Prophecy of Amos: Possible Origin of that whole '6 Is the Devil's Number'-Rumor?

[mythociate]

A common pattern in the book of Amos, chapters 1 & -2, runs, "Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of {some nation}, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof ..."

So SIX transgressions is fine, and you can get away with it?

[lvstephanie]

A common pattern in the book of Amos, chapters 1 & -2, runs, "Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of {some nation}, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof ..."

So SIX transgressions is fine, and you can get away with it?

Actually, "666" is commonly thought of as being the Devil's number, and goes back to Jewish numerology (or Kabbalah)... The number 7 is said to be the perfect number, so 6 would mean being imperfect. But the number also has other meanings, like femininity. As some pagan religions appealed to a goddess, "666" could refer to the three forms of this goddess -- the maiden, the mother, and the crone -- and since this goddess was not a true God "666" would therefore refer to a false god. Still others have used the practice of numbering the letters in a word and producing a sum to reflect the numerological meaning behind a word. Thus if one were to take the name of Nero, the emperor that persecuted the early Christians during the time that the book of Revelation was written, from Greek (the language that Revelation was written in), translate it into Hebrew, and then changed that to numbers, the sum would equate to 666.

[JediJohnnie]

A common pattern in the book of Amos, chapters 1 & -2, runs, "Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of {some nation}, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof ..."

So SIX transgressions is fine, and you can get away with it?

Actually, "666" is commonly thought of as being the Devil's number, and goes back to Jewish numerology (or Kabbalah)... The number 7 is said to be the perfect number, so 6 would mean being imperfect. But the number also has other meanings, like femininity. As some pagan religions appealed to a goddess, "666" could refer to the three forms of this goddess -- the maiden, the mother, and the crone -- and since this goddess was not a true God "666" would therefore refer to a false god. Still others have used the practice of numbering the letters in a word and producing a sum to reflect the numerological meaning behind a word. Thus if one were to take the name of Nero, the emperor that persecuted the early Christians during the time that the book of Revelation was written, from Greek (the language that Revelation was written in), translate it into Hebrew, and then changed that to numbers, the sum would equate to 666.

Yep,that was my understanding of 666's meaning as well.

[kimmy29]

A common pattern in the book of Amos, chapters 1 & -2, runs, "Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of {some nation}, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof ..."

So SIX transgressions is fine, and you can get away with it?

[mythociate]

... others have used the practice of numbering the letters in a word and producing a sum to reflect the numerological meaning behind a word. Thus if one were to take the name of Nero, the emperor that persecuted the early Christians during the time that the book of Revelation was written, from Greek (the language that Revelation was written in), translate it into Hebrew, and then changed that to numbers, the sum would equate to 666.

Reminds me of that Jim Carrey movie the number 23, where he went insane after some book inspired him to find ways to connect 'the number 23' to everything that happened in his life.