This is a challenge -- find Mister 666
are listed below. The purpose of this lesson is to explain the cryptic message contained
in the verse.
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.
The Jerusalem Bible reads:
There is need for shrewdness here: if anyone is clever enough he may interpret
the number of the beast: it is the number of a man, the number is 666.
The New English Bible puts it this way:
Here is the key: and anyone who has intelligence may work out the number of
the beast. The number represents a man's name, and the numerical value of its
letters is six hundred and sixty six.
The Holy Bible from the Ancient Eastern Text (George M. Lamsa's translation from the
Aramaic of the Peshitta) reads as follows:
Here is wisdom: let him who has understanding decipher the code number of
the beast; for it is the code number of the name of a man; and his number is six
hundred and sixty-six.
The writer is telling the reader that a clue to learning some worthwhile bit of knowledge
hides in the wording of the verse. He challenges the reader to give some thought to
discovering what that bit of knowledge might be. The writer also tells the reader that
making the discovery doesn't require great intellect or extensive training. The key to the
puzzle is that a man had a numbered name, and that the number was 666. This
statement prompts some questions, among them the following three.
1) What did the number measure or designate?
2) Did only one man's name have a number?
3) Were all names numbered?
The answer to the first question is -- it designated the number of the day of the namee's
birth on a name/numbering calendar. This calendar was formed with a continuous
series of 665 day increments, each increment ranged from day one to day 665. The
answer to the second question is no, and the answer to the third question is yes.
The truth is -- all of those names that many bible readers call the "begats” have
numbers, and because of the rules used to derive them; many contain bits of historical
information.
With a pencil, paper, some grammar school arithmetic, some junior high school algebra,
and an open mind; the reader can learn how to recover some information.
- There was a 665 day name/numbering calendar.
existence and its purposes and importance. The days were numbered from one to 665.
Each day was part of a continuous series of 665 day cycles, so that day one of one
cycle was identical to day 666 of the previous cycle. Keeping an accurate and
synchronized count of the number of the day was everyone's responsibility.
Because separate settlements lacked convenient communications with each other, their
individual counts could get out of synchronization. The role of a traveler aided in solving
this problem. Because an important part of social interaction was a comparison of
individual day counts whenever possible. A traveler and his or her host would compare
their versions of the day count when they met. If the day counts of the traveler and a
host differed, a problem existed, and some action, such as making a trip to another
settlement for a third party comparison, was needed to resolve the difference.
Only when the calendars of all the parties were in synchronization could normal affairs
resume.
Each newborn person received the number of his/her name.
When a person was born, the number of the day of the name/numbering calendar was
noted, and that number became the number of that person's name. The person could
have more than one name, but only one number. A number remained unchanged when
complete increments of 665 were added or subtracted. Day 100 and day 765
represented one number. The counting method is was cyclic. When measuring
direction on a circle, one degree, 361 degrees, and 721 degrees all designate the same
direction. This is an example of cyclic counting.
- The number of the name was converted to a spoken name.
spoken sound was linked to a number. The reason for maintaining such a system was
to link a spoken names with a name/number. Each definitely pronounced sound in a
name had a numerical equivalent, and the sum of these numerical equivalents tallied to
the number of the name. The accuracy of the pronunciation of a name was critical, so
that the values of the sounds remained unchanged, which insured the accuracy of the
number of the name.
the pronunciations of the names, some history can be restored.
The Old Testament contains hundreds of names. Many are the names of characters in
the stories, but most are listed as members of ancestral lines. Most of the Old
Testament names contained in the King James Version of the Holy Bible were derived
before writing existed. They are displayed in the King James bible with detailed
pronunciation symbols to assist the reader in their pronunciation. The pronunciations of
these names, as they are presented in the King James bible, somehow retained their
originally intended pronunciations. The accurate maintenance and conversion of the
pronunciations of these hundreds of “spoken only” names into a writing system that
allows us, today, to reproduce their original sounds; would truly be a remarkable
achievement.
The story that follows tells of one possibility of how those men who lived two or three
thousand years ago could have accomplished this task. When the Greeks decided to
write what today is called the Septuagint, they asked themselves, “What about the
pronunciation of all those names?” The Greeks knew that many Jews were settled in
Greece, and that the Jews knew how those names should sound, because many of them
were able to quote -- by rote -- their version of the stories that formed what today is
called the Pentateuch. So the Greeks invited seventy Jews to help them with the task of
putting the previously unwritten names to pen and paper. The Jews knew the sounds of
the names, and the Greeks had an alphabet that could reproduce the sounds in writing.
They went to work, and when they had finished, the Greeks had the Septuagint, and in it
-- the hopefully accurate reproduction of the original sounds of all the Old Testament
names.
The "Key to Pronunciation", which is shown below, was copied from the leaf pages of a
King James bible.
Because the symbols designating the sounds shown in the "Key to Pronunciation" are
usually not easily available on typewriters or word processors, the following “home-
made” system of writing the names is used in this web site. The table below provides
the means to transform the "Key to pronunciation" symbols into the symbols used in this
explanation of the system.
The sound/number links.
There were two types of sound/number linking codes. In the first type the relationships
between the different sounds and their numerical equivalents were used universally
throughout the land area involved. These links are referred to as the Universal
sound/numbers links. They are displayed below.
The second type of name/numbering code contained some sounds having unchanging
numerical values, and some sounds that represented data pertinent to a person's birth
-- such as ancestry, time, and location of birth. This type varied according to ancestral
lines. For example, there are differences between the sound/number links used by the
descendants of Abraham and those used by the by the descendants of JAPeT or his
brother Ham.
Shown above is the family code used by the members of the line of descendants
started by aRPaHSaD (aRPaHSaD). Other family codes are similar, except for the
values of the A, E, I, O, U, and H sounds. These values contain the numbers of the
names of ancestors of the namees. The K, P, and J sounds serve the same purposes in
all of the ancestral codes. The constants retain the same numerical values in all codes.
- Being fruitful, and multiplying, replenishing the earth --
the results.
multiply, and replenish the earth”, so they were fruitful and they multiplied as often as
possible. For this reason, usually, the number of days between a mother’s
consecutively born children amounted to practically a constant number. When a woman
became pregnant, she passed through her pregnancy, delivered her child, allowed her
body to repair, regained her fertility, and soon became pregnant again. Usually, the
time spent by the mother to complete these cycles changed little. Only the time between
fertility and pregnancy varied, and because of GoD’s instructions, the man and woman
kept this time to a minimum. The results were -- the number of days separating the
birthdays of a mother's consecutively born children was usually almost constant.
The reality check.
Arphaxsad (aRPaHSaD) is a grandson of Noah (NOá), and a son of Shem (SeM). The
following families, which are listed in the Book of Genesis, are all descendants of
aRPaHSaD. Below, the sound-number links that form the aRPaHSaD code are plugged
into the names, and the numbers of the names are calculated. The number of days
separating the birthdays of the consecutively born children of each of the mothers are
also calculated. The test of the accuracy of the statements above is the closeness of
number of days separating the consecutive births of a given mother's children. The
families are listed in Tables 1B through 1G shown below.
After substituting the sound-numbers into the names, the solutions for the variable
sound-numbers E, J, P, and K were calculated. From this JoKTaN’ s name-number, and
the year of his birth are calculated.
JoKTaN=98+0+105+400+0+50=653, J=98AF.
JoKTaN was born 98 years after the flood, on the land of SeM and mate,
where K=105.
The J sound in JoKTaN’s name represents the year of his birth counting the end of the
flood as the year 1. More often the J sound took on the value of the year counting
ADAM year of birth as 1.
The separations between the birthdays of the children of JoKTaN and mate is almost
constant which is an indications this couple were adhering to the system.
JoKTaN's family passes the test.
The intervals in TERá family are close enough to pass the test.
NaHOR and MiLKá also were adhering to the system according to the above
calculations. Another family passes the test.
NaHOR had children by another woman. Her name was RUUMá
(200+93+93+40+1=427). She delivered four children. Although the intervals aren't
close to being the same, they show signs of being other than random. This family
doesn't receive an unconditional pass, but it won't be unconditionally ignored.
HARaN, the brother of ABRaM and NaHOR, also had children. HARaN's children also
pass the test.
LoT had two daughters. They became pregnant on two consecutive nights. The
children were delivered four 4 days apart instead of one day apart. The families of
LoT's daughters also passes the test.
If the results determined above are the result of coincidence, the odds of that
coincidence occurring are on the order of thousand and thousands to one. Here's
why.
The following parlayed assumptions produced the predicted results. Here are the
assumptions. Thousands of years ago parents knew of the existence of a calendar
formed by 665 consecutively numbered days. They knew its purpose was to provide
each of their children with a number that matched the number of the calendar day on
which it was born. They knew the number would serve important purposes later in the
child's life. They knew that they must select a name made from spoken sounds, of which
each had a predetermined number value, and that the sum of those number values
should added to the child's number.
People also understood that a regulation existed saying they should produce children.
GoD had told NOá and his sons, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." To
most people that meant they should produce children as often as possible. The results
were that mothers delivered their children at regular intervals, or that the number of
days separating the birthdays of a mother's consecutively born children was usually
fairly constant. Again, this was thousands of years ago.
Today, many of these names are listed in the King James bible. Their pronuncia-tions
are supposedly strictly preserved, and supposedly those pronunciations can be
reproduced today by referring to the pronunciation guide displayed on the front leaf
pages of the King James bible.
The calculations shown above are those that would be required to prove the validity of
the system described in this lesson, and the results are those that would be expected if
the predictions are true.
These results reinforce the assertions that there actually is something being pointed
out in Chapter 13, verse 18 of the Book of Revelations. Don't quit reading these
lessons. Keep going, and see what happens to your beliefs.
