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June 6th, 2006

Well the only apocalyptic activity so far today is the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. Most of us are familiar with 666, “the number of the beast” from the Iron Maiden song and Damien, the cute little demonic boy from “The Omen.” 

It is amazing the impact “The Omen” has had on popular culture. The mere mention of the name Damien conjures up scary thoughts from the movie. Do you even know anyone with the name Damien? The creepy musical chanting of Ave Satani still freaks me out to this day. I also know that when some little kid is being a terror, people will joke about looking for a 666 somewhere on the brat’s body.

A remake of “The Omen” has perhaps been created for the sole purpose of coinciding with this date.

Revelation 13:18 in the Bible: “This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.”

It starts to make me wonder about the numbering systems at the time of its writing. Did anyone use the metric system back then? Or was it Roman numerals (DCLXVI) ?

Be careful out there.

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