The number 666
All you ever wanted to know about the number 666 (and a bit more!)
What do you know about the number 666? We all know that it is associated with the devil, a symbol of the Antichrist. But why is 666 regarded as the devil's number? What is special about the number 666? Is there any mathematical significance to this number?
Read on, and find out some interesting stuff about the number '666'!
How did 666 come to be associated with the devil?
Book of Revelation 13.18Here is wisdom. 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.
Six and Thirteen
What connects the two numbers 6 and 13?
Well, so far we looked into what we KNEW. Now we shall look at some facts that are largely unknown, beginning with the relation of the numbers 6 and 13, traditionally considered to be an unlucky number.
The Number 666 appears in Revelation 13, and is equated with the Greek word Hex/Six and the Hebrew word Vav/Hook, which are names for the sixth letter. Both these words appear exactly 13 times in Scripture! It doesn't end there; the number 13 is fundamentally hexagonal - sixfold - since it is the first non-trivial Star Number.
The numbers 6 and 13 also come together in the Prime Number 613 which is the number of the Jews, who cite that there are exactly 613 Commandments in the Torah. Similarly, it is the Jews who postulated God's 'Thirteen Attributes of Mercy'.
616 (six hundred and sixteen) is believed by some Christians to be the original Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
Different early versions of the Book of Revelation gave different numbers, and 666 had been widely accepted as the original number. In 2005, however, a fragment of papyrus 115 was revealed, which contained the earliest known version of the Book of Revelation discussing the number 666. It gave the number as 616, suggesting that this may have been the original. It is yet to be established whether this is the original number of the beast or not. What do you think?
After God cursed Adam and Eve, the Number 6 was marked with the sin of Man and the suffering (work) that he would have to endure for all existence. The connection between work and Six is first established in God's Six Day Work of Creation which is the pillar of the Six Days of Labor and the Seventh Day Sabbath.
In Kabbalistic Judaism the number 666 represents creation and perfection of the world. The world was created by God in 6 days, and there are also exactly 6 cardinal directions (North, South, East, West, Up, Down).
WWW = 666?
Does www stand for the number 666?
Well, we all know "www" is the acronym for world wide web and is normally used as the prefix, or first node of the Internet domain names. Is www the same as 666?
Well, YES and NO.
FIRST, THE YES:
The Hebrew and Greek alphabet does not have a separate character or alphabet for numbers and letters. Letters are used as numbers. So each letter is a numerical value.
The Hebrew equivalent of our "w" is the letter "vav" or "waw", The numerical value of which is 6. So the English "www" transliterated into Hebrew is "vav vav vav", which numerically is 666!
NOW, THE NO.
Revelation 13:18 reads:
Here is wisdom. 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.
The number is NOT simply three SIXES or 6-6-6, but 600 + 60 + 6, or the number "Six hundred sixty and six".
We're curiously told to "count the number of the beast". In Revelation 14:11 the mark is referred to "the mark of his NAME". In Revelation 13:17, 15:2 It's called "the number of his NAME". So the "mark" and "number" refer to his "name".
The "count the number of the beast" is the total of adding up the letter/numerical value of his name. This count equals "Six hundred sixty and six', not simply three 6's or 666. If we apply the clear teaching of Revelation 13:18 to the Hebrew "www", we actually have 6+6+6 or 18 - not 666.
It's also been discovered the Hebrew letter "vav" means "hook, peg or nail". The number "6" also resembles a "hook". Is the internet "hooking" the world into the 666 system? Just some food for thought!
SOURCE: Is "www" in Hebrew equal to 666?
666 and Solomon's Gold
The Number 666 is associated with the Sun, which in itself is associated with Gold. Scripture associates Gold and 666 in the books of Kings 10.14.
Kings 10.14: Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was Six hundred threescore and Six talents of gold.
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 - Haven't watched it yet?
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is an award winning concert documentary film featuring the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The film follows the band on the first leg of their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour between February and March 2008.
Flight 666 is co-produced by Toronto-based Banger Productions, known for their documentaries Metal: A Head-banger's Journey and Global Metal. It was released in select digital theaters on April 21, 2009. Flight 666 was welcomed by overwhelmingly positive reviews from the music press and general media. It's a must watch!
Life on Earth: Organic molecules are based on carbon-12, with 6 protons and 6 neutrons in the nucleus, surrounded by 6 electrons.
The telephone number which president Nixon used to join the cosmonauts (of which Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon), during the lunar landing of Apollo (on July 20, 1969), was 666-6666.
The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
Yes or No?
Do you believe 666 is the number of the devil?
DO you try and avoid the number 666?
Former American president Reagan owned a ranch whose civic number was 666 St. Cloud Road. In 1989, to avoid misfortune, his wife Nancy Reagan made him change the number to 668.
The Germano-Soviet pact lasted 666 days, from August 23, 1939 to June 20, 1941.
The official selling price of the first APPLE computer Apple-1 released in July 1976 was $666.66.
1. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the fear of the number 666. If you didn't get it on the first try, break it up - you pronounce it as 'hexa-koseeo-ee-hexe-konta-hexaphobia'. So, If you voted 'Yes' in the poll above, you probably are a Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobe!
2. There are 4 highways numbered 666 in the USA: Florida State Road 666, County Route 666 (Atlantic County, New Jersey), Ohio State Route 666, and Pennsylvania Route 666.
3. A remake of the 1976 horror classic 'The Omen', titled 'The Omen 666' was released on June 6, 2006 - the date literally reads 06.06.06 or 666!
Saddam Hussein and 666
An interesting look at the dictator's name
As i have said before, the Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters, and there are many different systems for assigning numbers to the letters. There is one numbering system used for everyday purposes. Using that system, here is an example:
Saddam = (samex, alef, dalet, alef, mem) = 60 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 600 = 666
Hussein = (he, vau, shin, shin, he, nun) = 5 + 6 + 300 + 300 + 5 + 50 = 666
Believe IT!
A few mathematical properties of the number 666
Don't worry, it's not Rocket Science! You can understand them!
1. 666 is the 36th triangular number. i.e. It is the sum of the first 36 natural numbers (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666)
Also note that 36 = 6 x 6. 666 is the largest triangular number consisting of a single repeated digit.
2. 6, 36, and 666 are each the sum of powers of 1, 2, and 3:
6 = 11 + 21 + 31
36 = 13 + 23 + 33
666 = 16 + 26 + 36!
3. 666 is the sum of the squares of the first 7 primes:
666 = 22 + 32 + 52 + 72 + 112 + 132 + 172!
SOURCE: Beast Number
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