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Quotes from Various Web Sites Concerning Ronald Wilson Reagan as the Beast of Revelation Chapter 13 The Beast of Revelation - Identified Perhaps the Beast could be Ronald Wilson Reagan, whose three names each have six letters. He even bought a house whose street number was 666! But since I voted for him twice, I really feel uneasy about that. Besides he is a fellow-Californian and my search for a new candidate was designed to reduce the offense to my hearers. BH Mikey Let's suppose I want to prove that God planted hidden messages in the name of, oh, Ronald Reagan. It turns out the name "Ronald Reagan" contains the same letters as "Adrenal Organ." Which, um, shows how excited the country was to elect him. Ta da! See how this works? Reagan was in all those Westerns in wide open spaces; his name also anagrams to "Darn Long Area." The S&L crisis started on Reagan's watch. Sure enough, another anagram is "Grand Loan Era." Iran-Contra? "A Deal Rang Ron." Of course, if you didn't like Reagan, there's a flipside. Count the letters in Ronald Wilson Reagan: 6 letters, 3 times -- 666. So you could also argue that Reagan was the antichrist. Then again, consider my name -- Robert Edward Harris -- 666 again. Woops, looks like I'm part of the grand cabal myself. And I just blew my cover. Dang. Prophezine 12 Ronald Wilson Reagan Sword & Spirit This same kind of statistical fallacy has led (or rather misled) Christians through the years. In the seventies and eighties, I saw it in attempts to identify the antichrist, or beast, of Revelation. Some folks fingered Henry Kissinger by converting the letters in his name to their Greek equivalents and then assigning numbers to each. Ronald Reagan was suspected by those who noticed that there were six letters in each of his three names. This kind of end-times mathematical gymnastics has damaged Christian's credibility in our culture. The Antichrist... Have you seen this man? Ronald Wilson Reagan Say it isn't so, Ron. During the 80's when he was President, there was talk going around about the fact that he had 6 letters in all 3 of his names. y2k Columbian.com Pike cites polls suggesting that as many as one-third of Americans believe that Christ's return is imminent. The success of Hal Lindsay's one of the best-selling books of the last quarter century, supports that view. Ronald Reagan was an end-time adherent, as was his first interior secretary, James Watt, who once was said to have argued that environmental preservation was pointless because of the coming apocalypse. |