Book Description

Calculating the number of the beast, and beyond.You are given 666 as a number of kilometers and told that it is equivalent to a number of miles. If instructed to calculate the number of miles, would you ignore those instructions and instead try to figure out how a number of kilometers came to be 666 in the first place? Of course not. Yet, that is standard procedure for trying to solve the riddle of Revelation 13:18."This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is (equivalent to) the number of a man. That number (of a man) is 666." It is given that 666 is the number of a man, and equivalent to the number of the beast. Having been asked to calculate the number of the beast, the entire world has instead spent the last 2000 years trying to figure out how the number of a man came to be 666 in the first place. If we stubbornly persist with that approach, another 2000 years will pass without solving the riddle.666 kilometers is not equivalent to 666 miles. Likewise, given that the number of a man is 666, the equivalent number of the beast cannot also be 666. The number of the beast, just like the number of miles, needs to be calculated using the appropriate formula. It is impossible to interpret Revelation 13:18 without first knowing the calculated number of the beast.Within the pages of this book, for the very first time in history, the number of the beast will first be calculated before attempting to solve the riddle. But this book is much more than that. The number 666 is found in the Bible, but the Bible is not a book about the number 666. It is about Jesus Christ and the meaning and relevance that he should have in your life. Come for the intriguing number 666, but stay for the exposé on grace, righteousness by faith, spirituality and the victorious life.With respect to these latter subjects, the reader will be treated to five chapters within the middle of the book which will take you back 2000 years to the writings and sermons of the apostle Paul. He spent half of the New Testament trying his best to teach and convince the infant church to lay aside and leave behind their traditional attachments to the weakness of the written law, with its rules and regulations, in favor of plunging into the depths of the spirituality that is available through belief and faith in Jesus.The apostle Paul would give his seal of approval to those five chapters. The depth, quality and detail provided therein could be beneficial to students of religion, ministers of the gospel, and missionaries, as well as to general readership. In addition to the treatment of the number 666 and the peripherals associated with it, this book is also intended to be a definitive study on the most basic and important Christian principle found in the Bible, which is righteousness by faith.