King Solomon=666 ?

Peoples, tonight i was reading in I Kings 10 and came across something that surprised me. But before i get to that, i must back up and remind you of a verse in Revelations that i myself was reminded of while i was reading in I Kings tonight. The verse i was REMINDED of, is:

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six. REV.13:18

Well, when i was reading I Kings 10: 14, i noticed it says:

14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,..."
I KINGS 10:14

I noticed for the first time ever, that this is the number 666. Is this mere coincidence or has the number been connected to Solomon at any other time or in any other way? I have read things, that much is made of Solomon's activities having some sort of later connection to the Kabbalah or witchcraft mixed with Judaism, the Rothschild dynasty (or vice versa rather), and that he came into all that darkness when his heart turned away from the LORD and he began serving and sacrificing unto the devil gods of his foreign wives, such as Ashtoreth, Chemosh, Milcom, and Molech--all abominations. Molech alone involved child sacrifice by fire. I cannot even comprehend how the wisest man on earth got involved in such a thing but that is another subject. What i am asking is has there ever been any discussion on this subject of this verse and the one in Revelations or is it mere coincidence? Your thoughts and input.

EDIT: What is really bizarre is i have read all these books of the Bible dozens and dozens of times, for so many decades(!!!) and this is the FIRST time i noticed the significance of that number in I KINGS 10:14!!! Duh.

I believe it has been discussed before, but I can't myself direct you to the thread.

Maybe someone else can.

God bless.

Well here is something interesting. I don't know if this is true or not but this article claims that the name SOLOMON is the 666th name in the Bible:

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/christian-discussion/55169-solomon-666th-name-bible.html

And now i found this site also, which covers this topic of Solomon's gold and the mark 666:

http://www.ridingthebeast.com/articles/gold-money-666/

In this article:

"If you take a look at any Euro coin there's a distinct 666 on the back, blazened right across Europe. It's also very interesting that the Greek two Euro coin depicts a woman riding a beast (Revelation 17:3). There's no doubt that the Euro will continue to grow stronger monetarily and may very well play a supporting role for the Mark of the Beast.

If there was ever a stable world-wide currency gold is it. And if Digital Gold continues growing in popularity it could easily become the backing to microchip payment formats like the Verichip. 666 holds some spiritual significance, none of which supports a requirement to buy and sell. The physical associations with 666 are very clear."

Quote from another article:

"666 is a trinity of 6s never to be a 7. 6 is the number of man, especially as man in rebellion against God. Goliath was 6 cubits and a span (see 1 Samuel 17:4). King Nebuchadnezzar erected a statue to himself to be worshipped. It was 60 cubits high and 6 cubits across (Daniel 3:1)"

QUOTE: "Yes, 666 talents of gold was sent to Solomon each month by none other than the King of Tyrus. After you have read this account in the book of 1 Kings, turn to Ezekiel Chapter 28. Oh, what a tangled web was weaved, when Solomon practised to deceive. King Solomon left many articles which proved his blatant idolatry, such as King Solomon's Mirror, King Solomon's Comb, and the six-pointed star, which became known as the Seal of Solomon in the witchcraft and occult world. Solomon also laid down the foundations of the Craft (Daniel 8:25) which later became known as Freemasonry., and the six-pointed star features prominently in Masonic rituals.'

"The book, The Six-Pointed Star, is the first and only academic work which documents the origin and historical usage of this symbol. From Egypt to Solomon, to Arab magic, and witchcraft, to Druid uses, to freemasonry, to Mayer Amschel Bauer, who in the 17th century changes his name to depict the red six-pointed star which hung on his door in Germany, and thus began the family of "Rothschild" (meaning red shield). The Rothschild family incorporated this symbol in their Court of Arms. The research traced the six-pointed star through the Cabala, to astrology, to Hitler and his putting a yellow six-pointed star on Jews during the holocaust, to the Zionist symbol, and finally to the flag of the State of Israel and beyond."

SOURCE:

http://www.cephas-library.com/masonry_bible_connects_the_dots_to_the_antichrist.html

Hi Trekker,

Funny, I was also reading this the other night and was thinking about the same connection. I don't think it is coincidental that the number 666 is clearly given to the weight of Solomon's gold.

Solomon is an interesting figure as he both has aspects where he is a type of the Messiah and also a type of the Anti-Christ (false Messiah).

What does it teach us about the Anti-Christ is the question. Well maybe that he will be both a political and religious leader accepted by the Jews as a great man of God. I think it is interesting that the Jews throughout their history up to this present day consider Solomon as Israel's greatest King. They seem to forget the apostasy and gross idolatry that led to the Kingdom being divided.
He built his vast kingdom using slavery and taxing the people to excess (the very thing God warned Israel having a King would result in).

Also it may speak about the 'love of money being the root of all evil'. This world and those who control it is built on the financial systems, where money (gold) speaks and controls everything. I'm convinced that the bablylon of revelation is talking about the whole world of commerce/ trading / buying and selling. Everything that this current world operates by.

QUOTE: "Actually Solomon is a major type of the anti-Christ in the Bible."==EVERESTOSAMA

Yea, that much i got. The same is said of Nero, Hitler, King Saul, Absalom, etc. But i think this first mention of 666 in connection to Solomon must have SOME special significance. Kinda spooky in a way. I suppose any number of theories can and have arisen about it. Perhaps some world political or spiritual leader will try to replicate Solomon's annual salary? And i wouldn't be surprised either because just last night as i was reading about all the massive amounts of GOLD required to build Solomon's temple in Jerusalem (because everything was overlaid in GOLD and even the walls were gold, etc) i was wondering to myself, 'Well how is Israel ever gonna come up with that much (extra) gold to rebuild the final temple?" I mean, we are talking a massive amount of gold.

QUOTE: "I don't think it is coincidental that the number 666 is clearly given to the weight of Solomon's gold."==HEYDAVE

I don't either. AND, why did Solomon choose that particular figure? or did he.

EDIT: And how on earth does the wisest man on earth, who also had GOD appear and speak to him twice, fall into something SO EVIL as child sacrifice and witchcraft?!?!?!?!
I CANNOT WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?????!?!?!?!? I mean, i can understand falling into love with foreign women, i can understand falling into the sin of adultery, and the sin of murder even, but of all things?!?!? sacrificing to demons?!?!?!? Idols that required burning babies in fire?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!
Engaging in darkness so evil and so satanic and so depraved as that after writing all those hundreds of PROVERBS of such amazing wisdom?!??! I.JUST.DO.NOT.GET.IT.

"Caesar Nero" = Nrwn Qsr in Hebrew (prounounced "Neron Kaiser".

The value of the 7 Hebrew letters is 50, 200, 6, 50, 100, 60 and 200. The total is 666.

QUOTE: "Six lions, six steps, six lions. And Solomon enthroned atop that set of 666."==EVERESTOSAMA

Yea i already noticed that but i don't think anything of that, cuz, i mean, how ELSE are you gonna arrange 12 lions that represent the Tribe of Judah? Then again, why even USE lions, since there is only ONE Lion of the Tribe of Judah?
On the otherhand, of course the lion symbol is associated with power, just as the eagle is, and perhaps nothing is more appropriate of a symbol for any KING than lions...
All speculation. I don't think we can necessarily arrive at the 666 conclusion from the arrangement of the lions; i probably would have arranged them the same way myself if i had a throne and 12 tribes to represent.

But it is clear from what research i have seen that the Hebrew language DOES have numerical values for their letters, just as the Romans do (IV=4, V=5, X=10, and so forth in Latin/Roman world). Greeks also have numerical values for some letters. I never put any stock in the topic of numerology before now, because i was thinking from a strictly AMERICAN/ENGLISH/MODERN perspective, but clearly there is a lot to it in these three languages.

Everest wrote: "Also a type of anti-Christ."

The better and more obvious solution is that Nero WAS the anti-christ.

Hi! Trekker

About the Number 666 :

Newspapers and radio only give news about the outward world but do not impart insight into the spiritual events behind the visible things. We do not need knowledge of Greek or Hebrew to reckon the number of the name of the Beast.

This was what the Bible commentators of the 17th century did. They assumed that the Pope was Antichrist. He is the head of the Roman or Latin church, as Latin is the language of that church and the Vulgate the Latin version of the Bible. Just as the Roman characters, the Greek letters have a numerical value. So numbers may either be written completely or indicated by the letters of the alphabet.

The numerical value of 'lateinos' for instance is: 1=30; a=1; t=300; e (epsilon) =5; i=10; n=50; c=70; and s=200. Added together, lo: 666! With acute ingenuity many interpreters tried to brand historical persons as Antichrist, for instance Nero, Napoleon, Mussolini, etc.

Spelled in Greek the name Jesus gives the number 888. I-10; e (eta) =8; s=200; o=70; u=400; and s=200. Kurios (Lord) makes 800, Christus 1480 (8 times 185). It is a privilege to have knowledge of the ancient, dead languages, but it certainly is not the Holy Spirit's intention that in the endtimes the children of God should occupy themselves with mind boggling puzzles of this kind.

The number six indicates the power of occultism by which the whole power of Antichrist is connected with the Abyss. The number belonging to the Beast from the Bottomless Pit, to the Beast from the earth, and to the image, therefore is the number six.

When it says in Rev 13 that the number must be 'reckoned', while the number six hundred and sixty-six is mentioned at the same time, it means that the number should be 'explained'. It does not say that the calculation can be made or the number explained only when the endtimes has arrived and Antichrist has manifested himself, but rather that everyone who has a mind of wisdom will be able to do so. The Beast belongs to the invisible world, but the number of the Beast is a human number. Rev 21:17 has a similar expression when it says: "man's measure, that is, an angel's".

The number six hundred and sixty-six is related to two spheres: the invisible, spiritual, and the visible, natural one. The number applies to the spirit of Antichrist as well as to Antichrist and his church himself.

In the shadow of the image in the Old Covenant it strikes us immediately that only two dimensions of Nebuchadnezzar's golden image are mentioned its height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. The ratio of 10 X 1 indicates that the image had abnormal proportions, and at the same time it also was a case of abominable idolatry and partnership with powers of darkness, (1Cor 10:20). John used the number six hundred and sixty-six to indicate one more dimension of lawlessness. Here there is no indirect worshipping of demons by means of idols but direct fellowship with the Dragon and the Beast by supernatural means.

The antichristian church is a spiritualistic church. Its contact, however, is not via the so-called deceased, rather the human spirit has direct fellowship with the spirits from the Abyss. Thus the church of Antichrist imitates the direct fellowship of the human spirit with the Holy Spirit. As the Holy Spirit makes man into a holy temple in which God dwells, so the spirit of Antichrist will seat himself in the temple that belongs to God, and manifest himself by signs and miracles as if he were god.

The Mark of the Beast refers to those who are baptized in the spirit of the Anti-Christ.

In the same way that there are ‘children’ of God, there are “children of disobedience” too; there are the Sons of God as well as the sons of Perdition; there is the baptism of the Holy Spirit and also the baptism of the spirit of the Anti-Christ.

Those who are baptized in the spirit of the Anti-Christ (the Beast from the Abyss) become ‘one’ with the Dragon and the Anti-Christ; just like when the Sons of God are baptized with the Holy Spirit and become ‘one’ with the Father and the Son.

There is a counterfeit reality to everything from out of the unseen/invisible world of the spirits.
Similarly, there are visible images to portray invisible realities; Jesus used such images when pronouncing His parables. For instance, the Sun is a visible image to illustrate the invisible reality that God is Light. Just as the moon is a visible image to illustrate the invisible reality that Jesus is a “light shining in the darkness” and Who reflects the glory of God … the light of the Sun.
Yet another instance of visible things revealing invisible realities is a cloud. Clouds are formed by the process of millions of droplets of water evaporating/rising from the earth. This is why Jesus is said to come “with clouds”. He comes with His faithful; His faithful form the cloud because their inner man has resurrected from the sea of Death and are now “raised to sit in heavenly places”.

The profound mystery of those inspired by the Spirit of Jesus is that they have been “raised to newness of life” and are intimately connected to God; and are governed by the Spirit of Life.
The abominable mystery of those inspired by the spirit of the Anti-Christ is their connection to the kingdom of darkness and their gradual immunization to the Spirit of God; and are governed by the spirit(s) of Sin and Death.

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King Solomon=666 ?
by Trekker on 2012/6/25 3:55:57
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Hi! Trekker

Oops!
I wanted to add a little something further to my previous comments about the Number 666

The coming of Satan, the coming of the anti-Christ, is also an appearing, a coming which is similar in form to that of Jesus’ coming.

The appearing of the Anti-Christ is not confined to a particular religion or belief system. Rather, the appearing of the Anti-Christ is revealed in the sons of Perdition; in a similar fashion to the appearing of Jesus in the Sons of God.

The spirit of the Anti-Christ is producing weeds … sons of perdition. These are not identified by the religion which they might subscribe to; they are primarily identified by their abhorrence of the truth; their attachment to evil, their hatred towards the Kingdom of Light.

As such, these sons of perdition can be found belonging to any number of groups or religions. After all, religions allow their members to express what is already their inner possessions. So, in this respect, it’s not the religions per say that are the Anti-Christ; religions are merely the gathering places for the sons of Perdition … religions behave similar to the occult tower of Babylon. It’s the not tower that is evil … rather, it is the persons who entered the tower; those who climbed up “into the heavens” illegally via witchcraft/occult.

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King Solomon=666 ?
by Trekker on 2012/6/25 3:55:57
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QUOTE: "The better and more obvious solution is that Nero WAS the anti-christ."==TMK

Why do you say that? There are and have always been MANY anti-Christs. But THEE ANtichrist will rule the entire world, and cause ALL both slave and free, rich and poor, to take the mark and bow down to the image of the beast. So this does not fit Nero, as wicked and satanic as he was. It ALMOST fit Hitler but not quite. Also, The Antichrist will sit upon the throne of the final temple, which hasn't even been built yet. He will be worse than Hitler.

There is also the Great Tribulation, which has not even occurred yet, and the reason we know that is that it will surpass anything that has ever been or ever will be in terms of it's torments and sufferings, etc.