"For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." (Luke 21:22)
Posted on 09/24/2008 6:41:42 AM PDT by Gamecock
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The events foretold in Daniel, the NT, and Revelation were completed in A.D. 70.
To bring those prophecies into the modern day is completely incorrect theology.
666 represents man trying to make himself God, as opposed to the God who became man. As the article points out, 7 ws the number signifying rest, and life in Jesus becomes the Sabbath rest of the New Covenant (Heb. 4, Col. 2). 666 indicates a removal of that rest, meaning an attempt to work for salvation by human efforts. 666 represents everything wrong with human religion, as juxtaposed with everything right about the completed work of Jesus.
666 = I am God.
JOhn who? Who was the john that wrote Revelation - the book that really doesn’t belong in the bible.
Do some research - it seems like you could use the education.
"For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." (Luke 21:22)
“The events foretold in Daniel, the NT, and Revelation were completed in A.D. 70.”
Including the 1000 year reign of Jesus?
No silly, that finished in 1070AD. ;)
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I think Peter told us exactly what to think about those who deny what is to come in the latter days.
2 Peter 3: First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us.
He was very clear, saying “First of all”. That means, before you understand any other point, first, you must (that is an order not a suggestion) you “must” understand, reason, know and believe, than in the last days... that is the end of days, not 2,000 years ago, but right now or yet future days, “mockers” will come and say “this stuff is all old news”.
You mock the promise of His coming, His power and His prophecy. And we have been warned about you.
No, Daniel’s prophecy wasn’t completed, there is one more week left in Daniel’s 70 weeks of years
Yes, Jesus came back, we just weren’t told about it. :>)
The world is ending...
John, the son of Jesus.
Hmmmm.
I've been aware of this for many years now; the first I got wind of it was a book by Mary Stewart Relfe who claimed a brother out east somewhere was given it to him by something like a word of knowledge and sent it to her, have the book around here somewhere. That explanation I'm not sure I buy any more but think, if her account is true, the person would have had some inside information. I've read a little more about the development group, but don't know know how reliable the information is/was nor how to find it again. I suppose some would consider it an "urban legend" at this point.
I checked around the house in those years and found many that fit. Not all products have that exact configuration in the code, but it's not as simple as some would have it. Some products only have half codes and variations on the basic code in "reverse".
Some of my friends thought I was a kook for trying to call it to their attention, so I usually keep it to myself. I was talking to an IT guy from the UK on a discussion board, and he informed me that the 3 field separators were not read the same by scanners as the 6's in the code itself.
Well, they certainly LOOK the same, so what to make of it at this point, I don't know nor how it ties in to some future beast system. I worked with computers but not this type of coding. Allegedly they say it is based on the numerical base of 6, but actually computers reduce down to being binary or base 2. To further complicate it, core dumps on IBM computers (during that computer evolution period), were in the form of the numerical base 16 for debugging purposes. You had to learn how that system worked, how to do addition and subtraction with it and how to convert it back to decimal. It's not terribly difficult once you get on to it. There are calculators that helped with that, and I finally bought one but before did the calculations the traditional way like you add and subtract in our familiar decimal system.
But as to requiring wisdom, I would have never figured it out on my own if I hadn't found this explanation in that book. I'm still open to a biblical interpretation that it is what it appears to be, but don't believe it is the mark of the beast which may be fanciful or literal (I lean to literal at some future point and think the RFID chip if it becomes required for buying and selling will be the mark Christians are supposed to refuse). I don't know how the code works in those chips.
We're so used to seeing it on all our products now, that I seldom think about it any more, just try to be watchful like the bible says. The world will consider those of us who think it is a harbinger of the actual mark will still regard us a kooks or worse.
I've also learned to do as much of my own fact checking as possible as some ministries are deceptive and using it for profit to peddle their version and sell books. I can't remember the exact details, but some ministry put out a pamphlet with an article that appeared in a Junior Scholastic magazine with kids having 666 or their foreheads on the cover. So I took a whole morning, found some stored on microfilm in a library, and tracked down that particular issue on microfilm. I confirmed there actually was such an issue, that was on the cover, but some of the rest of what was alleged in that publication was NOT in that magazine article. I don't want to name names publicly for fear I would be accusing the wrong ministry.
It's all over out there now, no big secret if you google for it.
Interesting/educational.
The 666 caught my eye because I went to Wendy’s yesterday for lunch and ordered a single combo w/o cheese and a small frosty and the bill came to $6.66. I knew there were some kind of negative/mark-of-the-beast implications in those numbers. I looked for signs that the order giver and money changer (the same person...a pleasant young lady) might look at me funny. She did not. I had lunch in my car, listened to Rush and went back to work and didn’t think of it again until seeing this post.
Thanks for posting. Interesting history and thread. Thanks to all contributors.
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