What is the meaning of 666 in Rev.13:18?

[idono]

When we say "Okay", "a" or "3", we always show this gesture. This gesture actually represents "666". Many celebrities put this gesture in front of their eyes. This is actually three overlapping "6". Do for your own show your left hand, do for others to see show the right hand. There is a product named "Monster Energy", its trademark is "666" in Hebrew. And its slogan "Unleash the Beast!".

[brakelite]

On 1/23/2018 at 4:45 PM, missmuffet said:

666 is the number associated with the beast in the seven year tribulation. Number 7 is associated with God and perfection. The number 6 falls short of God and God's perfection. We do not know how the number 666 will be used in the seven year tribulation. The Church will not be in the seven year tribulation so we will not find out. There has been much speculation regarding the number 666. That is all it is...speculation.

 

On 1/24/2018 at 10:32 AM, Dennis1209 said:

Unfortunately I've been guilty of this too. We are to be watching and waiting for Christ's return (Gal 1: 10, the doctrine of imminency), and not trying to figure out whom the Antichrist might be, as we're not going to be here anyway (Paul more or less states that in 1 Thess 5: 1-3 talking to the Christians). It's plainly stated no one will know who he is until he confirms a covenant with the many. 

However, our Bible does not say or even mention that we might be able to figure out whom the False Prophet is, or might be. If this sitting Vicar of Christ is not the one, based on his actions and words, it's certainly a precursor. So if this be the case, I would have to assume the A/C is alive and walking the Earth somewhere? In my mind there's little doubt we're the terminal generation. 

A 7 year tribulation is as spurious as some of the false candidates for antichrist. As is the so-called pre-trib rapture. Believing that there is a future time when the church won't be here so wont experience the antichrist, is a lovely Satanic ploy to deceive...you have already been deceived by the antichrist's press corp in accepting his futurist doctrine that effectively hides him from 90% of the modern church.

[Justin Adams]

Check out the symbols on the Isis hats. It is 600 60 6. Arabic I think.

We need to very carefully forget all we have been 'taught' and read Daniel again.

The Jesuit doctrine has permeated our belief system so thoroughly. 

Take the following from the Septuagint for example. The word 'for' is NOT in the Greek.

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

In other words, it is pointing to ONE WEEK (the last of the prophesy, when all will be fulfilled regarding Yeshua, Salvation etc).

Like, "Hi, see you next week". A time note not a day by day blow by blow timeline.
(might see you any day, say Tuesday - the other days are irrelevant)

That week begins as Yeshua is baptized and anointed.. continues thru ministry to crucifixion, to confirming (making active) the new covenant (see the last supper) then the oblations and sacrifices are no longer of value so they cease.. on to the Ascension and Pentecost and the bringing in of the gentiles to the Body of Christ. It is finished. The week is the culmination of Salvation. The 70th week is the penultimate end of that particular prophesy and is the start point or reason for later events like the AD 70's destruction of Jerusalem and the pig being sacrificed in the temple. Then the place flattened and about one million Jews taken for forced labor and many, many others killed. Babylon. The 10th legion comprised Turkish and Syrian solder/conscripts. They destroyed the second temple, just like Babylon had destroyed the first temple.

 

 

Edited January 25, 2018 by Justin Adams

[Daniel 11:36]

"A 7 year tribulation is as spurious as some of the false candidates for antichrist. As is the so-called pre-trib rapture. Believing that there is a future time when the church won't be here so wont experience the antichrist, is a lovely Satanic ploy to deceive...you have already been deceived by the antichrist's press corp in accepting his futurist doctrine that effectively hides him from 90% of the modern church"

 

Read your Bible son [Revelation 3:10]

There is a time when today's believers will be immortalized .... just before the coming tribulation period  

 

Edited January 25, 2018 by Daniel 11:36

[Mike Mclees]

On ‎1‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 3:40 AM, Revelation Man said:

LIKE MISSMUFFET SAYS: The Church is not going to be here anyway, so its kind of irrelevant to us who he is. I also think that 666 is a duplicate:

God the Father, The Holy Spirit and Jesus the Son or the 777 Trinity. 

Anti-Christ Spirit Satan who rebelled against God, The False Prophet/Man Beast over Religion, the Anti-Christ Beast/Man over Governance pt 666.

I know where hes born via Daniel 7 and 8, it clearly tells us, he cones from the Fourth Beast and the Greece, the only one of the Four Generals Territories that's in the European Union. So it can't be the other three. Hes Assyrian or Turkish and born in Greece. 

Who is he? I never go there, because it doesn't matter to us, but he is an avowed Atheist.

 

The man of sin will be revealed. The question is when he will be revealed. When you say the seven year tribulation, when do you say the great Tribulation will it begin. Will it be the whole seven years  At what point will he be reveald  

[Daniel 11:36]

The entire 70th week will reveal the beast from the abyss

This beast was on the earth just before the first century after ruling 5 of his 7 kingdoms .... the 5th was the Seleucid Kingdom of Antiochus IV [Daniel 11:21-35]

He was then placed in the abyss .... he will come out again at the beginning of the 70th week decreed for Israel and attack Israel at the middle of the 70th week [Daniel 11:36-47; Revelation 9:11] 

This is Satan's doing [Revelation 13:1-4] 

Edited January 25, 2018 by Daniel 11:36

[ScottA]

On 1/22/2018 at 8:52 PM, Quasar93 said:

At the close of Revelation 13, which discusses thebeast (the Antichrist) and his false prophet, we read, “This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666” (Revelation 13:18). Somehow, the number 666 is a clue to the identity of the beast. Revelation 13 also mentions the “mark of the beast” (verses 16–17), and popular thought often links 666 with the mark; however, the mark of the beast and 666 appear to be two different things. The mark of the beast is something people must receive to in order to buy and sell. The number 666 is somehow associated with the beast/Antichrist as “his” number.

The meaning of 666 is a mystery, and it appears that the apostle John, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, intended it to be that way. Calculating it, John says, requires “wisdom.” Some, using gematria (assigning a number value to each letter of a name or word and then combining the number values to arrive at a total number), have identified the Antichrist as various people in world history. Some of the popular targets have been “Caesar Nero,” “Ronald Wilson Reagan,” “Mikhail Gorbachev,” and various popes in Roman Catholic history. The lengths some will go to in order to get a person’s name to add up to 666 are amazing. Virtually any name can add up to 666 if enough mathematical gymnastics are employed.

Six hundred, sixty-six will somehow identify the beast, but precisely how 666 is connected to the beast is not the main point of Revelation 13:18. The Bible often uses the number 7to refer to God and His perfection. Traditionally, 6 is thought to be the number of man, created on the sixth day and always “falling short” of God. The beast/Antichrist will strive to be like God. He will likely even claim to be God. But, just as the number 6 falls short of the number 7, so will the beast/Antichrist, with his “trinity” of 6’s, ultimately fail in his effort to defeat God.

Addendum: Interestingly, in some ancient Greek manuscripts of the Book of Revelation, the number is given as 616 instead of 666. The manuscript evidence is strongly in favor of 666, but the alternate reading of 616 should give us pause before we start pounding away on the calculators.

 

In Roman times, the language used was Latin, and Nero was "Nero" ! That is his latin name! Also, in Italian, the name is "Nero"! Many of the romance languages developed from Latin - Italian, French, Spanish.  In Greek and in Hebrew, Nero was Neron

When Nero Caesar's name is transliterated into Hebrew, which a first-century Jew would probably have done, he would have gotten Neron Kesar or simply nrwn qsr, since Hebrew has no letters to represent vowels. "It has been documented by archaeological finds that a first century Hebrew spelling of Nero's name provides us with precisely the value of 666. Jastrow's lexicon of the Talmud contains this very spelling."5 When we take the letters of Nero's name and spell them in Hebrew, we get the following numeric values: n=50, r=200, w=6, n=50, q=100, s=60, r=200 = 666. "Every Jewish reader, of course, saw that the Beast was a symbol of Nero. And both Jews and Christians regarded Nero as also having close affinities with the serpent or dragon. . . . The Apostle writing as a Hebrew, was evidently thinking as a Hebrew. . . . Accordingly, the Jewish Christian would have tried the name as he thought of the name - that is in Hebrew letters. And the moment that he did this the secret stood revealed. No Jew ever thought of Nero except as "Neron Kesar."6

The fragment supports the reading of some Greek New Testament manuscripts that read 616 instead of 666. Why would someone making a copy of the Revelation scroll make such a number change? "Perhaps the change was intentional, seeing that the Greek form Neron Caesar written in Hebrew characters (nrwn qsr) is equivalent to 666, whereas the Latin form Nero Caesar (nrw qsr) is equivalent to 616." A Latin copyist might have thought that 666 was an error because Nero Caesar did not add up to 666 when transliterated into Latin. He then changed 666 to 616 to conform to the Latin rendering since it was generally accepted that Nero was the Beast. In either case, a Hebrew transliteration nets 666, while a Latin spelling nets 616. Nero was the "man" and either 666 or 616 was his number.

Partial source:   http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 202AArPVCp


Quasar93

 

 

 

It is way more simple than that. But men flatter themselves with lengthy dissertations.

1. "The number of a man" is 6. 
2. There are two "folds": 66
3. And of the second 6 there is born another 6, which instead of the spirit of God which was given to the church, many refused, and gave birth to "the desolate" Galatians 4:27: 666

[Revelation Man]

6 hours ago, Mike Mclees said:

The man of sin will be revealed. The question is when he will be revealed. When you say the seven year tribulation, when do you say the great Tribulation will it begin. Will it be the whole seven years  At what point will he be reveald  

The 70th week is a seven year period, of course, its called Jacobs Troubles. You see the Peace/Security Agreement is a forced deal it seems. So the Seven years are Jacobs Troubles and the 3.5 years are Gods Wrath on mankind in which Israel is "PROTECTED" for the 3.5 years or 1260 days in the Wilderness. So its from Israel's perspective, thus its called Jacobs Troubles, but if God is protecting Israel for 1260 days who is the TROUBLES actually upon?  OTHERS not Israel per se, though some Jews do not make it either, 2./3 die because they did not heed Jesus' words or couldn't make it to the Wilderness in time. 

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: ( to "Safe zone" on wilderness) 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.25 Behold, I have told you before.26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

The GREAT TROUBLES are harming the whole world an no flesh would be saved of not for God stopping the Wrath.

 

[Quasar93]

8 hours ago, ScottA said:

It is way more simple than that. But men flatter themselves with lengthy dissertations.

1. "The number of a man" is 6. 
2. There are two "folds": 66
3. And of the second 6 there is born another 6, which instead of the spirit of God which was given to the church, many refused, and gave birth to "the desolate" Galatians 4:27: 666

 

IMO, the Christian seeking the knowledge of what Rev.13:18 means by the number of a man, 666, will choose what I have posted to explain it over that of what you have posted, in a heart beat.

 

 

Quasar93

[ScottA]

2 hours ago, Quasar93 said:

 

IMO, the Christian seeking the knowledge of what Rev.13:18 means by the number of a man, 666, will choose what I have posted to explain it over that of what you have posted, in a heart beat.

 

 

Quasar93

Of course. Just as it is written:

Galatians 4:27

 For it is written:

“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”