Revelation 13:18 (KJV) — *“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.”* Some Christians point to persistent physical and time-related patterns in creation and human measurement systems that seem to feature “666,” such as: - **Earth’s axial tilt: 90 ∘ − 23.4 ∘ ≈ 66.6 ∘ 90 ∘ −23.4 ∘ ≈66.6 ∘** - **Earth’s orbital speed: ≈ 66,600 mph (depending on units and rounding)** - **Calendar division: 6 × 60 × 60 seconds in a day’s time measurement pattern** - **Barcodes: The guard bars in UPC codes resemble the digit “6” in the barcode system, producing a “666” pattern** Since Revelation calls believers to “count” the number, could such existing patterns be indicators that we are already living in the “beast system”? Or should these be understood as coincidences or unrelated to the prophecy?

Revelation 4:4 describes 24 elders seated around God’s throne, clothed in white and wearing crowns. Many commentators suggest that the number 24 may symbolize the **12 tribes of Israel** (Old Testament) and the **12 apostles** (New Testament), together representing the full redeemed people of God across both covenants. Do Christian scholars or traditions interpret the 24 elders in Revelation as symbolizing the unity of God's people — that is, 12 representing Israel and 12 representing the Church? Are there denominational views (e.g., Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox) that formally teach or reject this interpretation?

Just wanted to confirm if there is any concept believed in Christianity related to angel numbers or numerology? I have read in this angel number blog that it relates to Christianity. Just want to confirm. What I read is: > **Meaning in the Bible** > > Seeing angel number 2323 signifies new and fresh life as well as harmony according to the Bible. The Holy Bible also suggests that these numbers 2 and 3 occurring twice have great divine power. The holy angels are reminding you that they are always watching over you and guiding you through every single thing. > > *Source*: [Angel number 2323](https://angelsnumbers.net/2323-angel-number/) So I need the proper guidance please. Thanks.

I've been studying how the biblical creation & re-creation in Genesis, from Adam to Noah, foreshadows the Exodus. For instance, Noah is of the 10th generation of mankind. The Hebrews were slaves in Egypt for 400 years = 40 x 10 = 10 generations if we assume 40 years per generation. 10 generations of the righteous line appears to represent a certain fullness of time, after which God enacts judgement. Anyways, what I am interested in for this post is the year of the flood (beginning and/or end) and the significance thereof. Genesis is careful to document what year each person was born in, in terms of the age of their father, up through and including Noah. It also tells us that the flood began in Noah's 600th year - and even specifies the month and day. From my calculations, it looks like the flood began in the year 1656 (from creation) and ended in 1657 (from creation). Off hand, I don't see the significance of either number. Yet, why would the author of Genesis be so specific about these dates if there were no meaning to it? Please share your insights :)

Timeline from 1 to 9, the first born first,then son and daughters then all the life they lived, in the book of Genesis chapter 5 where Enoch walked with G-D 300 years and was no more for G-D took him on the seventh. 1)Adam: 130 800 930 25+7+18=50 difference 2)Seth: 105 807 912 15+8+7=30 difference 3)Enos: 90 815 905 20+25+5=50 difference 4)Cainan: 70 840 910 5+10+15=30 difference 5)Mahalaleel: 65 830 895 97+30+67=194 difference 6)Jared: 162 800 962 7)Enoch: 65 300 365 disappeared 8)Methuselha: 187 782 969 5+187+192=384 difference 9)Lamek: 182 595 777 187-162=25. 800-782=18. 969-962=7 25+18+7=50 384+194=578 384-194=190 and 17×17×2-16×16×2=66 Then Noah has 3 sons and their age is not mentioned. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. 500 +100+ 350 = 950 And Noah's Ark's measurements were 300 cubits by 50 cubits and 30 cubits and the interior was divided into 3. 300+50+30=380 380÷2=190 And the house of the Lord were 50 cubits by 100 cubits and the house of The Ark's resting place were 30 cubits long. And the perimeter of the house of the Lord are 50+100+50+100=300 cubits

The actual Number of The Beast is only mentioned in Revelation 13:18 ; In the Greek manuscripts, the number is rendered as **χξϛ** or "six hundred and sixty-six". In 2005 Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum revealed the discovery of the oldest manuscript (about 1,700 years old) of Revelation 13 which gave The Beast's number as 616 **χιϛ**. What is the more common belief between the two? What are some examples of Churches that belief in 666 and some in 616? Are there other interpretations this question does not consider?

I would like your help in refuting a Christian claim as this has been bugging me for a while now Is the epsilon truly more fitting of the first letter of the word "Allah" (as pronounced in Arabic) when when translated to greek from arabic or would it be an intermediate . Also wouldn't starting with epsilon render the pronunciation of the rest of the word incorrect as in Arabic the second alpha isn't really 'a' it's more of an o and the L's are pronounced differently and the xhi at the end would become silent. I would be grateful if you could respond to this as both Christians and Muslims use this word to refer to God. https://christianforums.net/threads/666-is-allah.102890/

Do any major traditions in Christianity hold any sort of formulated doctrine or is there some Biblical justification tossed around that explains God's *a priori* reason for choosing 7 to be significant was? I'm specifically curious about the source of 7's significance, not the how (in other words, I'm not looking for examples of significant 7s (covered in [Why is the number seven special?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/2001/why-is-the-number-seven-special) and on [Judaism.SE here](https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/7389/a-natural-explanation-for-the-significance-of-the-numbers-7-and-40/7393#7393)) or for how these play out, but for why God picked the number in the first place.) As I understand it, the significance of the numbers 1 and 3 can both be derived from the Trinity. One God, three Persons. But what is the source of 7? Why God *chose* seven instead of, say, nine. Or five or eleven, which are also primes (in the mathematical system we use). God seems to have chosen 7 to be significant *before* Creation. He chose 7 to be the number of days in a week. This means that any significant 7 post-creation (including the length of a week) is a significant 7 *for the same reason*. Before God created the universe, He picked out 7 to be one of His significant numbers. To clarify a bit further, if God decided that 9 was the number of perfection for whatever reason, then we probably would have had an 8-day work week and the 9th day would be the Sabbath. The number of the beast would probably have been 888 instead of 666. Pentecost probably would have come 82 days after Passover (50 = 7*7+1, 82=9*9+1). If there is truly no source for this and no Christian tradition has forwarded any explanation, the answer may very well be "none". However if more than one doctrine exists, please explain what the different suggestions are and how they end up on different tracks.

People always make jokes about the number 666 and how it's evil and such. What is the basis of this?

Why is everything 1/3 in Revelation? It comes up with the four angels, and the dragon: > 8:7 The first [angel's trumpet] sounded, ... and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. 8 The second angel sounded, ... and a third of the sea became blood, 9 and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed. 10 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters. 11 The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. 12 The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way. > > 9:15 And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind. 18 A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. > > 12:4 And [the dragon's] tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth.

I'm looking for a good scholarly/academic source for the study of numbers and their significance in the Old and New Testaments. I often come across remarks about the Hebrew and/or Christian significance of different numbers, but they are always remarks in passing, and they never seem to provide any sources I can look into further. I would like to be able to substantiate these remarks with some good exposition of the primary sources and rationale for the attribution of various meanings to different numbers in the biblical literature.

Exodus 25:10 says: > 10 “Have them make an ark[b] of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. **My question is**: Given that - 2.5 + 1.5 + 1.5 = 5.5 cubits, which is half the measure of 5, 3 and 3 (which are equal to 11 when added), and - 11 being a Triangular number that is equal to 66, and the sum of the Ark that is 66 also, what is the important significance of 66 other than its being found in the middle of 62 and 70 in Daniel 9? The only explanation I can come up with is that the five book of Moses, which has 187 chapters in total, are the knowledge and the wisdom of the hand of G-D and the Holy fire or the burning bush, and any women can't approach the Holy Ark or be in the temple where the Ark is present other than a person who is selected by the Creator. Hebrew alphabets have 22 letters, which is 11×2 and the triangular number is 23 × 11 = 253. 23 × 11 - 6 × 11 = 187. 5     9     13 17    21    25 29    33    37 41    45    49 53    57    61    17+45=62   21+45=66    25+45=70   41+21=62   45+21=66    49+21=70 62+66+70=198      66+66+66=198 62+70=132   66÷11=6 66÷11=6  66÷11=6 132÷2=66        11+6=17  11+6=17  11+6=17 17+41=58   21+45=66    25+49=74 5+53=58     9+57=66    13+61=74 58+66+74=198  58+74=132  132÷2=66 66+66+66=198  66÷11=6  66÷11=6  66÷11=6 11+6=17  11+6=17  11+6=17 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11=6×11 An angel goes to a woman who will be pregnant and that her son will have an 11'th hour ministry and he saw saw dreams that came to pass.

There are some strange numbers in Revelation. For example: - The seven Spirits of God (Rev 4:5); - Exactly 12,000 are sealed from each of the 12 tribes of Jerusalem (Rev 7:4). - The blood flows out of the wine press for a distance of 1600 furlongs (Rev 14:20). - The wall of the New Jerusalem is 144 cubits (Rev 21:17 - YLT). - The New Jerusalem itself is a square – 12,000 furlongs in length and in width (Rev 21:16 YLT). (A cube in the KJV) Are these numbers literal or symbolic? If they are symbolic, what do they mean? For example, what does it mean that God has seven Spirits?

In a lot of books in the Bible, the number 40 keeps appearing. E.g. Jesus went into the desert for 40 days and nights, and the Jews spent 40 years looking for the promised land. Is this because of some significance of the number 40, or is it just coincidence?

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 _____ 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?

From reading Job 35:10 and Ps. 77:6 we understand that night is used to represent trials, a period of distress, trouble. Then, in the Gospel of John, we can read 7 mentions of night, starting from when Nicodemus comes to Jesus (John 3). What can we infer from this?

I came across this quote by St.Augustine: >“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.” - St.Augustine of Hippo It is my understanding that mathematicians at the time were associated with astrology and numerology, hence St.Augustine's harsh words. Did any of the other early church fathers condemn or write about numerology? If so, was the numerology different from modern Christian/Jewish numerology like the Bible Code or Torah Code?

Motivation: We know that a way to express fullness or completion in Hebrew is to double the word, e.g. Isaiah 26:3 speaks of perfect peace as shalom shalom. And there are clear cases in Revelation where the author uses doubles; in fact, at 5:11 he doubles the double! (Myriad myriad, and thousand thousand angels). My speculation: When we read of the 144,000 (at 12:4) perhaps this could mean something like a perfect completion of multitudes (?) fitting in with verse 9. Of course, an obvious counter would be "But he specifies 12,000 coming from each of the tribes of Israel." Got it. Yet I wonder if there is still a symbolism going on here. The 12 tribes have corresponding gemstones, as on the high priest's garments -- see Ex 28:21; the gemstones in turn correspond to zodiacal constellations (see, for example, this link ). And it does not seem like too big a stretch to also see those constellations as representative of all nations and tribes and so on, since they circle the earth. My question: Does anyone know of a denomination, school of thought, or theologian holding this symbolic view, or a compatible view?

The Bible has been the subject of many numerological attempts at applying greater / different meaning. *The Bible Code * being a popular example resulting in a book and a movie (at least one movie). My step-mother (raised Catholic) was a big fan of *The Bible Code*, but I never knew how to take it. This isn't a reference to the meaning or symbology of the number 7 in the Bible, but instead to the practice of decoding the Bible by applying number patterns to it. I've always considered Numerology to be a practice like Astrology. Is the application of it to the Bible accepted by Christians as another way that God speaks to man, or just more pop-theology?

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that superstition is not supposed to be practiced and it is a violation of the 1st Commandment to honor God about all else. However, there's always something going on like a 9 day novena or a 40 day fast or a request to return to a particular grotto on the 11th of each month. Then there's other significant numbers like 3 and 7 and 12 which are supposed to mean something and spooky numbers like 6 and 666. So, where is the line between superstition and awe at the way God orders things mightily?