"This Bible Code," moaned Reverend DixFinding 666 in the names of famous people is a number-twiddling pastime that has obsessed numerologists ever since the Book of Revelation was written. With patience and ingenuity it is not difficult to extract 666 from almost any person's name. For example, using Blevins's Bible code I discovered that sun, moon and Pat J. Buchanan each adds to 666. The same code yields 666 if you apply it to Hal Lindsey B, the B standing, of course, for Beast.
"Puts my name in a terrible fix."
He was fit to be tied
When the code was applied,
And his name totaled six sixty six.
- Armand T. Ringer
My favorite candidate for the Antichrist is Jesse Ventura, former wrestling beast and now governor of Minnesota. Apply Blevins's code to J. Ventura. Bingo! 666.
Satan and Beast each have five letters. So let's start Blevins's code with A = 5, B = 6, and so on. Applied to Blevins, the code gives 666. Could Charlton Heston, chief spokesman for the gun lobby, be preparing the forces of evil for the Battle of Armageddon? Heston has six letters. If we number the alphabet A = 6, B = 7, and so on, then apply Blevins's technique of multiplying each value by six, Heston adds to 666.
With more effort I found a way to apply 666 to Jerry Falwell. Number the alphabet backward, starting with Z = 0, Y = 1, X = 2, and so on. I call this the Devil's Code. Take the values of the letters in Falwell, multiply each by 6, add, and you get 666. The Devil's Code also turns Billy Graham into the Antichrist if you write his name W. Graham.
Could President Clinton be the Antichrist? Add the normal position values of W.J.C., the initials of William Jefferson Clinton, and you get 36. The sum of all numbers 1 through 36 is 666. A few years ago mathematician Monte Zerger found a subtler way to identify Clinton with the Beast. He is our forty-second president. Jot down the integers 1 through 42, then strike out all the primes. The remaining numbers total 666.
He was one of the "The Second Coming of Jesus" folks who convinced me that Jesus WASN'T coming again anytime soon. It was quite a reality check.
Nothing changes in this world.
"Could President Clinton be the Antichrist?"
No way! I know from experience it is Billy Buckner.
***Finding 666 in the names of famous people is a number-twiddling pastime***
Easy. Just read some of the OLD Seventh day pamphlets, and a few independent SDA preacher's pamphlets and you will find the that, 666 is the pope and the mark of the beast is...WORSHIPING ON SUNDAY!
I got several SDA booklets that preach that.
I also have an old anti-Zionist prophecy from about 1982 that promised the end of the world about 1884 with the destruction of Israel.
And another, 88 reasons why the Church will be raptured in 1988.
Great fun to read, even today.
Saw the headline and thought it said "Notes of a Fridge watcher" and had to click on it.
I'm not sure why though...
Since this is the tenor of most of this article, I'd like to suggest that the author in his sarcasm was suggesting that Whisenant was affected by his paranoid schizophrenia.
Perhaps someone on this thread might enlighten as to the connection between paranoid schizophrenia and "88 Reasons why Christ will return in 88." How did this man's mental illness lead to the penning of this book?
While it was obvious from the beginning that "88 Reasons" was grossly wrong, that does not undercut the belief in Christ's imminent return. Billy Graham does know better, and that's why he consistently teaches it.....because the Bible teaches it. "Be Alert!" were His words.