Part Iv

I am an atheist. But at the same time, I go where the evidence leads me.

As I've tried to show in PART III, as long as history is governed by geometry, it is perfectly possible for Revelation or any other supposed book of portents to represent legitimate prophecy without the invocation of a Supreme Being.

THE "BEASTS"

Based on the incredible parallel between the cardss and the intervals, the most likely timeframe for the cosmic showdown between the "woman" and the "dragon" is the first three intervals after 1993, or the timeframe which the cards identify as the "woman."

The bizarre imagery in the Book of Revelation goes on to portray the coming of two two entities called “beasts,” the first of which is said to have "42 heads," one of which is said to have suffered a "deadly wound that heals," and the second of which is somehow said to be affiliated with the number 666, and to cause everyone who supports him to carry a "mark of the beast" upon their foreheads and in their hands. This same second beast is also said to pay homage to the first beast.

As no such creatures exist in the real world, or can possibly exist, the “beasts,” like the “woman clothed with the sun,” or the “dragon,” must be allegorical.

The first of these beasts is described as follows:

The second is described thus:

THE TIMEFRAME

The second of the two beasts is traditionally the more infamous of the two, being the one traditionally associated with "the number." As the third interval after 1993 is the only one associated with a card called "JUDGMENT," and given the accuracy of the cards so far in portraying trends of history in the intervals to which they have corresponded, the most likely timeframe in which to have this "second beast" make his appearance should logically be this one.

So who or what could this "second beast" be?

Years ago, I made a series of discoveries which cause these descriptions to make sense, and to identify not one person but four persons collectively as the one with which the number 666 is most affiliated.

What follows is a series of articles demonstrating the evolution of these discoveries.

THE GEOMETRY OF TIME

To understand the significance of this number, the reader must first become acquainted with the bizarre assortment of geometric shapes that coalesce to produce some of the most iconic events in American history between the years of 1914 and ‘45.

As indicated at the beginning of this site, history is not random. It has a structure, much as a building has a structure. We see one example of that in the Seal pyramid’s portrayal of America’s past. As a consequence of that structure, some if not all events in history are geometrically placed.

One way in which this structure is manifested this is in the fact that some events are are joined with one another by multiples of certain quantities, such as multiples of 100 days, months, years, or centuries, or as multiples of 111. You can see this in the founding of the United States exactly 1300 years to the year after the fall of Rome, or in the history of the British monarchy in the 3 times 111 years from the beginning of the reign of William the Conqueror in 1066 to the end of the reign of the Norman kings in 1399.

In the coming sections, I will try to show how the geometry of the cited timeframe and a particular multiple of 111 combined to place a pivotal event in history.

THE 30-YEAR CIRCLE

The geometry that leads to the generation of that number begins with the observation that the surrender of the German high command at the end of World War II came exactly 30 years to the day after the sinking of the Lusitania, the event which inaugurated 30 years of hostility between the United States and Germany:

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THE CIRCLE AND SQUARE OF EQUAL AREA

When a circle drawn between these two events is converted into a square of equal area, one side of that square, when measured forward from the sinking of the Lusitania, provides the exact date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor: thus, the sinking of the Lusitania, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the surrender of the German high command were joined together by a circle and square of equal area — they were joined together by geometry:

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THE 700 DAYS

Now, let us step away from this geometry for a moment to observe that the U.S. declaration of war on Germany in World War I came exactly 700 days to the day after the sinking of the Lusitania --- not some odd number, but an exact multiple of 100:

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THE SERBIAN TRIANGLE

Subsequently, if we project a line upward from the date of that declaration until it intersects the circle; then run a diagonal up from the 20th anniversary of that date to the same point of intersection; and finally run a line perpendicular to the diagonal from the same point of intersection back down to the timeline, we get a date — and that date is the exact date on which Austria declared war on Serbia — the exact date of the beginning of World War I:

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THE 4,422 DAYS (THE INTERVAL THAT KEEPS ON GIVING)

Now, backing up from the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the exact number of days in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration (4,422) yields the exact date of the Stock Market Crash, otherwise known as Black Friday:

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THE HEXAGON

Then, moving forward from the U.S. declaration of war on Germany in 1917 by this same number of days, and in like manner moving 200 days forward from the start of World War I in Europe, gives us the exact center and left end of another circle, a new circle which, when inscribed with a hexagon tilted at an angle of1.8385592977305 degrees, unites the three defining events of this timeframe:

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ADDING THE SIX SIDES

Ultimately, when the hexagon’s sides are added together, the total number of days measured forward from the sinking of the Lusitania yields the exact date of that weird election in 2000 that put GEORGE W. BUSH in the White House: half the country voted for BUSH, half voted for GORE, and the Electoral College was likewise evenly divided. The winner was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court:

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666 MONTHS

The significance of this election is that it came exactly 666 months to the day after the surrender of the German high command, the event that ended the Second World War as well as 30 years of conflict between the United States and Germany:

42 HEADS

The election of 2000 established GEORGE W. BUSH as the 43rd President of the United States. What this means is that he was preceded in office by exactly 42 heads of state:

Rev. 12-13 describes the second of two "beasts" as famously being associated with the number 666, but it also has him being preceded by a previous "beast" who "continues for 42 months" and has a "head that suffers a deadly wound that heals."

Of this previous "beast," it says:

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The significance of this description is that not only was BUSH elected 666 months after the end of World War II in Europe, he was preceded by "42 heads of state."

If the 42 Presidents who preceded W. actually were the "42 heads of the beast" [the first one], then one of them should have had "a deadly wound that healed."

As it happens, one of them did:

On March 30, 1981, REAGAN, one of the 42 Presidents who preceded BUSH, was shot by John W. Hinckley as he was coming out of a Washington hotel. The bullet lodged within an inch of his heart; because of his age (he was 70 at the time --- the same age TRUMP would be upon coming into office) the surgeons did not think he would make it. Not only did he make it, but he joked about, telling surgeons as he was being wheeled into the operating room “I hope you guys are all Republicans,” and later telling his wife, “Honey, I forgot to duck.” This so endeared him to the public that even as scandal was erupting all around him, from the Iran-Contra Affair to the S&L crisis, he himself was never implicated.

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Evidence that we are on the right track in pegging REAGAN as the "head with the deadly wound that heals" comes from the side observation that REAGAN’s full name — RONALD WILSON REAGAN — formed the number 666, as each of its three components contained 6 letters, and he was the only one of the 42 Presidents for whom this was true.

RONALD WILSON REAGAN = 6 - 6 - 6

REAGAN was the only President of the first 42 who exhibited this link to the number 6-6-6.

How this is significant will be demonstrated in a coming section.

THE FIRST BEAST (WITH THE DEADLY WOUND)

With REAGAN as the "head" with the "deadly wound that heals," the table of Presidents becomes:

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THE SECOND BEAST

If the “first beast” is taken to have been the first 42 Presidents, before BUSH, then reasonably the “second beast” should be a collection of Presidents as well — specifically, all of the Presidents that have come since 2000 collectively, BUSH included, with the year 2000 forming a kind of “line of demarcation” between the two.

To date, W. has been followed by three additional Presidents; in ascending order, these have been:

46 JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR./2021-

45 DONALD JOHN TRUMP/2017-2021 (4 years)

44 BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA/2009-2017 (8 years)

43 GEORGE WALKER BUSH/2001-2009 (8 years)

Let’s take a brief look at them, one at a time:

The first, BUSH 43 --- as I have cited --- was elected exactly 666 months to the day after the surrender of the German high command which ended World War II and 30 years of hostility between the U.S. and Germany. He was preceded by 42 heads of state.

The first eight months of BUSH's administration saw him savagely ridiculed by the media as one who was mentally inadequate for the job; some even suggested that the election had been stolen, seeing as how the recounted votes in his razor-thin election were in the state in which his own brother was governor. Comedians made fun of him; a TV series called BUSH portrayed him as an idiot, and the media coined the term "BUSH-isms" to describe his penchant for mangling the language. (In a speech, he once attempted to quote the United Negro College Fund slogan, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," and had it come out "It's a terrible thing to lose one's mind.")

Attitudes toward BUSH changed on September 11th, 2001, however, when the World Trade Center was brought down by terrorist planes at a cost of about 3,000 lives. A 20-year war with Afghanistan ensued, with BUSH prematurely proclaiming "mission accomplished" after only a few months. Concurrent to this war was a second war declared against Iraq over claims of "weapons of mass destruction" which (it would turn out) did not even exist. On the economic front, the "balanced budget" which his predecessor had achieved was totally wiped out by an escalating deficit, coupled with a 2008 "bail-out" of Wall Street, with some CEO's giving themselves extravagant bonuses using taxpayer money. Not surprisingly, his party lost re-election by a landslide.

While many unprecedented events occurred under BUSH, he himself did nothing that might be considered particularly menacing or suggest a craving for world domination, and certainly nothing that one might expect of someone associated with the number 666, given its ominous reputation.

BUSH was followed into office by BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. Like 43, OBAMA was soft-spoken, but opposite to W. in that he did not support the “trickle-down” policies of REAGAN, which often involved tax breaks for the rich. For most of his administration, unfortunately, OBAMA found himself thwarted by a Republican Congress which refused to consider any legislation WITH his name on it. Claiming health care to be a privilege and not a right, Congress attempted without shame SEVERAL dozen times to destroy his signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act, even as they were defending the "right to bear arms" as insurance against enemies of the two-legged kind.

These years, the OBAMA years, saw a continuation of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and were plagued by almost routine mass shootings, perpetrated most often by gunmen with large-magazine assault weapons which were normally reserved for the battlefield. Despite public pressure to do something about it, the same Congress refused to act on the crisis and remove such weapons from the street, primarily because it would leave gun manufacturers with warehouses filled with assault weapons they could not sell. Congressmen who served the gun lobby by opposing such legislation were in turn rewarded with sizeable campaign contributions, which the public seemed to ignore.

The second of the additional Presidents after W. — President 45 — returned to the “trickle-down” economics of REAGAN, and was abetted in 2016 by the re‑election of the same Republican Congress.

Together, TRUMP and this Congress did everything they could to strip away OBAMA’s achievements while assuming credit for an economic recovery which had already been ongoing during the last 100 months of OBAMA’s administration. Indeed, this Congress came to regard TRUMP as a divine messenger for whom no moral or ethical violation was too shocking.

Under this President, the wealthy received the largest tax cut in American history. Corporate taxes were reduced by 35%, but the cuts did little or nothing to benefit the average citizen. And thanks to unaddressed climate change, oil companies were able to drill along the Arctic in places in which they had never been able to drill before, largely due to receding ice — for which the oil industry was eternally grateful.

The “individual mandate” of "Obamacare," which required all Americans to have health insurance, was stripped away, jeopardizing the law’s survival. In spite of this, the law grew in popularity. To these overtures were added TRUMP’s call for a “wall” to keep out refugees seeking asylum from the poverty, violence, and corruption in their homelands. TRUMP called such refugees “animals,” in compliance with modern Christian attitudes toward the poor.

Just as children were being ripped from their mothers’ arms on the Texas border (many of them never to see their mothers again), a pastor posted a controversial billboard proclaiming the United States to be a “Christian nation.” Given that four out of five voters who claimed to be “evangelical” or “born again” Christians voted for TRUMP, as well as for Roy Moore in Georgia, and that few Christians protested TRUMP’s border policies or came to the border came to the border to give those people a hug and to reassure them that everything was going to be all right, he just may have been right.

Finally, the third and last of the additional Presidents after W. has been JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR., who….

[Summarize BIDEN's administration]

With the addition of OBAMA, TRUMP, and BIDEN, the number of Presidents in American history to date comes to:

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If the first 42 Presidents of the United States are taken to be the "first beast," with the election of 2000 providing a "line of demarcation" between the first 42 and the Presidents thereafter, the "second beast" should be all Presidents whom come into office after 2000, of which, to date, there have been only 4. The reasoning behind this is that, if the "first beast" was the collective number of Presidents before 2000, the "second beast" should be the collective number of Presidents from 2000 after.

So far, these Presidents have been alternating between being Republican or Democrat. Even so, there are two features which these Presidents have in common:

First, each of the 4 has had 6 letters in his first name:

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Another feature which they have had in common is that each had the legitimacy of his administration called into question, but each for a different reason:

(1) BUSH 43 tied with GORE in both the popular and electoral votes, which left it up to the Supreme Court to decide which of the two would go to the Oval Office. The Republican Supreme Court sided with the Republican.

(2) OBAMA 44 was the first black President in American history, which many had said could never happen; he became President against all odds. Almost immediately, opposition to his Presidency was expressed in the mid-term elections when Tea Party Republicans, most of them from the Confederate South, took control of the Congress and proceeded to block his agenda. In their world, black people did not come in through the front door, they came in through the back if they came in at all, and they certainly did not sit down in the Oval Office.

(3) When his turn came, TRUMP 45 lost the popular vote but won the electoral college, which, by an archaic ruling, takes precedence over the popular vote. Thus, he became President even though, as a candidate, he had exhibited behavior that would have disqualified anyone else.

(4) Next came BIDEN 46 who won his election by a decisive majority of both the popular and electoral vote, but had the legitimacy of his election questioned by TRUMP’s rabid legion of followers, who refused to accept the results and bought into TRUMP’s unfounded allegation that the election was stolen — a contention that he had been making for months before the election had even taken place. His followers tried to have the election overturned, even to storming the Capitol to prevent its certification.

Of these Presidents, TRUMP was the most unique, in that he alone overtly paid tribute to the first 42 through his adoption of the slogan Make America Great Again. This was the slogan used by the "head with the deadly wound," REAGAN, during his second run for President in '84, and REAGAN was most certainly one of the first 42. And so it is that TRUMP to date has been the only one of the 4 since 2000 who, in in his own inimitable way, forged a link to someone who fits the description of the "head with the deadly wound that heals."

So how does it go?

Another way in which TRUMP paid homage to REAGAN was by embracing “trickle-down economics,” originally championed by REAGAN. Being a Republican, W. had also subscribed to this theory, being a Republican, but not to the extent of TRUMP. “Trickle-down economics” — or Reagonomics, as it came to be called — is based on the idea that the wealthy actually run the country; thus, anything one can do to assist the wealthy in making more money, like slashing their taxes, will benefit everyone else — the benefits will just naturally “trickle down” to the lower classes, because the wealthy will use that extra cash to build more factories, build more stores, build more warehouses, hire more people — and, of course, it goes without saying, they will pay their workers what they are worth, and provide them with the best insurance. Actually, this has never been proven to be true, as the wealthy simply find ways to hide their wealth in non-taxable investments and dummy accounts. Nevertheless, REAGAN, more than any of his predecessors, implemented this brand of economics and TRUMP, like his predecessor W., made a point of integrating it into his own administration’s economic policies, which he did with the aid of a Republican Congress by slashing taxes for the wealthy and abandoning the advice of medical professionals during a pandemic when it threatened the Stock Market, the principal barometer for the financial health of the elite.

A complementary observation is that TRUMP was the 13th President since ROOSEVELT and the end of World War II. I am not sure what that means, but for some 13 is simply an unlucky number; geometrically, it is merely the sum of all the points of intersection of a 6-pointed star, or Star of David, including the 13th point inferred by its geometric center.

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Superficially, even their first names rhyme, DONALD and RONALD, and are spelled the same but for a single letter. I know it is a minor point, but it is just another way in which they shared a relationship.

The text goes on to say of the first beast's successor, the second beast:

This describes one who demands loyalty from everyone who comes in contact with him, and only recognizes those who carry a certain insignia or brand upon their foreheads and in their hands.

In the 2016 campaign, TRUMP and his followers became known for a certain fashion accessory that no other candidate in history has ever been identified with — their little red “gimme caps,” with the words Make America Great Again scrawled across the front. They were seen wearing them at his “rallies,” which were actually worship services in which the object of worship was TRUMP himself. They also carried this slogan on little signs in their hands:

Make America Great Again is a trademark: TRUMP and his followers wore a trademark across their foreheads, and in their hands.

Across their foreheads and in their hands: if that is not a fulfillment of the description, then I do not know what is.

Interestingly, a gesture which he often performed at his rallies and when delivering speeches, in which he touched the index finger of his right hand to his thumb while spreading his remaining fingers, can also be found on Medieval paintings of Jesus.

The second half of the portent would not seem to have been borne out in real time, but does reflect the mindset of his followers, as they could be extraordinarily abusive to anyone who did not express his fealty to TRUMP.

If the “first beast” is accepted as the first 42 Presidents before W., then the “name of the beast” emblazoned across their foreheads would have to be America, for that is the only “name” contained in the TRUMP slogan.

And when each letter of the name TRUMP is assigned a number value according the principles of gematria, wherein each letter of the alphabet has a number value based upon its ordinal position in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, etc.), the letters in TRUMP acquire the value “88,” which neo-Nazis often have tattooed on their bodies:

T + R + U + M + P =

20 + 18 + 21 + 13 + 16 = 88

To the neo-Nazis and other anti-Semitic groups, the number 88 stands for the letters “HH,” H being the 8th letter of the alphabet. HH is an acronym for “HEIL HITLER.”

Conversely, TRUMP’s last name originally was German; it had apparently been changed from DRUMPF before his paternal grandfather, who began the family fortune with a brothel in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, had immigrated to America. When TRUMP’s full name is translated back into what it would have been in the original German, it too forms the number 666:

DONALD JOHANN DRUMPF = 6 — 6 — 6

Another way in which TRUMP was associated with the number 666 is that his residence in New York City before coming to Washington was 666 feet tall. If you go onto the internet and type in a search for ”Trump Tower height,” you will get that it is 668, but this has only been since September 20th, 2016, when yours truly made the mistake of contacting the RNC and pointing out that the fellow they were about to nominate for President lived in a place that was 666 feet tall; why, I ventured, if the represented the religious right, would they want to risk nominating someone who might be the “antichrist” that Christians have been anticipating for 2,000 years for the Presidency of the United States? Their response was to change the height of the Tower on the net!

6 - 6 - 6

But perhaps the most dramatic way in which TRUMP has fulfilled his association with the number 666 lies in the fact that he was the third of the 4 Presidents since 2000 to have had 6 letters in his first name; just as RONALD WILSON REAGAN’s full name combined to form the number 6-6-6, the first names of the first three Presidents also formed that number, and in the same way:

Like predecessors, BUSH and OBAMA, TRUMP as President perpetuated American ventures in the Middle East in the form of wars against Islamic factions which had not sought out or wanted American-style democracy, and which had repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to die rather than adopt American values. In this regard, he continued the policies of the 42 Presidents, including the wounded and healed "head of state" RONALD REAGAN, despite his promise to end them:

Finally, the ultimate way in which TRUMP is associated with the “second beast” concerns his behavior:

Traditionally, the name accorded this “second beast” is “anti-christ” — which is not used in Revelation but is originally introduced in 1st John (2:18-22 and 4:3) and 2nd John (4:7). There, it is described as something to be associated with an end of time:

The term “anti-christ” suggests, by definition, “one who opposes ‘christ,’” the word “christ” in small letters meaning simply “savior.” If “anti‑christ” is then defined as one who opposes not the person of Jesus but his moral teachings, TRUMP more than qualifies for the title.

After announcing his candidacy, TRUMP established himself as a moral degenerate who:

made fun of a handicapped man on national television;

bragged on the Access Hollywood tape about grabbing women by the !@#$%^&*()_+;

paid off a porn star and a centerfold to hush up his adulterous affairs with them, then lied about it before ultimately admitting to it, but defended it by saying it was not illegal (as if that made it all right);

committed adultery to produce his daughter Tiffany (his divorce from Ivana had not yet been finalized);

cheated the city of New York out of its half of the profits on a hotel;

And this was before he ever became President. After becoming President, he:

locked children up in cages on the Texas-Mexico border (7 of whom died while in custody),

allowed over 400,000 people to die of coronavirus rather than risk panicking the Stock Market, which only benefits the wealthy,

conducted endless “rallies” actually worship services in which the object of worship was himself,

opened up pristine public land for logging and oil exploration,

tried, along with his Republican colleagues, to take health care away from 20 million people,

lauded neo-Nazis and Klansmen as “fine people,” even though both were synonymous with atrocities in America’s past,

and on and on.

In the 2016 campaign, TRUMP said, "only I can save you." On the White House lawn in 2020, he told reporters, "I am the Chosen One, I am the Return of the King." There was a time when Christians might have considered such claims blasphemy --- but not any more. Instead, they showed very clearly in two successive elections that they agreed with him. In the 2016 election, four out of five voters who claimed to be evangelical or “born again” Christians voted for TRUMP. "Yes, Lord Trump --- ," they said, "you are our savior. You are the Chosen One." They looked at Jesus, looked at TRUMP, and decided at the end of the day that TRUMP would be the best representative of Jesus in the White House. they looked at Jesus, looked at TRUMP, and decided at the end of the day that TRUMP would be the best representative of Jesus in the White House. They could see that his values were in no way compatible with the teachings of Jesus, yet they voted for him anyway --- either because they had no idea what Jesus’ teachings were, or because they simply did not care: in placing their finger on the screen to vote for TRUMP, they were essentially giving Jesus the extended middle finger. Then, as if that were not enough, they came together in 2020 for the largest election turnout in history to do it again.

During the subsequent four years, TRUMP continued to make a mockery of traditional values, yet the bulk of TRUMP’s base remained self-proclaimed "evangelical Christians"; at no time did he ever demonstrate any special allegiance to or knowledge of the values commonly associated with the New Testament, and seemed to have contempt for those who did. He once even attempted to quote from the Bible, attributing a passage to “Two Corinthians.” Even so, his followers continued to support him, even after he incited a mob to storm the nation's Capitol like foreign invaders on January 6th — a mob which consisted of a mix of banner-waving Klansmen, Neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other violent militia groups. It would seem the faithful were in good company that day.

On the following table, the column on the left chronicles a selection of Jesus’ teachings as portrayed in the Bible, and the column on the right the ways in which TRUMP has either violated them or punished those who have tried to put them into practice:

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While in office, TRUMP violated each and every one of the foregoing, much to the delight of “evangelicals,” and attracted throngs of loyalists who attended his worship services and, through their continued support, condoned such behavior themselves. In the 2016 election, four out of five voters who claimed to be “evangelical” or so-called “born-again” Christians voted for him. It was the religious right that put him in the White House. Following the election, he continued to stage campaign rallies, which can best be described as worship services in which the object of worship was himself. A gesture he often performed at his rallies in which he touched the index finger of his right hand to his thumb while spreading his remaining fingers can also be found on Medieval paintings of Jesus.

In his final days in office, TRUMP stirred up a crowd of his followers into storming the Capitol, resulting in five deaths and several suicides, and since leaving office he has shown no remorse by continuing to perpetuate the Great Lie that the American electoral system is by nature corrupt and that he actually won the election. He also has perpetuated the unproven assertion that the coronavirus was created by the Chinese, leading to an escalation of groundless hate crimes against Asian-Americans, many of them elderly. Never mind that variants have come from other places, including Brazil, South Africa, Louisiana, and especially India.

In all of American history, no President before TRUMP has inspired such fanatical devotion.

As of this writing, ultra-conservative Christians continue to form the bulk of TRUMP’s base, which he has never bothered to expand. While in office, he cultivated Putin, who would go on to invade the Ukraine, and heaped praise upon the dictatorial leader of North Korea, while at the same time threatening war with Iran, a budding nuclear power which in the past had made no pretense of its desire to attack Israel. Megiddo, portended by the author of Revelation to be the site of a climactic battle called Armageddon, is half-way between Iran and Israel. If a war with Iran were to start, Israel would most certainly be attacked.

At present, we are over a year into BIDEN's administration, but the level of hate and discontent is undiminished. Afghanistan has fallen back into the hands of the Taliban, Putin is committing genocide in the Ukraine, and tensions between the U.S. and the Middle East are still high.

It is like the calm that pervades a country before the storm.

SUMMATION

If the “first beast” is the first 42 Presidents of the United States, and the “second” all the Presidents thereafter, the United States is not being accorded a very favorable assessment by the author of Revelation.

This is understandable if the United States is the physical reincarnation of the Roman Empire, which is not as far-fetched as it sounds, given the nation’s founding exactly 13 centuries to the year after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

It is also understandable why the author might see the first 42 Presidents of the United States as beasts, given that it was under the first 42 that the Atomic Bomb was used to incinerate Japanese children on their way to school in 1945; it was under the first 42 that the United States sent thousands of young boys in an unnecessary war in Southeast Asia; it was under the first 42 that people were enslaved for half the nation’s history while others became rich at their expense; and it was under the first 42 that the world’s standards of excellence were lowered for the sake of increased profits, whether it was in music, art, or literature, and oftentimes at the expense of moral values.

It is likewise easy to understand why the author of Revelation might see all the Presidents after 2000 as the “second beast,” given that, after becoming President, TRUMP made the United States synonymous with throwing kids in cages, turned his back on nation that have long been our staunchest allies, destroyed the nation’s standing as a world leader in pandemic response, and otherwise lowered the country’s tolerance for immoral behavior. Even before TRUMP, the United States had a longstanding record of getting itself into wars in which it had no business being, repeatedly attempting to shove its own lifestyle and culture down the throats of nations that did not want them, and of being the only nation on earth to have used nuclear weapons on civilians, many of them children on their way to school, as the United States had done in 1945 at the very time Japan was going broke and probably would have surrendered anyway if given more time.

PART V

THE WORLD

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