Meaning of Numbers: The Number 6
The number 6 and its meaning are related to man and human weakness, the evils of the devil and the manifestation of sin. Man was created on day six of creation week. Men are appointed 6 days to labor and then they are commanded to rest on the seventh day (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset).
Timeline of Peter's Life and Ministry!
A Hebrew slave had to serve 6 years before he could be released in the 7th year. Six years were appointed for the land to be sown and harvested. The number is also associated with Satan in his temptation of Jesus.
The bringing together of triple six is the mark of the end time Beast power of Revelation. As such, it represents the very best system of governance that mankind can produce without God and under the constant influence of his chief adversary.
Man's system on earth is made up of three parts (economic, religious and governmental) all of which are influenced and led by Satan. When 666 is multiplied by 7 it equals 4662, which depicts man's total imperfection under Lucifer. When added across, 4 + 6 + 6 + 2 = 18, with this total, when divided by three, equals six.
Appearances of the Number Six
Jephthah (in the East) served 6 years as a Judge of Israel (Judges 12:7). The Bible mentions six earthquakes (Exodus 19:18, 1Kings 19:11, Amos 1:1, Matthew 27:54, 28:2, Acts 16:26).
Jesus was accused six times of being demon possessed (Mark 3:22, John 7:20, 8:48, 8:52, 10:20 and Luke 11:15).
The first miracle of Jesus' ministry involved having the servants at a Cana wedding fill 6 large stone vessels full of water. These containers likely held anywhere from 96 gallons (363.4 liters) to 144 gallons (545 liters) of liquid total! Immediately after the pots were filled the water in them became wine (John 2:1 - 11).
Tempting God
Scripture records that Christ was asked 6 times, most of the time by those who were self-righteous, to produce a sign to prove who he was and the claims he made.
1) The Pharisees demand a sign after they accuse Christ of casting out demons by the power of Satan (Matthew 12:38, Mark 8:11). Jesus' response was that the only sign that will be given is that of Jonah the prophet.
2) The Pharisees and Sadducees try to tempt Jesus by asking for a sign (Matthew 16:1).
3) The twelve disciples, on the Mount of Olives, ask Christ what will be the sign of his Second Coming and the end of the world (Matthew 24:3, Mark 13:4).
4) Some people who saw him cast a demon out of a person ask him for a sign from heaven (Luke 11:16).
5) After cleansing Jerusalem's temple at the start of his ministry, some Jews who saw what Jesus did demand a sign (John 2:18).
6) People who Christ miraculously fed ask him for a sign so that they may believe in him (John 6:30).
The Six Passovers
The Old Testament reveals 6 important Passovers that took place.
1) The original Passover is kept by the children of Israel just before leaving Egyptian bondage (Exodus 12).
2) One year after the Passover in Egypt a second one was kept in the wilderness of Sinai (Numbers 9).
3) The Israelites, after crossing the Jordan under Joshua, kept their first Passover in the Promised Land (Joshua 5).
4) Judah's King Hezekiah, after the death of his wicked father King Ahaz, revived the worship of the true God of Israel. He brought about one of the greatest Passover observances the nation ever experienced (2Chronicles 30).
5) The last righteous ruler of Judah, before the nation was overrun by the Babylonians, was King Josiah. He first spent six years purging the land, and Jerusalem in particular, of its idolatry (2Chronicles 34:3 - 8). He then commanded the nation to keep the Passover (2Chronicles 35).
6) Jewish captives in Babylon, after returning to Judah and Israel, kept the Passover at the time of Ezra the prophet (Ezra 6).
The New Testament also reveals 6 critical Passovers, the first five of which help determine a chronology of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
1) Jesus, at the age of 12, travels to Jerusalem and keeps the Passover (Luke 2:41 - 42).
2) Jesus keeps the first Passover of his ministry, in 27 A.D., by chasing away the crooks and moneychangers from Jerusalem's temple (John 2).
3) Jesus' second Passover, in 28 A.D., is strongly hinted through the phrase "second sabbath after the first" in the KJV version of Luke 6:1. This unique phrase refers to the last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
4) The Lord's third Passover, in 29 A.D., is referenced in John 6:4.
5) Jesus' last Passover, in 30 A.D., was observed just before he was arrested and crucified (Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, John 13).
6) The Apostle Paul chastises the Corinthians for keeping the Passover incorrectly (1Corinthians 11).
Number 6 and Sorcery
There are 6 references, in the New Testament, to people who practiced sorcery. Sorcery is defined as divination by the assistance of evil spirits.
1) In the end time, false prophets and false Christs will produce great signs and wonders (sorcery) for the expressed purpose of deception (Matthew 24:24)
2) Apostle Paul's first missionary journey takes him to the island of Cyprus (Acts 13:4 - 52, 14:1 - 25). He meets with the island's Governor who is accompanied by Elymas (also called Bar-Jesus), a man who was a false prophet and sorcerer.
3) In Samaria, a man named Simon the Sorcerer (Simon Magus) observes Philip preaching the gospel and performing a number of miracles. He feigns repentance, gets himself baptized, and then follows Philip where he sees him perform signs and wonders.
Simon also observes that Peter and John, after they come to the city and perform the laying on of hands ceremony on people, they receive God's Holy Spirit. Simon soon approaches the two apostles and tries to buy the ability to give the Holy Spirit so that he can further promote his deceptions (Acts 8). His attempt is assertively resisted by Peter. Simony, the act of attempting to buy or sell a church office or preferred treatment, gets its name from what Simon attempted to do.
4) While visiting Philippi during his second missionary journey, the apostle Paul runs into a slave woman "possessed with a spirit of divination" (Acts 16:16). Her masters use her soothsaying skills to make money.
5) Traveling Jewish exorcists, using various charms, incantations and so on, pretend to heal people and cast out demons (Acts 19:13).
6) The seven sons of a Jewish chief priest named Sceva try, but fail miserably, at casting out demons (Acts 19:14 - 16).
More Info on Biblical Meaning of 6
In Gematria, the value of 6 is represented by the Hebrew letter Vav. In the Greek alphabet it is represented by the letter Digamma.
The books of Galatians, Ephesians and 1Timothy contain 6 chapters.
The Biblical chapters of Job 25, Psalm 1, 13, 23, 53, 126, 128, 150, Isaiah 4, 12, 20 and Malachi 4 contain 6 verses in the King James Bible.
Many people (primarily Jewish religious leaders), toward the end of Jesus' life, had come to believe he was guilty of some kind of crime or heinous sin. A total of 6 people, however, are recorded as stating that he was innocent of all the charges leveled against him.
The 6 people who found the Lord innocent of the charges against him were Pontius Pilate (Luke 23:14), Herod (Luke 23:15), Judas (after the devil left him - Matthew 27:3), Pontius Pilate's wife (Matthew 27:19), one of the thieves on the cross near Christ's (Luke 23:41) and a Roman Centurion who was at the crucifixion (Luke 23:47).