The mark of the beast is spiritual not literal

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[Loki]

Unfortunately there are many ideas floating about regarding that, the most ridiculous of all probably the frequently-seen Seventh Day Adventist insistence that it is "Sunday worship" (lol!). They probably don't realise how ridiculous that idea is, not to mention a very poor interpretation that does not fit.

The most plausible interpretation I have seen is that the mark of the beast refers to the Islamic shahada, the Arabic letters look exactly like the Koine Greek letters for "666". This cannot be a coincidence, but seems to be that John wrote e actly what he saw in his vision.

[Loki]

I accidentally closed the thread. Here is the image comparison. Coincidence??

[Dick]

I accidentally closed the thread. Here is the image comparison. Coincidence??

Latin prefix- sexenti sexaginta sex. Is this where the word sex in English stems from?

[Loki]

Latin prefix- sexenti sexaginta sex. Is this where the word sex in English stems from?

No idea... Could be.

[Dick]

No idea... Could be.

Well Latin was considered to be an evil language along with it being sinistrodextral many years ago in Islamic culture. Also why Arabic is a dextrosinistral script

[Wanderer]

I accidentally closed the thread. Here is the image comparison. Coincidence??

That's very interesting. Of course, John was writing to people who had never heard of Islam - yet he suggests that one may nevertheless count the number of the beast.

The first words spoken by God were in Gen 1:3 - which were "let there be light." This has the Hebrew gematria value of 232. "The word of the Lord" also has the Hebrew gematria value of 232. The Hebrew gematria value for "let there be lights" (plural) is 666. We first see this is Gen 1:14, as we see that God said let there be lights to divide the day from the night. So I definitely don't believe that's a coincidence at all, as this has clear spiritual connotations. Jesus is the Light - singular (John 1:9). So "lights" (plural) suggests some other light.

Though one might have been able to discover this before Islam actually emerged, I definitely do believe that the beast is the Islamic messianic figure. Yet, in God's sovereignty, it may very well be seen to appear in another manifestation, as you have identified.

[Smaland]

11) And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

12) And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

13) And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

14) And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

16) ===> And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17) ===> And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18) ===> Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.


Revelation 13:11-18, King James Version of the Bible

[Hexachordia]

I do not trust the scripts altogather, since it is written in Hebrew and other western languages, so the scripts would have no canonical significance to non-western christians. I feel christianity is misrepresented by the church, the true evangelization is through the learnings by true believers like Martin Luther and Erasmus, Vatican is a sham so are their canons. Christianity should have been a universal religion, but claimed by jews first, like the title of the earliest democracy, we were told it was a greek invention, but this is not the truth. There must be a more purer form of christianity than the version by Vatican.

[Insuperable]

Muslimes do try hard to prove that 666 is the number of their subhuman prophet and Quran. But as you can guess they claim that the Book of Revelation is corrupted.