The beast shall rise and the number is 666...

The beast shall rise when the 7 heads appear. Apocalypse... Ragnarok... Armageddon... Whatever we call, it's still the End of the world. I've read this post in Friendster about Revelation, the Popes and the 'Beast'. It was very interesting on my part because I have read the book of Revelations for a couple of times now but I've never tried to unlock the identity of the 'Anti-Christ' or the 'Beast' as called in the Bible. It was troubling at the same time, imagining that the beast will rise among the line of holy men. Below is a chart of the names of the popes and how many pope have there been with that name. Pius > 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 = 78 Leo > 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 = 91 Gregory > 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 = 136 Benedict > 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 = 105 John > 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 = 231 Paul > 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 21 John Paul > 1 + 2 = 3 78 + 91 + 136 + 105 + 231 + 21 + 3 = 665 Next papal name > 1 Therefore, the pope next to John Paul II will be the 666th. I'm not saying that the next pope is the anti-christ because there are possibilities that the beast will come out in this his time. But something is wrong about this statement. Maybe because I used a different bible but it is connected somehow. I opened the bible and looked for the page where this is written. I was looking at right chapter. I searched for it on Yahoo and Chapter 13 came out. The bible says: Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his ten horns crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. -Revelation 13:1 There are signs but we refuse to see. It is written. There are people who claim to have identified the anti-christ. Some say it is George Bush. Like in one site I've seen, he had presented 'clues' that all lead to Bush. I also mentioned in my previous blog about Bill Gates. Same evidences were presented for this. They used numerology, Astrology, the predictions of Michel Nostradamus and the Bible. In Astrology, a particular date was given through an astrological chart, which pointed out World War III, August 1, 2007. These things are really mind boggling. I still recall Nostradamus prediction about the Twin Towers and World Trade Center, It said something about the anti-christ wearing a blue turban and comes from the East. It could be Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden who both came from the East but 'East' could not only refer to Far East Asia but could also mean East of USA, well, I don't really know. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. - Revelation 13:18 Maybe the people who have made this computations and made their own revelations about Revelation understood. But the Revelation is not the only reference there are also verses found in the Bible not only in the New Testament but the The Old as well. I find it amazing how they find time to gather resources and evidence to prove it. I found it funny when one site names David Hasselhoff to be the anti-christ. He is not as powerful as Bush but again no one really knows who. In Islam, the anti-christ is called Dajjal and there also proofs in the Qur'an and the Hadith about the anti-christ's identity but none of them really gave the name. Is it Marilyn Manson? You'd probably laugh. Did the devil really appeared in the cloud of smoke during the September 11 bombing? These are signs and I know it... Ha-ha-ha. It gives me the creeps to think about it but I leave it to you... What do you think?