USA – A Christian man was forced to quit his job after the employee identification number that was issued to him bore the mark of the beast: 666, Christian Today reports Friday.
Walter Slonopas, 52, was employed as a maintenance worker at the Tennessee-based Contech Casting LLC however, things started to go downhill for Slonopas after the company’s human resources department gave him an employee identification number ending in 666.
According to sources, Slonopas thought the computer-generated system gave him a number ending in 668, so he voiced his concern over the “Number of the Beast” to the company. He was promptly issued with the correct number.
But several months later, when the company updates its payroll system, he received another card ending in 666. Because of this, Slonopas quit his job.
The company apologised to him and blamed the number on a computer error. He was given a new card and asked to return to work a week later. But his woes did not end there. He was forced to quit again after he was given the same number on his W2 tax return form.
In the bible, the revelator wrote: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelations 13:16-18)
“My question is, are we working for the computer, or is the computer working for us?” he told ABC News. “I cannot accept this number. If you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil. I don’t complain. It just happened because it happened.”
For its part, Contech’s parent company, Revstone Transportation Group, issued an apology to Slonopas over the computer-generated error. “We are certainly sorry he was put through all this,” Revstone vice president Robert LaCourciere said. “We hope he does contact us because we’d love to have him back at work.”
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