| Originally Posted by tetelestai   Futurism/Dispensationalism has done this to Christians.
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It's created a bizarre genre of science/biblical  fiction so convoluted, so intricate, so utterly without actual biblical  merit, that it really takes some effort to dig through the layers of  fiction and speculation and figure out the barely-biblical-basis for the  insanity.
| The beast, 666, mark of the beast, etc. is all ancient history. All the events described in Revelation happened 66AD - 70AD | 
Agreed that it's done; still up in the air about when it was written, although Gentry and others make a 
very strong case for a Neronic date.
| Apparently, Futurists/Dispensationalists and heavy metal bands enjoy  trying to guess who/what the "666 beast" is and what he looks like. | 
There is a weird, grim, bizarre, morbid fascination Christians have with  their end-of-the-world revenge fantasy, made even weirder by obsessing  over the Antichrist's identity, date of the rapture, mark of the beast,  etc.