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Here is the only other place in the Bible that uses the number 666."
This is incorrect. 1 Kings 10:14 and 2 Chronicles 9:13 also use the number 666 and it has negative connotations regarding Solomon's apostasy. "The weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold" (NKJV)
Interesting, I'll go look this up. I did not find that when I had looked for six hundred and sixty six in the concordance.
Come to realize now; my "bad" for not looking up "six hundred threescore and six".
How did you come to the conclusion that 666 is Christ? This is the first time I've ever heard this exegesis. I read your article and it doesn't provide any clarity, insights, or anything convincing that 666 is Christ. Did you come to this conclusion based on your own personal interpretation? Or are there articles, books, or other sources you can refer us to that spell this out more clearly?
I came to the conclusion based on what I read in Scripture.
Excerpt from article:
So if 666 is a number from a census, what exactly does this mean?
The text of Revelation itself may actually give us the answer. The Greek in Revelation tells the wise to "calculate the (subtracted) number of the beast; the number of the man and that number is 666". The phrase "number of the man" is a definitive article. It is "the man" not "a man". So actually what the wise are instructed to do here is to calculate the number that is subtracted from the number of the beast. That number is the number of "the man" and his number is 666. Interesting huh!
In order to know that you are to "calculate the (subtracted) number of the beast" you have to take a good look at the Greek.
G5585 - psēphizō - Strong's Greek Lexicon (NKJV)
Now comparing this to the number (666) counted in Ezra; this tells you what you are actually counting.
So, these 666 are the descendants of a man named Adonikam. He is a descendant of king David and he has returned from Babylon with 666 descendants; three of which are named as Eliphelet, Jeiel and Shemaiah.
Interestingly Adonikam's name means "The Lord is raised".
Eliphelet means "God is deliverance".
Jeiel means "God lives".
Shemaiah means "Yahweh hears".
So if 666 is a number from a census, what exactly does this mean?
This passage in Ezra is telling you who you are counting out from the number of the beast. And the fact that the Greek in Revelation uses the article noun "The man" and not "a man"; gives indication that the person who's number is 666 is a single person who's separate from the beast. And since the 666 out of the Babylonian captivity is clear that these are descendants of David; what conclusion would you come to other than "the man" is Christ?
I also disagree with your "What Did He [Jesus] REALLY look like?" article. In reference to Isaiah 53:2-5 you write "these verses actually don't have anything to do with Jesus's physical description." Verse 2 clearly does: "He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him." (NKJV)
If you take apart the Hebrew; no, it doesn't. The article explains the Hebrew to you.
Verse 2:
First off "he shall grow up" is a Hebrew tense that is an incomplete action. (He's never going to stop "growing up"; which doesn't make any sense in English, but when we translate the rest of the verse, it will make more sense.)
"as a sapling in the face of Him (God); as a root which originated all the way down at the foundation (not getting it's nourishment from the dry ground around it)."
"...which has no..." The Hebrew word "no" in this verse is most often translated as "nor", then "can not": thirdly most translated as "no", "never", "not", fourthly as "without" and then "surely".
"form"; which this word is derived from a root word meaning "inclination toward".
"honorable", "majestic", "respected" or "splendorous" - "adornment".
"That when we see / saw / looked upon him, there were no attributes (of physical, charisma or any other "qualification") that would cause us to be pleased with; (as in desire to exalt or praise) him.
Now the next verse explains "why" (or rather people's perception of him based primarily on life circumstance.
He shall continue to spring up as a sapling in the face of Him, as a root in dry ground nourished from the Foundation; surely never with an inclination toward honored majesty. For when we see him, we recognize no qualifying attributes we would desire to exhalt him for.
Yet if you think about it; you'd have to ask yourself what would Jesus's physical appearance have anything to do with fulfillment of Scripture? He wasn't a tall stately looking person. Matter of fact, anthropologically speaking (if He fell within the statistical norm of 1st century Jewish males) He probably wasn't any taller than maybe about 5 foot 3 inches and weighed more than 130lbs.
This passage has nothing to do with how "unattractive" He may have seemed from a "reproductive specimen" vanish point. I'm sure Jesus was pretty average looking. We know from the passage about His arrest that Judas has to point out who He is. Meaning He looked like everyone else. So no, He wouldn't have been more (or less) attractive than your typical Galilean male.
That passage doesn't mean He was ugly, it just means He was average.
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