He commanded all who he ruled over to worship it or else be thrown into a furnace of fire. Nebuchadnezzar, the great King of Babylon, set up a "golden image" in the plain of Dura. Goliath, who fought David when he was quite young, had a height of 6 cubits, had 6 pieces of armor, and his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron (1Samuel 17:4 - 7). Each, in one way or another, has the mark of this special numeric. They are Goliath the giant who fought King David, King Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonian Empire and the End Time Antichrist. Three people in the Bible stand out as special adversaries of God and his people. Every year he received 666 talents of gold (1Kings 10:14 - 15), a figured confirmed by the first century historian Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 8, Chapter 7). Although money streamed to him due to the heavy taxation of the Israelites (see 1Kings 4:24), it was the gold that came to him through a variety of other ways that made him the richest man alive. King Solomon, after assuming the throne of Israel upon his father David's death, soon became wealthy. In order to show that the book of Revelation was inspired, Ireneaus (120 - 202 AD), an early church apologist, noted that he had consulted the 'most approved and ancient copies' of Revelation for verification of this mystical numeric. Appearances of the number six-hundred sixty-six This hidden form of six, found in the total times the word 'world' is used, warns believers to separate themselves from man's system which is soon to die (John 2:15 - 17). The book of 1John (written by the apostle John who also wrote Revelation) contains an often-overlooked set of three verses that uses a subtle form of 6. The number 666 represents the world and all that it does to appease and gratify human nature.
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