THE NUMBER 666 - The number 666 symbolizes the perfection of man's overall system that is separated from God and under the constant influence of Satan the devil. Six in the Bible represents incompleteness or imperfection. Man's system on earth is made up of three parts, each represented by a six in the numeric 666. The first six of the number 666 means the perfectly false religions of man under Satan's lead. The second six is for the deceived false governments of this world. The third six of 666 is symbolic of mankind's self-centered economic system. The number 666 represents the world and all that it does to appease and gratify human nature. The last special adversary is the Antichrist, whose name numbers to 666 - The meaning of six hundred sixty six (666) is derived from the number and mark of the Beast Power discussed in the book of Revelation. The number 666 symbolizes the perfection of man's overall system that is separated from God and under the constant influence of Satan the devil. Six in the Bible represents, by itself, incompleteness or imperfection, as it is one less than seven (which symbolizes completeness). Man's system on earth is made up of three parts, each represented by a six in the numeric 666. The first six of the number 666 means the perfectly false religions of man under Satan's lead. The devil is the god of this world, and allowed to deceive mankind, until the return of Jesus Christ. The second six is for the deceived false governments of this world. The third six of 666 is symbolic of mankind's self-centered economic system. The number 666 represents the world and all that it does to appease and gratify human nature.

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The Number 666

Meaning of Numbers in the Bible

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The number 666 symbolizes the perfection of man's overall system that is separated from God and under the constant influence of Satan the devil. Six in the Bible represents incompleteness or imperfection. Man's system on earth is made up of three parts, each represented by a six in the numeric 666. The first six of the number 666 means the perfectly false religions of man under Satan's lead. The second six is for the deceived false governments of this world. The third six of 666 is symbolic of mankind's self-centered economic system. The number 666 represents the world and all that it does to appease and gratify human nature. The last special adversary is the Antichrist, whose name numbers to 666.

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As anyone who is a new Bible student quickly learns, the meaning of six hundred sixty six (666) is derived from the number and mark of the Beast Power discussed in the book of Revelation.

The number 666 symbolizes the perfection of man's overall system that is separated from God and under the constant influence of Satan the devil.

Six in the Bible represents, by itself, incompleteness or imperfection, as it is one less than seven (which symbolizes completeness).

Man's system on earth is made up of three parts, each represented by a six in the numeric 666.

The first six of the number 666 means the perfectly false religions of man under Satan's lead.

The devil is the god of this world, and allowed to deceive mankind, until the return of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).

The second six is for the deceived false governments of this world.

The third six of 666 is symbolic of mankind's self-centered economic system. 

The number 666 represents the world and all that it does to appease and gratify human nature.

The book of 1 John (written by the apostle John who also wrote Revelation) contains an often-overlooked set of three verses that uses a subtle form of 6.

This hidden form of six, found in the total times the word 'world' is used, warns believers to separate themselves from man's system which is soon to die (John 2:15-17).

Appearances of the number six-hundred sixty-six

In order to show that the book of Revelation was inspired, Ireneaus (120-202 AD), an early church apologist, noted that he had consulted the 'most approved and ancient copies' of Revelation for verification of this mystical numeric.

How is the number 666 related to wealth?

King Solomon, after assuming the throne of Israel upon his father David's death, soon became wealthy.

Although money streamed to him due to the heavy taxation of the Israelites (see 1 Kings 4:24), it was the gold that came to him through a variety of other ways that made him the richest man alive.

Every year he received 666 talents of gold (1 Kings 10:14-15), a figured confirmed by the first century historian Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 8, Chapter 7).

Additional info on the Biblical Meaning of 666

Three people in the Bible stand out as special adversaries of God and his people.

They are Goliath the giant who fought King David, King Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonian Empire and the End Time Antichrist.

Each, in one way or another, has the mark of this special numeric.

Goliath, who fought David when he was quite young, had a height of 6 cubits, had 6 pieces of armor, and his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron (1 Samuel 17:4-7).

Nebuchadnezzar, the great King of Babylon, set up a "golden image" in the plain of Dura.

He commanded all who he ruled over to worship it or else be thrown into a furnace of fire.

The idol was 60 cubits high and 6 cubits wide (Daniel 3:1).

The last special adversary is the Antichrist, whose name numbers to 666 (Revelation 13:18).

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THE COMING ECONOMIC CRASH - The time to get ready for these soon-coming events is now, and the best place to start is by receiving Jesus as your Savior - then learn to stay connected to Jesus in prayer so He can guide you and provide for you in the troublous times to come - study what the Bible has to say about the coming Antichrist world dictatorship and other Endtimes events so you won’t be caught by surprise when they happen, or duped into following the Antichrist - Many analysts and respected economists warn that a devastating worldwide economic crash is coming. Although not specifically predicted in the Bible, such an event is in line with key prophecies regarding the Endtimes and would almost certainly hasten their fulfillment-particularly the rise of the world government, and its eventual leader the Antichrist and the implementation of his universal economic system, the mark of the Beast (“666”) during the last 3-1/2 years of his seven year reign. Modern economies are built largely on faith. People have faith in their currencies, but it is misplaced faith. They don’t realize that their currencies are not backed by any substantial amount of physical assets, such as gold or silver, and are issued by governments that are often deep in debt. When people do lose faith in their currency, its value plummets, stocks slump, and their country’s entire economy crashes. A sudden and drastic downturn in one major financial market could create a worldwide panic that would send the global economy tumbling down like a house of cards.

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 The Coming Economic Crash

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Many analysts and respected economists warn that a devastating worldwide economic crash is coming.

Although not specifically predicted in the Bible, such an event is in line with key prophecies regarding the Endtimes and would almost certainly hasten their fulfillment-particularly the rise of the world government, and its eventual leader the Antichrist and the implementation of his universal economic system, the mark of the Beast (“666”) during the last 3-1/2 years of his seven year reign. (Daniel 9:27; 11:31; Matthew 24:15, 21; Revelation 13:5-7; 16-18)

Modern economies are built largely on faith.

People have faith in their currencies, but it is misplaced faith. They don’t realize that their currencies are not backed by any substantial amount of physical assets, such as gold or silver, and are issued by governments that are often deep in debt.

When people do lose faith in their currency, its value plummets, stocks slump, and their country’s entire economy crashes.

In this era of Internet trading and globally linked economies and stock markets, a sudden and drastic downturn in one major financial market could create a worldwide panic that would send the global economy tumbling down like a house of cards.

In one possible scenario, if the American economy were to fail because of some international crisis like a major war in the Middle East that could stop the flow of oil, or the U.S.A Dollar ceases to be the Petro Dollar.

Back in 1973/74, the U.S.A. Dollar under Henry Kissinger’s negotiations became the world’s Petro Dollar that meant that all oil transactions needed to be done in U.S. Dollars.

So, every country, who imports oil, needs U.S. Dollars to buy oil from exporting foreign countries forcing many nations to hold large amounts of U.S dollars.

As a result of this deal the U.S. Dollar has remained the world’s reserve currency, even though the U.S.A has an enormous financial debt of over 17 Trillion Dollars.

However this is about to change as the new BRICS Nations ( Brazil, Russia, India, China, & South Africa), are setting up their own currencies for trading of goods & services & this also includes not using the petro dollar for the sale of oil.

It has been reported in the news that Russia & China the lead players in the BRICS nations are in the process of dumping the U.S. Dollar, that could cause the dollar to cease to be the International Reserve Currency & to lose most of its value, or completely collapse the U.S. Dollar preparing the way for a New World Currency & A New World Order?

The rest of the world could rapidly lose faith in the U.S. dollar.

The dollar and other dollar-based currencies and international stocks would lose much of their value and, as a result, banks and financial markets worldwide would likely fail.

Such an economic crash would most also likely lead to widespread political and civil chaos.

Another major factor is the international debt crisis.

Nearly every nation in the world has been enticed by powerful international financiers, working through the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to take out huge loans that make it impossible for them to ever pay off their debts.

Why do you suppose the World Bank, the IMF, or anyone else would give out billions in loans that they know can never be repaid?

Because when nations fall into bankruptcy and default on their loans, the lenders gain control of their economies.

As the Bible says, “The borrower is servant to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7).

That’s the real reason the international financiers loaned those countries the money in the first place, to gain control!

The World Bank and IMF are now dictating the economic and other internal policies of these nations-their governments, their industries, their banks, virtually everything.

They are running these governments by proxy through financial pressure.

Just look at the economic problems that have plagued European countries, Argentina and other countries in recent years and you can see where all of this is leading.

The world’s present economic woes are not accidental or merely the result of “basic market forces at work,” as we so often hear in the news.

Through manipulation of the world’s money-cleverly choreographed crashes followed by temporary rebounds and more severe crashes-more and more of the world’s money is making its way into the hands of a few, while more nations are being pushed toward bankruptcy and forced to surrender control of their economies in return for foreign loans.

As time goes on and the situation worsens, there will be even more economic instability in the money markets of the world and unprecedented ups and downs in the major economies.

When that happens, people are going to look for a savior.

Paul Henri Spaak, first president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, once said, “What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man and whether he be God or devil, we will receive him.” [footnote: Cartledge, D. n.d. Eschatology. Rhema Bible College, Townsville.]

And that’s exactly what the world is going to do! 

The people of the world will look for a financial superman to bring stability and prosperity, and when the Antichrist comes on the world scene and appears to do just that, they will hail him as a hero and welcome his rule and new economic system.

He will “rescue” them from the economic ruin he led them into, and his plan will have succeeded-for a time.

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THE SECRET BEHIND THE NUMBER 666 - True completeness was only achieved by Jesus Christ, who saved the world through his perfect sacrifice. If Jesus had a symbolic number, it would be 777 - by assigning 666 to the "number of the beast," the author of Revelation is warning Christians to beware of Satan's "cheap imitation of Christ - In the book of Revelation 3:18, it reads, "Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is 666." When you dig deeper into its historical context, there's evidence that the author of Revelation was using numbers to send his early Christian readers a coded message. "The beast" was a reference to an evil-looking creature that the author of Revelation saw rising out of the earth in a vision. This creature could perform miracles, would demand that everyone be "marked" with its name or number in order to buy and sell anything; and would also kill those who did not worship it. People have wondered whether this beast referred to someone who has come and gone, was yet to come or to no person in particular. The book of Revelation was written in Greek, the language of the Christian world in the first and second century C.E. Instead, each letter of the Greek (and Hebrew) alphabet had a numeric value.

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What's the Secret Behind the Number 666?

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True completeness was only achieved by Jesus Christ, who saved the world through his perfect sacrifice. If Jesus had a symbolic number, it would be 777 - by assigning 666 to the "number of the beast," the author of Revelation is warning Christians to beware of Satan's "cheap imitation of Christ"  

BY DAVE ROOS

Would you buy a used car with a license plate ending in 666?

Or take a job at an office tower in New York City with the address 666 Fifth Avenue?

After all, 666 is the infamous "number of the beast," allegedly Satan's secret code for evil.

In the biblical apocalyptic book of Revelation 3:18, it reads, "Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is 666."

Is 666 really "the devil's number," or is there a more down-to-earth
explanation for these three digits?

From that passage, it sure sounds like 666 is Lucifer's lucky number.

But when you dig deeper into the Bible and its historical context, there's evidence that the author of Revelation was using numbers to send his early Christian readers a coded message.

When Letters Are Also Numbers

"The beast" was a reference to an evil-looking creature that the author of Revelation saw rising out of the earth in a vision (Revelation 13:11-18).

This creature could perform miraculous things, would demand that everyone be "marked" with its name or number in order to buy and sell anything; and would also kill those who did not worship it.

So, who was this?

Over the centuries, people have wondered whether this beast referred to someone who has come and gone, was yet to come or to no person in particular.

The book of Revelation was written in Greek, the language of the Christian world in the first and second century C.E.

There were no numbers in Greek, at least not the numbers that we'd recognize today. (Our so-called "Arabic numerals" — 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. — were developed centuries later.)

Instead, each letter of the Greek (and Hebrew) alphabet had a numeric value. For example:

alpha = 1

beta = 2

pi = 80

psi = 700

For the Greek-speaking Christians reading Revelation, they would have been very comfortable reading letters as numbers.

That's how numbers were displayed in the market or in legal documents.

They also would have been comfortable turning numbers back into letters thanks to a practice called isopsephy.

Word Games With Numbers

Isopsephy, in Greek, means "equal in numeric value," and was a popular way of playing with words in the first century.

The trick was to add up the numeric value of one word and then find a second word or phrase that added up to the same number.

Words that were numerically equal were thought to have a special connection.

One of the best-known first-century isopsephies was referenced by the Roman historian Seutonius.

"A calculation new: Nero his mother slew." In this case, the emperor's name "Nero" equals 1,005, the same value of the phrase "his mother slew."

For Romans who suspected that the ruthless emperor had murdered his mother, this isopsephy was the proof.

Archaeologists have even discovered ancient Roman graffiti that substituted numbers for names, says Thomas Wayment, a classics professor at Brigham Young University.

"There's graffiti at Smyrna and Pompeii that says, 'I love her whose number is 1,308,'" says Wayment.

"That's pretty common. And hopefully everybody did their math correctly and could make the connections."

'666' Was a Coded Message

Wayment and most other biblical scholars have no doubt that the author of Revelation intended 666 to be an isopsephy solved by his first-century readers.

"The author says, this is the number of a man, which is a classic isopsephy formula," says Wayment, who recently co-wrote an article on Revelation 13:18 and early Christian isopsephies.

"Christians would have known right away, this is a coded message."

Revelation is famously cryptic and was meant to be that way, even to its original audience.

Wayment says that in apocalyptic writings, an angel or other heavenly messenger often reveals their meaning through coded speech.

"As a reader, you're seeing something through the eyes of the visionary and he's telling you, 'you need to make sense of this,'" says Wayment.

"That's part of your experience and participation in the vision."

According to most scholars, 666 was yet another coded reference to Nero, a "beastly" emperor who brutally persecuted early Christians in the Roman Empire.

To solve the isopsephy and equate Nero to 666, you need to use the full name "Caesar Nero" in Greek.

If Caesar Nero is transliterated into Hebrew as nrwn qsr or "Neron Kesar" and then calculated, the numbers add up to 666.

Interestingly, some early manuscripts of Revelation have the number written as 616 instead of 666.

The common explanation is that "Caesar Nero" is written differently in Greek and Latin, another language spoken by early Christians.

In the Latin version, the letters only add up to 616.

Other Readings of '666': Satan's Perfect Imperfection

Not all Bible scholars are convinced that 666 is simply an isopsephy.

James M. Hamilton, a professor of biblical theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of "Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches," sees powerful symbolism in the repetition of the number 6.

In biblical symbolism, Hamilton says, the number seven represents "completeness" or "perfection."

True completeness was only achieved by Jesus Christ, who saved the world through his perfect sacrifice. If Jesus had a symbolic number, it would be 777.

By assigning 666 to the "number of the beast," the author of Revelation is warning Christians to beware of Satan's "cheap imitation of Christ," says Hamilton. "That's the best Satan can do, one short of perfection."

For Hamilton, those "false Christs" raised up by Satan could take the form of a corrupt emperor like Nero or even modern cultural norms that are in rebellion against God.

"If participating in that culture entails worshiping false gods or denying something that the Bible teaches, Christians need to say, 'I'm not going to take the number or name of the beast,'" says Hamilton.

NOW THAT'S COOL

Third-century Christians picked up the habit of signing letters with the number 99, the numeric value of "Amen."

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MARK OF THE BEAST - Only in this era of computers and electronic commerce could this prophecy be fulfilled - There are currently a number of methods commonly used for purchasing items. You can use cash, you can write a check, you can use a credit card, or you can use a debit card that instantly deducts the amount from your bank account and deposits it into the account of the merchant. Smart cards take this several steps further. They have a tiny computer chip embedded in their plastic. These electronic marvels not only give you instant access to your bank account, but they can also contain (or access) your passport information, your medical records, driver’s license, photographs, biometrics, credit history, and other data. Millions of smart cards are in use across Europe in the form of health cards, SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards (which turn your phone into a smart card),95 and ePurse cards. A parallel program is the biometric passport (AKA, epassport). This does involve an attempt at fail-safe identification. Epassports not only contain your name and personal data in printed form, but an RFID chip embedded in the cover contains the same information in electronic form along with biometric information.

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Mark of the Beast

Only in this era of computers and electronic commerce could this prophecy be fulfilled

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“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:” – (Revelation 13:16)

“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.” - (Revelation 13:17)

This prophecy is remarkable.

Think about it: Nearly 2,000 years ago the apostle John, who prior to meeting Jesus had been a fisherman by trade and had been called an “uneducated and untrained” man (Acts 4:13), predicted that a global economic system will one day be instituted in which everyone will be forced to receive a number, without which they will not be able to buy or sell.

Only in this era of computers and electronic commerce could this prophecy be fulfilled.

There are currently a number of methods commonly used for purchasing items.

You can use cash, you can write a check, you can use a credit card, or you can use a debit card that instantly deducts the amount from your bank account and deposits it into the account of the merchant.

Smart cards take this several steps further. They have a tiny computer chip embedded in their plastic.

These electronic marvels not only give you instant access to your bank account, but they can also contain (or access) your passport information, your medical records, driver’s license, photographs, biometrics, credit history, and other data.

Hundreds of millions of smart cards are in use across Europe in the form of health cards, SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards (which turn your phone into a smart card),95 and ePurse cards.

A parallel program is the biometric passport (AKA, epassport) which began being issued by many countries in 2006.

Although not involving commerce, this does involve an attempt at fail-safe identification.

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