Thanks to the pandemic, there's been a fresh wave of end times furor and a super annoying trend of people creating memes declaring that the Covid-19 vaccine is the dreaded Mark of the Beast. Read your Bibles, people! This ain't it. But history tells us who it probably is, which is what  we discuss in this episode. And don't worry, he's already dead.
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Sources:

The Holy Bible, by God & Co.

Roman History, by Cassisus Dio

https://theconversation.com/mythbusting-ancient-rome-throwing-christians-to-the-lions-67365

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/revelation/white.html

https://theconversation.com/five-things-to-know-about-the-antichrist-148172

https://theconversation.com/no-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-not-linked-to-the-mark-of-the-beast-but-a-first-century-roman-tyrant-probably-is-158288

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Revelation)#:~:text=The%20scarlet%20beast%20is%20shown,horns%20are%20ten%20kings%20who

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/gladiators/nero.html

https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/hebraica/about-gematria#:~:text=Gematria%20is%20a%20Jewish%20form,consecutively%20from%201%20to%2010.&text=In%20Hebrew%2C%20gematria%20is%20often,Arabic%20Numerals%20when%20recording%20numbers.

Emperors of Rome Podcast, Episode XXII

Proud winner of the Nobel "I Tried" Ribbon in Literature.

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