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8883187-884, triple-8-384. Whatever your question about the Bible might be, Jimmy's a great guy to talk about it with you, and he'll be willing to talk about it with you. This is your opportunity. Jimmy is a senior apologist here at Catholic Answers. The author of a bunch of books, including the Bible, is a Catholic book. Jimmy Aiken. Thank you for being here.

Oh, my pleasure, Cy Kellett. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm all prepared with a Bible question to get you started. I have a Bible question. Hit me with your best shot. All right. Okay. And I was going to read it. I was going to do the, what's the Anchorman guy that reads whatever they put it in front of them,

and it was going to be, what is the mark of the beats? But I decided not to do that dumb joke.

Okay. So I'm not going to do that dumb joke. But what is the mark of the beast in the book of Revelation? What is it? Okay. Well, it's referred to initially, it's introduced in chapter 13 of the book of Revelation,

and it's introduced right at the end of the chapter.

Now, up to this point in chapter 13, John has seen two beasts.

The first beast comes from the sea, and it has seven heads and ten horns. And if you

study everything that the book of Revelation has to say about this beast, it seems to point rather

strongly to the line of first century Roman emperors.

And then there's a second beast that comes from the land,

and it has two horns like a lamb.

And what the second beast does is it gets people to worship the first beast.

And so this looks like a reference to the Roman cult of emperor worship, which was a big deal in the first century.

Julius Caesar had been declared a god after his death or demi-god.

His successor, Augustus, during his lifetime, was worshipped as a god in other

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