I don’t know how to take this, my blog has taken the ‘Mark of the Beast’; it needs to repent before it is too late.

I take the ‘Mark of the Beast’ to be the number that is representative of those who align themselves with the purposes of the ‘kind’ of power and posture that Rome represented in the 1st century (and some following), and then of those who, even today, continue to live in and from this kind of kingdom; the kind that as the Apostle has written, that is of the ‘kingdom of darkness’ rather than the ‘kingdom of the Son of his love’.

So an implication of my view is that the ‘Mark of the Beast’ is not sequestered to some future literal fulfillment (e.g. that people will take this mark in the form of a micro-chip or bar-code embedded in their hand or forehead), but instead I see it as something that is a present reality of any and all who are not for Christ, but against him (just as this was the case when the book of Revelation was originally written in the Graeco-Roman period).

PS. Of course as soon as I posted this my blog decided to repent and is now down to 665 followers.