Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: The Number 666 in Revelation Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 06:53:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Space Science Labs Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) writes: >Robert Johnson in his assignment of the number 666 to Nero ignores >a few facts. Chief among them is since Revelation was written in the 90's >A.D., Nero was already dead by this time and Domitian was emperor. > >Steve Timm Not true. If you read on, you'll see that he states these facts. I found the article to be very interesting, but I was taught that the 7 kings refer to the kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon (or Neo-Babylon), Persia, Greece, Rome, and Antichrist's kingdom (which has yet to come). These were all kingdoms which oppressed Israel and/or Judah. And the same spirit that inhabited Alexander the Great (the fifth king, the head that was 'wounded to death'-- Rev. 13, i think) will inhabit Antichrist. John Warren "In the midst of the war, he offered us peace. He came like a lover from out of the East, With the face of an angel and the heart of a Beast, His intentions were six-sixty-six." -- Larry Norman