This may be in a category of "something everybody else knows, except me."
The Saker posted a translation of a sermon by Protopresbyter Mikhail Polsky. The sermon seems to date back to the Soviet era. Polsky has an extremely low opinion of the Soviet system, as one might expect from an expatriate Orthodox priest.
Polsky makes the observation that 666, in the OT, was the number of talents of gold in Solomon's annual income. (3 Kings 10:14; 2 Chronicles 9:13).
From that, he makes all sorts of extrapolations about the evils of money, the beastly nature of the Soviet government, and so forth. In contrast to more recent theories that "the Mark of the Beast" will be some sort of microchip or electronic monetary system, Polsky thinks that gold-backed paper money is the true meaning of this "Mark".
Something to keep in mind when charting the progress of the end times.
http://thesaker.is/the-number-of-the-beast/
The Saker posted a translation of a sermon by Protopresbyter Mikhail Polsky. The sermon seems to date back to the Soviet era. Polsky has an extremely low opinion of the Soviet system, as one might expect from an expatriate Orthodox priest.
Polsky makes the observation that 666, in the OT, was the number of talents of gold in Solomon's annual income. (3 Kings 10:14; 2 Chronicles 9:13).
From that, he makes all sorts of extrapolations about the evils of money, the beastly nature of the Soviet government, and so forth. In contrast to more recent theories that "the Mark of the Beast" will be some sort of microchip or electronic monetary system, Polsky thinks that gold-backed paper money is the true meaning of this "Mark".
Something to keep in mind when charting the progress of the end times.
http://thesaker.is/the-number-of-the-beast/