justsurfing said in post 180:
However, for you to MINIMIZE the 666 beast of Barack Hussein Obama rising by pointing to the second beast is a travesty.
Obama isn't the Antichrist (the AC, the individual-man aspect of the first beast in Rev. 13), for the gematrial "number of the name" of the AC is 666 (Rev. 13:17c-18, 15:2), whereas the gematrial number of the name Barack Hussein Obama is 793: B=2, A=1, R=90, A=1, C=3, K=20, H=8, U=300,S=100, S=100, E=5, I=9, N=50, O=60, B=2, A=1, M=40, A=1. Total = 793.
The "666" in Rev. 13:17c-18 refers to the number six hundred & sixty-six, the "number of the name" of the individual "man" who's the AC (the individual-man aspect of the first beast in Rev. 13). 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), & 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 the gematrial numerical values of the 3 Greek letters (Chi, Xi, & 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 & sixty-six. The numerical values of the letters of the ancient Greek alphabet (including the 3 obsolete letters of Stigma, Qoppa, & 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 because it was the most common one used by believers when the book of Revelation was written. Today, the English alphabet is the most common one 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.
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.
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).
The gematrial numerical values of the letters of the English alphabet are: 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 Antichrist's name will add up to 666 (Rev. 13:17c-18).
You are quitting right before the finish line? Heaven forbid. btw. why did you choose that avatar?
