Re: 666 Day

Obviously British cinemas haven't heard of the Nero theory - the one
local to me is re-screening "The Omen" on this day 6/6/06. [ Is this
happening in US cinemas, too?]

Don't think I'll bother to go see it ;-)

Iain

On 6/6/06, jack syme <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:
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> Wow, what an admission this is!
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> As a preterist, I am not even convinced that 666 refers to Nero (although it
> is an interesting theory and I have no other better suggestion.)
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> But to even admit this is a possibility means that you guys believe that
> Revelation was written prior to 70AD (prior to 68 AD even since that is the
> date of Nero's death,) and that John (if not other NT authors) anticipated
> that the Last Days was going to be a first century event.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George Murphy
> To: Dick Fischer ; ASA
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:24 AM
> Subject: Re: 666 Day
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> Nero is the most likely suspect but in any case the text says "it is the
> number of a human" (arithmos gar anthropon estin) so anyone who tries to
> connect it with the number of a month hasn't even read the text with any
> care. & in the 1st century June wouldn't have even been the 6th month!
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> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dick Fischer
> To: ASA
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:38 PM
> Subject: 666 Day
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> At last a day we can celebrate(?) on the same day on both sides of the
> Atlantic Pond. Before anyone crawls under the bed to escape the antichrist
> this is just a brief reminder that those numbers likely referred to Nero.
> Okay, say a prayer or two just in case.
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> Dick Fischer
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> Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
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> Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
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> www.genesisproclaimed.org
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