Re: 666 Day

Jack -

No, this doesn't require rev to have been written before Nero's death. After that there were rumors that he was alive, or had returned from the dead, & was in Parthia preparing to invade the empire. (Hence perhaps the things about invasion from the east in Rev.) This would be similar to stories after WWII of Hitler's survival. Wright has some discussion in _The Resurrection of the Son of God_. "Nron Qsr" can represent the evil aspects of the Roman imperium generally.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: jack syme
  To: George Murphy ; Dick Fischer ; ASA
  Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:14 AM
  Subject: Re: 666 Day

  Wow, what an admission this is!

  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.)

  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.
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: George Murphy
    To: Dick Fischer ; ASA
    Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:24 AM
    Subject: Re: 666 Day

    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!

    Shalom
    George
    http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Dick Fischer
      To: ASA
      Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 11:38 PM
      Subject: 666 Day

      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.

      Dick Fischer

      Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association

      Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History

      www.genesisproclaimed.org

       
Received on Tue Jun 6 07:54:48 2006