The number 6 by E.W. Bullinger
Selections from different parts of the book by E. W. Bullinger,
"Numbers in Scripture"
THE NUMBER 6
"Six is either 4 plus 2, i.e. man's world [4] with man's enmity to
God [2] brought in: or it is 5 plus 1, the grace of God made of none
effect by man's addition to it, or perversion, or corruption of it: or
it is 7 minus 1, i.e., man's coming short of spiritual perfection. In
any case, therefore, it has to do with man; it is the number of
imperfection; the human number; the number of MAN as destitute of God,
without God, without Christ...
At any rate it is certain that man was created on the 6Th.day, and
thus he has the number six impressed upon him. Moreover, six days were
appointed to him for his labour; while one day is associated in
sovereignty with the Lord God, as His rest.
Six, therefore, is the number of labour also, of man's labour as
apart and distinct from God's rest. True, it marks the completion of
Creation as God's word, and therefore the number is significant of
secular completeness.
*The serpent also was created on the sixth day. *The Sixth
Commandment relates to the worst sin, - murder.
*The Sixth clause of the Lord's prayer treats of sin. Six is the
number stamped on all that is connected with human labour. We see it
stamped upon his measures which he uses in his labour, and on the time
during which he labours. And we see this from the very beginning.
Corresponding to these measures we have the first division of the
natural time-space which measure man's labour and rest, the day,
consisting of 24 hours [4x6], divided into the day and night of 12
hours. The multiples and subdivisions are also stamped by the number 6.
The months being 12; while the hours consist of 60 minutes [6x10], and
the minutes of 60 seconds [6x10].
On account of the curse {Gen.3}, the number six tells not only of
labour, but of 'labour and sorrow', and it specially marks all that is
'under the sun', all that is 'not of God'. The true 'sabbath-keeping',
now, is in reserve; for there is no rest apart from 'peace with God';
the rest which God gives and which we find, {Matt. 11:28}.
*Cain's descendants are given only as far as the 6Th. generation.
*Abraham's 6 intercessions fro Sodom {Gen 18} marked man's imperfection
in prayer, which falls short of that of the Divine Intercessor.
*The burnt offering in Genesis 22 is mentioned 6 times because the
seventh was that of the Divine Substitute which God Himself would
provide, {vs:8}.
*The serpent has 6 names. 666 666 is 'the number of a name', [Rev
13:16-18]. When the name of Antichrist is known its gematria will
doubtless be found to be the number 666.
If six is the number of secular or human perfection, then 66 is more
emphatic expression of the same fact, and 666 is the concentrated
expression of it; 666 is therefore the trinity of human perfection; the
perfection of imperfection; the culmination of human pride in
independence of God and opposition to His Christ.
The number, however, has to be computed. See Revelation 13:18.
Therefore it is not be known by gematria merely, though, as we have
said, that will be one of the factors in the calculation, just as the
letters in the Hebrew word for Jesus amount to 888.
*The duration of the old Assyrian Empire was 666 years before it was
conquered by Babylon.
*Jerusalem was trodden down by the Roman Empire exactly 666 years
from the battle of Actium, b.c. 31, to the Saracen conquest in a.d. 636.
*The talents of gold brought to Solomon in a year were 666, [1 Kings
10:14].
*Sodom, 999, the number of judgment. *'The children of Adonikam' who
returned from Captivity [Ezra 2:13] numbered 666.]
But 666 was the secret symbol of the ancient pagan mysteries
connected with the worship of the Devil. It is to day the secret
connecting link between those ancient mysteries and their modern
revival in Spiritualism, Theosophy, etc. The efforts of the great enemy
are now directed towards uniting all into one great whole.
The newspapers, worldly and religious, are full of schemes as to
such union. "Reunion" is in the air.
The societies for the re-union of the Churches, are alike parts of
the same great movement and are all making for a signs of the coming
Apostasy. During this age, "Separation" is God's word for His people,
and is the mark of Christ; while 'union' and 're-union' is the mark of
Antichrist.
THE MARK
The number 6 was stamped on the old mysteries. The great secret
symbol consisted of the three letters SSS because the letter S in the
Greek alphabet was the symbol of the figure 6. a=1, B=2, but when it
came to 6, another letter was introduced!
Not the next - the 6th letter - but a different letter, a peculiar
form of S, called 'stigma'. Now the word stigma means a mark, but
especially a mark made by a brand as burnt upon slaves, cattle, or
soldiers, by their owners or masters; or on devotees who thus branded
themselves as belonging to their gods."
Now the ALL important question is not whether you know who the
Anti-Christ is, but what lives in your heart. Do you really love God?
For if you do not really love the truth, then GOD will cause you to
follow the Anti-Christ.
"For this reason God sends them a powerful and delusion so that they
will believe the lie and so that all will condemned who have not
believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness." -2 Thessalonians
2:11
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