![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, Hitchcock, an evangelical Christian, believes the end "could be very soon." How soon he can't say, noting the Bible sets no date. "The date has no significance," said Mark Hitchcock, a biblical scholar and pastor of Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Okla.Ī biblical literalist, Hitchcock believes in the doomsday scenario of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, describing the rise of an Antichrist who enslaves all of humankind save for those who depart to heaven. Meanwhile, clergy from polar opposite perspectives agree 6-6-06 has nothing to do with the warning in the Bible's Book of Revelation that the "number of the beast" is 666. ![]() Millions are likely to turn out for the second coming of the horror flick that planted the notion of 666 as synonymous with Satan's spawn in the public consciousness 30 years ago.ĭeliberately aimed by 20th Century Fox for a June 6 opening is "The Omen," a remake of the 1976 movie of the same name that starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as the unwitting parents of the devil-child Damien, whose scalp bore the triple-6 birthmark. "It's marketing, marketing, marketing," said Bob Thompson, professor of pop culture at Syracuse University. Once every century comes such a day as Tuesday, June 6, which translates loosely this year into "666," the number associated with the Antichrist and the apocalypse.īut instead of dire warnings, a wave of skepticism is mounting over the other-worldly date that laymen and churchmen say has been hijacked by movie producers, book publishers and rock music promoters. ![]()
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