Rev.13:16,17 says “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: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark (the Swastika), or the name of the beast (Adolf Hitler), or the number of his name (660).” In this time, many Germans could not buy or sell unless they had gone through the census process to see who were pure Germans.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany they had a census of the people taken to measure the purity of the German race. This census was performed through punch cards. They decided to use the 60-column punch card instead of the 45-column card. This card had 60-column’s and 600 hole punch spaces, totaling to the number 660. They used the Tabulating machine made by Herman Hollerith. IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black states that “Dehomag (the German subsidiary of IBM) abandoned its 45-column cards and moved to a 60-column format.
The Hollerith machine could process 12,000, 60-column punch cards per hour in sixteen counters and then precision punch its own summaries on to 80-column cards. The 80-column cards were called “Rassenamt” meaning race; but this word also through Gematria also comes out to the number 660. But what significance does the number 660 hold in this time?
During the writing of Revelation there was no letter for the number 6. The phrase “Chi Xi” or 600, 60, (660) was the only phrase in Revelation 13:18. So after the book was completed, scholars took two already existing Greek words to form a new word for the number 6, Sigma and Tao. These two letters chosen to form a new word, a ligature called “Stigma” a cross of both words, but Stigma didn’t mean 6.
Looking at the phrase “Chi Xi Stigma” we can see it as “Chi=600, Xi=60, or 660 and Gammadion. A Gamma looks like an upside down “L” but Gammadion is four capital Gammas. We know it better in history as the Swastika.
-Anthony Booker
The GATHERING Place 