Could "COVID-19" be the name of the beast? (Rev 13:18)
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Greetings to the Community. I come seeking advice from those who currently have much more knowledge about theology than probably I will ever have.
Yesterday morning I did this with pencil and paper:
C => 100 +
0 => 0
V => 5
I => 1
D => 500
1 => 1
9 => 9
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Total: 616
It was a simple sum, came out on the first try. I confess that right after doing it I was a little scared by how easy it was (and of course the meaning it has). I mean, occasionally I've come across articles where complicated mathematical operations are performed to reach certain conclusions. This was not the case.
The points that I am handling so far:
### The number the beast is not a number in itself but a product of its name: ###
> **Revelation 13:17:** so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
>
> (Source )
### The dialectic around the number 616: ###
> The new number 616 isn’t new, it’s old, that’s the point. It isn’t one
> man’s opinion either, it’s written as such in the two oldest known
> versions of the Bible. The Oxyrhynchus papyrus you mention, but
> it’s written too in the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus , both as a
> number and text - ‘hexakosiai deka hex’ literally translated as six
> hundred and sixteen. This latter book is the last of the four uncial
> manuscripts of the Greek Bible named after Ephraem the Syrian.
>
> (Source )
My questions are:
- Could "COVID-19" be the name of the beast?
- Assuming for a second that the above is true: would the set of facts related to coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) faithfully correspond to the behavior and actions of the beast, described in detail throughout the book Revelations?
Asked by Dario Ferrer
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Mar 19, 2020, 09:44 PM
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