Obama State Lottery Is 666 Day After Win Antichrist - YouTube
And as a child he had the flu all three days over the Easter long weekend. :o
He was "sick-sick-sick"
But note that it says in Scripture the number is the number of a man - not a day, or a postal code.
James-49 said in post #3:
But note that it says in Scripture the number is the number of a man - not a day, or a postal code.
That's right. The "666" in Rev. 13:17c-18 isn't referring to a day's state lottery number, nor to the zip code 60606, but to the number six hundred & sixty-six, the "number of the name" of the individual "man" who's the Antichrist (the AC) (the individual-man aspect of the beast). The number of a name is determined by employing the ancient method of gematria, by which numerical values are assigned to the letters of any alphabet as follows: the 1st 9 letters are 1 through 9, the next 9 letters are 10 through 90 (counting by tens), and the rest of the letters are 100, 200, 300, etc., to the end of the alphabet. In Rev. 13:18, the "counting", the adding up, of the gematrial number of the AC's name should be done in the same way that the gematrial numerical values of the 3 Greek letters (Chi, Xi, and Stigma) at the end of Rev. 13:18 (in the original Greek Textus Receptus) (the TR) are added up to arrive at the number six hundred and sixty-six. The numerical values of the letters of the ancient Greek alphabet (including the three obsolete letters of Stigma, Qoppa, and Sampi) were as follows:
Alpha = 1
Beta = 2
Gamma = 3
Delta = 4
Epsilon = 5
(Stigma = 6)
Zeta = 7
Eta = 8
Theta = 9
Iota = 10
Kappa = 20
Lambda = 30
Mu = 40
Nu = 50
Xi = 60
Omikron = 70
Pi = 80
(Qoppa = 90)
Rho = 100
Sigma = 200
Tau = 300
Upsilon = 400
Phi = 500
Chi = 600
Psi = 700
Omega = 800
(Sampi = 900)
Just as the numerical values of Chi, Xi, & Stigma at the end of Rev. 13:18 (TR) add up to 666, so the numerical values of the letters in the AC's name will add up to 666 (Rev. 13:17c-18). John used the Greek alphabet only because it was the most common 1 used by believers when Rev. was written. Today, the English alphabet is the most common 1 used by believers, insofar as English is the current lingua franca of the world. So the AC's name will most likely add up to 666 in the English alphabet.
ViaCrucis said in post #4:
Except that what we are talking about are Greek numerals, the numerical values aren't arbitrary.
When I want to write six hundred and sixty-six I just write 666, not YPF.
So he is the Antichrist! I just knew it!
Is it realistic to ask for a birth cirtificate when nobody has one from antiquity? Yet we know when Nero was born,well I still want to see that anti-Christ's birth certificate! I am not convinced by lottery or zip code numbers, I want to see the birth certificate
LMAO , priceless ...lolwell I still want to see that anti-Christ's birth certificate! I am not convinced by lottery or zip code numbers, I want to see the birth certificate
Yes, Obama's the Antichrist. So, it's our duty to reveal him.So he is the Antichrist! I just knew it!
Satan will plant false evidence to deceive people about the identity of his antichrist. If you see lots of 6's be skeptical. Satan could be trying to provide a counterfeit antichrist.
No, that's not true. Heaven speaks through any kind of means in the Bible such as the "Burning Bush", the flowering Rod, the speaking snakes, and also betting lots etc...And as a child he had the flu all three days over the Easter long weekend.
He was "sick-sick-sick"
But note that it says in Scripture the number is the number of a man - not a day, or a postal code.
They aren't arbitrary in English gematria either, for under gematria, numerical values are assigned to the letters of any alphabet only as follows: the 1st 9 letters are 1 through 9, the next 9 letters are 10 through 90 (counting by tens), and the rest of the letters are 100, 200, 300, etc., to the end of the alphabet. So the gematrial numerical values of the letters of the English alphabet are only: A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7, H=8, I=9, J=10, K=20, L=30, M=40, N=50, O=60, P=70, Q=80, R=90, S=100, T=200, U=300, V=400, W=500, X=600, Y=700, Z=800. The way the gematrial number of a name is "counted" (Rev. 13:17c-18), is added up, is simply by adding up the gematrial numerical values of all the letters in that name. So, e.g., the number of "John Mark Smith" is 636, because: J=10, O=60, H=8, N=50, M=40, A=1, R=90, K=20, S=100, M=40, I=9, T=200, H=8. Total = 636. The AC's name will add up to 666 (Rev. 13:17c-18).
Also, the whole purpose of Rev. 13:17c-18 is to facilitate for believers, not to make difficult for them, the identification of a certain man as possibly being the AC. If the letters in his name had to be transliterated into the Greek alphabet, this would vitiate this purpose, for almost all believers today wouldn't know how to properly perform this transliteration, & so different believers would come up with different transliterations, & so would come up with different gematrial numbers for the name of the man in question.
What's being discussed isn't how to convert a number into letters (e.g. converting 666 into "FOX"), but how to convert the letters in someone's name into a number: If Christians think someone's the AC, they need to check & make sure his name adds up to 666 in gematria (Rev. 13:17c-18). If it doesn't, he isn't the AC; if it does, he could be, & they need to be especially wary of him & not be taken in by any deceptive charisma, intelligence, or amazing deeds he might display. But even if someone's name adds up to 666, this doesn't mean he's definitely the AC, for just by chance there could be more than 1 person in the world whose name adds up to 666. The AC may come from a country the territory of which used to be part of 1 of the 4 Diadochian Greek kingdoms which succeeded Alexander the Great (Dan. 8:8-9,21-25). These kingdoms stretched from Greece over to Iran, & down into Egypt. So the AC could come from the Middle East. He could be an Arab who'll come from Lebanon, from the modern city of Tyre (Ezek. 28:2, 2 Thes. 2:4), & have a name like (e.g.) "Nabil Abdullah Falakal al-Hakim", which adds up to 666.
But if a man from the Middle East has a name which adds up to 666, even this doesn't assure he's the AC, for he also has to sit in a 3rd Jewish temple in Jerusalem & proclaim himself God (2 Thes. 2:3-4, Dan. 11:31,36, Mt. 24:15, Rev. 11:1-2). Once he does that, there won't be any room for doubt over whether or not he's the AC; his identity will have been definitely revealed (2 Thes. 2:3b-4).
Except that what we are talking about are Greek numerals, the numerical values aren't arbitrary. Roman or Latin numerals likewise borrow from its alphabet, as many ancient numeral systems did.
English-speakers have used two numeral systems in history, firstly the Roman system and later the Arabic system which we now presently use every day.
One could arbitrarily assign numeric values to the English Latin alphabet, for example:
A - J = 1 - 9
K - S = 10 - 90
T - Z = 100 - 700
Throw in a couple extra symbols to account for 800 and 900.
Then you'd have something approximating the Greek numeric system.
However we don't do that. When I want to write six hundred and sixty-six I just write 666, not YPF.
-CryptoLutheran