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What is the Mark of the Beast, actually?

Pillar News: Revelation

Michelle La Rosa
Sep 09, 2021
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Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, grabbed attention last week when he said that QR codes used to show COVID-19 vaccine status in some countries could be “a prefiguration of the sign of the Beast.”

Credit: Karin Hildebrand Lau / Alamy.

The bishop’s remarks referenced the apocalyptic “Mark of the Beast” described in the Bo…

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