666 + the 'devil'...?

[Vix134]

Where did the association between the number 666 and the 'devil' come from? Thanks :) xx

[jonesadamd]

The main reason for the association is the bible, Revelation 13:18 "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." Why it's 666, other than because the bible says so, is difficult to pin down; it's a pre-biblical ancient myth and is traceable back to the Babylonians.

[babthrower]

I suspect it has to do with numerology, which the Babylonians practiced, and during the Babylonian Captivity the Jews picked up a lot of Bablyonian ideas; and the fact that in Hebrew letters represent numbers. (They had no unique characters to represent numbers, but used alphabetic characters instead.) It could have been a code if the person he was talking about was a powerful, living person. The O.T. writer was afraid to 'spell out' the name. So he gave a clue: the sum of the letters in this devil incarnate's name is 666. Jews would be able to figure it out by taking the names of suspects and seeing if the sum of the numeric values of the characters that spelled his name was 666. Here's a rather silly example of how that might work today. If 13 is an unlucky number, and 'a' represents the number 1, and 'n' represents the number 6, then the 'number' of the name 'Ann' is 1+6+6, or 13; so if your name is Ann you should spell it Anne, and change your luck.

[inachis]

in biblical numerology 7 denoted perfection and 3 lots denoted completness or wholeness so perfect number would be 777 however 6 denotes imperfectionhence 666 jubilee dates in Israel were every 7 years golden jubilee 49 years 7 times 7 there many examples of 7 representing Gods word it is true Baylonians based most things on the number 6 which we inherited in LSD money and incidently Babylon was in present day Iraq and was an enemy of GOD