| I really don't know what's suppose to happen this day. It's very curious. I was researching about the day, the symbol. I was writing an essay and happen to write the date June 6, 2006. I know why. Coquncidence! YES! Anyways! It seems that the devil's child shall be appearing to this day, or to be born on this day. That would be Anit-Christ! I'm a very religous person, but never knew the history of 666. Things are suppose to be happening that day. Bad things. The end of the world might be happening. For all I know there's going to a battle and no one is going to know that it's happening. Even I won't notice it's happening. I'll be busy and forgetting that that day is the bad day. Unless something bad happens to me and I end up in the hospital. I had a dream on that day my friend ran me over. It's only a dream! The number 666 is the symbol for the devil. Latin is the original language for the Roman Catholic Church. If you check all the names that are connected to all this, the letter give off numbers which add up to 666. How strange is that? Fucking Strange!
Where does the number 666 come from? Many have read of it in the Bible or even heard of it from various sources, but very few know where it actually comes from or why the book of Revelation speaks about this number with such negative connotations. Here is a brief overview of the history of the number 666, where it comes from, and why the book of Revelation speaks so negatively of this number.
The number 666 comes directly from the worship practices of the city of Babylon about the time of the Bible prophet Daniel. The people of Babylon worshiped gods that were associated with the sun, moon, visible planets of our solar system, and certain of the stars involved with the practice of astrology. The Babylonians were the principle developers of astrology, as we know it today. In their worship system, they had 37 supreme gods, and one of these, the god associated with the sun, was supreme over all the other gods. These people believed that numbers in some way had power over the gods they worshiped. However, they had to create numbers that they could assign to the gods so that they could have power over them. To do this, they counted their gods and assigned a count number to each of the 36 lesser supreme gods, and then added up all of these numbers (from one to 36) and assigned the sum to the sun god. The first god they counted got the number one assigned to it, and the second god they counted got the number two assigned to it, and so on up to all 36 lesser supreme gods. Now, if you have not guessed it by now, the sum of the numbers from one to 36 totals 666, which they assigned to the god associated with the sun. They did the calculation like this:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12
+ 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 + 22
+ 23 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 + 31 + 32
+ 33 + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666
However, they went further. They feared these gods and worried that one of them might strike them down sometime, so they made amulets with a 6 x 6 matrix of the numbers one through 36 on them. Today we call these numeric matrixes magic squares. The design of the amulets was to achieve a magic purpose, and they evidently believed that wearing a particular god's number would protect one from a specific god striking them down using his power of magic. Now, the amulets had to be as powerful as possible, so in order to increase its power, they arranged these numbers in such a way that the sum of any given row, column, or diagonal is 111, and therefore the sum of all six rows or all six columns was 666. This was supposed to provide extra protection, including from the god associated with the sun, since this god's sum was present on the amulet.
Below is an example of one such arrangement of numbers in a 6x6 matrix of numbers. Note that any given column, row, or diagonal adds up to 111. The ancient Babylonians wrote these numbers out on a small clay tablet, and after drying and baking it to make the writing permanent, they would hang it on a support and wear it around their neck. As long as they carried the amulet with them, they thought that the amulet provided protection.
| 6 |
32 |
3 |
34 |
35 |
1 |
| 7 |
11 |
27 |
28 |
8 |
30 |
| 19 |
14 |
16 |
15 |
23 |
24 |
| 18 |
20 |
22 |
21 |
17 |
13 |
| 25 |
29 |
10 |
9 |
26 |
12 |
| 36 |
5 |
33 |
4 |
2 |
31 |
The practice of creating amulets with this arrangement of numbers as part of astrology appears to have continued well past the time of Jesus. Archeologists have found amulets with Latin Inscriptions, so we know that the Romans were indulging in this practice.
Therefore, the 666 number came about because of the pagan worship practices of the Babylonians and their practice of astrology.
If you want more information about this topic, see some of the links at the bottom of the page. You may also look for a copy of the book by Roy Allan Anderson called Unfolding the Revelation, in which explains this topic in detail. That book is (or at least has been) published by Pacific Press Publishing Association of Nampa, Idaho. You likely could find a copy through one of the major online bookstores such as Amazon.com. Another book of good information about this is called the Trail of the Serpent, by Murl Vance and published by Oriental Watchman Publishing House of Pune, India. This book is no longer in print; however, you may find a copy of it by checking out some of the online book auctions.
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