Re: 666 Day

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From: <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>; "Dick Fischer "
<dickfischer@verizon.net>; "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: 666 Day

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:34:08 -0400
> "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think it very likely that the writer of Revelation expected the end of
>> world history - at least up to the events described in Chapter 20 - to
>> happen very soon.
>> But it didn't. Babylon/Rome didn't fall (Ch.18) until - well, when?
>> 410? 476? 1454? 1807? Anyway, it was long after the 1st century. >
>
> That is not the preterist view at all. The preterist view is that the
> author of Revelation, Jesus, Paul and other NT authors were expecting the
> end of the age very soon, not the end of history. It was the end of the
> old covenant age, the age of the law, the age of the temple. That is what
> came to an end at 70AD. The fall was of Jerusalem, not Rome/Bablyon. The
> judgement was upon Israel, etc, etc.

But Revelation is clearly talking about Rome. Jerusalem is involved
(11:7-13), but in a relatively minor way. The beasts represent Roman
imperial power, the "blasphenous names" on the head of the 1st are its
claims to divinity, the "great whore" seated on 7 hills is Rome (17:9), &c.
Nothing really very mysterious about any of that.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue Jun 6 16:34:53 2006