The possibility
The Possibility: My Proposal
How I read Revelation 13 in our time, mark by mark, with the evidence, the grades, and the case against.
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These pages set out my proposal: that the beasts of Revelation 13 may be fulfilled in our time. I offer it as a possibility to be tested, not as the Church's teaching. Each mark is graded possible or probable, never settled, and each is set beside the strongest case against it. No date is set, no one is named as the final Antichrist, and words and deeds are weighed, never souls (CCC 1861). If you are new to this site, begin with Watch, which explains how I read and why.
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The first beast
The beast from the sea, mark by mark: the heads, the wound, the worship, the reach.
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The second beast, the false prophet
The counterfeit lamb, the signs, the image that speaks, and buying and selling.
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The timing, as a test
The numbers of Daniel and Revelation, tested only against what has already happened.
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666 and the mark
How an oath and a technology come together in the mark, and where each part is weighed.
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The three frogs
Three unclean spirits from three mouths. Candidates named, ungraded, under development.
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The harlot and the ten kings
Revelation 17: the city that rides the beast, and the kings who give it their power.
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Questions and objections
The strongest objections, stated fairly, with my answers, and where they stand against me.
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What the tradition says
The Fathers, the Doctors and Arminjon, question by question, and where I depart from them.
Read →Where each mark stands today, for and against, is kept on the scorecard.