Why 666 for buying and selling?

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Why 666 for buying and selling?
Rev 16:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 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. 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.
What does 666 have to do with finances and buying and selling? In the 1960's all IBM products were prefixed with the digit "2." In like manner, International credit cards were prefixed with the same digit. In the seventies as the sophistication of the machines increased the digital prefix increased, and the prefixes for international cards also increased from "2" to "3" to "4", and then "5." In the last 30 years, computer systems increased in sophistication to the point where another digit was necessary. The perfect digit was "6." "6" can be programmed in both it's normal position and also in it's inverted position "9" and still be usable.

Today the world is being moved to conduct finances using international debit transaction or "smart" cards for "EFT's" or Electronic Funds Transfers. The Initial digit on cards up until the 80's was a "6" followed by a three digit national service code. For the U. S. that code is "110". However the new three digit service code, prefix "666", makes the card international. In 1980, when MasterCharge changed from a credit card to a "transaction" or "Debit" card, the new three digit service code "666" was embossed on the card preceeding the card number. This lead to many users rejecting or canceling their cards. The makers of these cards now do not emboss the initial code on the front, but continue to encode it within the "smart" card where it is used with every transaction.

A "core" is a ferromagnetic loop with two states of polarization ( + or - ) which change according to the direction of the current. These cores are set up into a predetermined number of cores per group. Computers recognize characters according to codes set up using different electromagnetic charges on each core within an individual group. (As an elementary example, with a group of two cores, the character "1" could be the first core with a negative charge and the second with a positive charge ( - +) while a "2" could be both positive( + + ). A twelve could then be two groups of cores ( - + ) ( + +). As you can see, a computer with only two cores per group would be very limited in the number of characters that could be represented by each individual core group. There are only four representations possible ( - - ) ( - +) ( + +) or ( + - )). As the computers became more complex the number of cores per group and the alignment of groups have changed to handle the complexity. If data is read into any computer, in order to have accurate results, both the data and the computer must use the same formula. There must be a way to verify the formula for the system.

In the barcode system, there are 6 versions of UPC codes, each with two white spaces and two black lines that together make up each number. In the most commonly used version above, there are 6 numbers on the left side and 6 numbers on the right. There are 3 sets of codes with the number 6 being the only number that has a different code in each set. Get any item with a barcode that has a "6" in the right-hand side of the code and compare the lines for the "6" to the first, middle, and last sets on a real barcode.


In the second most commonly used barcode system, there are 6 numbers. This symbol is exactly one half of version 1 above - even down to using the one half of the "6" (in blue) immediately preceeding the last 6. This is the symbol for "6" in the third set of codes.
IBM and NCR are the major manufacturers of Point-of-Sale (Debit) systems used in most stores and supermarkets today. These latest computer systems work on groups of 6 cores. The 6 cores work in conjunction with 60 displacements x 6 which equals one character or one "bit" of information. The formula for this system is: 6 60 6. In order to number any item to be used in this system, whether groceries or your card (or the microchip in your hand), it must use the formula "Six hundred threescore and six."
Rev 16:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 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. 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.




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