BIBLE NUMERICS
The Number SIX
Now Noah was 500 years old when the Lord began to deal with him about
making the ark; he begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. He was 600 when he
went into the ark, which brings us up to the number Six. Now Noah of
course had found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and so somebody could
grab that 500 and say, "Well, that shows grace." But let's just face
it, Noah may have had some grace shown on him, but the Bible says he
condemned the world over in II Peter 2 and Hebrews 11. He is death to
them. The number that is connected with going into the ark and the
flood coming was 600; which brings us to Six.
Now six has some problems connected with it. Normally, it is said to
be "the number of man," and I'm not going to argue with this. I'm sure
it has something to do with man; but as to whether it is limited to
man, I don't know. Also, as to whether or not it is man in this age, I
don't know. I don't know how much you can connect it with man alone,
or the Antichrist alone, or demons or the Devil in relation to man,
but the facts are these: The number, as it stands by itself (six),
occurs for the first time in Genesis 7:6 where Noah is 600 years old
when the flood comes.
"Sixth," which is kin to it, is of course connected with Genesis 1 "on
the sixth day," and the sixth day is the day that Adam is made, and
this of course gives tremendous weight to the theory that six is
connected with man. It's on the sixth day that Adam is made. (It
certainly has something to do with man.) The number "six" occurs
several times in the book of Genesis, and the most notable place was
the 600th year of Noah's life.
Later in the Bible we find 600 men a very common expression for some
reason. The scholarly approach to this business is "These are just
round numbers"--that is, they don't mean anything. Of course we reject
that nonsense. Everything in that Book has some meaning to it. They're
not just round numbers; they have meaning to them. We find 600 men
used frequently, and we find that in Genesis 46:26 the number of souls
that go down into Egypt with Jacob have the number six in them, "all
the souls were threescore and six." It is used in reference to people
in that case and most of the time it is. When Pharaoh chases the
children of Israel he takes 600 chosen chariots, and as I said before,
this 600 men keeps popping up. Notice it in I Samuel 30:9; notice it
in II Samuel 15:18, and there are several other places where this
business shows up. Notice in the book of Judges, three times in
Chapter 18, the six hundred men. Notice it in Judges 20:47. Now, I
don't know why that is, but there is something very significant about
that. Notice again in I Samuel 23:13; 27:2; and 30:9. I never have
worked out that six hundred, but there is bound to be something to it.
The Bible doesn't throw numbers around for no reason, and this idea of
"round numbers" of course is nonsense.
The Lord is very careful to tell you the number of fishes that come
into the net in John 21 and the number of people that got saved on the
boat wreck that Paul was on. Any book this specific is not going to
waste time talking about generalities and "round numbers." When it
gives a number, Brother, there is a reason and purpose behind it, and
our ignorance is no reason to reject it.
I've never professed to know all that Book; I don't profess to know it
now. There is something about the tone of my voice that irritates
people, and I've heard people complain and say, "You know, Bob thinks
he's right and everybody else is wrong." You have to consider the
source. Those who say that usually are either too lazy or too proud to
investigate anything but their own conceit. Anybody who takes the
trouble to do a great deal of studying quickly finds out that many of
the things he's been taught (the sacred cows) are wrong. There is
plenty about the Bible I don't know. I know where the verses are, but
God forbid that I should profess to be able to interpret them. I can't
interpret them--the Holy Spirit interprets them, and where He doesn't
show me the answer, I don't have the answer. But I know when another
man doesn't have it too! That's one of the blessings about being
critical. If you are hard on yourself, the other fellow won't get by
you too close. Now I don't know why these six hundred men keep popping
up, but I'm absolutely certain there is a purpose behind it.
The six days of creation are found repeated throughout the Bible in
connection with the Sabbath rest and the warning to the Jew to be
careful about the seventh day. He keeps mentioning the six days, the
six days, the six days, in Exodus 16:26; 20:11; 21:2; 23:12; 23:10.
The cloud covers the tabernacle six days in Exodus 24:16. The golden
candlestick in the tabernacle has seven lights on it, but it is so
made that it has only six branches, the seventh branch being the
candlestick itself, the center piece. We read about six names of the
Jews on one stone and six on the another in Exodus 28:10. When the
Jews get in the promised land, they're told to have six tribes on one
mountain and six tribes on another reading the curses of the law. Yet
when the division of the tribes comes, it never comes on a six and six
proposition. Where the tribes are divided, they're always divided off
into ten and two as we'll see later when we get into a study of the
number ten. They're always divided off into ten and two, for some
reason, with Joshua and Caleb leading the way back there in the book
of Numbers.
Jericho is compassed six days before it fell on the seventh day. The
giants evidently have six fingers and six toes in II Samuel 21:20,
showing that they are supermen. Solomon, as a type of the Antichrist,
has his throne with six steps and six lions on one side and six lions
on the other side making 666. Now this lends great weight to the
theory that six is connected with man, as the Antichrist will be the
Super-man, the God-man, the Trinity--666. Of course, the only problem
is that he is the wrong god. If you're looking for a God-man you'd
have to look for 777. And of course this is all outside of the realm
of physics and mathematics, and not even the extra sensory perception,
LSD, hippie, gurus, and Berkeley crowd can get on the boat here
because they don't have the brains or the fortitude! What you're
looking for is 777; it is three times completion. That's the Trinity
times perfection, and that's the One you're looking for.
Obviously, 666 is incomplete, and 666 is obviously a trinity of sixes.
If six is man, then it is man at his best, fallen man at his best.
This is the number you're told to look out for in Revelation 13:18.
Somehow or other the verse marking escaped the notice of the new
conservatives in that verse 18 itself has three sixes in it.
I suppose the King James translators rigged this up! Certainly, they
positively could not have even thought about it. It just came out that
way. Somebody says "Coincidence." Well, I used to believe that for a
long time. Then, after I discovered about 85 percent of the
"instances" in the Bible were sheer "coincidence," I decided I'd
better go with the bookies and con men and bet safe.
Let me illustrate: It is amazing how when you produce these things
from the word of God somebody says, "You can do that with any type of
number, and there is nothing to it." Yet no man who bet on odds or
numbers, no professional man who dealt with numbers professionally,
would think of taking such odds. The only people who take such odds
are Bible "scholars" who resent the Authorized Version. They'll take
`em; I won't!
How do you account for that 666 popping up in Chapter 13 on a verse
that is divisible by three sixes? A man said, "Coincidence." Tell me
something. Why does the number occur again in Ezra 2:13? In the
thirteenth verse of Ezra 2 it says 666. Could you tell me why the only
other time that thing occurs is in II Chronicles 9:13? 666. How come
it is always showing up with the thirteen? You say, "Well, it shows up
in Chapter 10 of I Kings." Well, that's one out of four. Tell me
something, with the odds of three to one in 31,000 verses; what are
you talking about, "Coincidence," when the odds are three to one?! I
don't know many gamblers who would take odds of three to one, do you?
I've known some gamblers; I've known some who take what appear to be
three-to-one odds, but that isn't all. These odds are better than
three to one considering all the possibilities of numbers that could
have been used.
The 666 occurs again in I Kings 10:14, and it is still connected with
the same man, and the same thing, and the same measurements, and the
same articles mentioned in II Chronicles 9:13. How can we separate
this gold or gold image with a head like a lion of Nebuchadnezzar, the
king of Babylon, from the beast in Revelation 13 who has a mouth like
a lion, who controls all the gold, whose number is 666, who shows up
in a verse divisible by sixes and is found in Ezra 2:13 where the man
mentioned, Adonikam, means the "lord of rebellion." The odds are not
three to one. If it were just the number you were dealing with, the
odds would be three to one, but you were dealing with gold, lions,
kings, rebellion, and world dictatorship. Now what are the odds? The
odds are too great for a gambler to take a chance on. The only person
who would take a chance on it is a Protestant, Catholic, or Jew who
doesn't like the Authorized Version of the Bible.
When Jesus dies on Calvary's cross it was about the sixth hour when
the darkness comes (Luke 23:44), and that of course puts it from noon
until about three o'clock in the afternoon, clearly dividing the day
itself at the sixth or middle point. Thus six evidently has something
to do with the division of time. Six months is going to be a division
of a year; the sixth hour is going to be a division of a day. We were
amazed to find how many times this combination of three and six is
used where it refers to a division: three years and six months, three
days and a half. This thing occurs over and over again in your Bible
in connection with the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the reign of
the Antichrist. The measurement of forty-two months itself is three
years and six months. The measurement 1260 days, given in Revelation
11, is three years and six months. This division occurs over and over
again--three and one-half, three and one-half, three and one-half.
Daniel refers to it as "time, times, and a half a time."
So I learn the term "six" has not only something to do with man, but
also has something to do with the division of time in connection with
man. His days are "numbered," as it were. Exactly what all of it
means, I don't know. I know the Antichrist is the Superman, 666. I
know that God commanded His blessing on the Jew on the sixth year in
Leviticus 25:21 so they could rest on the seventh year. I know six
cubits is said to be something to do with a man in the book of
Revelation. I know from reading the Bible that six days has to do with
the period of this age. Christ doesn't appear in glory until after six
days, Matthew 17:1, Mark 9:2. The Sabbath is plainly a type of the
Millennial reign of Jesus Christ, so this age that I live in is
peculiarly marked by the number Six. That has to be a characteristic
of this age. If I had lived before the year 1000, the thing that would
have marked my age would have been five. If I had lived the first 1000
years before Christ, my number would have been four. If I had lived
before the reign of Solomon, it would have been three. You can't beat
the mathematical, absolute, infallible accuracy of numbers. The number
that will characterize this age before Christ comes will be the number
six. You say, "Are you sure?" Yes sir! "Dear right?" Absolutely! "You
think everybody else is wrong?" Absolutely, Brother! You say, "I never
heard such conceit in all my life." No, you never heard such truth in
all your life, Brother. Six is the characteristic of this age (and
you'd better look out for words that end in X)!
All right, so there is the number Six; and it obviously has something
to do with man, although I don't understand everything about it. It
has something to do with the Superman and something to do with the day
or age of man that you're now living in. It is wound up by the perfect
complete number, Seven. I'm looking for the return of 777, and you can
have old 666. I don't want him; I don't like him; he's too electronic
for me.
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