What Does 666 Mean?

The Bible's Answer

According  to the last book in the Bible, 666 is the number, or name, of the wild beast with seven heads and ten  horns that comes out of the sea.  (Revelation13:1, 17, 18) This beast is a symbol of the worldwide political system, which rules over "every tribe and people and  nation." (Revelation 13:7)  The name 666 identifies the political system as a gross failure in God's sight. How?

More than a label.  Names given by God have meaning.  For example, God gave the man Abram, which means "Father is High (Exalted)," the name Abraham, which means "Father of a Crowd (Multitude)," when God promised that He would make Abraham  "a father of many nations." (Genesis 17:5) Likewise, God named the beast 666 as a symbol of its defining attributes.

The number six implies imperfection.  Often, numbers are used as symbols in the Bible.  Seven typically represents completeness or perfection.  Six, being  one short of seven, can denote something incomplete or flawed in God's eyes, and it can be associated with God's enemies. - 1 CHRONICLES 20:6; DANIEL 3:1.

Three times for emphasis.   The Bible sometimes stresses a matter  by stating it three times.  (Revelation 4:8; 8:13) So the name powerfully emphasis that God views human political systems as gross failures. (Because they are) They have been unable to bring lasting peace and security-things that only God's Kingdom will achieve. 

Note: Basically,  the Government and Politics have nothing but screw up the whole world. They are totally  incompetent. And could fix  their life much less their country/world. 

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