Names of the Beasts of Revelation: Wealth (Prosperity) and Tradition

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. (Revelation 13:18)

In ancient times, there were no current numbers for writing numbers. The letters of the alphabet were used to write numbers. Thus, any word could be “counted” as a number by adding up the sum of the numerical values of its letters. For the ancient Greek alphabet, this is called isopsephy. Here is a table of the numerical values of the letters of the Greek alphabet:

But why do people look for the name of the “beast” among the names of their leaders? When God asks us a riddle in Scripture, the answer is usually found there, in the Bible.

The Bible mentions a strange story that happened to the apostle Paul:
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. (1 Corinthians 15:32)

What kind of beasts could the apostle Paul fight? He was a Roman citizen, and the Roman authorities could not just, without the court of Caesar, throw him to be eaten by wild animals in the arena.

This story of Paul is detailed in the Acts of the Apostles. When Paul was preaching in Ephesus, the idol makers were worried that mass faith in Jesus Christ would make their business unnecessary and they would lose their income. Artisans staged a rebellion and wanted to kill the Apostle Paul.
What started their rebellion?

For a certain [man] named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
(Acts 19:24,25)

In the original Greek, the word for “wealth” is εὑπορία, “euporia”. The sum of the numerical values of the letters in this word is 666.

εὑπορία = (5 + 400 + 80 + 70 + 100 + 10 + 1) = 666

The name is an expression of the essence of its bearer. When the artisans heard this name, they went berserk and screamed furiously for two hours, glorifying the goddess Artemis, from whose idolatry they had their income. Paul called these people beasts. This was the manifestation of the “beast” about which it is written in the Revelation of John.

The name of the “beast 666” is Wealth. In English translations of the Bible, this word is translated as Wealth (KJV) or as Prosperity (NASB). The second option seems better, because the very word εὑπορία in ancient Greek means

- abundance (especially funds, supplies, money), prosperity, well-being; life supplies.
- ease of getting or achieving something; general ease, convenience, occasion.

In Aramaic, this name could probably be translated as “mammon”, that is, Property.

So, for the sake of Prosperity, people turn into beasts, and are ready to destroy those who, by preaching the Gospel, destroy their false world, expose the deceptions, due to which they prosper.

This is the beast emerging from the “sea”, that is, from the world.

But it turns out that there is another word in the New Testament, the sum of the numerical values of the letters of which is 666. This word is παράδοσις, “paradosis”, which is translated as “tradition”.

παράδοσις = (80 + 1 + 100 + 1 + 4 + 70 + 200 + 10 + 200) = 666

Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
(Matthew 15:1,2)

So we see here the name of the second beast coming out of the “earth”, that is, from carnal religion. The name of the second beast is Tradition.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Revelation 13:11)

This second beast has horns like a lamb, but speaks like a dragon, that is, like a devil. The false lamb has only 2 horns, while the real Lamb, Jesus Christ, has 7 horns:

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. (Revelation 5:6)

What are the names of the 7 horns of the real Lamb? The answer is found, as usual, in Scripture:

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
(Isaiah 11:1,2)

(1) Spirit of the Lord, (2) spirit of wisdom, (3) spirit of understanding, (4) spirit of counsel, (5) spirit of might, (6) spirit of knowledge, (7) spirit of the fear of the LORD, godliness.

What are the names of the 2 horns of the beast masquerading as Jesus Christ? We find the answer again in Scripture:

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: (1 Timothy 6:20)

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (2 Timothy 3:5)

Science falsely and false godliness. The two horns, the two powers of the false religion of the Antichrist: (1) false knowledge and (2) false godliness.

This religion has been serving Caesars, popes, presidents since the 4th century, they are building a civilization of Prosperity instead of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The first beast has 7 heads, these are 7 empires that enslaved the Jews. (1) Ancient Egypt, (2) Assyria, (3) Babylon, (4) Medo-Persia, (5) Greece, (6) Roman Empire, (7) USA.

And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, [and] the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. (Revelation 17:10)

“Five are fallen” - in the time of the Apostle John, the first five empires had already fallen, “one is” - it was Rome, and the United States had not yet come at that time.

It is the 7th “head” of the beast, USA, that will receive a mortal wound now, but for a while this wound will heal:

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (Revelation 13:3)

That is, after the initial shock, crisis, in the coming awakening of mankind to God, the values of the Kingdom of Heaven will be replaced by the desires of the flesh, the desire for prosperity, and their prayers for earthly well-being will come true in the kingdom of the Beast, a civilization of prosperity, euporia.

And the 2nd beast, from the Christian religion, will put the spirit into the “image of the beast”, that is, into a specific person, the Antichrist.

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by [the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
(Revelation 13:14,15)

The “mark of the beast” is the opposite of the “image of God”, Jesus Christ. This is the Antichrist. The leader calling to pray for the welfare of this world is the Antichrist. A very positive character for many.

So the first beast is the civilization of Prosperity, the second beast is the religion. And there is the “image of the beast” - this is the Antichrist, and such antichrists in Christianity have always been in abundance.

The mark of the beast on the forehead is received by all who lie for their own prosperity. Because the devil is the father of lies, its “head”. The mark of the beast on the right hand is received by everyone who steals, including the rich, who underpay their workers for their share, “surplus value”, this hidden appropriation is the same theft.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. (James 5:4)

And there is also the “number of the name of the beast”, this is a passport, tax number, cadastral number, any registration of a person or organization in the state, in the civilization of the beast.

All the benefits of this world can only be used by those who have either the name of the beast (these are the rich), or the mark of the beast - these are lying or stealing, or have a passport , registration in the system of the beast. And this is already there - no need to implant any microchips, everything is already under the power of Satan.

But back to the beast from the sea. The first beast has the likeness of all 4 beasts from another book of the Bible, from the 7th chapter of the book of the prophet Daniel. What animals are described there?

Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. (Daniel 7:2)

“Sea” is the world, spontaneous and unbelieving. The winds are the spirits of the religions that have tried to seize political power over this world.

The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. (Daniel 7:4)

The first beast is Judaism. “Lion” is about Judah, the ancestor of the tribe of Judah, from which Judaism:

Judah [is] a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? (Genesis 49:9)

The contours of ancient Israel looked like a seated lion, and the future Israel according to Ezekiel has a figure of a man standing upright, and a head resembling both a man and a lion.





“Eagle wings” is a flight in the spirit of the revelations of the ancient prophets, Judaism lost this two thousand years ago. The “man’s heart”, that is, the reasonable, the Jews will receive when they receive and assimilate the chosen saints who appeared in the Temple.

And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. (Daniel 7:5)

The second beast is Islam. The three bones in his mouth are the first three commandments of the 10 horns of the commandments that were on the back of the 4th beast, the Christian religion. These first three commandments affirm monotheism, which Christianity lost when Caesar became instead of God, their antichrist, Caesar or Pope, became the image of God for them, and they began to use the name of God in vain, because they were building the kingdom of the beast instead of Heaven Kingdom.

After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. (Daniel 7:6)

The third beast is Eastern religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Shintoism. They can “fly” in the spiritual realms.

After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns.
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
(Daniel 7:7,8)

The fourth beast is the Christian religion from the time when Christianity became the state religion, from the 4th century. 10 horns-commandments is typical for Christianity, because in Judaism there are 613 commandments. And the actual loss of the first three commandments is precisely connected with a small horn, the Antichrist, in the role of which all their “Christian” Caesars, kings and presidents have successfully acted and continue to act.

The second book of Esdras confirms that the fourth beast in Daniel's prophecy is the Christian religion. The eagle that Esdras saw in a dream had the second feather reigning the longest, and it was Caesar Augustus, who reigned longer than the other Caesars. The heads of the eagle at the very beginning rested, slept, and the consistent awakening of these heads is the consistent assimilation of Christian dogma by the pagan states while maintaining their former imperial aspirations. The pagan religion of Ancient Rome remained the same predator, outside repainted as Christianity. It's like Jesus' tunic, inherited after His crucifixion by one of the 4 soldiers guarding Him. This warrior did not become righteous by taking on the garment of Christ.

The three heads of the eagle are Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism. The eagle was the symbol of Rome. The symbol of Byzantium, where Orthodoxy was established, was also an eagle. The eagle is also on the coat of arms of the United States, the main Protestant empire in the world.

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (Matthew 24:28)

The Corpse of the Body of Christ collected the eagles of the empires of Rome, Byzantium, and the USA. But the Body of Christ will not be resurrected where the eagles of empires have gathered. The Resurrection of Christ is Israel, where the elect will gather and the Jewish people will restore their status as the people of God.

In the second book of Esdras, the lion pronounces judgment on the evil eagle. Judaism will pass judgment on Christianity, the “lion” of Judaism, who will receive the booty of the earth in accordance with Ezekiel, will stand on his feet as a man and receive a human heart, after the construction of the Third Temple and the assembly of saints from the nations there.

So, the 1st beast from Revelation, outwardly similar to the Eastern religions, has the mouth of Judaism, the legs of Islam and 10 horns, but these are no longer the Ten Commandments, these are anti-commandments that stick out like phalluses from his back, and the harlot copulates with this beast, sitting on top of him. These anti-commandments, Satan's commandments, are something like this:

1. mammon, property is your god
2. make yourself an image of prosperity, worship and serve it
3. conjure and sorcery, pronouncing the name of the Lord in vain, conjuring prosperity for yourself
4. have no rest day or night, engage in money-grubbing: business requires sacrifice
5. the pension fund will take care of the father and mother
6. kill in wars started for the sake of enrichment
7. commit adultery
8. steal, withhold part of your wage worker, engage in usury to get rich
9. lie to your rich masters so as not to get poor
10. desire everything and as much as possible, inflame lust through advertising

The members of this universal harlot delight in fulfilling these anti-commandments.

Why does the first beast in Revelation have features of the religious beasts in Daniel's vision stacked together? In today's world, people still identify themselves with the religions of their ancestors, but in everyday life they live in this civilization, they all serve the same Prosperity Beast.

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (Revelation 17:6)

Why was John so wondered?

He was wondered that these monsters called themselves believers ...

It is necessary to add a little about the beasts. These are not biological beasts. At the beginning of the book of Genesis there is an allegory. Adam gave names to the "beasts", which are not literal beasts, but qualities of people's character. For example, "ox" is "hard work", "wolf" is "predation", "hare" is "cowardice", "donkey" is "stubbornness", "lion" is "courage". But these qualities of the soul could not become "helpers" of Adam, that is, Man. From the bone of Adam, from his essence, Eve was created, who is an allegorical image of the people around Adam, other Adams. "Eve" in Hebrew also means "Opinion". The opinion of others became an assistant to every Man in his affairs.

But the "beast" of the desire for Wealth began to enslave Adam and all of humanity in Adam. A picture of this is given in Revelation 13. People have created civilizations, starting with the ancient Sumerians and ending with the current global civilization of the beast-666. And this civilization has now become a threat to the existence of humanity.

Earburner said:

No need to get into the Babylonian method of the Talmud, when Jesus in Rev. 13:17 makes a clear reference to the number six hundred, three score and six in 1 Kings 10:14.

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This is not the Babylonian method. Nor is it the Talmudic method. It is the common method used by all literate people in the ancient world. There were no modern numbers then; instead, letters of the alphabet were used. It was a popular game in ancient Greece: to encrypt a name using its numerical value.

... the instances of isopsephy found in graffiti at Pompeii, dating from around 79 AD. One reads Φιλω ης αριθμος ϕμε, "I love her whose number is 545." Isopsephy - Wikipedia

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Earburner said:

Jesus in Rev. 13:17 makes a clear reference to the number six hundred, three score and six in 1 Kings 10:14.

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So, what name of the beast did you find based on the information about the 666 talents of gold in the kingdom of Solomon?

Earburner said:

Well, as I had said, this is new to me.

So then, for you to not come forth with a straight answer of what church or denomination agrees to your belief system, I am left to the conclusion that it is of a private interpretation. Please correct me if I'm wrong, by sharing the evidence of others (more than two) that also promote your belief system.
Thanks, Earburner

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The name of the beast from the earth - Tradition. This should tell you about the general astray that exists in the question of the names and nature of the beasts of Revelation 13.

Now you want to find support in the number of authorities that support this explanation of the name of the beast. But for a Jew, no man is an authority. For a Jew, only the Holy Scripture is an authority. Open the Scripture and ask God, He will answer you the same thing that He answered us when we sought the name of the beast 666.

euporia - Strong's dictionary number is 2142. Even here there are 42 lunar months, and 21 actual lunar months!

εὑπορία = (5 + 400 + 80 + 70 + 100 + 10 + 1) = 666




We are standing on the threshold of the time of the beast. The beast is the animal instinct of man, which makes people strive for wealth and build empires. These are the Gentiles.

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) ...
(Matthew 6:31,32)

The kingdom of the beast in this world will end when the city of Yahweh Shammah appears in Israel on Simchat Torah, October 3, 2026. This will be the 7th vial of wrath poured out on carnal Christians.

The beginning of the "beast's" term is Trump's inauguration, January 20, 2025. From this day until Simchat Torah 2026, there are exactly 21 lunar months. The number 42 months must be divided by 2, because both the "beast" and the "Gentiles" who trample the New Jerusalem are equally complicit in the sin of striving for wealth.

It turns out that there is another word in the Bible whose numerical value is 666. This word appears 10 times in the book of Ecclesiastes:

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 1:3)

יִתְרוֹן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: yithrown
Pronunciation: yee-throne'
Phonetic Spelling: (yith-rone')
Definition: Advantage, profit, gain
Meaning: preeminence, gain

‫666 = יתרון
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‫10 = י
‫400 = ת
‫200 = ר
‫6 = ו
‫50 = ‏ ן
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666

The meaning of the word is similar to the meaning of the Greek word εὑπορία, “euporia”. This word was pointed out to us yesterday by an Afghan saint who for some reason was removed from the forum.

Truly, God reveals His Word to the poor and persecuted for their faith.

Ronald David Bruno said:

Wrong. GEMATRIA is a misguided path to discern the end time prophesies. God gave us words to communicate with us, for us to learn from and understand _ to read - not hidden numbers to discipher with hidden meanings.
You are wasting lots of time with this system bordering on the occult practices.

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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. (Revelation 13:18)

count the number of the beast - God gave us a direct command to COUNT the number of the beast. The names are counted using isopsephy (Greek) or gematria (Hebrew).

The heads of the beast are the heads of this world. All these heads tempted the Jews with the comfort of life in civilization.

Ronald David Bruno said:

All civilizations have sinned, some were wealthy and some not, and all had their traditions.

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Yes, and God wants believers not to have a king, but to have God. The Jews sinned when they began to ask God for a king. And now Christians sin when they go to elect their next Antichrist.

Ronald David Bruno said:

This is not an identifying clue to look at. Solomon was the richest man who ever lived - was he led by Satan?

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King Solomon grossly violated the law of Moses by taking many wives and hiring many horsemen. Moreover, Solomon multiplied his sins by worshiping idols.

Ronald David Bruno said:

THE BOTTIM LINE IS, it is a spiritual war, Satan against Israel and Christ.

What empires attacked and/or enslaved Israel? Babylonian, Egyptian, Medo- Persian, Assyria, Greek, Roman and Ottoman. These were all manifestations of the Beast. And during the end times, the Beast will gather ten nations (Islamic) to attack Israel and this is exactly what we see developing right now.
Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen so far are on the list; but Russia has been a key ally with Iran. Turkey and Pakistan may soon jump into the mix? They voiced support of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Iran really funded what was called the Arab Spring that led to outsting key leaders in the Arab world, Mubarak, Sadam Hussein, Gaddafi and now Assad was just ousted. This prepares the way for a new regional ruler, who will be a Antichrist and Antisemitic.

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Donald Trump is currently the Antichrist. Simply because he is the last president of the United States. All "Christian" presidents are Antichrists. It is impossible for a man faithful to God to be a king, a president, when Satan, the prince of this world, rules the world.

Ronald David Bruno said:

Ah ... so there it is, you think Trump is the Antichrist. You are on the Left.

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I am not a leftist. I hate communists because I know what they are: I lived in the USSR. With all due respect to Ronald Reagan, thanks to whose "star wars" the USSR went bankrupt and collapsed - any US president is an antichrist, regardless of whether he is a Democrat or a Republican.

I also know that it is God's will that the Antichrist rule the world until the Second Coming of Christ. It is God's will because people deserve it. Because otherwise Christians will not understand what they have done with their own hands.

Donald Trump came to power by God's will, and he is the Antichrist, as are Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and the rest of the US presidents. Any Antichrist must be a Christian:

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. (1 John 2:19)

They went out from us - any antichrist is a christian, in name. But they build the kingdom of this world, not the kingdom of God - therefore they are anti-christs.

The era of the Antichrist began in the 4th century, when the Church betrayed God and became the harlot of the Caesars.

This is not the same Church that existed in the 1st century. The first Christians sold their estates and gave the money to the poor, according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. They were poor and therefore they had the Holy Spirit. Today's religion, on the contrary, is busy with greed, and instead of the Holy Spirit there is a "beast from the earth". This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which permeates all of Christianity, a hypocritical and deceitful spirit that has seduced many people. Soon this spirit will be exposed - by the construction of the Third Temple and the appearance of the REAL Jesus Christ in the Temple. This should happen under Trump, it is not by chance that God gave him such a name:

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the TRUMP of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (1 Thessalonians 4:16)

TribulationSigns said:

Since it is the number of man, but not of all men (only those marked),

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This number is the number of the NAME of the beast.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:7)

the number of his name - The supposed name must be counted to ensure that it is the name of the beast. People's names in ancient times could be "counted":

... the instances of isopsephy found in graffiti at Pompeii, dating from around 79 AD. One reads Φιλω ης αριθμος ϕμε, "I love her whose number is 545." Isopsephy - Wikipedia

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TribulationSigns said:

Have you considered WHAT do those marked be able to buy and sell that the Saints of God REFUSED to worship? It is not something to buy in the world like food, clothings, or even "wealthy." with something on their right hand or forehead. It has spiritual signification. So I ask you, what do they buy and sell exactly? Think carefully.

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They will not be able to buy and sell information. For example, you, having the mark of the beast, can preach and you will be listened to. But you will not listen to ("buy") the one who tells you from God that the name of the beast is Prosperity. Because you are deprived of understanding God. Just as most Christians are now deprived of understanding the Scripture. Because almost all have the mark of the beast (they lie and/or steal - surplus value and usury of banks), have a registration ID in their state of the antichrist, in the USA, or have the name of the beast - they are rich (the name of the beast is "Wealth" or "Prosperity"). All these categories are already almost deprived of the opportunity to accept God's will from Him, because they have completely immersed themselves in this world, the kingdom of Satan, or have immersed themselves in the Christian religion, which now also differs little from the kingdom of the devil.