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999 Is NOT The Number Of The Beast

Don't Confuse Your Omens Of Armageddon

It's easy to confuse three "sixes" with three "nines".

Pardon me, do you mind if I share this park bench with you? My that's a beautiful little boy that you have there. Say, I can't help but notice what appears to be three consecutive sixes tattooed on your baby's head. Oh, it's a birthmark...and those are three NINES marked on the front of his scalp! Please excuse my ignorance. For a moment there, I thought I was looking at the next incarnation of Satan.

Yes I can see where that could lead to some confusion. You see, when I saw that birthmark--just now--my first impression was that your baby carried the Mark of the Beast, which happens to be represented by the number "666". Until you corrected me, I was almost certain that I was staring at the future Prince of Lies.

Well you can understand my surprise when I realized it was NOT three sixes that I was looking at, but rather, three UPSIDE-DOWN sixes. You can see where it would be easy to confuse the two different numbers, the one being the invert of the other. Now I'm no scholar of Christian eschatology, but I can confidently say that having the number "999" tattooed on your infant's skull, which again is easy to mistake for "666", probably has no relationship to the devil whatsoever. To my knowledge, there are no references to triple-nines anywhere in the bible or any other religious text for that matter. At least not it's not in my Cole's Notes to the Book of Revelation.

Still, it is a peculiar birthmark. And although it is a rare coincidence that those three digits are quite similar to the numeric representation of the Son of Perdition, I'm pretty sure that your child's mark has no association with the False Prophet, Beelzebub, or any other numerically-branded demonic entity that might foretell an imminent biblical apocalypse.

No ma'm, I didn't mean to imply that your son is evil. Mind you, because those digits are so close in appearance, the sixes and the nines I mean, it invites confusion, fear, and other apocalypic presumptions. Who wants to have their child mistakenly thrown into a lake of fire?

Now I don't usually go around preaching about omens of armageddon, but I think it's important to be able to distinguish the mark of the beast from some random three-digit number occurring as a natural birthmark. It makes sense if you are trying to get some serious religious attention--it would be a little self-defeating if your zealots mistakenly thought the guy with the triple-nines was the son of the Dark Lord.

Maybe if there was an easier way to distinguish the Master Of Deceit from any pretender or other innocent babe...like an underline beneath those three sixes like they do with the 6-ball and the 9-ball in billiards, or the six and nine-irons in your golf bag. We could correct that with a permanent marker right now if you want.

Say, don't they have a system in Bingo to help discern inverted numbers from being called out in error?

Perhaps if the fallen angel could make his demonic sign a little clearer next time, like with an alpha-numeric declaration such as "six-hundred and sixty-six," or maybe have little horns drawn on top of the sixes? Even the words "Hey! I'm the devil!" in a bold black marker would be a big help.

Just in case though, you might want to keep a hat on that little boy of yours.

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