REVELATIONS CHAPTER 6 tells me the number of the Beast are those first SIX SEALS. The Number of the Present day Beast is noticeably approaching the 3rd and 4th Seals. But to me it isn't any particular order.
Still nothing can bring the Beast out of Mankind more than Hunger. 6:6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A Choenix of wheat for a Denarius, and three Choenix of barley for a Denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!" As you see it also comes with a warning designed to protect the righteous 1846: The Donner-Reed Party
Next if you look at the % of various worlds religions. The numbers are very interesting depending on which statistic you use. Remember they are estimates. 6:8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a FOURTH of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth. What religion makes up 25 % of the world population? Is that what a quarter of the land means?
Now they say it is the Devil in us all. I tend to agree with Edgar Cayce. And it is said in the Bible about those who walk 'Upright'. Becoming Human. Edgar Cayce seemed to think how the individual controlled and was controlled by the body. So don't forget the under explored Pavlov.
If you take a monkey away from it's parents at birth, and raise it in captivity, will it need to be taught to use tools? It has been shown that learned behavior can become innate. Lets take Mankind and project from it's beginning. Going from the primitive to walking upright to becoming more human. Then our outcome can be predicted. Are we an extraterrestrial experiment? Our is all this of our own natural progression.
To be cont..... Read Revelations with the thought of our personal self. Of the individual taken collectively. How were there the Hitler's of the world?