Mark of the Beast

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Harrell01@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > It would require someone with knowledge of the language.
> > Nero Ceasar just happens to calculate as the numeric value 666.
> 
> OK, so calculate the number in the appropriate language and tell
> us who this "MAN" is!!

I respond:

First of all, Nero's name is not the primary reference of 666, but part
of the solution for the numer of the *beast*.  There are several strands
of Biblical data which point ultimately to the Roman empire as the
subject of 666.  John simply writes the greek letters chi, xi, zeta and
leaves his contemporaries to find the solution.  The name Nero Ceasar
does not exhaust the significance, yet it is very convenient that this
solution works.  Still yet, if a new Ceasar would arise, which Nero had
no offspring and the Ceasarian dynasty fell with him although there were
other "Ceasars" but without true lineage, then the number would change. 
The answer again points us to the identity of the beast as the Roman
Empire.  

We have several types of the beast in the scriptures.  Goliath is 6
cubits tall, the head of his spear is 600 shekels of iron and he is
destroyed when the seed of the woman inflicts a head wound. 
Nebuchadnezzar erects a statue 60 cubits high, 6 cubits across the
Hebrew language describing the image has the value of the triangulation
of 6.  Daniel and his friends who refuse to bow add up to the number 888
which is the number of Jesus in the greek.  All this would not be lost
on the contemporaries of John and John would not expect them to figure
out some 20th century official but simply apply what would be very
apparent to those involved with the language and the time.  May I remind
you again that John opens and closes the book of Rev. with "the time is
at hand".

So again the Roman empire (Nero Ceasar particularly) is in view, and you
could not engage in commerce without allegiance paid to Him as diety,
and Rome as the ruleing kingdom, something I am sure that those of the
first century faced.

Chris (I could be wrong, but there is alot of evidence) Foster