Why 666 is bad

Today is the sixth day of the sixth month of the year Boil it down and you've got , the number of the beast according to the Bible's book of Revelation, which prophecies the end of the world. But if the date is enough to send you scurrying under your bedcovers, you may be a victim of what an Australian expert describes as a cognitive virus.

Professor John Bigelow, an expert in superstition and pseudoscience from Melbourne's Monash University , says the number traditionally has a dark significance for occultists, alchemists, heretics and people of a superstitious bent.

The mythology of goes back to chapter 13 in Revelation, the apocalyptic final book of the New Testament, which states "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast Members of a fraternal organization Freemasonry that emphasizes social philanthropy, interpersonal connections, and esoteric rituals.

Hebrew is regarded as the spoken language of ancient Israel but is largely replaced by Aramaic in the Persian period. It became the standard Biblical translation in the English-speaking world until the 20th century. A collection of first-century Jewish and early Christian writings that, along with the Old Testament, makes up the Christian Bible. Relating to the priests, the people responsible for overseeing the system of religious observance, especially temple sacrifice, depicted in the Hebrew Bible.

The territories ruled by ancient Rome, from roughly 27 B. View more. Warning against Antichrists 18Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know t This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is Just prior to verse 18 John says there is a mark that the Antichrist will demand everyone to receive and the false prophet will carry out the will of the Antichrist by setting up an image of the beast throughout regions of the world that will issue this mark in order to buy and sell.

One further line of thought is needed before we come to a conclusion on the meaning of the number At times, the Bible highlights numbers that point to a message and I believe this is true of the number Repetition here with the number 6 would also have the same meaning—the Antichrist will be the greatest man on earth.

So at the end of the day, the number serves to describe the Antichrist as the best man on earth—nothing more, nothing less. Praise God that no matter the greatness of the Antichrist on earth, we serve the sovereign holy God of Heaven who is the Eternal King of all! Is Jesus subordinate to the Father? It's just a number, right? Or is it? As the boys from Numberphile explain , doesn't really have any remarkable mathematical properties, but if you look back into its history, it reveals something pretty incredible about the way the Bible was originally written.

Turns out, what you see in the The Book of Revelation where the writer refers to in an apocalyptic vision isn't entirely what you get. Put simply, is being used as a code, and not a particularly subtle one, if you were alive and literate at the time of the New Testament.