Category: Numerology

• The "Anti-Christ" Napoleon III

  This theory identified Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, as the Beast or Antichrist of biblical prophecy, often by means of elaborate numerological calculations involving 666. It formed part of a broader nineteenth-century tradition of reading modern rulers through apocalyptic prophecy. In the 1860s, this reached a high level of intensity in English-language prophetic literature that treated Louis Napoleon as a world ruler foretold in Revelation and related texts.