News from a British poll released today says Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is now the most popular song played at funeral services and that AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" has “stormed the funeral charts” along with Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust."

Reading this online I was immediately reminded of my big road trip out West a year ago when I stopped in Las Vegas for a day and, walking along the Strip in the early evening on a Monday, observed a very lively “happy hour” crowd from the outdoor patio of Trader Vic’s enthusiastically singing along to a local band’s rendition of “Highway to Hell.”

People seem to really get into the idea that not only are they headed straight for hell and they’d have it no other way but that they’re by far not alone in this preferred future. The camaraderie with other hell-bound sinners is absolutely crucial and what better way to signify your unity than to join in the music played at a mutual loved one’s funeral.

Just as the AC/DC lyrics go, “Ain’t nothing I would rather do/Going down, party time/My friends are gonna be there too.”

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Another great example of a Bible 13 is in I Kings 7:1: “But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.” As we know from the previous chapter, Solomon, who represents the ultimate example of a godly man gone bad, spent seven years building the Temple.

In II Chronicles 9, Solomon is showing off his house to the queen of Sheba, who has brought him gold and spices in return for his hospitality, and it says in verse 13 that “the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold.” This is where the number 666 is first revealed.

“Solomon, up until this point in his career, is a type of Christ but it’s here in his career that he switches to being a type of the Antichrist and it happens right at this paragraph mark,” says Jordan. “By the way, his number 666 is found in Revelation 13:18. Eighteen is three sixes. I mean, these numbers get really weird as you go through them!”

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The only other time the number 666 appears is in Ezra 2:13: “The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.”

Jordan explains, “Now you say, ‘Well, who is that dude?’ Well, he’s just a guy on the list but his children are 666. But if you look his name up in a dictionary, Adonikam means ‘the lord of rebellion.’ And the lord of rebellion is associated with verse 13 but also with the number 666 because God’s Word is going to connect those numbers together.”

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In II Chronicles 9:17 it is learned that for Solomon’s house 13 years in the making he installs an ivory throne. “Do you know in the Bible where there’s a white throne?” says Jordan. “Now, there’s some typology in this stuff with Solomon back here that some of us brethren have been working on for years.

“There’s typology with regard to the structure and shape of the universe and the satanic rebellion to usurp the authority in the universe. Not just the earth, but the whole universe and working on the principle that the earth is the pattern (the template) that the rest of the universe is structured after. There’s some things here connected with Solomon and this throne of judgment that he built.

“This house he built is up in the northern parts of the land. That’s the reason I say when you get here Solomon has changed from being a type of Christ, the true son of David, to a rebel and a usurper.

Verse 18 goes on to describe the six steps to the throne that has a foothold of gold and a lion on each side of each step.

“You got six and six and six to get up to Solomon,” explains Jordan. “You see, what he’s doing is identifying himself with the wrong crowd. By the way, notice he overlays it with gold. In Daniel 2, Babylon is symbolized by that head of gold. We’re not talking about the deity of Christ here in Solomon’s mind—it’s the other guy.”

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In I Samuel 17, there are three great enemies of Israel associated with the number 666. The first one is Goliath. The passage reads, “And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
[5] And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
[6] And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
[7] And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.”

Jordan says, “He’s six cubits high, he’s got a spear whose head is 600 shekels of iron and if you count them in verse 5 he’s got six pieces of armor. Goliath is associated with 666. He’s one the giants; one of that satanic seed.”

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For Daniel 3’s revelations about Nebuchadnezzar as a type of the Antichrist, the chapter begins, “Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.”

“You see, this is a counterfeit usurping of God’s position and threescore cubits and six is 66,” says Jordan. “By the way, the number 66 in Scripture is associated with idolatry. Sixty high and sixty wide and Nebby the king—notice there are six musical instruments that are going to sound out and those six musical instruments, when you hear them, you bow down to the image that’s 60 by 6.”

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In Revelation 13, 666 is the number of the beast. “It’s the trinity of man; it’s man trumped,” says Jordan. “It’s the ultimate achievement of man apart from God. And all these associations—they’re always bad like this.”

Revelation 17:9-13 reads, “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
[10] And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
[11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
[12] And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”

Jordan explains, “Once again, this numerology stuff is more than just what’s laying on the surface of the scripture. You have seven heads, seven mountains and one woman, and there are seven kings, five are fallen, one is and one isn’t there yet. You see the numbers in the text we’re looking at? The numbers in the passage add up to 66.

“Now, 66 is close but it’s no cigar yet because we’re looking for 666. Look at Genesis 7 and then Rev. 17:14. ‘These shall make war with the lamb.’ Notice all of these guys here are going to make war with the lamb? You know what the number for war is in the Bible? The first time it shows up in Gen. 7:11 it’s in the sixth hundred year of Noah’s life.

“You know what God did on the 600^th year of Noah’s life? He declared war on the earth. And in your Bible, 600 is the number of war. And after He lists the 66 there, then the next thing He talks about is war, which there’s the rest of the 600 right there.”

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The number 23 is associated with God’s judgment on the Gentile rebellion. In Rev. 17, John describes in a vision seeing “a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

Jordan says, “There’s six items listed in her array. She’s got 17 with the seven heads and 10 horns and17 and 6 is 23.

“Now, look what happens to her. Rev. 18:8 says, ‘Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.’ That’s the number of judgment right there.

“All these numbers get bound together for the purpose of confirming underlying in the text the things that are clearly taught; clearly laid out. It’s not the doctrine of the text, it’s just underlying things you look at that cause you to say, ‘Boy, you look at those things and you see confirmations!’ ”