We all know that, according to the Bible, the number of the beast is 666, but what number is associated with Jesus?  That number is 888.  This number is determined using the ancient rules of numerology and gematria.   
    Many ancient alphabets such as the Babylonian, Greek and Hebrew used letters to represent numbers as well.  From this developed the idea that words and names could be converted to a numerical equivalent and that the number could then reveal something about the nature of the person or thing.  The number 888 is a perfect number for Jesus as it encompasses all of creation.  Jesus is therefore the "Alpha and Omega" (the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet).  Some Gnostic Christian writers referred to Jesus as "the Plenitude of Ogdoads" meaning the fullness of eights.  This is also the number of the Spiritual Sun.  Even one of the pre-Christian Sybylline prophesies referred to this number in relation to the coming "Logos of God" (Jesus)  in these words:

Yea, then shall the Son of the great God come to men,
Clothed in flesh, like unto mortals on earth.
Four vowels he has, twofold the consonants in him,
And now will I declare to thee also the whole number:
Eight monads, and to these as many decads,
And eight hundred also his name will show...

In the simplest terms of numerology, eight is a number of wisdom and of an enlightened person.  Six is the number of ego and one who is egotistical and materialistic so those are the traits of the beast.