What Does the Number 666 with Regards to the Anti Christ Mean?
1) Direct Answer
666 is the number of the beast—the number of a man. It identifies the head of a world religious system that opposes Christ and brings man’s rule to its climax. It is man’s number (six) raised to its fullness (six-six-six), showing a complete, organized religion of man without the Word, enforced on the earth.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Revelation 13:16-18: “It is the number of a man… his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” God tells us to count it. It marks the beast system and the man who leads it.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4: The “man of sin” sits in the temple of God, shows himself that he is God—claiming spiritual authority in the very realm that should belong to Christ alone.
- Revelation 13:11-17: An image to the beast compels worship and controls buying and selling—mark in the right hand (works) or in the forehead (belief).
- Revelation 17:1-6, 9, 18: A woman (a church) rides the beast, sits on seven mountains, and rules over kings—religion joined with world power.
- Revelation 14:9-12: A fearful warning against receiving the mark; the saints are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
- Revelation 7:9-17; 20:4: The Bride is seen sealed and overcoming; those who refuse the mark and remain true to Jesus reign with Him.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Six is man’s number (man created on the sixth day). Seven is God’s completion. Triple six is man’s religion, man’s wisdom, man’s government—fully developed yet forever short of God’s perfection.
- The Bible calls it “the number of his name” (Revelation 13:17). So it’s not random; it identifies the leader of that system and the system itself.
- The mark in the forehead means you receive his doctrine; in the hand means you serve or cooperate with it. It is allegiance to a man-made religious power that replaces the pure Word.
- God has His mark too—the seal of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30; Revelation 7:3). The sealed Bride cannot be deceived into worshiping the beast.
Short Reinforcing Statement
Stay with the Word and the Spirit of Christ. 666 marks the fullness of man’s religion against God; the seal of God marks the Bride who overcomes.
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Why I'm against organized religion
62-1111E §104
Now, here, the... Zella Braitman, are you here tonight, Zella? She brought... It's in the room in there now, "Our Sunday Visitor," the Catholic paper. And the Catholic paper was answering a minister. Said, "Did you say, Reverend, that did the... In the Roman numeral over the Vatican, or over the Pope's throne, is written 'Vicarius Filii Dei,' which it means, that in the Catholic diocese there, that is the number of the beast of the Apocalypse?" "Why," he said, "certainly, it is. It's exactly, spells out six-hundred...
Seals 6: The Fourth Seal
63-0321 §66
And then when he come to crowning time, then he become the false prophet of his antichrist teaching. Get it? Then he gets his sword, because he unites his powers together. Then he don't have to ask nobody. He's governor of state; he's governor of heaven. Receives a triple crown makes himself an idea called "purgatory," where if some of them died back there, and they got some money and want to pay them out, he could pray them out of it, because he's got the power to do so. He's a vicar. Certainly he is. He takes the...
The mark of the beast
56-0715 §7
Now in the 13th chapter, and beginning with the... Let's see, we began about the 11th verse of the 13th chapter of the Revelation. And I beheld a beast coming up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exercised all the power of the first beast before him, and it caused the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he does great wonders, so as make fire come down from heaven on earth in the sight of man, And deceived the...
The Seal of Antichrist
55-0311 §25
And today, we base our soul, almost, upon somebody who can preach like a fireball, or somebody who can lay hands on the sick, and them get well; that doesn't mean anything yet. Upon somebody who dances in the spirit, or shouts the victory; that don't mean anything yet, not a thing. Upon emotions; you can't rely upon that, although that's all right; that goes with it. But you got to get the real thing first. I've seen people stand, throw themselves back and forth, and work themselves into a frantic, screaming to the...
The Seal of Antichrist
55-0311 §8
...Scriptural texts like that? I do myself. And now, in teaching on this, it may be just a little bit different from, maybe, what you believe, or have been taught. And I don't mean to disagree. If it doesn't just match exactly the way you believe it, let us be brothers anyhow, see. And I've always said in my ... in teaching, or preaching, that just like someone eating cherry pie, when you run into a seed, you don't throw the pie away; you just throw the seed away, and just keep on eating pie. So you do the same thing....