As usual for every presidential election (and for that matter, many a congressional election), we get doomsayers claiming this or that candidate is likely the Beast of
And I guess this is now my usual thing: I’m here to tell you there’s a way we might confirm someone’s the Beast, in case you’re seriously worried. (I’m not.) It comes from Revelation, in which John told us how to identify the Beast in case we’re wondering.
Revelation 13.18 KWL - Here’s some wisdom: Count the Beast’s number, those who have a brain.
- It’s a person’s number, and its number is 666.
Only problem is, your average person doesn’t know how to count the Beast’s number, and do it through various illegitimate methods. Just the other day I saw someone assign numbers to our Latin alphabet (i.e. A is one, B is two, C is three) and try to figure out some names thataway. Nope, not how it works. Latin letters don’t have any numerical values… unless you count the letters we use for Roman numerals, and good luck finding someone with the letters
Nope, what John was talking about in Revelation was
Which I did, below, with all the candidates on the primary ballots. Some of them have dropped out already, but I included ’em anyway. Hey, they might run again, or get picked as vice-president; you never know.
Yeah, you get different results if you change people’s names around a little: Include their middle names, or not. Use birth names, nicknames, maiden names, etc. Sometimes a transliterated name, like
| DEMOCRAT | IN HEBREW ALPHABET | NUMBER |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Bennet |
| 586 |
| Joe Biden |
| 509 |
| Michael Bloomberg |
| 702 |
| Pete Buttigieg |
| 817 |
| John Delaney |
| 410 |
| Tulsi Gabbard |
| 324 |
| Amy Klobuchar |
| 474 |
| Deval Patrick |
| 455 |
| Bernie Sanders |
| 636 |
| Tom Steyer |
| 584 |
| Elizabeth Warren |
| 712 |
| Andrew Yang |
| 365 |
| REPUBLICAN | IN HEBREW ALPHABET | NUMBER |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky De La Fuente |
| 501 |
| Donald Trump |
| 548 |
| Joe Walsh |
| 535 |
| Bill Weld |
| 273 |
Now yeah, if you’re dead certain one of these candidates is definitely the Beast, of course you’re gonna utterly disregard gematria, and grab hold of some alternative method for coming up with a number. One which gets you the results you want, of course. And I’m sure you can convince all your partisan friends you’ve really found evidence of devilry in the United States’ election—well, outside of gerrymandering, state legislators trying to discourage voter turnout in the opposition party, political action committees which illegally accept foreign contributions, foreign hackers manipulating Facebook algorithms; and a president who withholds foreign military aid to get that government will do opposition research for his campaign, yet somehow he’s not convicted when impeached. But nope; gematria is precisely what John and his readers had in mind. Not your “new math.”
If you’re still worried some of these characters definitely look like Beast material, I get that. But their numbers say they’re not. If they’re evil, it’s
