Our "Post-Age Culture" is coping with Armageddon anxiety and catching millennial fever.
Satan's six-pack (666) has us under the influence of easy answers, easy solutions and easy excuses.

What to do?

This week's biblical text is "brought to life" as much by the number it bears as by what it says. Read this text of rejection, John 6:66, one more time: "Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him."

The devastating nature of this message, coupled with the doomsday number it is assigned 666, the number of the Antichrist, the Mark of the Beast, "Satan's Six-Pack" has made this text a flash point favorite for those trying to figure out millennial mathematics. At the doorstep of the year 2000, there is an increased frenzy and fervor over anything smacking of…