What is the meaning of 666? By Hank Hanegraaff Multitudes today assume that 666 is a number rep- resenting a modern-day beast that is about to be revealed. Placing the Beast in the twenty-first century, however, may well pose insurmountable difficulties. First, the apostle John, author of Revelation, told a first- century audience that with “wisdom” and “insight” they would be able to “calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666” (Revelation 13:18). Obviously no