The Bible and the Tax man Part 2. The last living Apostle of Christ was John the beloved, who beheld in vision a great beast who would arise having control over all the earth. Now this beast would represent something that would have total control over the people of the earth “small and great, rich and poor, free and bond” and everyone would receive a “number of the beast” and no one could “buy or sell” without that number! John didn’t give a name to that numbering system, nor did he speak favorably of it, but he certainly described the Social Security number and all that follows. In those days will the bulk of all the major prophecies of the Bible be fulfilled