Counting the Number

      "Here is Wisdom", as most Bible students know, comes only from God above.  He alone supplies the brainpower to unravel the mystery about 666.

"Let him that hath understanding", indicates that someone who understands that wisdom is only from God above is then allowed or "let" to have wisdom and is shown how to count the number of the beast.  They do not do it with personal genius  If they could interpret it with their own capability they would not have to be told to "count".  

"Here is wisdom", indicates that the tools necessary to count are supplied by God.  And where do we find God?

"The Lord is in His Holy Temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him.  Hab. 2:20

Here lies the key.  God's Holy Temple is where wisdom resides.  There are a zillion theories about the 666 mark of the beast.  Knowledge is increased and people run to and fro saying, "Here is God, there is God, only we have the truth and we desperately want to sell it in the market place."   But God declares that all the earth and those within are to keep silent. How are people to hear any sort of truth if the background noise becomes unbearable?   The Mind of God must be consulted in consideration of His Heavenly abode - His Sanctuary or Temple.  

In review of the 666 subject word studies are important.  Word studies are one of the best ways to get a proper sensitivity for counting the number of the beast.  Including dictionary, thesaurus and concordance meanings, helps to delineate key thoughts into a more manageable focus.  

The word count can mean:

Count - Calculate, tally, number, compute, enumerate, poll, total, whole, judge, think, regard, consider, weigh, tell, signify, cast, figure, calculate, decipher, solve.

Counting can mean adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing.  It can denote separation, quantity, quality, meditation, contemplation, budgeting, forecasting, reckoning, unraveling, resolving, gauging, measuring, or interpreting.  

Contemplate - reflect upon, meditate upon, foresee, weigh

Meditate - figure, study, think deeply, view, weigh

The best place to contemplate or meditate on something, in God's eyes, would be in His Holy Temple.  The Sanctuary is where many religious people would go to worship or meditate.  The word contemplate comes from the Latin word - Con + Templum.  The temple is a place to observe or meditate on God's word. However, the Heavenly Sanctuary would be somewhat difficult for mortal man to enter. 

God's Holy Temple, right down to the actual dimensions, lays the primary foundation that helps to unlock the mystery of the mark of the beast.  Moses, in the desert, was shown how to build a tabernacle and it was a replica of the the True tabernacle or True Temple in Heaven. God gave detailed instructions to Moses on how to build it.  God gives detailed instructions in the latter days.  The Sanctuary needs to be explored further.  

Multiple Opinions - One Cannot Take the Mark Unknowingly

     If the mark of the beast is something we need to avoid, then clear answers are required.  How can one refuse something if they do not know for sure what to refuse?  Would a fair and just God make Revelation Chapter 13 so no one could understand it?  If one word were to be singled out in calculating 666 the word worship would stand out above all others.  

Worship - exaltation, veneration, prayer, devotion, burnt offering, hymn and adoration

The mark is something one takes in relationship to to worship.  It is the identifier or badge that indicates which side one will choose to worship.  There will not be multiple choices to make.  One will consciously choose one of two sides, true worship or false worship.  They will either choose for or against the false Image of Worship.  The number 666 helps to clarify the situation.  It helps to label who worships the false Image and who does not.  It also identifies the man who enforces the mark.  Anyone who chooses evil idolizes the antichrist and becomes one with him.  The collective form of the antichrist is much larger than typically envisioned.  

There are multiple opinions about the 666 mark of the beast.  This becomes chaotic and confusing to the people who seek truth.  Satan is the master of chaos.  The abyss or bottomless pit of sin is a chasm of darkness and disorder.  Lack of harmony in the universe is caused by sin.  Sin is the transgression of God's Law.  1 John 3:4

For over 6000 years sinful man has tried to live outside of God's Law.  As a result, earth protests.  It has become sickly and infected.  Sin has drained life's blossom.  God's Gospel Order is the only answer to restoration.  Satan is a dark master of war, famine, death and turmoil.  He has wicked plans and expects everyone on earth to take his evil 666 mark of the beast. 

A corrupt rule of law has been set in place. It is an Image or Counterfeit of God's True Law.   Many men have forgotten where the Law of the Superior Court in Heaven came from.  The man-made devil driven world order law contains provisions to bring every person on earth into the abyss of bondage.  Satan, the false prophet, the beast, the man 666 and the Image are out of God's order.  Man's new world order plans are devoid of God's power.  God's supreme law in the courts of Heaven will condemn them.  

Law - maxim, commandment, order, judicial

Because of Satan's lies, Adam, Eve and all of mankind were placed under a probationary period to be barbed by sins powers.  But this time period is not permanent.  A change is coming!

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When Zero Equals Infinity

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Laodicean Confusion

     The world will discover that the Seventh-Day Adventists are right.  The Seventh-Day Adventists will find out that the Seventh-Day Adventists are wrong.  

     The world and the Seventh-Day Adventists will discover that the Davidians are right.  The Davidians will discover that the Davidians are wrong. 

  

Numerical Quilt

     

God does have a great time keeping system that has been laid down in the Bible.  He has used this system to communicate with the wise to assist in counting the number of the man 666.  Looking closer at very basic mathematical formulas gives important clues about the number 666.

Numbers are like pieces of a quilt.  Some combinations look like triangles, others like wheels, squares, circles, symmetric and asymmetric lines and so on.  Each individual piece of fabric is similar to a number or combination of numbers.  Like the product of numbers, many pieces of  fabric combined represent the finished quilt.  

Too many numbers may seem to be overwhelming or bog down at times.  Concentrating on the completed quilt can lift their weight.  The master artist of the Bible knows how to assemble Biblical numbers into a fine work.

Numerical counting systems are 10 based.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ..........100... onward to infinity. (Infinity is linear-without time)

The time clock system is 60 based.

1 2 3 4 5 6 .............. 60 minutes = 1 hour  x 24 hrs in a day (Time is circular or rotational)

God created numbers. Satan attempts to steal God's numbers and use them to promote himself.  The number 6 could be compared to an Apple.  How?  Well, Satan beguiled Eve with a poison apple (fruit).  Does that mean that we must stop eating apples?  Does Satan's deception make all apples demonic?  Neither does the man 666 make the number 6 damnable.  By careful reading of Revelation Chapter 13 we see that the number 666 is not described as the mark.  God placed the number 600, 60 & 6 on the   2- horned beast or the man who is in charge of the beast and that man enforces the mark. This man has the civil authority to be an enforcer.  

Him that hath wisdom is told to count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man.  In ancient times counting was done with pebbles.  The dark stones condemned the accused and the lighter stones acquitted a defendant in a court of law.  Numbering something can be done by raising up the hand as in counting or as in fishing. (As in , "Oh, I just caught another one.")  

The Bible has plenty of word symbolism.  God's people are represented as lively stones.     1 Peter 2:5.  They are referred to as fish. Matthew 4:19  There is a judgment that takes place in the Heavenly courts and on earth.  Matthew 25:33, Matthew 13

When the hand is lifted up it will draw up fish.  (Christian Converts)  The time comes for the dividing of the pebbles (stones) in the judgment court.  Then the wise with understanding will be able to count the time.  When the 666 appears, God also works to save His people.  While the man 666 is clocking off his prey, God is also counting.  He is dividing up the light pebbles (true saints)  and dark pebbles (liars)  in the judgment courts of Heaven. Do we place our trust in an earthly political system or should we prefer to cast our hope upon the Lord.

Counting can mean numbering days, years, months and seasons.  It can signify accounting for something, counting man, judgment, dividing or separation in time.