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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 5:E-121
You will recall that I brought out in the Ephesian Age that the word, Nicolaitane, comes from two Greek words: Nikao which means to conquer, and Lao which means the laity. Nicolaitane means, "to conquer the laity". Now why is this such a terrible thing? It is terrible because God has never placed His church in the hands of an elected leadership which moves with political mindedness. He has placed His church in the care of God-ordained, Spirit-filled, Word-living men who lead the people through feeding them the Word...
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit
58-0928M §18
Said, "Here's to him that has wisdom." We find that the Spirit kept speaking expressly: "To him that has wisdom, to he that has knowledge, to him the different spirits, the gifts." Can't you see that God moving that church in the last days? There's got to rise a church full of the spiritual gifts, the real gifts of God. "Here's to he that has wisdom. Let him count the numbers of the beast, for it's the number of a man. His number is 666." And we found where that was exactly, couldn't be no more perfect. Write it ou...
The god of this evil age
65-0801M §97
Trying to keep you from seeing the real meaning of the Word, not what... See, he's interpreting it, saying it means this. God said, "I promised in the last days I'd send you Malachi 4." It don't have to be interpreted; He did it. He said, "And as it was in the days of Lot, the world will be in a Sodom condition; and that time I will reveal the Son of man by it exactly." We got all kinds of impersonations and everything else of it, but we got the real one too. He said He would do it. He said the antichrist would rai...
The Seal of Antichrist
55-0311 §26
Not because that we dance, or happy, or shouting; that doesn't mean it. The fruits of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, gentleness, patience. That's it. People can shout, dance in the spirit, and hate their neighbor, refuse to speak to one another. That's right. I don't want to hurt you, but it must be told. The Holy Spirit giving the gift of going forth, of discerning spirits, and things... Now it's come to the place where I want to tell you the truth about things. You've got a wonderful gr...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
56-0225 §72
Now, watch what He says now. Now, the vision doesn't heal; the vision only gives you ... brings your faith up to a place where you can accept your healing. Do you get what I mean? Brings your faith to a place where you can accept your healing. All right, now they got some prayer cards. All right. 1 to a 100? All right. We'll just line them up over here. We can't bring them all at once, so let's just start from number 1. Who has prayer card number 1? I better find out, because some of them I see, is unable... A lady...