666 is not the number of the beast

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Revelation! 666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616)
By Tom Anderson

01 May 2005

A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616.

The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient Greek and dating from the late third century, is part of a hoard of previously unintelligible manuscripts discovered in historic dumps outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Now a team of expert classicists, using new photographic techniques, are finally deciphering the original writing.

Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula."

The Book of Revelation is traditionally considered to be written by John, a disciple of Jesus; it identifies 666 as the mark of the Antichrist. In America, the fundamentalist Christian right often use the number in sermons about the coming Apocalypse.

They and satanists responded coolly to the new "Revelation". Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, based in New York, said: "By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that."

1King10:14
Now the weight of gold which came in one year to king Solomon was six hundred threescore and six talents
15 beside [that which he had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the Kings of Arabia, and of the govenors of the country.

its true that 616 was used by Jews to that worship of the emperor, but the parallel between the AC and King solomon cannot be missed, and the number is 666. (wisest man on earth, many foreign women and gods, rebuilt the temple, controlled world).

i also think 3 S's form some kind of symbol of ISIS and the mysteries.

I was born at 6:16 lol...... That's pretty cool to know about 66 not being the mark of the beast....

666 = the name (hebrew) and the mark of the beast........and it IS 666 not 616... there is no name that macthes to 616, but there is one for 666