Bible Questions and Answers

A visitor writes,

"According to the ant Christ will he going to be revealed after millennium.or explain in detail about the beast of revelation and the meaning of 666."

The antichrist is mentioned by the apostle John in 4 places:
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
1 John 2:22  Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:3  and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
From this we see that the antichrist is not restricted to one person
1 John 2:18 …many antichrists have come
Antichrists deny that Jesus is the Christ
1 John 2:22  he who denies that Jesus is the Christ?
Antichrists are deceivers who teach that Jesus has not come in the flesh
2 John 1:7… many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
From this we see that there are many antichrists before the millennial reign of Christ.
666 is the number of the name of the Beast.
Revelation 13:18  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.
This is generally understood to be the numerical value of the word ‘Lateinos’ which may be said to mean Latindom or Latin power, kingdom, or Church headed up in the Pope.
Bishop Newton in his Dissertations on the Prophecies (1754) writes:
Mention having been made of the number of the beast or the number of his name, (for they are both the same,) the prophet proceeds to inform us what that number is, leaving us from the number to collect the name, (v.18) " Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast." It is not therefore a vain and ridiculous attempt to search into this mystery, but on the contrary is recommended to us upon the authority of an apostle. "For it is the number of a man," it is a method of numbering practised among men; as "the measure of a man," (21:17) is such a measure as men commonly make use of in measuring, it was a method practised among the ancients, to denote names by numbers ; as the name of Thoth, or the Egyptian Mercury, was signified by the number 1218;  the name of Jupiter, as ‘The beginning of things’, by the number 737; and the name of the sun, as ‘good’, or ‘the author of rain’, by the number 608. St. Barnabas, the companion of St. Paul, in his epistle discovers in like manner the name of Jesus crucified in the number 318: and other instances might be produced, if there was occasion. It, hath been the usual method in all God's dispensations, for the Holy Spirit to accommodate his expressions to the customs, fashions, and manners of the several ages. Since then, this art and mystery of numbers was so much used among the ancients, it is less wonderful that the beast also should have his number, " and his number is six hundred and sixty-six." Here only the number is specified ; and from the number we must, as well as we can, collect the name. Several names possibly might be cited, which contain this number; but it is evident, that it must be some Greek or Hebrew name ; and with the name also the other qualities and properties of the beast must all agree. The name alone will not constitute an agreement; all other particulars must be perfectly applicable, and the name also must comprehend the precise number of 666. No name appears more proper arid suitable than that famous one mentioned by Irenaus, who lived not long after St. John's time, and was the disciple of Polycarp, the disciple of John. He saith, that 'the name Lateinos contains the number of 666; and it is very likely, because the last kingdom is so called, for there are Latins who now reign: but in this we will not glory:' that is, as it becomes a modest and pious man in a point of such difficulty, he will not be too confident of his explication. Lateinos with ei is the true orthography, as the Greeks wrote the long i of the Latins, and as the Latins themselves wrote in former times. No objection therefore can be drawn from the spelling of the name, and the thing agrees to admiration. For after the division of the empire, the Greeks and other orientalists called the people of the western church or church of Rome, Lathis: and as Dr. Henry Moore expresses it, they latinize in everything. Mass, prayers, hymns, litanies, canons, decretals, bulls, are conceived in Latin. The papal councils speak Latin. Women themselves pray in Latin. Nor is the Scripture read in any other language under popery, than Latin. Wherefore the council of Trent commanded the vulgar Latin to be the only authentic version. Nor do their doctors doubt to prefer it to the Hebrew and Greek text itself, which was written by the prophets and apostles. In short, all things are Latin; the pope having communicated his language to the people, under his dominion, as the mark and character of his empire. They themselves indeed choose rather to he called Romans, and more absurdly still Roman Catholics: and probably the apostle, as be hath made use of some Hebrew names in this book, as ,'Abaddon, (9:11) and Armageddon, (16:16,) so might, in this place likewise allude to the name in the Hebrew language. Now Romiith is the Hebrew name for the Roman beast or Roman kingdom: and this word, as well as the former word Lateinos, contains the just and exact number of 666. It is really surprising that there should be such a fatal coincidence in both names in both languages. Mr. Pyle asserts, and I believe he may assert very truly, that, 'no other word, in any language whatever, can be found to express both the same number, and the same thing.'
From the forgoing we can reasonably deduce that the antichrist identified by its number is the Roman Catholic Church and those who teach its false doctrines – Trinity, immortal souls, heaven-going at death etc.
When Christ returns to reign over the kingdom of God on the earth for 1000 years, antichrists will be few and far between for all will be taught the truth.
For a 13 lecture talk on the book of Revelation go here:
https://www.antipas.org/books/13_lectures/13lectoc.html

I hope this helps,
God bless.
Glenn