Nero is NOT the Beast or 666

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Book of Revelation was written in 95-96AD, and is describing FUTURE events.
Nero died in 68AD.

How is the Beast and Mark of the Beast supposed to happen if everyone is expecting it to happen?

Wouldn't people just BLOCK it from happening and then claim they "saved the world" by BLOCKING the Antichrist from taking over?

And in turn, prophecy would FAIL to be fulfilled?
 
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Book of Revelation was written in 95-96AD, and is describing FUTURE events.
Nero died in 68AD.

How is the Beast and Mark of the Beast supposed to happen if everyone is expecting it to happen?

Wouldn't people just BLOCK it from happening and then claim they "saved the world" by BLOCKING the Antichrist from taking over?

And in turn, prophecy would FAIL to be fulfilled?
Pompeii sure looks like Babylon. The book of Revelation:

"The bulk of traditional sources date the book to the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (AD 81–96), which evidence tends to confirm."

The reference to Nero is not essentially about Nero the person but more the currency with him on it. That currency is supposed to be the mark of the beast:

"Preterist theologians typically support the interpretation that 666 is the numerical equivalent of the name and title Nero Caesar (Roman Emperor 54–68 AD). Written in Aramaic, this can be valued at 666 using the Hebrew numerology of gematria, and was used to secretly speak against the emperor.[citation needed] Additionally, "Nero Caesar" in the Hebrew alphabet is נרון קסר‎ NRON QSR, which when interpreted numerically represents the numbers 50 200 6 50 100 60 200, which add up to 666."

There's a good article on it here: Number of the beast - Wikipedia
 

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Book of Revelation was written in 95-96AD, and is describing FUTURE events.
Nero died in 68AD.

I agree.

I googled it.

He committed suicide when he was 30.

How is the Beast and Mark of the Beast supposed to happen if everyone is expecting it to happen?

That's a good point.

Maybe it's already happening in a way that everyone is not expecting it to happen.

Wouldn't people just BLOCK it from happening and then claim they "saved the world" by BLOCKING the Antichrist from taking over?

That sounds fun.

But if it happened just like the prophecy expositors said it would happen, then what Jesus said about the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him, would also fail. As would the days of Noah.

If there were advertisements around the world telling people they couldn't travel, work, buy or sell without taking the mark of the composite beast's authority, the Son of Man couldn't come at an hour that they did not expect.

People would have stayed awake and made sure that the thief would not have broken into their house.

It's probably going to be pretty much business as usual until the flood comes and takes us all away.

And in turn, prophecy would FAIL to be fulfilled?

But it hasn't so far.

And you know that it won't.

So that you know it's the more sure Word.

It'll be OK Mike, don't worry.

It should be fast, like pulling that band-aide off quickly.

Like lightning from the east and to the west.

Peaceful Sabbath.
 
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Pompeii sure looks like Babylon. The book of Revelation:

"The bulk of traditional sources date the book to the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (AD 81–96), which evidence tends to confirm."

The reference to Nero is not essentially about Nero the person but more the currency with him on it. That currency is supposed to be the mark of the beast:

"Preterist theologians typically support the interpretation that 666 is the numerical equivalent of the name and title Nero Caesar (Roman Emperor 54–68 AD). Written in Aramaic, this can be valued at 666 using the Hebrew numerology of gematria, and was used to secretly speak against the emperor.[citation needed] Additionally, "Nero Caesar" in the Hebrew alphabet is נרון קסר‎ NRON QSR, which when interpreted numerically represents the numbers 50 200 6 50 100 60 200, which add up to 666."

There's a good article on it here: Number of the beast - Wikipedia

Pompeii was destroyed in 79AD... AFTER Book of Revelation was written
 
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Pompeii was destroyed in 79AD... AFTER Book of Revelation was written
Interesting thing about that. John would have been somewhere around Jesus' age. So if the book of Revelation was written in 96AD, how old would that make John? 120 years old? Somehow I think the dating of the book of Revelation is too late.
 

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It’s a debatable topic about the dating of Revelation. You have choose what you will believe. I like the idea of internal, and external evidences though, and who it was written to.
 

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The book of revelation gives instructions to measure the temple in Jerusalem. It was destroyed in 70 AD. So that puts Pompeii as possibly Babylon.
 

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Phew! Nero will be so relieved. :p

Today governments and others have the tech to make near every eschatological prophecy come to pass. Imagine the power that would afford them in controlling people world wide.
 

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It’s a debatable topic about the dating of Revelation. You have choose what you will believe. I like the idea of internal, and external evidences though, and who it was written to.
It's not debatable because Domitian was the Roman emperor who sentenced John to being confined on Patmos.
 

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Book of Revelation was written in 95-96AD, and is describing FUTURE events.
Nero died in 68AD.

How is the Beast and Mark of the Beast supposed to happen if everyone is expecting it to happen?

Wouldn't people just BLOCK it from happening and then claim they "saved the world" by BLOCKING the Antichrist from taking over?

And in turn, prophecy would FAIL to be fulfilled?
Just want to point that the date of the writing of Revelation of Christ has two camps.....the jury is still out for me...

Two dates for the book of Revelation have been suggested. The strongest evidence supports the AD 95 date under the reign of Domitian (this is often held by the “futurist” view). However, the last one hundred years have seen a surge of support for the AD 65 date under the reign of Nero (this is the “preterist” or “partial preterist” view).

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Now I know if I were about 90 years old I would have much difficulty in writing the last book of the Bible around 95 AD. Did John own a pair of glasses to see the pages and the words on the pages? Did he have arthritis in his hands? So setting this date of writing at 95 AD is pretty shaky for me ..pun intended..
 
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(the pyramid builder and their soulmate, that covenant is not apart of humanity, it does apply to some individuals, it applies to the sons of man in the new testament.............sometimes when an autopsy of the body is performed by certain genetic lines, in their unclean activities it resembles the RABIES that surrounds the mark of the beast controversy.............but its not (originated) identified with the pyramid builder argument..............it otherwords its a natural process to begin with, that does not apply to certain individuals, in the right situation, this can spread very quickly globally due to humanities generational sin)

(the formal name the gospel uses to denote the pyramid builder and their soulmate covenant.............was, the tower of babel and the sons of god going into the daughters of men, because, God views their soulmates with proprietory, in the gospel's law, not them specifically) (to highlight the lord's body, later on towards the end of the gospel or after the Jesus argument to illustrate god's transition to the new universe for only some souls, sons of man attributed to joseph was ideally used)

(human dirth has really nullified all of god's mercies, where as with King David and the Duke that were called Giants, but in the new testament, they were just called as apart of the maim and dumb) (the arguments are generally associated to humanities suicide pleasure, god's willingness to tolerate the self inflicted suicide from unclean persons until euthanasia is exercised in one avenue or another in relation to those individuals, or in the larger scale cyclically)

(any sign or vision, principally deals with god's view of the gospel's tables, but as things stand, we haven't passed the threshold of the gospel's language for a sign or a vision................there is just the common likelyhood, that a exhasperated jump in activity takes place to the events of the controversy in revelation, which hasn't happened as of now, but evidences seem to allow to permit the conclusion)

(it wasn't a very complicated conclusion, autopsy any minority that specifically dies after doing something unclean against me or failing to use euthanasia against me, if that is a tie to COVID19 that is apart of abomination of desolation, if it is not then there is some other argument, but you can't expect anything profitable to come out of satan and its pleasure, until, the loss of life dictates the removal of their controversy)

Nero's Mark of the Beast?
(the controversy)

(Jesus Revealed, "moses and elijah", in the clouds and rose also with them, but to a fool, Jesus appears to consume their bodies in order to rise..............in order to illustrate to the apostles, the cannon law of the old testament in relation to the body, that the body was holy and a testimony of god's will on the subject of giving prophecy)

(what the gospel records about "stephen" being stoned, after seeing a prophecy, is not the language god uses that is god doesn't bless sin, but language of a controversy is apart of satan's trial of faith (a sign or a vision is considered a priviledge, especially in the new testament, it won't be a result of sin)...............

(Satan in wresting with God tried to raise a body, from the dead is the language of history, with some accounts of killing pigs in jerusalem, or, putting people into live animals like bulls or goats...............it depends on what god was doing, if satan was able to identify with that reaction, then, controversy is in a small way a apart of the trial of faith, following god's introduction of the resolution or the AOD (abomination of desolation, whatever mechanism that is cyclically or otherwise)

(as far as "satan raising the dead", we know for a fact that, God stopped satan from bruising the knee of jesus, so the argument just wasn't there, but we do know that for a fact, satan does bow the knee in revelation, so by that time satan already has a controversy, this AOD language, shows only that god isn't wrestling on a subject the angels are not at war on that issue, right now, they don't have that kind of claim about COVID, we know this is the end of time, but, everything is not really here now)

(we don't need a college or a university to tell us what is real, but, cyclically god has allowed actions, that history has consumed or classified into areas of natural disaster or pandemic, we have this today, so these areas don't seem turned on at present) (if that golden issue was discovered today, it would be satan's claim of raising the dead, that is true, this tied into NERO's account, but again this is out of the mouth of satan mostly)
 
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Imagine the power that would afford them in controlling people world wide.
This is not something to be imagined. It is happening as we speak. A handful of evil people -- a cabal -- is controlling people worldwide.
 

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(its not pain or death, that creates these controversies about raising the dead..................its the prospect of overcoming the impossibility of the human dirth charge, for most of history (or all of history), mass extermination just has been impossible..................whatever blessing was on the the table, and they realized it, they would fight to bless as many people as possible, they would generally have those blessings until they died, but they would always probably fight and loose, the ability to pass those on to the next generation, the human dirth charge is really that powerful as a nullifying field)

(we may know about some controversies, but not because of a blessing or endowement, just because, of god's mercy in sustaining that person's testimony against the corruption and death satan may try to inflict, things are a tiny bit more expressed in someone's understanding..................but there is no hidden agenda no desire for god's mercies, and no need to do anything more then live or die, there also just isn't involvement or attachment to god's mercies period..............we'll have to see what god allows by keeping watch)

(AD 95.....AD 65)
(remember, even the pyramid builders of that day, or the apostles, didn't understand, what god was allowing in controversy, mercy or judgment fully until jesus was crucified and arose..................where as with Jesus, he did take the more righteous action in restraining peter, from attempting to limit their understanding at the events in the garden..............but because that was laced with controversy, jesus only interfered after an action was taken, that is generally the case)

(we do have, space ship oumuamua and space ship borisov, 30 years from the UFO Guardian Incident, then we have roughly 1260 days (together that is 1290, 1260 + 30), days ..................so that, 30 years before 2019 and 1260 Days after 2019 = 2022 A.D.) (appears to be the logical statement, with 1335 days from missing flight 370 to space ship oumuamua) (appears to be the events of that day also)

(however) (65 A.D. to Halley's Comet in 87 A.D. = 22 Years...............for 2022 A.D. which is based on the same principal of the seven spacing of GAP'ED FIGURES for seven years "1290 and 1335" (GAP'ED meaning not used one after the other, but in observances) (We will have to see, my birthday 40th is next year, or, 40 years from the "jupiter effect october 1982 as published")
 
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Interesting thing about that. John would have been somewhere around Jesus' age. So if the book of Revelation was written in 96AD, how old would that make John? 120 years old? Somehow I think the dating of the book of Revelation is too late.
And Nero was the one who exiled John to the island of Patmos where he was imprisoned along with other apostles...so in order for John to be exiled by Nero then it is clear he wrote it between 60-65...John himself says he is under tribulation like his fellow brethren..and during this time he received his revelation..
Revelation 1 (KJV)
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⁹ I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,


In 68 AD, after a turbulent 13-year reign, the Roman senate ran out of patience and declared Nero a public enemy. Nero then fled, and on June 9, 68 AD, at the age of 30, he committed suicide.
 
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(in the old testament, generally satan will go for martyrdom first.............natually because in wrestling with god or the faithful, it had reason in the earth to believe it was their equal, in what god allowed...............in the new testament, satan will generally go for pleasure first, that may mean suffering pain tribulation death, satan wants to be equal with god but disavows judgment until that is an impossibility, when satan can't disavow either knowledge of a judgment, or the judgment itself, then it will try to martyr itself (satan will try to martyr itself)

(that is how to generally think about satan's controversy with god in the old and new testament and difference)
(god has largely turned satan's activities into foolishness, so there is no strength there, but, its up to the faithful, to inherit the body of jesus, and satan to be blind and dumb by corrupting the body of jesus in testimony and in unclean work)

(by the time of the apostle john, (an angel or the last angel god would allow to walk with men openly for a rebuke, following the new testament)................(its hard to say if "tribulation" is what John said was satan's position, and inorder to give "tribulation" to satan, or reveal its rebuke, he described himself as imprisoned by the lord's body, that is spiritually either cutting satan off spiritually, by teaching and rebuke, or he was at the throne of imprisonment in rebuking satan) (satan has really no strength or dignity in the new testament, and that is exactly what satan keeps doing or demanding from god, uncleanness) (until a judgment either pain or death or loss if live quantity wise removes the prospect of that disposition)

(earth's moon has 13 Gons................the duration is 1 to 3 years, from 65 A.D., so from 2019 and COVID19 that is @ max 2022 A.D.) (if nero's reign is reported correctly, it may not be a description that is correct to that person)

(remember issac newton, spend most of his time killing politicians and the poor, was never punished, and it was illegal to take any action against him in his day)
 
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And Nero was the one who exiled John to the island of Patmos where he was imprisoned along with other apostles...so in order for John to be exiled by Nero then it is clear he wrote it between 60-65...John himself says he is under tribulation like his fellow brethren..and during this time he received his revelation..
Revelation 1 (KJV)
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⁹ I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,


In 68 AD, after a turbulent 13-year reign, the Roman senate ran out of patience and declared Nero a public enemy. Nero then fled, and on June 9, 68 AD, at the age of 30, he committed suicide.

Agreed I believe that revelation was written in the mid 60’s too
 
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