Holy Number 666
By James Donahue
When we lived in Northeast Arizona we sometimes traveled U.S. 666, a highway going north from Gallup to Shiprock in the heart of Navajo Land.
Dubbed "the devil's highway," the name was a target of Christians who declared this to be an evil number because the Bible implies it is the number of the great beast of the apocalypse. There was a movement in political circles even then to change the name. I noticed that then New Mexico’s Gov. Bill Richardson and Highway and Transportation Secretary Rhonda Faught changed the name to an innocuous "491."
I found it odd that the road got the number 666 assigned to it in the first place since the U.S. Highway system was carefully designed with even numbers going East and West, and odd numbers going North and South. The number 666, while odd in religious and social circles is technically an even number.
That the highway reaches towns located mostly within the sprawling Navajo Nation may have had something to do with the delay. It strikes me that someone in high places may have named this road as some kind of sick practical joke on the Navajo.
The Navajo properties, covering large tracts of the four states at the Four Corners, are a government within the United States. And while the Dina, or "People" as the Navajo call themselves, are superstitious about many other things, the number 666 doesn't seem to be a problem. The large Church of the Navajo is a spiritual movement that has little, if anything to do with Christianity.
I even suspect that the Navajo may have an understanding of the truth behind the number 666. Placing evil connotations on the number has been part of a great lie perpetrated by dark energies for thousands of years. Billions of people, even those who have never put their hands on a Bible, perceive the number 666 as evil and they probably can't tell you why.
The Cabala, a book of numbers, reveals that 666 is a magic number. It is known in esoteric circles as the "magic square of the sun." It is a number secretly used in sacred geometry and was once used in the design of the great temples of the world. In numerics 666 is a spiral. It is the symbol of the universal pattern of growth in nature.
Describing the geometry behind 666 is complex. I found a definition for a magic square which reads:
"A magic square is an arrangement of the numbers from 1 to n^2 (n-squared) in an nxn matrix, with each number occurring exactly once, and such that the sum of the entries of any row, any column, or any main diagonal is the same."
There are certain magic numbers that behave in this way. The simplest are the numbers one and three.
So why would certain dark forces wish to desecrate this sacred number?
There are various interpretations by Bible scholars. It is in the Book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament, where we are told in Chapter 13 that the number 666 is the number of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that rises from the sea.
A study of the existing Roman political system at the time the Book of the Revelation was penned appears to give us an important clue behind this strange verse. An interesting viewpoint published in Science Alert stated: The Book of Revelation was written at the time Nero Caesar was in power. He was considered an especially wicked man. We also know that the numbers used were posted in Roman numerals: 400 and 200 and 60 and 6. Thus the Hebrew spelling of 666 came out “Neron Kesar.” And this was how Nero Caesar was spelled in Hebrew text. Thus 666 was a political statement that pointed a damning finger at Emperor Nero.
That peculiar number has been misinterpreted by the Christian church ever since. It may or may not be a reference to a wicked world leader predicted to be in power at a time of a great world battle between forces of good and forces of evil, concluding with a “rapture” of the saints.
There is great danger in this prophetic interpretation of the New Testament story. Christian believers in world governments, especially in the United States, appear willing to bring on a third world war because they believe it will be so terrible this time it will bring on the Second Coming of Christ. But Jesus warned that no man will know the hour of his return. An apocalyptic war like this might speed a feared annihilation of the human race without any help from Jesus.
Theologians suggest that in the Bible, the number seven represents perfection. But six, just short of seven, appears to denote something incomplete and flawed. But in Genesis we are told that God created the universe in six days and his work was “very good.” Thus it appears that the mathematical definition of the perfect number may actually be six. And 666 is found to offer many perfect mathematical properties.
We might think that if a “beast” rises up to use 666 he will be presenting himself as a counterfeit Christ . . . or antichrist . . . who is mocking that perfect number.
By James Donahue
When we lived in Northeast Arizona we sometimes traveled U.S. 666, a highway going north from Gallup to Shiprock in the heart of Navajo Land.
Dubbed "the devil's highway," the name was a target of Christians who declared this to be an evil number because the Bible implies it is the number of the great beast of the apocalypse. There was a movement in political circles even then to change the name. I noticed that then New Mexico’s Gov. Bill Richardson and Highway and Transportation Secretary Rhonda Faught changed the name to an innocuous "491."
I found it odd that the road got the number 666 assigned to it in the first place since the U.S. Highway system was carefully designed with even numbers going East and West, and odd numbers going North and South. The number 666, while odd in religious and social circles is technically an even number.
That the highway reaches towns located mostly within the sprawling Navajo Nation may have had something to do with the delay. It strikes me that someone in high places may have named this road as some kind of sick practical joke on the Navajo.
The Navajo properties, covering large tracts of the four states at the Four Corners, are a government within the United States. And while the Dina, or "People" as the Navajo call themselves, are superstitious about many other things, the number 666 doesn't seem to be a problem. The large Church of the Navajo is a spiritual movement that has little, if anything to do with Christianity.
I even suspect that the Navajo may have an understanding of the truth behind the number 666. Placing evil connotations on the number has been part of a great lie perpetrated by dark energies for thousands of years. Billions of people, even those who have never put their hands on a Bible, perceive the number 666 as evil and they probably can't tell you why.
The Cabala, a book of numbers, reveals that 666 is a magic number. It is known in esoteric circles as the "magic square of the sun." It is a number secretly used in sacred geometry and was once used in the design of the great temples of the world. In numerics 666 is a spiral. It is the symbol of the universal pattern of growth in nature.
Describing the geometry behind 666 is complex. I found a definition for a magic square which reads:
"A magic square is an arrangement of the numbers from 1 to n^2 (n-squared) in an nxn matrix, with each number occurring exactly once, and such that the sum of the entries of any row, any column, or any main diagonal is the same."
There are certain magic numbers that behave in this way. The simplest are the numbers one and three.
So why would certain dark forces wish to desecrate this sacred number?
There are various interpretations by Bible scholars. It is in the Book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament, where we are told in Chapter 13 that the number 666 is the number of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that rises from the sea.
A study of the existing Roman political system at the time the Book of the Revelation was penned appears to give us an important clue behind this strange verse. An interesting viewpoint published in Science Alert stated: The Book of Revelation was written at the time Nero Caesar was in power. He was considered an especially wicked man. We also know that the numbers used were posted in Roman numerals: 400 and 200 and 60 and 6. Thus the Hebrew spelling of 666 came out “Neron Kesar.” And this was how Nero Caesar was spelled in Hebrew text. Thus 666 was a political statement that pointed a damning finger at Emperor Nero.
That peculiar number has been misinterpreted by the Christian church ever since. It may or may not be a reference to a wicked world leader predicted to be in power at a time of a great world battle between forces of good and forces of evil, concluding with a “rapture” of the saints.
There is great danger in this prophetic interpretation of the New Testament story. Christian believers in world governments, especially in the United States, appear willing to bring on a third world war because they believe it will be so terrible this time it will bring on the Second Coming of Christ. But Jesus warned that no man will know the hour of his return. An apocalyptic war like this might speed a feared annihilation of the human race without any help from Jesus.
Theologians suggest that in the Bible, the number seven represents perfection. But six, just short of seven, appears to denote something incomplete and flawed. But in Genesis we are told that God created the universe in six days and his work was “very good.” Thus it appears that the mathematical definition of the perfect number may actually be six. And 666 is found to offer many perfect mathematical properties.
We might think that if a “beast” rises up to use 666 he will be presenting himself as a counterfeit Christ . . . or antichrist . . . who is mocking that perfect number.