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1 | What is 666? | Revelation | toto.o | 10372 | ||
What does this number (Rev, 13:18) means? | ||||||
2 | What is 666? | Revelation | There | 12625 | ||
It represents the man who will be empowered by Satan. The identity will be scrupulously concealed to the world until the middle of the seventieth week. Quite probably if he were to be revealed before this time, before he took over the 3-nation power base, before he made his covenant with Israel, before he assembled his massive military strength, before being supernaturally empowered by Satan -- he would likely be killed or imprisoned long before God's words were fulfilled. Other descriptions of Antichrist(666) by various names and titles: Antichrist (1John 2:18); the beast (Rev. 13:4); the man of lawlessness and the son of destruction (2Thess. 2:3); Gog (Ezek. 38:2); the little horn (Dan. 7:8); the destroyer and extortioner (Isa. 16:4); the head of the house of evil (Hab. 3:13); and even the personified abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15). The only real clue to where he will come from is in the book of Ezekiel 38: "[from] the land of Magog"... "from the remote parts of the north" (vv.2,6) and will descend on Israel "like a storm... "like a cloud covering the land" with a vast army and massive weapons of war (vv.4,8,9). Antichrist is also described by John in Rev. 17:10,11. When Revelation was written by John at the end of the first century A.D. we see that 5 beast empires of Satan had come and gone ("five have fallen"), "one is" (i.e. the Roman Empire), one was yet to come in the future and would "remain for a little while" (i.e. the Nazi Empire of the Third Reich seems most probable). Also there will be an 8th leader who will lead the final ten-nation confederation -- namely the Antichrist, who "was and is not", and who is also "one of the seven" rulers of the preceding seven beast empires. This last reference clearly refers to a man, not an empire as seen in John's choice of words stating that "the beast (Antichrist)... is himself also the 8th (head or king), and is one of the seven (heads or kings)" (v.11). "Himself" is obviously a reference to Antichrist as a man. The other strange truth about this passage seems to be that this man (8th king) will be one of the previous 7 kings "who was and is not", i.e he has already died. So we are told that the man (Antichrist) will be one of the 7 leaders of the previous 7 beast empires and has since died. So he will be a dead man brought back to life to rule the final beast empire. Verse 13:3 "...and all the world marveled (was amazed) and followed the beast". It would seem that this is Satan's final attempt to appear to the world as their resurrected savior. |
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