“that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.” Revelation 13:15
The internet is integral in most peoples lives around the world. It is conceivable that the ‘Beast’, the system of governances described in Revelation in the end times, identified by the number 666, will utilize AI and the ‘www’ for its reign over the global population. This is suggested in Revelation 13:15-18;
15 "He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”
Does World Wide Web ‘www’ = 666?
Originally the Bible was written in Hebrew;
"The Hebrew equivalent of our “w” is the letter “vav” or “waw”. The numerical value of vav is 6. So the English “www” transliterated into Hebrew is “vav vav vav”, which numerically is 666.” Is “www” in Hebrew equal to 666? Dial-the-Truth Ministries (av1611.org)
The unthinkable eternal consequences of taking this Mark when eventually required to buy or sell. Revelation 14:9-13 KJV - And the third angel followed them, - Bible Gateway
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Uhm… this is not how Hebrew Gematria works. The Hebrew numerals were inspired by Greek numeric system, in which letters have numeric values to be added together (you’re concatenating digits instead).
While vaw has the numeric value of 6, a “vaw vaw vaw” actually results in 18 (6+6+6). What you’d expect to be 666 would be any permutation of, say “taw resh samech vaw” (e.g. “resh samech vaw taw”, “resoth” “רסות”, which seemingly means nothing but makes more grammatical sense to have a final taw) because they’re respectively 400, 200, 60 and 6 (thus adding up to 666). Any sequence of Hebrew letters adding up to 666 would be actual Gematria…
…however, the New Testament, where the Book of Revelations pertains, wasn’t even written in Hebrew, it was written in Koine Greek. What gets translated as “666” or “six hundred and sixty-six” is a direct transliteration from three Greek letters (I don’t remember which are which, as I’m writing this reply mostly from my own memory) with the respective numeric values 600, 60 and 6 adding up to 666. Some argue the second Greek letter was originally written as the equivalent for 10 (and ended up unreadable due to how the papyrus suffered the effects of time), thus the so-called “number of the beast” would be 616.
Finally, virtually any moment in time could be pointed as “these are the times as prophesied in Revelations”. It has long been a silly moving goalpost. As far as I know, the ones trying to bring about an apocalypse on Earth are the ones who believe in the Book of Revelations so badly they’re literally tempting “god” despite the “do not tempt god” rule written somewhere in the same bible.
Source: I briefly went through a christian/evangelical religious phase back in the past due to relatives’ influences.
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