Why is 666 considered the mark of the devil?
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a couple of years ago i discovered my social security number has 6 six's inside of the numbers, it scares the daylights out of me, i wonder who the hell would have 666-666-6666??
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666 as a name or word\n\nAnother interpretation is that 666 is actually some kind of code based on the letters of someone's name or a word. This sparks great public interest since it seems to provide some way to identify the Antichrist. Numerologists like to devise clever ways of assigning numbers to letters so that the letters of a name will add up to this symbolic number. Probably the best-known scheme has A=100, B=101, and so on. With this code, the name "HITLER" adds up to 666. Another commonly cited example is President Ronald Wilson Reagan, where counting the letters of his first, middle, and last name lead to 666. While these ideas are intriguing, they usually require many specific preconditions, like having to start with 100, numbering the surname only, etc. (even though in the former case, you can also number a=1, b=2, and so on and decode his initials 'A' and 'H' as 18, which of course equals 6+6+6.) By adapting the rules however, it is possible to connect most if not all names to the evil number. See also Vicarius Filii Dei. More convincing interpretations invoke more than mathematics to prove their point.\n\n    * For example, scholars who believe the Book of Revelation refers to real people and events argue that the number represents the value of Nero or Neron Caesar (נרון קסר, Nrwn Qsr*, pronounced "Neron Qesar") in Hebrew letters, which also have numerical values under the form of numerology called Gematria (note that Hebrew is written from right to left):
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ita an ancient many thousands of years old jewish art, perhaps it was founded in israel? (before other people occupied the jewish nation)\nIt has nothing to do with the "devil" which is a silly christian invention
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This is the mark of the anti-Christ, beast, Satan.  \n\nRev 13:18\n18Here 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.\n(KJV)\n\nIt is called the mark of man, because Satan wil posses the man who is the Anti-Christ.\n\nI have much more info on this topic.  If you would like me to answer other questions for you, feel free to contact me.
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Actually nobody believes that “the number of the beast” is 666 any longer. \n-There was a discovery of a piece of parchment that is now the earliest record of Revelations (in Greek) that clearly reads 616. \n-This was a game commonly played at the time (we know this 'cause there are lots of ancient carvings that say things like "I love the woman whose name is 457" stuff like that) So you would assign the letters in a persons name different number values and then take a persons name and add up the numbers and you get a sum. In this case 616 likely refers to the Emperor who was promoting blasphemous idol worship of himself. And the writer of Revalations was trying to make the point about how evil this was and that the only one to be worshiped is "the one true God". And this using numbers was a way of talking about someone without using their actual name and so only those in the know would understand and you could get away with calling the emperor a jerk and not get put in jail or hung or worse…
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maybe it is Lucifer himself his name alone represents 666  however i check on it and will edit later if i find out any different or that it is Lucifer himself for sure (calling pastor)\n\npastor not home but talked to others and they say its lucifer, at least in his own mind cause hes already been defeated. will continue to try the pastor to make sure  and to the post above two of those in the end were just men and are insignifagent to the question\n\nare you studing revalations\n\nmabe it could allso be the whore of babylon
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Idiots think the world will end on 6/6/2006 because apparently 666 is the sign of the devil. Why the world didn't also end on 6/6/1906 I don't know.
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The Devil was not cast in to hell for an eternity.  He was thrown from the heavens and hurled down to the earth.  He is being bound to the earth where he is allowed to continue misleading the peoples of the world for a short period of time. (This period started in 1914)  After Armageddon, he will then be bound into an abyss where whe will not have contact with anyone for 1,000 years.  After which he will be let loose to see if anyone will join him in rebellion. He will succeed. As the bible says those who join him will be as many as the grains of sand in the sea. There will be a final battle and then Jehovah God our Creator will hurl Satan and his followers into the Lake of Fire along with death and hell, which means that they will be destroyed forever.\n\nSee Revelation 12:7-9, 12 and Revelation 20:1-15.
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I wish that people could understand that 666 is the NUMBER OF THE BEAST in Revelation.  It has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DATE.  No one can fortell Jesus' return, He will come at the appointed time that was set even before the world began.  God bless!
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666\nRev 13:18  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. \n\n(James Moffatt translation)\nNow for the gift of interpretation. Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.\n\nSix hundred threescore and six\nG5516 χξς chi xi stigma khee xee stig'-ma\nThe 22nd, 14th and an obsolete letter (G4742 as a cross) of the Greek alphabet (intermediate between the 5th and 6th), used as numbers; denoting respectively 600, 60 and 6; 666 as a numeral: - six hundred threescore and six.\nG4742 στίγμα stigma stig'-mah\nFrom a primary word στίζω stizō (to “stick”, that is, prick); a mark incised or punched (for recognition of ownership), that is, (figuratively) scar of service: - mark.\n\nBiblical significance of the number 6; WEAKNESS OF MAN - EVILS OF SATAN - MANIFESTATION OF SIN\nBiblical significance of the number 666; THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST ANTI-CHRIST\n\nTYPE OF BEAST\nGoliath whom David slew (I Samuel 17), had the number of a man, 6, 6, and 6.\nItems of Goliath, (1) helmet, (2) coat of mail, (3) greaves, (4) target, (5) spear, (6) shield\nwhose height was six cubits and a span\nhis spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron\n\nTYPE OF IMAGE\nNebuchadnezzar made an image (Daniel 3), had the number of a man, 6, 6, and 6.\nInstruments, (1) cornet, (2) flute, (3) harp, (4) sackbut, (5) psaltery, (6) dulcimer\nwhose height was threescore cubits, or sixty\nthe breadth thereof six cubits\n\nTo further calculate the cipher 666 when Satan will think he is in full control.\nRevelation 6:12   the sixth seal\nRevelation 9:13   the sixth trump\nRevelation 16:12 the sixth vial\n\nOn June 6 the U.S. Senate will vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) which defines marriage as being only between one man and one woman. Because of a power grab by activist judges like the one in Georgia, the MPA is the only way that the sacred institution of marriage will remain between one man and one woman.
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The priest had warned his father Mr Thorn that his son Damien Thorn has the birthmark of the devil in his head. They found the number 666 branded in his head.\n\n666 is the number of the devil, he is the supposed son of satan, therefore he is the Antichrist, Later on, these priests will have daggers which could kill this antichrist. Would only be used in Omen 3 by his mother in the church of Azereth. This is based on the ORIGINAL OMEN trilogy.
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666 is associated as "The Number of the Beast". (from Revelation 13: 16-18)\n\n(UGGH, I don't like quoting "the good book").
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Not only is it in the Bible, But if you know how to correspond certain letter to numbers. 666 will spell out Satan.,as well as evil............ The sad thing about this world is that people just don't believe that pure evil exist in this world.... And believe's that people have the choice's to preform either. And in many, many cases that belief is very far from the truth. Satan is a very real enity and so is his fallen angel's. And one day in the near future this world population will wake up to that fact, But then for billions of people it will be to late for them to do anything about it..................
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After the rapture, all followers of Satan (he will try and take power after the rapture) will be marked with the number 666. We're not sure how it will be marked. It could be a microchip, or a real mark, but we know that it will have the number 666 somewhere on it.
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Well, it is important to remember that the mark of the beast is 666. In wondering if the Verichip is that mark you would have to know its base code, but even if you did, it does not necessarily mean it is the mark of the beast. \nThe reason I say this is because the mark of the beast will be instituted throughout the world as an economic resource, so with that in mind there really is no way to tell if Verichip or any other identification chip is actually a precursor or the actual tool that will be used for the mark of the beast. \nIn the Bible, it tells us that each person will have an offer of whether or not to take the mark, and each person will have to choose. It also says that anyone who does choose to take the mark will have lost all hope of salvation and going to heaven. It is important to remember this because with regard to Verichip – that situation has not arisen yet and that God is very specific in what He tells us is coming. \nSo, I would have to say that Verichip may be a precursor to that upcoming economic world system based on 666, but at this time is not that mark – because the Scripture also tells us that whoever refuses to take the mark will be killed. That situation has not arisen yet. \nIf you are concerned with where we are in God’s plan – watch Israel. Israel is God’s timepiece, not the mark, the antichrist, wars, and all the other bad things going on in the world, watch Israel and you will be able to tell, by reading the Bible for yourself where we are in God’s plan. ~ God bless.\n\nRevelation 13:16-18; 14:9-11;  15:2; 16:2; 19:20; 20:4
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"Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six," (Rev. 13:18).\n\n     666 is the number of the antichrist, the end times figure who will arise with the purpose of opposing God and God's people.  666 is the gamatria of the name of the antichrist. \n     In Greek and Hebrew there are no numeric characters.  There are only alpha characters.  For example, the letters a, b, c, d, e, f, etc. are alpha characters.  The numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., are numeric characters.  They are different -- except for the letter "o" and the number "0".  When the Greeks wanted to write a number, they used letters for numbers.  The Greek letter "alpha" had the numeric equivalent of 1.  The next letter "beta" has the numeric equivalent of 2, and so on.  (CARM has a chart of the Hebrew and Greek numeric equivalents if you are interested in more information.) \n     Therefore, whenever a word in Greek is written, because the letters are also numbers, every word has a numeric value.  This numeric value is called a gematria.  The Greek word for Jesus (IhsouV) has a mathematical equivalent of 888.  Also, the Greek word for fish is 1224. \n     What the Bible is saying is that the future antichrist will have a name that when it is written in Greek, its numeric equivalent will be 666.
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666 is here where is the devil?\nHe is where I left him last-in my @$$ and his pitchfork is tickling it like some gerbil up in Richard Gere's @$$!!!!!!!