The 1st Beast Exposed
 
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.  -

Revelations chapter 13, verse 18.
 
Requiring understanding denies the movie scene that depicts the number of 666 to be seen as flashing, or else written in some graphic way, on one's forehead.  To judge the credibility of the man (I do not know his name, others may) who, in the 1970s came forward with the discernment that the Lord was to give Israel a year for a day - in exile, before He the Lord would return to begin the restoration of all things, follow that which I have set forth below, which was also a result of that man's unique and godly understanding.  We are to thank the Lord for him, whoever he was, or is.
 
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, . . . and upon his heads the name of blasphemy."   Revelations chapter 13, verse 1.
 
For this man of "understanding," in his hunt for the truth, uncovered the existence of an ancient crown worn - upon the heads - of the various popes over the many centuries that the popes have existed in power over the earth.  A depiction of that crown is shown here below.
 

 
And upon this crown's headband, which sits, when worn, upon the forehead of the pope, is an inscription.
 
This inscription, the righteous man found, was translatable in four different languages, to the same sum number in each case.  Those four languages were and are - Hebrew, Common Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.  Because of the complexity of Hebrew and Greek, the following Latin version (which was largely used by the Catholic priesthood, and still is today) will be provided for your immediate understanding.
 
The Name of Blasphemy.
 
The inscription upon the headband of this ancient pope's crown is:  VICARIVS FILII DEI.
 
Its translated meaning is - "Vicar of the Son of God."  The word "Vicar" means "substitute for."  The full, direct translated meaning of Vicarivs Fillii Dei is:  "The Substitute for the Son of God."
 
Blasphemy!  Found upon the heads of the popes, centuries upon centuries, as the name of that claim.  Which took the discernment and expose of him that had understanding, in order that we might know of this mystery, that it might cease to be a mystery altogether, and be made known as the truth that it is.
 
Here is how this man of understanding discerned and disclosed this name of blasphemy, and as I have it also.
 
Using Latin's Roman numerals, we start with the word "VICARIVS, beginning with the letter, or Roman numeral V, which is represented by the number 5.
 
Next, we find that the letter, or Roman numeral I means 1, and that the letter or Roman numeral C means 100.
 
The A and the R do not translate in Latin, so we look next to the letter or Roman numeral I, which means 1, and the letter or Roman numeral V, which means 5.  The letter S not translating in Latin, we add the translated numbers together and find that they come to 112.
 
NOW we look to the word FILII, starting with the letter F, which does not translate in Latin, and go to the letter, or Roman numeral I, which means 1, then to the letter, or Roman numeral L, which means 50, and then to the letter or Roman numeral I, meaning 1, and its repeated Roman numeral I, which means 1, for a sum of 53.
 
Finally we look to the word DEI, staring with the letter, or Roman numeral D, which means 500; the letter E does not translate in Latin, with the final letter, or Roman numeral I, meaning 1, we have a sum of 501.
 
Totaling the 3 previous totals up, 112 + 53+ 501, we find that its final total is 666, or Six-hundred threescore and six.  The number of a man, not a computer or other contrivance, sitting upon the heads of that man, by way of succession from one pope to the next, which number, representing the Name of Blasphemy (Substitute For The Son of God) has sat upon the foreheads of the various popes ever since they thought to violate the laws of God by declaring such a heinous, cultuous thing.
 
What else is left to be said more than this?  The integrity of that unnamed man whose actual understanding is found true overall.  His original perception of the Lord giving Israel, or the Lord's covenant (not chosen) followers, a year for a day - in exile, ends up with the number 1764 in years being added to the number 66, the year in which pope Linus, former bishop of Rome, assistant to the Apostles, and claimed friend of Peter, raised his Peter-betraying murderous head, the number, 42, relied upon to reach that 1764 number conclusion, found to reveal the number of days represented thereby as being God's month, not that of men, which fully calculated number of 42,000 years, or 42 days X 1000 years per day, is represented by a named orbital cycle, much like the Lunar Cycle of the moon, called the Milankovich Cycle, 1920, which represents the orbit of the Sun, which is - 42,000 years.
 
This is a science of FACTS, along with historical and present day FACTS, not frivolous assumptions, that cannot be misrepresented, or ignored, lest those doing so find themselves falling into transgression, for a lie is transgression, even if it is only to lie to oneself.  Even so, this is the way that it is, or as I have discerned it to be.   Amen.
 
   Your Servant, Dr Dale Livingston, DLC, JD, JYD, tms