Number of the Beast a social "mark". (See also the scholarly accepted year of birth of Jesus about 666 years before as well as the concept of Mawali who were non-Arab Muslims but not treated as other Muslims.) Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the beast identified by the number 666 represents the world's unified governments in opposition to God. The beast is said to have "a human number" in that the represented governments are of a human origin rather than spirit entities. The number 666 is said to identify "gross shortcoming and failure in the eyes of Jehovah", in contrast to the number 7, which
The Beast (book) which 'summons rage and pity but also admiration in the reader'. Martinez won the WOLA-Duke book award for "The Beast" in 2014. He also won the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards in 2016. The Beast (book) The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail is the first book by El Salvadorian journalist Óscar Martínez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2010 as "Los migrantes que no importan" (The Migrants that Don't Matter). It was translated into English in 2013 by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John B. Washington. The book follows the harsh journey of