Spirit5,

When it comes to the mark of the beast we are furnished the following: REV 13:18

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
God is not complicated in what he tells us, to explain the above I think mult-page thesis can be discounted.  God uses the simple things to confound.  

    Here is wisdom – we are being told directly here is the answer
    Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast – a calculation is in order here
    It is the number of a man – the number of a man is the age of a man
        A man’s life is started in months, not years.
    His number is 666, his age is 666 months.

Obama’s birthdate is advertised as August 4th, 1961.  His end time office for president is January 20th, 2017.  If you plug that into an excel date calculator that is 20,258 days.
666 months = 55.5 years x 365 days = 20,257.5 days (this does not include math for leap years but the calendar of Revelations did not use leap years to my knowledge).  I suppose that everyone is age 666 months at some point in life but I find the above to be problematic with Obama’s birthday and end term office.  I also believe that with Obama having won a Nobel Peace Prize, first US President ever to chair the UN Security council and that in all probability he will be Secretary General of the UN, wielding more power globally than ever before has been seen.  I would not be surprised to see him in office there for 42 months.
I have shared this with a few people.  The mark of the beast has always been a puzzle/riddle to me.  I am a common man; I read the bible, but I am an engineer not a bible scholar.  I go to church, I believe Jesus died on a cross for me, I am an x-green beret if such a thing exists, former US Army Special Forces.  That is the cliff notes on me.  I say that to say I always like to run (Special Forces in me still), and all too frequently I will look at my watch and my mileage will say 6.66.  I try never to look at my GPS watch, but will glance maybe once or twice during a run . . . I can’t tell you how many times this has occurred, too frequent but it always served to remind me of my thoughts to wonder what 666 is.  When I first did the math I just shrugged it off, not allowing that I could be shown something by our God.  I ran five miles that afternoon and when I stopped my time was 55:5:5, which I thought was unusual - more so though because all day I had been working with the number 666, and 55.5 years.  When I looked at my watch is startled me – tugged at me.  I hope I am just paranoid but I never want to ignore God so I have been mulling this over with a few folks.

Regards, blessings

Steve
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Hi Steve,

I wrote the article below back in 2008 (check the discovery towards the end of the post):

http://www.fivedoves.com/rapture/2008/obama_666.htm

John