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As readers will know if they watched my recorded lecture about the Book of Revelation<\/a>, I offer a lighthearted look at some of the proposed identifications of the Beast, including the suggestion that it could be Barney. To be fair, a purple dinosaur is obviously more like the monster depicted in the book than most other figures that have been proposed identifications of the Beast. <\/p>\n

Today, Scott Bailey shared this graphic<\/a> explaining the rationale behind the identification, such as it is:<\/p>\n

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