A Mark
A beginning. A date is the most common mark on any product sold today. Consider 666 as a mark or a date. What happened in that year? What calendar? The Gregorian started in 1582 or the Julian starting at 44 BC or the Islamic calendar starting in 622? Consider them all.
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A Historian
A calculation. Go ahead, pick an Islamic calendar converter and put 46 in it. You get 666. 46 is the number Gibbon used. 46 years after the Hijri year Constantinople was attacked. A date is a mark. Gibbon notes the problems with dates. Also noted is the Greek fire used to defeat the attackers.
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A Sea of Marmara
A Greek fire on the Sea of Marmara, which was like a sheet of glass is a good fit with “a sea of glass mingled with fire”. Constantinople used Greek fire on the Sea of Marmara against the Islamic attack. The year was 666. Historians will never agree on this date but Gibbon got real close to it.
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A Calculation
A significant difference. Fifteen English bibles count the number 666. Twenty eight calculate it. Too bad they don’t agree. It forces us to choose who got it right. How do you count a number? Calculating a number makes more sense especially if you are dealing with a date and different calendars. Our best clue is Daniel referring to number of years. We have to consider whether or not the year 666 fits with the other numbers.
A Problem with Dates
A history of Rome by Gibbon. Go ahead, pick an Islamic calendar converter and put 46 in it. You get 666. 46 is the number Gibbon used. 46 years after the Hijri year Constantinople was attacked. A date is a mark. Gibbon notes the problems with dates. There are other ways to get to 666. Stay tuned.
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A Year 666
a mark, a beginning, a Julian calendar starting in 44 BC. 622 of the Gregorian calendar starting in 1582, marked the beginning of Islam. The Hegira marked the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 666 also marked the beginning of the attack on Constantinople if we look at Gibbon and his history.
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A Date
a year, a mark, a beginning. On your mark, get set, go. A date is the most common mark there is. All products have it. 666 marks the beginning of Islam. It also marks the attack on Constantinople. Revelation 15:2 ties Greek fire, the Sea of Marmara, and the year Islam attacked Constantinople. – 666 – Really.
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A Number
a year, a starting point, a date. Nearly all products have a mark or a date marking the beginning of its existence. A beast will also have a starting point and in most cases an end point. There could be an exception. One was diverse from all the beasts that were before it. How do we identify a beast?
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A Number
dots are difficult to connect. Look for the numbers. You can’t misinterpret them. The translators all agree on the numbers. Except for dates. Historians love dates but they often can’t get them right. They can’t even agree on which calendar to use. Who gets to start a calendar? Mark your calendar. Save a date.
A Date
for the Apocalypse. 30 September 395 and the author is John Chrysostom. All this according to Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov. For some reason R. H. Charles chose to include this in his book, “STUDIES IN THE APOCALYPSE”. There are more reasons to consider Chrysostom.
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