The Bible explicitly states in its final book Revelation that the world will be ruled someday by an authoritarian leader called the beast or Anti-Christ Here is the all-encompassing degree of authority the Anti-Christ will have And he causes all the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free men and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell except the one who has the mark either the name of the beast or the
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