Re: 666 Day

My understanding is that someone (was it Origen) wrote that Revelation
"appeared" ~95 AD. I'm curious how preterists deal with that. I knoe David
Chilton makes much of the word "appeared", but are there other explanations? I
have thought for some time that Revelation could have been written after 70 AD
and rather than prophecy of coming events (wrt to destruction of the Temple) it
is an interpretation of the event, much like Peter's "This is that which Joel
prophesied..." in Acts.

I am pretty much persuaded by the preterist view.

--- jack syme <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:

> 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
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Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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Received on Tue Jun 6 08:52:18 2006