After verifying the original study), I decided to "test" the grid for contrary information -- specifically, whether the "consequences" were countered with a "simple" solution. Imagine when I "found" that the government was not ultimately "disrupted" as the original code seemed to indicate, but rather would be VERY MUCH in control!! After discovering the word for "SOLUTION" spread out backward over much of this portion of the chapter, I saw that "GOVERNMENT" started only a few words over from the end of "solution"!! Well, I thought, will it be a power play? And there, only one letter over, also backwards, was the ELS for "CONTROL"!!

Knowing what the Bible discloses about end-time governments, I thought I would then check for "beast" and other apocalyptic symbols!! And since I was dealing origially dealing with computers, I threw in matches to other "COMPUTER" ELS's throughout the passage (there were several). Imagine my surprise (or at least amazement) when the last letter of one "computer" turned out to be the first letter of one of the "BEAST" readings only another word over from "control"!!! And there, crossing the verse with the "Government Control Beast-Computer" is the word for "IMAGE" in the convenient 88 ELS (multiple of 22 as the grid had been set up originally.

So, I pondered, is the actual mechanism of the "MARK OF THE BEAST" found in this tiny grid as well? I then found another "beast" that practically parallels a "MARK" -- and they BOTH cross a surpisingly RARE trio of "6's" (The dreaded "6-6-6). At an ELS of 202 this trio was the only one less than 220 (a multiple of 22, and thus easy to find manually in the grid.

This was getting rather weird, "verifying" a hunch, or a "could it be . . .?" that I had come up with right as I was investigating the Y2K problem! It seemed rather strange that the governments of the world, especially the USA, had let this go on so long without being addressed. One would wonder why the much maligned "BEAST" in Europe (with supposedly EVERY PERSON -- as least civilized person -- in its memory with a number) would be allowed to fall to such a glitch. Apparently, it WILL BE (and IS) "Y2K Compliant," probably along with some other important data banks and operations systems!!

What then of the "number of the beast" being applied to the hand or forehead? I looked up the phrase "the hand" (Three letters) at a rather low ELS, as well as "BROW" for "forehead" (my search for "forehead," according to the spellings in my Hebrew-English dictionary, had come up empty.) As it turned out, they were both intersected by a "possible candidate" for the mark -- "The Universal Health Identifyer," or "UHI" as the media and government liked to refer to it. "U-H-I" is of course, a common combination; but could this be serious??