It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by Providence
Meh, I think the context of Revelation makes it pretty clear that 666 is a reference to a man's name. 666 and 616 are both ciphers for Emperor Nero, which would fit the context of Revelation perfectly.
Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number IS [or =] Six hundred threescore and six.” [666].
Originally posted by runetang
actually..
616 was a holy number for worshippers of Baal, in Babylon, during the Jewish Exile there. They took this number as the number of Baal. Baal is also known as Marduk, which can be loosely connected to..
..that whole "planet Nibiru" stuff about ancient alien astronauts visiting earth, which supposedly hit the earth before, or passed dangerously close (biblical flood).
Some theorists think, me not necessarily included, that 616 is the number for Baal which is Nibiru which means the Beast is the Planet Nibiru and the Antichrist might be an alien "doing great wonders to deceive the people".
Lol.. this stuff is great.
Originally posted by Providence
As a side note, I'm not trying to defend any of this as being prophecy. These events could have feasibly occured during the lifetime of the author.
[edit on 26-8-2006 by Providence]