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Why Did John State That the Beast’s Number Is 666? #666 · Scripture Central

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  Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
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  count. The number of the Beast for it
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  is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred threescore
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  and six, hey listeners. This is Nick from scripture
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  Central, and today's podcast addresses, the question, why did
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  John state that the beasts number is 666 after being exiled
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  to Patmos, Apostle, John? On saw a magnificent Vision that
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  has since been placed as the last book of the New Testament.
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  This Vision pertains to the historical events of John's day
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  as well as to the latter days preceding.
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  The second coming because John's Vision frequently uses symbolic
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  language and images. Its meanings may not always be
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  immediately apparent. One of the symbolic terms that
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  John employed involves Gematria a Jewish system of thought that
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  assigns a numerical value to a word or phrase.
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  Well, this practice may seem odd to Modern readers Richard, di
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  Draper and Michael D. Roads point out.
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  Most ancient people did not have a separate numbering system and
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  alphabet. So letters, also served as
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  numbers as a result. Any given name, could be
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  translated into a number, the first letter in Greek and
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  Hebrew. For example, had the numerical
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  value of the number 1 and so on by adding up the values for each
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  letter, a wide array of numbers could be achieved.
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  In Revelation chapter 13, John sees a vision of a dragon and a
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  beast who persecute the Church of God.
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  Regarding the Beast John States. Here is wisdom.
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  Let him that hath understanding count.
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  The number of the Beast for it is the number of a man, and his
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  number is six hundred threescore and six this appears to be an
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  example of a specialized use of Gematria called Isis Fe, which
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  is more properly understood as an Phrase name or idea that is
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  conveyed numerically rather than literally it is especially
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  apparent. That John's description of 666
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  is an example of Isis. Fe given that it is described as
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  being the number of a man Lincoln H blue, Mel and Thomas a
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  women identified, this phrase as a Loosely adaptable formula to
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  Mark. Isis, Fe in a given text, thus
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  the number can be viewed as an encoded message that John's
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  audience. Especially those with a Jewish
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  background. May have been able to discern.
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  This is also led to many speculations about the identity
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  of this Beast by later audiences.
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  The challenge with Gematria and Isis Fe, is that any number of
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  words or names can have the same numerical value.
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  Thus leaving uncertain any suggested solution, however,
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  various Solutions have been proposed.
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  One of the most widely accepted theories is that this number
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  refers to Nero who Did the first official Roman persecution of
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  the Christian church, when transliterated into Greek his
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  name would be near on Caesar and when spelled with the Hebrew,
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  alphabet, its numerical value. Is 666.
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  Interestingly, some early manuscripts of Revelation found
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  in Latin speaking areas of the church state that the number of
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  the Beast is 616 this same number occurs, when Nero's Latin
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  name Nero Caesar is spelled And in Hebrew, John's immediate
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  historical setting is relevant to this identification.
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  While many early Christians, believed the Book of Revelation
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  to have been written during the missions rain in ad 81 through
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  96 others, believe that it was written a generation earlier
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  during Nero's reign in. Ad 54 through 68, which would
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  make the numbers designation as Nero immediately applicable for
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  John's time, both Nero and domitian were famous for their
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  persecution of the Christians. Thus the Should as a beast
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  persecuting, the church would be an app title for either Emperor.
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  Yet while the number 666 cannot be easily tracked to do Mission.
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  Even if Revelation had been authored, during the missions,
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  rain rumors spread throughout the Mediterranean that Nero did
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  not actually die in ad 68, but had fled to Parthia where he was
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  raising a huge Army to come back and Destroy Rome.
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  While Nero ultimately did not return.
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  It could have been a Reminder to the Christians of what they had
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  experienced earlier and were experiencing again, under do
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  missions, rain the use of Isis, Fe, and inscriptions regarding
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  Nero has also been attested, allowing the rider to State,
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  what he was. Apparently afraid to say, in
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  public one such inscription reads a calculation new Nero,
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  his mother slew. This Isis, Fe utilizes, the
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  numerical values for the Greek name Nero, and the phrase, his
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  mother slew giving each phrase in the inscription.
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  The new Oracle equivalent of 1,005, given Nero's persecution
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  against the Christians, in Rome viewing him.
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  As a beast, that helped the dragon symbolically understood
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  to be the devil persecute. The church would have made a lot
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  of sense. In the early Christian Church
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  Draper and roads have also presented another hypothesis
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  regarding the meaning of the number suggesting that it
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  actually refers to the Beast itself.
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  When the Greek word for Beast Therrien is spelled in Hebrew
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  the numerical. Equivalent is 666 by employing
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  this meaning Draper and Roads argue that John is asking for
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  moral discernment in order to avoid being entrapped by the
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  Beast. Furthermore, the number six
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  itself stands in sharp contrast to the number 7 which is used as
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  God's number as such six would then be that which comes closest
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  to Perfection but misses the mark and falls short of its
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  potential repeating this imperfect Three times
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  intensifies, the idea of incompleteness and failure,
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  while also suggesting a condition of deep spiritual
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  wickedness. This case may be strengthened
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  when compared with the next part of John's Vision in Revelation,
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  chapter 14, which describes hosts of the 144,000, who carry
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  the Seal of Christ on their foreheads.
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  Thus, there is a marked spiritual contrast between these
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  righteous Saints who were sealed on their forehead.
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  Ed's and those who had been marked by the beast in their
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  right hands and forehead. When viewed in this symbolic
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  light, the great righteousness of the high priest mentioned in
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  Revelation, chapter 14 stands opposite, to the multitudes of
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  the wicked who follow the dragon and the Beast, other
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  interpretations have been put forward in an attempt to
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  identify the Beast with a variety of people or
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  organizations. Although each has various
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  challenges in their interpretation, ultimately, the
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  meaning of this number has not Been addressed in modern
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  Revelation because many aspects of the Book of Revelation deal,
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  not only with John's time, but also with the time immediately
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  preceding the second coming. It is possible that the Beast
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  and it's number could have multiple identifications or
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  fulfillments. One of the most insightful,
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  scriptural text in relation to the Book of Revelation comes
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  from The Book of Mormon after Nephi saw a vision of his own
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  immediate times and of his people's future, he saw one of
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  The Twelve Apostles of the The lamb this Apostle who was
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  identified as John would write the remainder of all the things.
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  They also many things which have been and he shall also, right.
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  Concerning the end of the world. In other words, John's writings.
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  According to Nephi, Encompass, the past present and future,
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  Richard neitzel, holzapfel and Thomas a women.
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  Took this view stating that John may have been expressing his
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  understanding, that, the beasts of the latter days would be
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  Wicked. In some of the ways that Nero
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  was the Unawareness of John's historical setting including the
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  Roman persecutions under Nero may help modern readers Identify
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  some of the symbols John employed including those
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  seemingly targeted against Rome. It is important to remember that
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  whatever form of persecution. This Beast may represent whether
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  past present or future blessings of peace and protection have
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  been promised to the Disciples of Jesus Christ.
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  According to Nephi, the Lord will preserve the Righteous by
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  his power, even if it's so be that the fullness of his wrath
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  must come and the righteous be preserved even unto the
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  destruction of their enemies by fire and the righteous need, not
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  fear for their those who shall not be confounded as we
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  continuously rely on Jesus Christ.
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  And his atonement all will be made, right?
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  And eventually Christ's disciples shall see his face and
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  his name shall be in their foreheads and there shall be no
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  night there. And they, They need no candle,
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  neither light of the Sun, for the Lord, God giveth them light
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  and they shall reign forever and ever.
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