God and so far from the Mind of Christ, that angels had marked that man’s soul with a six.
The lawyer also didn’t know what the mark of 666 meant, so he asked a famous dispensational preacher. Now this preacher was so hungry for gain, God’s angels had marked that man’s spirit with a six. But unlike the other two men, this preacher thought he knew what the mark of 666 meant.
The dispensational preacher said 666 was the number of the coming anti-christ. Further, the preacher told his two friends he was becoming rich by spreading fear far and wide concerning such end-times subjects.
This intrigued them all, so they decided to collaborate and share their talents. As a team they made many television programs, books, movies and seminars about the expected disappearing of people who were ready to be raptured, the coming world war Armageddon battles, how to fear a dreadful anti-christ leader and especially how to avoid the one world mark of the beast.
Their work generated in their audiences great fear of the future, which they disregarded, and wealth for themselves which they didn’t. Actually in their heart-of-hearts they didn’t believe in the rapture, because why charge for their material unless the royalties created storehouses of wealth for themselves? They also didn’t really believe in end-of-the-earth Armageddon battles after the passage of time proved that wars come…and they go while the earth continues. Neither did they fear a coming anti-christ because none of their predictions had ever been true, including dire prophecies about what technology would do with numerals between five and seven.
But after a while each of them received from God’s angels two more markings which they never had spiritual eyes to see. With the marks, they could no longer buy truth.
By the time they died they all had become rich, envied and entirely pleased with themselves. But in hell they learned that their spirits, souls and bodies on earth had been marked by God’s angels with the number they knew nothing about: 666.
