COMPILED 'MEANING OF 666' FILE
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In terms of the gematria aspect if one were to use Hebrew we
would be looking at :
mem(final)
samech
vau
or
tau
resh
samech
vau
I worked from the basis that the name is spelled out as 600 & 60 & 6 which
suggests three definite letters. However if one wishes not to use finals
(600 being the beginning rather than the end) then one constructs it from
400 and 200.
Jon Sharp
If Revelation 13:18 says that 666 is the number of a MAN, how can
barcodes or personal computers become the number of the beast?
But watch this. The bishop of Rome, the pope has a title which exalts
himself as God on earth like Jesus was. {BTW Immanuel, Jesus name means
"God with us"}.The pope's title is "Vicar of the Son of God" which means
representative of the Son of God. In Latin, this is "VICARIUS FILII DEI"
take any numerical value for each letter that has one and add them and
see what is the total.
V = 5
I = 1
C = 100
A = 0
R = 0
I = 1
U = 5
(SAME AS V.THERE IS NO U IN LATIN BUT V)
S = 0
F = 0
I = 1
L = 50
I = 1
I = 1
D = 500
E = 0
I = 1
---------
= 666
His title in greek "Lateinos"{Latin Man or Church} totals also to 666.
L = 30
A = 1
T = 300
E = 5
I = 10
N = 50
O = 70
S = 200
-------
= 666
In Hebrew, we have the word ROMITH {Roman Kingdom} which was replaced by
the Roman Papacy.
R = 200
O = 6
M = 40
I = 10
I = 10
TH= 400
-------
= 666
In Latin the title "Head of Clergy" - DUX CLERI also total to 666.
D = 500
U = 5
X = 10
C = 100
L = 50
E = 0
R = 0
I = 1
-------
= 666
This number is only given to us to identify the beast. Once identified,
We should try to know what his mark is rather that worrying about the
number 666.
It is stated in Revelation 14 that the faithful who will not receive the
mark will be keepers of God's commandments and have the testimony of
Jesus. See last verse. So this mesns that those who will receive the mark
of the beast will NOT be keepers of God's commandments. Indeed the Papacy
has changed the 10 commandments to suit them. The 2nd which says not to
worship idols were removed. So you're left with 9. The nineth was divided
by two, to make it ten again. See one of their catechism book. Most of
all, they changed the 4th commandment which says that the day of rest is
the 7th day of the week, Saturday. They made Sunday a day of rest. And
yet Jesus said that not a jot or tittle should be removed from the Law.
The 4th commandment being the only one concerning time, the prophet
Daniel who helps understand Revelation, talks about this power which he
identified as a terrible animal (beast) in chapter 7 of his book.
Daniel 7:7 introduces the terrible beast.
Daniel 7:24,25 talks about a little horn growing from that beast which
will try to 'change time and law'. Now the only law which deals with time
is that of the sabbath, the 4th commandment. Ask the Vatican about it and
they will tell you as they always claimed, that their power lies in their
having changed the law of God. They wrote that the MARK of their
authority is to have changed the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday in the
year 361 AD, under emperor Constantine.
Soon the Vatican will pass a compulsory National Sunday Law where nobody
will be allowed to work on Sundays, Those who will give mental acceptance
to it will (symbolically)receive the mark on their foreheads, and those
who will cooperate with it will receive it (symbolically) on their right
hand. This is what the mark of the beast is about. And I can see the
whole christianity today ready to receive it, specially those protestant
churches (the beast from the land) who supports indirectly the vatican,
(the beast from the sea) by attacking God's 10 commandments, the only
part of the bible written by God Himself, specially the sabbath. They
confuse the ritual sabbath (ceremonial) which could fall on any day of
the week, which was abolished at the cross with that of the 10
commandment's which is on Saturday only (Moral law), and abolishes the
whole law altogether today.
When the National Sunday Law will be enforced, (by goverments as nobody
will know that it comes from the vatican,except those who have insight on
this matter)then will be determined those who will stand on the Lord's
side. Persecution will be the reward of those who stand firm on God's
word keeping His commandments.
Exod 32:26 "Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me."
Josh 24:15 "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you
this day whom ye will serve;... but as for me and my house, we will serve
the LORD."
Jacques Gentil (jpmg@deakin.edu.au)
Yes, as has often appeared here, 666 has been applied using various
numerology methods and alphabets to a number of people's names since ol'
St John purportedly ate the hallucinogenic mushrooms on Patmos and
whipped off the book of Revelations. The name of Nero can be used but
apparently only in Hebrew characters when 'Nero' becomes 'Neron' (Nero
apparently only makes it to 616 and for the Roman world, N=50). It has
also been said 666 has stood for; Apostates, Diocletian, Julian The
Apostate, Luther, Mohammed, Pope Paul V, Napoleon, William II of Germany
and several other worthy contenders.
There is also the 'Mysterium' theory which suggests that 666 stood for
the Bishop of Rome. The word 'mysterium' was engraved on the tiara of
the Pope up until the time of The Reformation. This is supposedly
supported by Revelations 17:5 which says of the Whore of Babylon* (in
part) 'And upon her forehead was a name written, mystery'
*(Isn't this just one of those wonderful biblical character titles?)
An explanation I prefer says that St John chose it because it fell one
short of the holy number 7. Add to that the Christian fondness for the
number 3, and you get three sixes (i.e one for each part of the Trinity)
or one for the body, the mind and the soul or even Earth, Man (the
collective noun)and heaven. (There are so many groups of three to choose
from...). So, '666' strives for perfection (i.e. 'God' and 'Heaven') but
falls just short in all regards...
dsbland (dsbland@cobweb.com.au)
[reformatted -- boboroshi]
MR JAMES WOOD writes:
> I was unwise in saying the number 666 refers to a year.
> It DOES, but I am unable to lay hands on the quote. Might
> be Taherzadeh, I dont remember. It was just such a relief
> to me that it stuck evenly and securely in my somewhat
> sticky mind. Can anyone help me out with this?
> I was brought up short by Earle who had every right to
> ask for the reference. Seeing that I am unable to give it,
> can anyone else?
No, but here is an interesting reference from the Book of Kings:
"And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of
his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country,
she and her servants. Now the weight of gold that came to
Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents
of gold, beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the
traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of
Arabia, and of the governors of the country."
1 Kings 10:13-15
It would seem that in this case the number refers to the wealth of
Solomon (666 talents of gold). I find this reference particularly
interesting because the "trading of spices" is also discussed at length in
the Book of Revelations. Likewise there are sayings like "who is like the
beast" that are suggestive of Solomon becuase of Solomon's unsurpassed
wisdom.
As such, we might say the Beast may represent the reappearance of the
relation between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, although 666 is clearly
denoted to be "the number of a man".
As I understand it the Queen of Sheba was stunned by Solomon's wisdom and
became an admirer, but later Solomon fell away from God for a time.
Perhaps the Beast is a kind of modern Solomon?
Matthew P Menge (mmenge@gac.edu)
It is my understanding that 666, in the Greek text (from whence came our
King James) originally was written "the number of man," not "the number of
A man." 666 was the number burned into the foreheads of slaves and thus
denotes a state of slavery. The Beast refers to materialism and 666 our
slavery to it.
LaAeterna (laaeterna@aol.com)
I believe that you will find the reference you want in Some
Answered Questions, where Abdu'l-Baha links the date 666 of the Christian
Era with the establishment of the power of the Umayyad rulers {i.e, the
rejection of the wishes of Muhammad over the succession.} From personal
research into the matter I have discovered another couple of possible
meanings, linking it with the Ottoman dynasty of caliphs. Measuring from
the proclamation of the Mission of Muhammad {i.e, 10 years before Hejira},
the d.o.b of 'Osman, the first of the Ottoman Caliphs, is 666 {although
historians are not unanimous about his d.o.b.} Also the duration of the
ruling element of that dynasty is 666 years; I think this latter figure is
in Gregorian years. In any case, I don't have the calculations handy, but
there are some remarkable correlations between the number and the Ottoman
dynasty. I believe this is consistent with 'Abdu'l-Baha's interpretation
of the number as relating to the element in Islam which disregarded
Muhammad's wishes over the succession.
D. Povey (dp10006@thor.cam.ac.uk)
[reformatted -- boboroshi]
In Roman times people often refer to each other by the numerical
value of their names. If you have visited Pompei you may have
notice graffito of the type "736 loves 423" and the like. This
is a numerological value, arrived at by assigning a value to each
letter of a name. Anyway, John, the clever old hermit was making
a thinly disquised jab at the Emperor of his day, Nero Augustus Ceasar.
Robert Moldenhauer (rcmolden@students.wisc.edu)
Illustr. credits: "krampustile" was cybercrafted by tyagi nagasiva, scanned from a
1932 postcard printed by "Erika" with krampus on red and white background, 1998;
'Snake Bar Devils' is an improvement on the 'Authentic Candle of Desperation'
packaging from Botanica Del Leon Rayon (Mexico) by t. nagasiva, 1998.
