For several years I have seen this number everywhere. It’s on receipts, phone numbers, bill boards, my trash can, my realtor service number and many other things.
That's probably because you have become hypersensitive to seeing it. This can happen for a lot of things, numbers are very common. You'll notice a number show up a couple times, the close proximity and your remembering of it will make you more sensitive to noticing it in the future, and and that can increase in time. You are just hypersensitive because you've conditioned your mind to notice it.
This summer on three occasions I’ve had the number come up on the meter where it shows how many gallons pumped, while getting gas. I know this could just be coincidence, but three times ! How likely is it for your gas gallons to be exactly that amount ? The 666 is coming after the decimal, so that is very precise and highly peculiar to just be random.
Exactly as I mentioned above. You have conditioned your mind to become hypersensitive to noticing it.
What should I make of all this? It freaks me out and feel like I should do something, buy I don’t know what..
Well, firstly, relax. The number of the beast isn't 6.66 or 60606, or six six six in any random combination. It is specifically the number six hundred and sixty six. That looks like "666" using modern Arabic numerals. But in the original Greek of the New Testament it looks like χξζ, those are the Greek numerals for 600+60+6. When converted to Roman numerals it looks like DCLXVI, which are the Roman numerals for 500+100+50+10+5+1.
Hindu-Arabic numerals, the system of writing numbers most cultures have adopted in modern times, is a decimal placement system. That means that in a series of digits each digit takes up a place in base-10. So in "500" there is a five in the 100's place, a 0 in the 10's place, and a 0' in the one's place. So that the numeric symbol "500" has a value of five hundred. So in Hindu-Arabic numerals "666" represents the number six hundred and sixty-six.
It is not, therefore, a series of sixes. It is not six-six-six.
And, when talking about the number of the beast, that does not mean that this number is intrinsically evil. Revelation 13 is talking about a person. John (who wrote the Revelation) doesn't name this person directly, but instead gives several clues. One of those clues is that if you take this person's name, the letters add up to six hundred and sixty-six.
Remember earlier where I mentioned that in the original Greek of the New Testament the number looks like χξζ? That's because the way ancient Greeks wrote numbers is by assigning numerical values to the letters of their alphabet. So the letter α was equal to 1, the letter β was equal to 2. They did this, counting up to θ which was equal to 9. Then they would begin with tens, so ι was 10, κ was 20, and so forth, until ϙ for 90, and then they would begin doing 100's, ρ = 100, σ - 200, etc. Doing it this way, they could write six hundred and sixty-six with χ for 600, ξ for 60 and ζ for 6.
Because each letter was assigned a numeric value, this meant that people could assign numerical values to words and names. Simply add up the numerical values of each letter in a word and you'd get a sum. So, for example, one could look at the name πετρος (Petros, "Peter" in Greek) and add the numerical values of each letter, which would get us 80+5+300+100+70+200=755. So in Revelation 13 what John is saying is that the name of this person, described figuratively as a beast, has a name which if you add it up equals six hundred and sixty-six.
Additionally, many early manuscripts of the Revelation offer an alternative number of six hundred and sixteen (616). So it's really not three sixes, it's a single specific number, and the purpose of this number is to help the reader understand who John is talking about.
-CryptoLutheran
