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THE ARNION SOCIETY

The aims of the Arnion Society:

To disseminate the interpretation of Rev. 13:18 as found on this website;
To influence Church discourse on Rev. 13:18;
To influence the decisions of editorial boards of the main versions of the Bible regarding Rev. 13:18;
To give fellowship to each other;
To hold monthly meetings (once membership has grown large enough to permit a quorum of 12).

Core beliefs

The two core beliefs of the Society are that the number of the Beast is 616 and that the Hammer & Sickle is the mark of the Beast.

To join the Arnion Society:

E-mail Nicholas Brand on njcbrand@hotmail.co.uk and confirm that you wish to become a member of the Arnion Society.

Membership is free.

Members of The Arnion Society, who shall be called “Arnians” (from the Greek word arnion, “Lamb”), believe that 616 is the correct number of the Beast and that the Hammer & Sickle is the mark of the Beast.

The mark of the name of the Beast (which is THERION, "Beast")

The Hammer & Sickle signifies the name "Beast" in Greek, which is ΘΗΡΙΟΝ in capital letters and θηριον in lower case letters.The Greek word for "sickle" is θεριστηριον. (This rather rare word can be found in the Antiochene text of the Septuagint at 1 Sam. 13:20.)The Greek words for "hammer", ραιστηρ, (raister) can be perceived in the middle of this Greek word for "sickle": θερ-ρ(α)ιστηρ-ιον (ther-r(a)ister-ion).The sickle appears to cut the hammer, indicating that the Greek letters that spell the word "hammer" should be cut from the word for "sickle". Such an action leaves the letters θερ-ιον which sounds like ΘΗΡΙΟΝ, "Beast".

ΘΕΡΙΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ ("sickle")

ΘΕΡ-Ρ(Α)ΙΣΤΗΡ ("hammer")-ΙΟΝ

ΘΕΡ-ΙΟΝ=ΘΗΡΙΟΝ (THERION, "Beast")

The Number of the Name of the Beast

The number of the Beast is 616.Transliterated from Greek to Hebrew, and vice versa, the Hebrew/Greek letters that spell the name "Beast" (cheivah/therion) make the number 616. The Hammer & Sickle is a monogram of the letters that comprise this number.

The Soviet Union will be restored

The Soviet Union suffered a "mortal wound" when it fell in 1991, but that wound has almost healed and the Soviet Union will be restored to become the eighth kingdom, namely the Beast "that is to come". The Beast's Ten Horns are the former Soviet Republcs which are now briefly enjoying independence and sovereignty. They will soon hand their "royal" power over to the Beast, the "Little Horn" (Dan. 7:8). Three of the former Soviet Republics will be uprooted (Dan. 7:8). Georgia and Ukraine are being uprooted and perhaps Moldova will be the third.

Richard Wurmbrand's books lend weight to the Society's outlook

Richard Wurmbrand’s book Marx & Satan was a great influence to the writer of this website. Wurmbrand (1909-2001) was an evangelical minister who endured a total of fourteen years of Communist imprisonment and torture in his homeland of Romania. Many of his books intimate that the USSR is the Beast. In Soviet Saints he asks if Communism will mellow, and concludes that it will not because:

…in the book of Revelation, chapter thirteen, we read that the beast will have power to overcome the saints. In the twelfth chapter of Daniel we read that the ‘power of the holy people will be scattered.’

In The Overcomers, he records how nuns refused to wear "the badge of the Antichrist" when asked to wear the uniform of prisoners. They had to walk naked through the freezing snow at a freezing temperature as a punishment.

In Sermons In Solitary Confirment, he asks:

Which of us could bear to see all the seven heads and ten horns of the red dragon of Communism?

In a chapter about latter day prophecies in The Answer to the Atheist’s Handbook he writes:

In a general sense, communism itself is a fulfilment of prophecy. It is like the great Antichrist predicted in the Scriptures: “It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation” (Revelation 13:7)

In his book If that were Christ, would you give him your blanket? Wurmbrand states that Christians should have been on the side of the Underground Church in Communist countries, not on the side of the official church leaders, who were stooges of the “anti-man” Communists. Wurmbrand asks:

If anybody makes friendship with them [the Communists] and obeys them now, what will be his attitude when the Anti-Christ will appear?

In Tortured for Christ he records how Russian soldiers professed that the Hammer and Sickle was a symbol of the Antichrist:

These Russian Christians had such beautiful souls! They said, “We know that the star with the hammer and sickle, which we wear on our caps, is the star of the anti-Christ.” They said this with great sorrow. They helped us greatly to spread the gospel among other Russian soldiers.

The convictions of these Russian soldiers were well founded, for the Hammer and Sickle is the number of the Beast.