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    >  TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick   
    > Kincaid   
      
    >  Today is Sunday  June 6, 2021.   
    >  This is the 157th day of the year, there are 208 days left.   
      
    >  On this day...   
    >     Revelation 13:16-18 And he caused all, both small and   
    >     great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark   
    >     in their right hand, or in their foreheads. And, no man   
    >     could buy or sell, except they that had the mark, or the   
    >     name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is   
    >     wisdom. Let him who understands count the number of the   
    >     beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is   
      
   Seems like you own this echo, too! :D    
      
   Please allow me to add in a bit of my own learning on this verse' content. .    
   .   
      
   You do know that the original Koine Greek isn't too specific for    
   prepositions? It could be "in" or "on" the hand/wrist (one word for this    
   area, equiv to "bras" in Latin)   
      
   I never worried about the literal number, because the real concern is   
   ACCEPTING it as your mark of allegiance tot he Beast.   
      
   & the Number is really just a string of Roman numeral, all of them in order,   
   ujp to 500 (D), a la: DCLXVI (so roughly 654321 in English. . )   
      
   In Hebrew, 666 is also a word: Har Megido ("Armageddon", the mountain of   
   Megido)   
      
   Those dummies whoi tattooed 666 on themselves, thinking "six, six, six)    
   didn't do so with truer understanding, so they're not in trouble, but they   
   should be ashamed of marking the body God put a soul into, though!   
      
   The number is not "six six six, it's "6-hundred, sixty & six" literally, as   
   written in the original Scripture.   
      
   Theories abound; My two faves are:   
   a) ot was chosen just as a funky pattern (654321) because patterns werte   
   thought to be magical   
   & my fave:   
   b) 6 is the number of man (created on the 6th day; 7 =    
   perfection/comnpletion, so, as Hebrew uses repetition for emphasis ("I say    
   say to you" becomes "Truly, I say to you")   
      
   comparative = said twice   
   superlative = 3 times.   
      
   So 666 emphathises that the Beast falls as far short of God as is possible.   
      
   Man is not completed, that's why God did not look, after that creation &   
   declare it "good" as every other day of creation.   
      
   It is said that the angel were speaking with God after the creation of Man,    
   to point out how they noted that each day He alternated between creating   
   something "above" & something "below" but they knerw He planned a 7-day   
   Creation, so how would He maintain the pattern of equality?   
      
   God replied that on thr 7th day He would create something that allows man to   
   live both "above" & "below" (spiritually), that being the 7th day -- the   
   Sabbath, when man can rest ("take a breath") as even the Divine(spirit) did,   
   but yet remain a man(flesh)   
      
   The angels then rejoiced at the beauty of this! & the rest, my friend, is   
   history. . .   
      
   It's our job to finish creatoin of ourselves, by polishing ourselves to    
   always be of a higher order than we started off as (animalistic) & to elevate   
   ourselves to be One with the Creator upon our deaths.   
      
   I'm sorry, but I don't ascribe to the Roman teaching that we are born evil.   
   God don't create junk -- we are born with our souls in balance & our choices   
   either elevate them or dirty them. . .   
      
   Do we wish to live so one day we will join with our heavenly Father, or do we   
   prefer to live so we eventually live in the soil with the animals & their   
   dung, with our souls destroyed as unworthy of eternity?   
      
   I've made my choice. . . & try hard every day to live like it.   
      
   The problem with saying every person is born worthy of death for Adam's sin    
   is it contradicts God's teaching that nobody shall be put to death for the   
   sins of his father (unlike in the Hammurabbi Code) but each shall be put to   
   death only for his own capital crimes.   
      
   The Romans introduced so much error & lies into Christianity, but the Truth   
   never falters for those who, as Jesus instructed, search & seek intently for   
   the truth.   
      
   & the praying to saints. . . BAH!!! Solomon prayed, knowing he was currently   
   highly blessed, that all who seek God directly will be heard & their prayers   
   answered.  Going to another in prtayer is like worshipping the sun for the   
   heat it gives, when it was God alone Who created the sun & the light & warmth   
   it gives!  Pagans worship that which is only creation(stars, trees, winds).   
   True knowers of God worship Him alone & directly.   
      
   Okay, sorry, just waxing poetic today. .    
      
   Sorry if I've offended any(e.g. those of the Roman or Greek churches) today;   
   it's not my intent. I'm a Truth Teller & I'll always tell the truth. "Do not   
   bear false witness" really means "Bear true witness" & is the equivalent to    
   "I swear to tell the whole truth & nothing but the truth, so help me, God"   
      
   I bear/shine my true witness with joy & light!   
      
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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