How is 666 satanic

As the boys from Numberphile explain , doesn't really have any remarkable mathematical properties, but if you look back into its history, it reveals something pretty incredible about the way the Bible was originally written. Turns out, what you see in the The Book of Revelation where the writer refers to in an apocalyptic vision isn't entirely what you get.

Put simply, is being used as a code, and not a particularly subtle one, if you were alive and literate at the time of the New Testament. This text was originally written in ancient Greek, where numbers are written as letters, as they are in Hebrew - the other main language of the original Biblical texts. For small numbers, the first letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta, gamma, represent 1, 2, and 3.

Neither is the number meant to be calculated here. The number 7 refers to completeness, and is repeated throughout the book. However, appears only here. This suggests that the triple sixes are intended as a contrast with the divine sevens throughout the book, and signify incompleteness and imperfection.

The seventh trumpet, by contrast, portrays the eternal kingdom of Christ though it also includes the final judgment. The seventh seal and bowl still depict a judgment, but one that by implication and in the broader contexts of these two passages eventuates in the establishment of the kingdom. The number 3 in the Bible signifies completeness as, for example, is expressed by the completeness of the Godhead in , which is parodied by the dragon, beast, and false prophet here in chapter 13 and in The beast epitomizes imperfection, while appearing to achieve divine perfection.

Three sixes parody the divine Trinity of three sevens. Sometimes the number seven is appropriate to apply to the Devil or beast in order to emphasize their thoroughgoing evil nature, severe persecution, and universal reign of oppression e. Rock and heavy metal bands have also adopted the number.

In , Deep Purple listed the play time of one of the songs on their album The Book of Taliesyn as , though the track is actually seven minutes and six seconds long. The number has inspired many superstitions.

Cloud Road in Bel-Air, California, but had the house number officially changed to Reagan himself has been subject of conspiracy theories, where the number has an active life, because Ronald , his middle name Wilson , and Reagan are each six letters long.

This is not meant to be a formal definition of like most terms we define on Dictionary. Feedback Tired of Typos? Word of the Day. Meanings Meanings. This secret-code school of reading Revelation and other biblical prophetic books does get one thing right. The vivid images in the book are symbolic, but symbolic to a particular time and place, not shapeable to whatever someone wants them to mean. Like any passage of scripture , you first have to look at the original meaning.

In the case of Revelation, the book was encouraging an embattled Christian community to remain faithful and be wary of conforming too closely to the ways of the hostile world.

The number has never had magical powers, good or bad. This article is also available to read in Spanish.