By Maria Merola
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There is a false teaching going around right now that is trying to purport that the name “Jesus” adds up to 666 in the Greek Alphabet and that the name “Jesus” is the “Mark of the Beast.” I will show you below that this is simply not the case and those who are purporting this are using false Alpha-numerics and a false pronunciation of “key-sus” or “cheese-sus”(which sounds nothing like Jesus) in order to try and make their theory work.
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I do believe that the name Jesus has it’s origins in the pagan Greek god named Zeus, as research has proven that the Greeks took the first Hebrew Letter in our Heavenly Father’s name (Yad) and they placed that in front of the name Zeus for Y’Zeus. Later on this name began to be spelled as Ieosus. But regardless of this fact, we can see a prophetic pattern with the patriarch Yahuwceph (Joseph) who was given a “hidden name” by the Pharoah as Zaphnath-paaneah which means “Savior” in Egyptian. Joseph was a proph-etic “type” of Messiah and he saved the Egyptians from famine as well as his Yisra’elite brothers. Also, we can see the same prophetic pattern with Esther whose name comes from “Easter” the pagan goddess of fertility, but YaHuWaH allowed her to go into the Persian Empire, under a “hidden name” to save her people. But once the mighty exploits were done for YaHuWaH and his people, then Esther revealed that her true name is “Hadassah.”
However, I do believe that many people have been saved just as I was back in 1981 calling on the name of “Jesus” because the Holy Spirit “interprets the groaning our hearts” according to Romans 8:26-27.
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Now, let me show you why the name Jesus does not add up to 666. See the above chart or go to this website for the chart for the Greek Alphabet below:
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We see the same pattern with Daniel being given a Babylonian name Belteshazzar while in exile. This pattern is evident over and over again in scripture. Likewise our Messiah was given a
I believe that we are going to see a prophetic pattern of what took place in the Maccabean Revolt in the last days. In 164 B.C. Antiochus Epiphanies set up an Image of Zeus on December 25th in the Jewish Temple and forced the covenant people of YaHuWaH to worship this image under penalty of death. I believe that the same thing will happen again! I believe that the false Messiah will set up an image or a “clone of Jesus” in the 3rd Jewish Temple and cause people to worship that image!
However, I do believe that many people have been saved just as I was back in 1981 calling on the name of “Jesus” because the Holy Spirit “interprets the groaning our hearts” according to Romans 8:26-27.
When people don’t know the true name of the Messiah, the Father knows who they are talking about because the Holy Spirit interprets the name Jesus as Yahuwshuwa before the throne! Now the day is going to come when people are going to have to choose to worship either the “false image of Jesus” in the 3rd Jewish Temple (a clone from the Shroud of Turin) or the true Messiah Yahuwshuwa! And when that day comes, there will no longer be any mystery as to the true name of our Messiah. People will no longer be able to get away with calling him “Jesus” because at that point the Roman Papacy will standardize the name Jesus as “their Mark” and they will attach that name to the “Image of the Beast.” But for now, I believe that YaHuWaH is showing mercy on those who have called him by the name Jesus before they knew better!
Now Let Us Take a Look at the Chart Below for the Greek Alphabet
In the prophecy about the Mark of the Beast in Revelation 13:18, the number 666 is # 5516 in the Greek Strong’s Concordance as follows:
Chazown (Revelation) 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (666).
Below is the break-down taken from a certain person who claims that the name Jesus adds up to 666:
600 = chi (“chee” as in cheetah)
60 = xi (pronounced “zi”)
The pronunciation key tells us that these three Greek letters are pronounced as khee xee stig’-ma. The Greek letter Chi sounds like “key” not “chee” as in “cheese!” I would have no problem what-so-ever believing that the name Jesus adds up to 666 if it were only true! I have no attachment to the name Jesus, and I gave up using the name Jesus a long time ago. I only use it sometimes when trying to teach people the true name. However, this is a dishonest rendering of the wisdom to count the number of the Beast, and let me tell you why. The people that are presenting this false mathematical equation are using the wrong letter to try and build their case! There are actually two different letters in the Greek Alphabet that sound very similar! They are “stigma” and “sigma.”
The “Mark of the Beast” in Revelation 13:18 is NOT Chi Xi Sigma but it is Chi Xi Stigma!
The Greek Letter Chi = 600
The Greek Letter Xi = 60
The Greek Letter Sigma = 200
The Greek Letter Sigma = 200
Grand Total = 860
The word for 666 in the Greek Strong’s Concordance is NOT Chi Xi Sigma!
It is Chi Xi STIGMA!
Below you will see the numeric value of Chi Xi Stigma: χξϚ
The Greek Letter Chi = 600
The Greek Letter Xi = 60
The Greek Letter Stigma = 6
Grand Total = 666
The Greek Word Stigma is no longer a letter in the Greek Alphabet!
The Word “stigma” means to stick or to prick!
So then what is the “stigma”? It is an obsolete letter of the Greek Alphabet that is no longer in use, but it did not make the “S” sound! It made the “ST” sound and it is the equivalent of the Hebrew letter “Waw” or the modern “Vav” which is the 6th Letter in the Hebrew Alphabet:
Obsolete letters
Digamma or wau (Ϝ) was the continuation of Phoenician waw, denoting the sound /w/. It stood in the sixth position in the alphabet, after Ε. It dropped out of use because the sound /w/ became mute during the archaic and classical era. It remained in use as a numeric sign denoting the number six. In this function, its shape in uncial and cursive writing changed to “ϛ” until in Medieval Greek handwriting it was conflated with an accidentally similar ligature sign for “στ.” The symbol “ϛ” both in its function as a numeral continuing that of digamma and in its function as a ligature, is today called “stigma.”
The letter “stigma” used to be the 6th letter in the Greek Alphabet equivalent to the Hebrew letter “waw” and it had the numerical value of 6. But the Greek Letter called “sigma” is the 18th letter in the Greek Alphabet equivalent to the Hebrew “Sin” and it has the numerical value of 200---not six!
Hence Chi Xi Stigma would sound like this: Key-zee-s not as this person is trying to purport as Cheese-us. And besides, the way that the modern word for Jesus is pronounced in English is Geezus, not Cheese-us and not Key-zee-s! They don’t sound alike at all. And so trying to make a case that the name Jesus adds up to 666 is completely false and not only that, but the pronunciation of these three letters as Key-zee-s does not sound like Cheese-us or Geezus! The people trying to peddle this lie are using the wrong letter in the Greek Alphabet, and the wrong pronunciation key and also they are not even adding up the numeric value of the Greek letters to arrive at the number 666!
The three Greek letters that they are using to spell this word chizis (Chi Xi Sigma) adds up to 860---not 666!
So while I agree that the name “Jesus” is pagan, and it comes from Y’Zeus, it does not add up to 666 and hence it does not fit the criteria for the Mark of the Beast! Now let us add up the letters to the Greek word for Jesus:
IhsouV (Ieosus or Jesus)
Iota = 10
Total = 888
Now there are several different ways to calculate the names of people in Gematria. At this website you can calculate a lot of terms that add up to 666 and a lot of terms that add up to 888 or 444.
In English Gematria, you would assign A = 6, B = 12, C = 18, D = 24, E = 30 and so on. When you do English Gematria, you arrive at the very same numeric value for the name Jesus, Yshua, & Messiah. They all add up to 444!
The word Jesus = 444
The Total:
Jesus Messiah = 888
But the Greek word Christos = 666!
Why? Because the Greeks called all of their false pagan Messiah’s Christos! So we should not use the title Christos for the true Hebrew Messiah!
Hoshea 2:
16 And it shall be at that day, saith YHWH,that you shall call me Ishi (husband); and shall call me no more Baali (Baal or Lord).
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim(Lords) out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
In the Strong’s Concordance the word “Baal” means Lord!
#1168 Baal: A Phoenician Deity; Lord; Husband, Master
If you were saved using the name Jesus like I was back in 1981, then it is time to “go on unto perfection” (Hebrews 6:1) and begin to call upon him by his true name of Salvation! That name is YaHuWShuWA (Joshua in Ancient Hebrew).
Prophecy is being fulfilled right now as YaHuWaH is restoring his Covenant people to a pure language which is called “Edenic” or Ancient Hebrew. Why is he restoring us to a pure language in these last days? So that we may all call upon his NAME YaHuWaH with one consent!
Tzphanyahuw (Zephaniah) 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of YHWH, to serve him with one consent.
See my other blogs by clicking on the hyper-links below. These blogs go deeper into this subject of the Mark of the Beast and the name Jesus versus the true name of our Messiah Yahuwshuwa: