How many times do I have to tell the Forum posters the Rev. 13:18 "calculation" methodology?!?
OK, for the umpteenth time:
1. Because English is the world's language, apply increments of "6" to the letters of the alphabet:
A = 6
B = 12
C = 18 etc.
2.
No man can buy or sell, -- so sum the word "
computer".
3.
Without the mark, -- the UPC has two thin lines at the beginning/middle/end, which have a value of "6".
4.
Of the beast -- so sum the name (using the same methodology above) of
the world's most senior Jewish political statesman.
I have no clue why so many have such difficulty with something so simple.
Thanks,
DaDad
Benjamin Netanyahu cannot be the person because the person comes up among ten kings of the fourth empire in Daniel 7:23-24.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be
the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of
this kingdom are ten kings
that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
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Back in the 90's some guy came up with the notion that a super computer in Belgium was the beast of Revelation 13 because it was called the beast.
Which the computer is an indicator of increase of knowledge in Daniel 12:4, but it is not the beast of Revelation - who eventually gets cast into the lake of fire, and is some man.
Running parallel - the kingdom of the beast - the end times kingdom of the ten kings will be dismantled as a government over nations and not allowed to be reformed.
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Count the number of the name may or may not be a form of gematria.
Alternative to gematria, it could be like the number of talents of gold, 666, associated with Solomon. The person's name could be Solomon. Or the number of Adonikam's descendants coming out of Babylon, indicating the name of Adonikam - which itself means my risen lord. Or maybe the name of the 666th of Adonikam descendants - which the last three sons were
Ezra 8:13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these,
Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males
So the person's name could be one of those, as son 666. I made some posts about that possibility back in 2011 at this forum. Those are several possibility's apart from gematria. But then again, differently, it may be by gematria.
When the person becomes the little horn - then it will be possible to fit his name to being the mr. 666 -
maybe. Maybe, because the person may assume another name, in the middle of the 7 years, when he comes back from being dead - his claimed god name.
That doesn't mean I would give up trying to figure out 666, at present, because it may become readily apparent.
The way to know who the person is - is when the ten king (leader) kingdom is in place that is the fourth kingdom (the Roman Empire of the end times). And there is one leader of over them (it may not even be the first overall leader, but likely will be) who is a Jew and has a stern facial expression (Daniel 7:20, Daniel 8:23) - whatever that means, likely a very determined serious individual.
And for certain - following Gog/Magog, as the person will become the prince who shall come, into the middle east with a strong army - Daniel 8:9.