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We get a major clue in the verse which states: And that no man might buy
or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of
his name,
What we learn about the number of the man is that it is also a name.
Nowhere in Scripture is anyone named with a number. It appears as if
this verse does not belong because of this fact. This is the only place in Scripture where a
man is named a number and we have to ask why?
The answer is found deep in the Scriptures. Bible Scholars know that you must be able to
compare Scripture with Scripture to form a doctrine. Anyone can take Bible verses and passages and
give them a meaning, but if a teaching cannot be backed up with Scripture then
it is not Bible doctrine.
When we look at why a number is given for the Antichrist’s name we
discover a deeper, hidden Biblical truth and what this means for those living
during the Tribulation under the Antichrist’s reign.
The meaning of number in the Bible is dimensional and has a spiritual
meaning that gives us a glimpse into the Spiritual world.
The prophetic writings not only disclose future events but take us into
the throne room of God. (depicted in Revelation, Ezekiel and Isaiah, which are
all prophetic books) In delving into prophecy you learn more than anyplace else
of the Spiritual world and of the ways of God Himself. You will see this as I further reveal the
spiritual significance of why the Antichrist has a number for a name.
We get our first hint in Exodus 30:11-16:
11 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 “When you take the
census of the children of Israel for their number, then every man shall give a
ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, that there may be no plague among them
when you number them.
13 This is what
everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to
the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half-shekel shall be an offering to the Lord.
14 Everyone included
among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an
offering to the Lord.
15 The rich shall not
give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give an offering to the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.
16 And you shall take
the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the
service of the tabernacle of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the
children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement
for yourselves.”
Notice that if a man was to be numbered or counted, he had to pay a
ransom and to make atonement, which looked to Jesus who became the ransom for
many and the atonement for men’s souls.
We see here that if a man is numbered he is essentially damned. Even
those who do the numbering can bring on a plague if a ransom is not given. Thus being numbered is associated with
spiritual death.
In 2 Samuel 24 we read the account where Satan tempted David to number
Israel. The story is also told in 1 Chronicles 21. This is the first mention of Satan by name in
the Old Testament. In the first mention of Satan by name he has tempted David
to number Israel and this numbering occurred without the ransom and God judged
David’s sin harshly.
2 Samuel 24:1-2 tells us:
24 Again
the anger of the Lord was
aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, “Go, number
Israel and Judah.”
2 So the king said to Joab the commander of the
army who was with
him, “Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count
the people, that I may know the number of the people.”
David knew
that he sinned. In 2 Samuel 24:10 it states:
10 And David’s heart condemned him after he had
numbered the people. So David said to the Lord,
“I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your
servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
God gave
David the choice on which judgement to choose, either seven years of famine,
three months of running from his enemies or three days of plagues and David
chose three days of plagues and 70 thousand men died. (2 Samuel 24:11).
David got the
plague to end by erecting an alter on the threshing floor and offering burnt
offerings and peace offerings. (2 Samuel 24:18-24).
We also see
this negative connotation with being numbered in Isaiah 53:12. Concerning Jesus, it reads, “Therefore will I divide Him a portion with
the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong because He poured out
His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors.”
Jesus was numbered with the transgressors for death, the death that sin causes and the resulting separation from God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 confirms:
21 For He made Him
who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Jesus for
that time on the cross was numbered along with the transgressors as He took our
sin upon Him.
In the Hebrew
the word for numbered is manah and it means to count, number, assign, tell,
appoint, prepare.
To be
counted, be numbered
To be
reckoned, be assigned,
To appoint,
ordain
Appointed
participate
From the definition we see that being numbered takes on another meaning
of being appointed and assigned.
We are beginning to get the
picture that those who are numbered have no redemption for their souls and are
appointed to hell’s fires. Jesus Himself becomes numbered with the
transgressors as He became the atonement for sin.
We see this negative connotation for numbered in Daniel 5:26 concerning
the end of the Babylonian kingdom when Belshazzar the son of Nebuchadnezzar was
having a feast and using the temple cups and utensils for his party, when a
large hand came and wrote some writing on the wall. Daniel was called to
interpret the writing and he stated: “This is the interpretation of each word.
MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it. The word men-aw in the
Aramaic means to count, appoint:—number, ordain, set. Again we see the term numbered meaning appointed to death. We also see this teaching in those who take
the Mark of the Beast who will be damned to hell via taking the Antichrist’s
number vs. the name of Chris. In doing so they number themselves for death.
The Mark of the Beast is mentioned twice in the Revelation
and referenced to in six verses.
A key verse that mentions eternal damnation for taking the mark
or the number of the Antichrist’s name is Revelation 14:9-11 and it reads:
Then a third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image,
and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also
drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into
the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in
the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever
and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his
image, and whoever receives the mark of his name..
We see this in God’s promise to Abraham a double meaning for numbered in
Genesis when God promised him that that his descendants will be as the dust of
the earth which cannot be numbered.
Jeremiah 33: 22, As the host of
heaven cannot be numbered , neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I
multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Hosea 1:10 states, “Yet the number
of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
measured nor numbered and it shall come to pass that in the place where it is
said unto the, ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, ye are
the sons of the living God.”
They are innumerable and cannot
be numbered because they are not appointed to death but to life, see the double
meaning.
While the promise describes the amount of Abraham’s descendants that are
innumerable, many believed that this was why when David numbered the Israelites
he defied God because of this passage.
There was also the idea floated that judgment came because David was
looking to the number of his army and not to God, but in the book of Numbers
the numbers are recorded. The reason
David was judged is because Numbering needed to follow a protocol signifying
redemption for those numbered. Why? Because those who are numbered are
damned. When you are numbered you are
appointed to death. When you are given
a name you are redeemed and your name is written in the book of life. What we glean from Revelation 13:18 is that
if you are not given a name, and your name is not written in the book of life but
if you are numbered meaning you are appointed for death, i.e. eternal death and
damnation.
Revelation 22:4 states, “And they
shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads.”
In these two verses we see that the redeemed are given a name, in
contrast to the damned that are numbered.
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, help those women
which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my
fellow labourers, whose names are written in the book of life.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed
in white raiment and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but
I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 13:18:, And all that dwell upon the earth shall
worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world .
Revelation 17:18: The beast that thou sawest was and is not;
and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they
that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book
of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was,
and is not, and yet is.
Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the
book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it anything
that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they
are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
We also see that those whose names are written in the book of life are
not numbered.
Luke 10:20: “Notwithstanding in
this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice because
your names are written in heaven.”
Here we see that the redeemed have their names written in heaven.
In the Bible the name of Jesus is emphasized and the importance of His
name is throughout Scripture.
Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood and his name is called the Word of God.
Revelation 19:16 And he hath on
his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
In contrast lets look at the significance of a name. We see that at the name of Jesus every knee
will bow and every tongue will confess.
We see at the sealing of the 144 thousand the name of God is in their
foreheads.
Revelation 3:12 tells us: ”He who overcomes I will make
him a pillar in the Temple of My God, and he shall go out no more; and I will
write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New
Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God; and I will write on him
My new name.”
In contrast the Here is Wisdom and let he who has understanding count
the Number of His name. The wisdom is that those who are numbered are appointed
to death and the reason the Antichrist has a number for his name is because from
his birth he is destined for death because he is the son of Satan himself.
The other shocking reality is
that if you do not have a name in heaven, you are essentially a number. Upon my first realization that my unsaved
loved ones are mere numbers I felt the same horror that Charlton Heston felt in
the movie Soylent Green when he realized that the food that Soylent Green was
made from was people.
The
reason the Antichrist has a number for a name is because he is the son of Satan
and is not only appointed to eternal death from his birth but will bodily be
thrown into the lake of fire. It is important for the Tribulation Saint to
fully understand that this man is the son of Satan, the second member of the
unholy trinity.
Those who number themselves with his number and take the number of his name will also be numbered for death. The Bible cannot seem to drive this point far enough that the man instituting the mark is the son of Satan himself. We see this driven home even further when we get to the next phrase.
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