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Since Obama’s forenames are Arabic, rather than Hebrew or Greek, surely it would make more sense to analyse them using the Arabic ‘Abjad’ system of numerology – rather than the Hebrew or Greek Gematria? And if we do so, it’s worth pointing out here that in Arabic ‘Barak’ – meaning ‘Blessed’ – ends with a kaf (value 20) rather than a qaf (value 100). Barak itself thus has the value of 222 (ba = 2, ray = 200, kaf = 20) which some might see as a spooky sign that the President amounts to a third of the beast of Revelation. But since the Arabic root ba-ra-ka is identical with the root of the Hebrew word ‘baruch’ – which is the most common word for blessing in the Hebrew Bible – only a highly imaginative conspiracy theorist could turn it into anything sinister!

Using the Abjad system, Barak Hussein Obama gives:
Barak (ba – ray – kaf) = 222
Hussein (ha – sin – ya – nun) = 128
Obama (ayn – ba – alef – mim) = 113

which totalled together is 463 – short of 666 by a pretty long chalk. If one wants to try to tease a message out of this, it can be recombined as the word تسج – which gives the (barely meaningful, in this context) ‘recorded’ – or the arguably more interesting سجت – which means ‘embodying’.

Of course, and there’s certainly an argument for using Greek rather than Hebrew numerology. I’ll be writing a p0st about that soon. But I must emphasise, that I was using the Book of Revelations as an example, and rightly or wrongly, people have used Hebrew numerology to associate the Emperor Nero with the number 666.

Thanks for the comment. There are many different interpretations of the Book of Revelations, and even if Obama’s name did add up to 666, that would not necessarily make him the anti-Christ. And the very fact that so far his presidency has been relatively unimpressive, suggests that he isn’t the Antichrist. The doting crowds have fallen away, not something you would expected if he was the Antichrist. Though actually, the main point of my article was to illustrate Gematria, and I’m not too bothered by the theology underlying the Book of Revelations.

Did you read my last sentence:

‘Assuming, of course, that he decides to stand.’

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I actually I too don’t think he will stand for re-election, perhaps because he thinks he’ll lose. Or because he’s too ‘cool’. However if he does stand for re-election in 2012, then I believe he will win.

I understand the title of my post is misleading – I wanted to make it reasonably short and snappy. What I really wanted to say was ‘can get re-elected’, but that doesn’t sound so good!