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  Number of the Beast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Irenaeus suggested that the number indicates that the beast is the sum of all apostasy committed over the course of six thousand years.
The number 666 retains a peculiar significance in the culture and psychology of Western societies, where some perceive it as “the Devil’s number”, even in contexts usually remote from superstition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Number_of_the_Beast   (1601 words)

  
 The Mark and Number of the Beast
We are told the number of the beast is the number of man, and that his number is six hundred, sixty and six, and that those with wisdom and understanding should count this number.
We know that the number of the beast is the number of man. And we know that it is not all men who are signified by this mark, only those who worship the image of the beast.
We count it as a spiritual number, and since it is obviously the part of the whole which are deceived of Satan to worship the image, we count it as part of the whole.
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 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST AND THE BIBLE CODE
The numbers of occurrences at larger skips matches better the expected number of occurrences and deviations are not as big as at lower skips.
The number of occurrences of בבל at skip +1 in the Tanach is 333.
The number 666, the number of the beast from the book of Revelation, has been occuping the minds and hearts of many Bible scholars for centuries.
www.carelinks.net /books/lp/numberbeast.htm   (5213 words)

  
 666 The Number Of The Beast
‘Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.’ Revelation of St. John Ch.13 verse 18.
As rational human beings we may dismiss such fear peddling as utter nonsense, but what if the revelation of the number of the beast, as given to St. John in a vision, was true.
A definition of The Beast using the Bible and ancient terms of reference may be this: The Beast is symbolic of the Antichrist, the leopard is symbolic of Greece, the bear is symbolic of Media-Persia, the lion is symbolic of Babylon and the dragon is symbolic of Satan.
www.psychicworld.net /666.htm   (1039 words)

  
 666: Unravelling the number of the Beast : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
666: Unravelling the number of the Beast : HindustanTimes.com
The Book of Apocalypse calls the Antichrist a "red dragon"; alternately, the Antichrist is a "scarlet beast having seven heads and ten horns" or a "beast with two horns, like a lamb," who, however, speaks as a dragon.
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six," or 666.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1714521,00110002.htm   (566 words)

  
 666 The Number of the Beast / The Death of Pope John Paul II and 666
The number 666, which supposedly represents the name of the Antichrist, is another source of controversy.
The number 666 retains a peculiar significance in the culture and psychology of Western societies.
666 is the 260th non square-free number: {4, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24,..., 648, 650, 652, 656, 657, 660, 664, 666,...}.
www.thenazareneway.com /666_the_number_of_the_beast.htm   (4059 words)

  
 Ralph the Sacred River: The Number of the Beast: 616?
The Greek number of Nero Caesar is not “666”.
(2) Because the number of the beast is the number of a person, the character of the beast is the character of a certain type of person.
The number of the beast actually has a scriptual answer, we don't have to guess as its meaning.
ralphriver.blogspot.com /2005/04/number-of-beast-616.html   (2660 words)

  
 Straight Dope Staff Report: What's up with 666, the "mark of the beast"?
And the beast was like a leopard, its paws were like a bear's, and its mouth was like lion's." (There's a similar description of a monster in Daniel 7:4-6.) The beast is empowered by and serves the dragon.
The simple answer is that the number 666 is tied to the beast, which is tied to the dragon, and the dragon is (obviously) Satan.
The most common interpretation is that the dragon is Satan, and the beast from the sea is the Roman emperor and empire, incited by the dragon to persecute the early Christians.
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/m666.html   (1441 words)

  
 Beast’s real mark devalued to ‘616′ : Religion News Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.
Where more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the “number of the beast,” or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the book’s apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616.
Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals.
www.religionnewsblog.com /11134/beasts-real-mark-devalued-to-616   (891 words)

  
 666: Reckoning the Number of the Beast
However, what this paper will do is examine some of the interesting mathematical properties of the Number of the Beast, as well as take a look at some of those people who have been identified as the Beast, and how their identities were deduced.
The Number of the Beast is one of only six integers which are equal to the sum of their digits and the cubes of their digits.
There’s even a curious connection between the Number of the Beast and pi, in that the 666th, 667th, and 668th digits after the decimal point of pi are 343 - which is equal to 7 * 7 * 7!
homepages.ius.edu /RVEST/Beast666.htm   (1858 words)

  
 666, The Number of the Beast
e.g., of the symbol of the ten-horned beast to be the Popes, and the sixth seal to the conversion of Constantine
Here we have indeed the number of a man, even the "man of sin" and it is a little singular, perhaps providential, that he should select a title which shows the blasphemous character of the beast, and then cause it to be inscribed on his miter, as if to brand himself with the number 666.
In Revelation 666 is associated with the number of the beast (from the sea), the Antichrist, and the harlot church of Mystery Babylon.
www.aloha.net /~mikesch/666.htm   (8969 words)

  
 666 - Numbers of the Beast
At the end of the paragraph about this third beast, the author challenges the reader with an intriguing puzzle: "This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person.
Biblical prophets call people to repent and to remain faithful to God, not to worry about when the world will end or who is the "beast" of the Book of Revelation.
So, when all is said and done, the number 666 will continue to intrigue numerologists and fascinate gamblers, be profitable for Hollywood but avoided by most other businesses, provide fodder for the apocalyptic warnings of fundamentalist preachers and challenges for the teachings of mainline Christian pastors.
www.catholic-resources.org /Bible/666.htm   (2421 words)

  
 The Beast of Revelation and His Empire by Laura Knight-Jadczyk
He exerts all the power and right of control of the former beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell upon it to exalt and deify the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed, and worship him.
This indicates that this second beast was behind the initiation of the military action described as a deadly wound and that this event was planned to bring the first beast into position to establish military supremacy and commercial world domination.
The unfinished numerical form of the name of the beast, the numbers which will give the mathematical result identical with the name number of the beast, thereby affirming identity, is 666.
www.cassiopaea.org /cass/thebeast.htm   (11028 words)

  
 Is the Number of the Beast 666 or 616 ?
Note the number of the beast = 616, in the third line.
666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616)
What the number of the beast may be referring to.
www.edwardtbabinski.us /skepticism/616666.html   (633 words)

  
 Ronald Wilson Reagan = 666?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Whether our 40th President was the Beast of Revelation* or not, someone ought to mention the rest of the evidence which suggests that he was, if only as a study in coincidence.
13 And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul spirits like frogs; 14 for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle....
Historically, the word Antichrist is now often used to mean the beast described in the Revelation, and certain phrases in the letters suggest that this might be correct, but as this is not clearly stated in the Bible, I avoid the usage.
home.mcn.net /~willfree/coincidence/reagan.htm   (1452 words)

  
 The Number of the Beast (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980.
In the novel, the biblical number of the beast turns out to be, not 666, but
, or 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056, which is the number of parallel universes accessible to the protagonists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)   (557 words)

  
 Count the Number of the Beast: Who is the Antichrist, The Beast of Revelation 13?
So "Alpha and Omega" and the number 801 are connected with Christ, and Flight 93 leaving at 8:01 AM EST is a sign that Christ was with the people on that plane that day, and gave the people on the plane the bravery to fight the terrorists, and save the U.S. from a greater disaster.
666 is the "Number of the Beast", the Antichrist, in Revelation 13.
In Revelation 17, the 10 horns of the beast are 10 kings who are in league with him, I think this is the C.I.S., and the seven heads of the Beast would be the heads of the seven districts that President Putin has divided Russia into.
members.tripod.com /~beastwatch   (23132 words)

  
 G4 - Feature - Number of the Beast
Dain believes the number is the Mark of the Beast.
Regardless of denomination or political leaning, every serious Christian has to believe that the world will someday be shackled by a totalitarian government in the service of Satan.
Biblical sermons and parables are nice enough, but it's the dark paranoiac edge of Christianity that speaks to me.
www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/1851/Number_of_the_Beast.html   (340 words)

  
 666: the number of the beast
The "beast" in Revelation is a symbol for a person or organization which persecutes the people of God.
In Revelation 17, the beast is ridden by a prostitute!
It is possible then, that the number 666 was intended to be a clue pointing to the extensive international trade network of the beast, similar to that of Solomon thousands of years before.
www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au /~hyndman/666.htm   (787 words)

  
 Planet Grenada: number of the beast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
One of the more interesting interpretations is known as Preterism which holds that many or all of the Biblical prophecies about the endtimes were essentially fulfilled in the First century.
For the Preterist, the book is about the end of the Mosaic dispensation, the destruction of the temple, the fall of Jerusalem and the persecution of the early Christians by the Romans.
planetgrenada.blogspot.com /2006/06/number-of-beast.html   (1034 words)

  
 Count the Number of the Beast: Who is the Antichrist, The Beast of Revelation 13? - Part 2
In terms of Biblical prophecy, this supernova was significant because the Antichrist is described as having the feet of a bear, and in fact the Antichrist may be Russia's President Putin, the bear being associated with Russia.
Another way to analyze numbers is to associate them with words by translating to Greek, the original language of Revelation, where each letter is also a number, so each word can be given a number by totalling the letter/numbers.
The significance of these numbers could relate to: Revelation 4:1 corresponding to "41", where a door is opened in heaven, and in Revelation 4:6 there is a throne in heaven and a sea of glass.
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 WorldNetDaily: Kerry tied to '666'?
During his presidential campaign in Iowa today, Democrat John Kerry was surrounded by a sea of handheld signs displaying the number six on them.
According to the book of Revelation in the Bible, the number "666" is associated with an end-time beast power.
"Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." (Revelation 13:18.)
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41146   (251 words)

  
 ENTER: Electronic New Testament Educational Resources
Biblical Prophecy: What It Is and What It Is NOT
The Number of the Beast: Some Fun with 666
Documents of the Pontifical Biblical Commission ("The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church"; etc.)
catholic-resources.org /Bible/index.html   (612 words)

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