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The Beast of 666

Its seven heads bearing ten horns with diadems upon them picture the seven world powers that have waged war on God's holy ones, during the four thousand years since Nimrod the mighty hunter founded ancient Babylon. In their historical order, as supported by the Bible account, these symbolic heads of the wild beast are (1) Egypt, (2) Assyria, (3) Babylon, (4) Medo-Persia (5) Greece (Macedonia), (6) Rome and (7) the joint Anglo-American World Power.

Although blasphemous names appear on the seven heads, the wild beast as a whole has a name. No, its name is not "Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots," which is the world empire of Babylonish religion. John says that its name has a number. "It is a man's number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six." (Revelation 13:17, 18; 17:5)

In the Greek manuscript that John wrote, this number 666 may have been represented by the Greek three letters: Khi (X=six hundred) Xi (=sixty) and Digamma (=six).

The number of the wild beast's name is thus seen to be made up of the number 6 in three stages. The only other place in Revelation where the number 6 () occurs is where it describes the four living creatures before God's throne as having six wings, that is, three pairs, in which case a seventh wing would be an irregularity. (Revelation 4:8) However, the Revelation abounds with fifty-two occurrences of the number seven, using it as a symbol of perfection. The number six comes short of seven by one, just as six days would come one day short of a week.

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