A Revelation Story Revealed

Microstudy #1: All About 666 (With a focus on Man’s Number) The first thing one needs to know about this topic is, the mark of the beast and man’s number are two different things. 1) The mark of the beast is a physical mark the antichrist/false prophet will force on people, so they can physically buy or sell.a a.) Rev 13: 16-18 “He causes all, both small and great, rich (notice there are still rich people during tribulation) and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.” 2) Man’s number takes wisdom to figure out and know this, the number is symbolic. I believe each 6 represents sin and death for each section of an unsaved person’s temple (body, soul, and spirit). A 6 for their body represents they are dead in their unredeemed sinful flesh, a 6 for their soul represents their dead unsanctified soul, and finally, a 6 for their spirit represents their dead unregenerated spirit. Thus, symbolically speaking, 666 represents sin and death for an unsaved person’s body (6), soul (6), and spirit (6). Now to build the case for this concept. The body is a temple, either for: Godb,e or Satanc. Just as with Joshua in the Old Testament, serving the real God is a choice - a personal choice.d It’s YOUR CHOICE to serve him or not. b.) Romans 8:9 “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.” c.) Ephesians 2:1-3 with interpretations in parentheses: “And you (the saved) He (God/Jesus) made alive, who were (spiritually) dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit (Satan/spirit of antichrist) who now works in the sons of disobedience (unsaved), among whom also we all (the saved) once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh (body) and of the mind (main part of soul), and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.” d.) Joshua 24:15 “And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” e.) 1st Corinthians 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” The Old Testament Temple had an Outer Court, Inner Court, and Holy of Holies.f A human, which is a temple too, is made of a body, soul, and spirit.g Wisdoma would say the body is the outer court, the soul is the inner court, and the spirit is the Holy of Holies. f.) For a simple picture of a Jewish Temple see www.Bible-history.com/jewishtemple/jewish_templeschematic_plan_of_the_temple.htm g.) 1st Thessalonians 5:23 “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”. The unsaved operate in sin with their bodies.h Thus the number 6 represents sin in the body. h.) 1st Corinthians 6:18 “Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.” Unsaved man Temple Body 6 Outer Court Anyone who reaches the age of accountability and has not invited Christ into their life to be their personal Lord and Savior is unsaved.j The unsaved operate in sin. k,m These unsaved have a second 6 which represents their dead soul.n Unsaved man Temple Body 6 Outer Court Soul 6 Inner Court j.) Romans 3:23 “ …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” k.) Galatians 5:19-21 “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” m.) Matthew 5:28 “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” n.) Ephesians 2:1-3 “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins…” …. “Study continues in “A Revelation Story Revealed”