![]() We may pay taxes to Caesar, but our allegiance is to Christ. We must surrender to Christ our body and spirit. But Christ and his called out people are glorious and righteous forever. Jesus spoke of this kingdom when he said, "I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18).Ĭitizenship in the kingdom of Christ is not found by allegiance to any political nation or by following the religion of that nation. His kingdom "is within you" (Luke 17:21). Our CitizenshipĬhrist’s kingdom "is not of this world" (John 18:36). ![]() But we take courage for nothing can separate us from the love of Christ (Romans 8:37-39). If we are really genuine and devoted Christians, we may find ourselves in peril from the political and religious establishments in league in our time. The spirit of the Roman empire is not dead either, and her progeny of harlots live on. The Devil (the beast who comes up out of the Abyss) is called "an eighth king" (Revelation 17:8, Revelation 17:11, Revelation 20:1-4). He still promotes false religion based on man-worship and idolatry. We must remember that the Devil still tries to corrupt the rulers of this world as he did those of the Roman empire, the Babylonian empire, and others of their ilk. The Roman empire eventually fell, but the spirit of antichrist that drove it in the time of the early Christians continues to be very present in the world today. 3 The Number’s Connotation Our Allegiance The descending order of the numerals, and the fact that they are inferior (below 1000) is a nice touch of symbolism too. The number simply represents a special and significant Roman numeral set, and thus identifies the Roman empire as the Beast, and its emperor as the "man". So the number 666 is not understood by numerology or magic codes. The Arabic number is the sum of a consecutive set of the Roman numerals under 1000 in descending order as shown below. This number DCLXVI has an obvious pattern to anyone familiar with the Roman number system. The number 666, the famous "number of the Beast" or antichrist (Revelation 13:18), reveals its meaning, when we convert it to a Roman numeral: 666= DCLXVI. This Roman curiosity is used in Revelation to identify Rome as the beast. ![]() It only survives today on a few war memorials, some clocks, and as one means of numbering lists or parts of documents. Compared to the Arabic system, the Roman numeral method was rather clumsy, and most inconvenient for mathematics. The Romans had their own peculiar way of writing numbers using combinations of letters of their alphabet. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man and his number is six hundred and sixty six.” (Revelation 13:18).
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