Purpose Edition

Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the LORD has cursed.”(1)

You know the number 6 might not be bad after all…There might just be a constructive evaluation to its relevance alongside the imperfect connotation it carries. Where the number 7 marks perfection and completion. The number 6 in some way marks change. The precipice of a turn of event or mindset that marks a before and an after. The end of one thing and the beginning of another. The end of the work and the beginning of rest. That change that would thereafter bring completion and perfection in the form of the number 7. In the form of rest (2).

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day (2)....Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. (3)

The work was completed in 6 days but it was the rest that made it perfect. After all the work was done in 6 days, the 7th day was sanctified by God. The work was done in 6 days but at the mark of 6 there was a change where the work was complete and the shift began which brought rest and on the 7th day God rested. Which makes us to understand that the rest is the number of completion and perfection. But the change that first had to take place; the completion of the work that led to that rest was found at the mark of 6.

It makes you reevaluate the significance and implications of the prophetic mark of the beast 666 signalling the end of all things in a whole new light (4). That the end is just the mark that signals the start of something new. The significance of the number 666 correlates to this change that would take precedent after the toil and labour of man (1) like that of the time of Noah (5) followed by the Tower of Babel, the Tower symbolic of a one order religious ambition led by the mighty Nimrod (6) who competed and confronted God claiming to be this Promised Seed that God had determined would reconcile the world to God the Father like it was in the Garden. Whereas, Nimrod wanted to claim the earth to man, uniting all man to place their trust in the strength of their hands in the form of knowledge and science of the esoteric knowledge of the constellation (7) .

God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God. For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.”(8)

So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall. (8) So what is this rest that symbolises the number of perfection and the number of God? What is this labour and work that we must rest from that Nimrod and the people of Isreal in the desert were not able to. So that God ended the ambition of Nimrod, scattering the remnants of the earth with foreign tongues to every nation. So that those who did not enter this rest perished in the desert. What is this rest that is the symbol and reference of God of completion of perfection symbolised by the number 7.

This rest is Faith, Trust and Surrender. This rest we find in God when we seek Him. But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD (9).This rest is when we finally understand that without Him we can do nothing and trust Him and the purpose that He has for our life. Like it happened to Job when he lost everything. Daniel when he and the people of Isreal were taken captive in Babylon. Ester when she was taken to be queen by Nebuchadnezzar. Even Joseph sold as a slave, a servant and then a prisoner. Joshua, Caleb and the young generation of the people of Isreal who saw the fulfilment of the Promise. Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass (9). All these were made perfect because they trusted in God at a point and moment of great pressure and tribulation. All these were made perfect when they reached the breaking point of all their labour. A work and effort that seemed impossible to resolve and bring about the solution to their problem. All these were made perfect because at this point of no way out; when they reached the limit the edge of all their labour they turned to God. They trusted, they believed and they surrendered to the God who sees and knows all things and that all things are in His hand.

For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! (10)

This happened to the thief on the cross, to Lazarus the beggar. Unlike Nimrod, Esau, King Saul, Judas and all the Sons of Perdition who when reaching their point of no return, no escape. When backed into a corner at breaking point they sought to resolve the problem with their own hands. Esau took vengeance in marrying wives worse than he had before (i). King Saul despised the man of God the prophet Samuel and sought council in a spiritist of magic (i). His final distrust and unbelief in the God of his Salvation was when he took it upon himself to take his own life, committing what we know today as suicide; when at the heat of battle hopeless exhausted from all his labour at the mark of 6 (i). King Saul did not make it to number 7. Number 7 where he would find God, where he would find rest, forgiveness and the redemption of his soul.

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth, Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you? When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers. You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes. “Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver: Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God.”(11)

Well of course we only find this rest when there is repentance. When we are courageous enough to humble ourselves and acknowledge our wrong doings. Like Peter, the thief on the cross and King David. The psalm of God's Righteous Judgement Psalms 50 is found right before Psalm 51 a Song of Repentance by King David after his scandalous affairs that brought even the Kingdom of Isreal to be divided. Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. (12) King David found this rest. Peter found this rest. The thief on the cross and even Lamech acknowledged this rest when he saw all the labour of the men of his time was in vain and only fulfilled the curse inherited from the Garden. Lamech reached the mark of 6. Lamech perceived and understood his labour was in vain and at the mark of 6 came a change of thought and perception. And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.”(3) Lamech wisely sought out his rest, his faith in God by consecrating his son Noah to God who would then be used by God to bring this change. To restore the earth bringing an end to the labour of man that had destroyed the earth and sanctifying the earth a new through the descendants of Noah and his sons who found their rest in God as they obeyed and began to build the Ark that would bring them rest. God then marked this new covenant with the rainbow (i) a symbol of the rest that came upon the earth, the creation and the 8 souls of the family of Noah who listened to the voice of God and entered His rest, the Ark.

This new covenant of rest we find today is symbolic of the Lord's Supper. Representing the body and the blood of Jesus that was offered for all mankind to redeem us from all our labour. Our labour and striving that leads us to sin and offending our neighbour when we trust in the strength of our own hands. Not trusting in God but seeking our own justice, vengeance. lusts, wars and desires. As it happened to Adam and Eve when they forsook the rest they had in the Garden in obedience to God in exchange for the striving of man in knowledge, wisdom and power found in that tree promising the knowledge of good and evil.

The rest found in Jesus. The rest of completion and perfection that King David found, the thief on the cross and Peter is in communion with God. The communion like the Lord Supper breaking bread and drinking the fruit of the vein representing the blood He shed; teaching us the Way the Truth and the Life found in Forgiveness, Surrender and Faith in God. That Jesus trusted in God His Father, like Job and did not strive with the men who persecuted Him. He rested from His labour and gave up His Spirit to God (i). Jesus showed us the Way in that He did not use the labour of His own strength to send a legion of angels (i) but Surrendered to God and God defended Him. Exalted Him and through Him justified as many as would believe in Him and do the same as He did (i). In Surrender, Faith and Trust.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (i)

Therefore, the number 6 symbolises the precedent of the age of completion, of rest that would be fulfilled subsequent to the mark of 6. An age of completion and rest for those who find it and know the Way (i). Subsequent to all the labour, trials and tribulations. When old things will pass away and everything will be made new. Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. (11) This is the rest that we find in Jesus Christ when believe that He and He alone is our Lord and Saviour. These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”(i) The Son of God who truly resurrected and reigns forevermore (i). The Son of man and not a reincarnation of another man of religion. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (i).

However, the number 6 repeated 3 times representing the demonic trinity of Satan as God the Father; the AntiChrist, the man of sin (i) as the Son of God, the so called Promised Seed and the False Prophet as the Holy Spirit who gives power to the beast the Anti Christ (4) So is the number 666 so bad after all? Is the number 6 just an interpretation of the number of a man, a new world order or something more? I mean except for the temporary dark age (i) that comes with the implication of the number 666 the number of a man and his world order. As well as the man himself who falls short of the number 7 and the completion that comes with the rest found in the living Son of God, as he will be plucked by the Lord Jesus Himself at His second coming; into the lake that burns with brimstone and fire (i).

The number of a man refer's to the Hebrew numerical calculation of a name which adds up to 666 (six hundred and sixty six).

The first Anti Christ arose after these revelations of John in the times of the first church when christians were being persecuted and killed for their faith by the Roman Empire. 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. (6)

The Roman Emperor Nero Caesar at the time of the first church; by the Hebrew numerical form of Neron Caesar. Translated and added up to: "nrwn qsr: 50 + 200 + 6 + 50 + 100 + 60 + 200=666 (7).

But for those who believe and wait on the Lord the mark of the beast; the number 6 signifies the end of the work; the end of the labour and strivings of all men and all creation throughout the sands of time paving way and giving birth to the Age of rest. The Age of completion and perfection. That not even the angels cast down, nor eyes have seen nor ears have heard what God has prepared for those who love Him and wait for His appearance. Yes so let’s look at the number 6 with new perspective, hope and understanding that it is just the precipice of New Beginnings and not the end. For those things that will come after once the work is complete. That would then began an age of rest (i).