Posted on 06/05/2021 9:02:31 AM PDT by JAG 5000
Who Was The Beast Of the Book Of Revelation?
Short answer: Nero Caesar.
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{The following was taken from He Shall Have Dominion. by Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry Jr. It is not a word for word quote but the substance of this below is Dr. Gentry's. I typed it in. It is not on the web. Footnote at the bottom}
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Who Was The Beast Of Revelation? The Beast is a well known Christian Eschatological character. Premillennialists incorrectly believe that the Beast is to appear in the future. This is false. The Beast was a 1st Century character that appeared in the 1st Century and will never appear again in human history.
The Apostle John wrote the book of Revelation.
The Time Of The Beast. John clearly expects his prophesied events to take place in his day, the 1st Century.
John writes: "The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place." Revelation 1:1
"Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near" Revelation 22:10
"must soon take place" "the time is near"
In light of Revelation's significance to its first-century audience, the Beast must be someone relevant to that first-century audience.
"The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near." Revelation 1:1-4
“Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.” Rev. 1:11 {these were churches of the 1st century that received this letter of Revelation}
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Revelation 13 presents the Beast as a horrible and powerful foe attempting to destroy God's people.
Sometimes Revelation presents the Beast as a kingdom and sometimes as an individua leader of that kingdom.
In some places the Beast has seven heads which are seven kings collectively considered.
In Revelation 13:1 John notes that he saw a Beast coming up out of the sea having 10 horns and seven heads. Revelation 17:10 specifically says that the seven heads represent seven kings.
Thus the Beast is presented as a kingdom. But kingdoms have representatives. This is why John also speaks of the Beast as an individual.
John urges his readers to calculate the number of the Beast which is the number of a man Revelation 13:18
The Beast's General Identity is the first-century Roman Empire and NOT a "revived Roman Empire" as imagined by Dispensationalism.
According to Revelation 17:9 the Beast's seven heads represent "seven mountains." The seven mountains symbolize Rome. Rome is the one city in history distinguished and recognized by its seven mountains.
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The Beast's Specific Identify. The Beast in his personal identity is Nero Caesar. He and he alone fits the bill as the personal and specific expression of the Beast. This vile character fulfills all the requirements of the text of Revelation.
First the number of the Beast. In Revelation 13:18 the number of the Beast is 666. The usefulness of this number lies in the fact that in the first-century alphabets serve as both phonetic symbols and as arithmetical values. Significantly a common spelling of Nero Caesar's name is Nrwn Qsr, which provides the numerical value of 666
Second the Textual Variant. See Dr. Gentry's book for this explanation. Page 381
Third the Beastly Image. Revelation 13 both calls and portrays the one behind the 666 riddle as a "beast.". The term "beast" can easily symbolize persons with a beastly nature. Almost all scholars agree that Nero Caesar possessed a beastly nature.. Nero Caesar is even hated and feared by his own countrymen, as ancient Roman historians agree. The pagan writer Apollinius of Tyana, a contemporary of Nero Caesar, calls him a "beast."
Fourth, the war with the saints. John's Beast will make war with the saints and overcome them.{Rev. 13:7} In fact Nero Caesar conducts a blasphemous war with the saints for a specific period of 42 months {Rev. 13:5} Nero begins his persecution of Christians in A.D. 64. The persecution finally ends when Nero Caesar dies on June 8, A.D.68 forty-two months later, but for a few days. {Point of interest: Nero's own end comes by the sword.}
Conclusion: The Beast of Revelation was the beastly Nero Caesar of the 1st Century.
Source He Shall Have Dominion by Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry Jr. pages 379 - 381
Best Regards,
JAG
That would be Obama.
ok.. but then where is the earthly empire ruled by christ after his victory over the beast?
Yeah nobody knows where that guy obama come from but it’s a good bet he was born of a couple of jackals.
Fauci
LOL
Ed Norton? </ reallly obscure reference>
The early church fathers considered him.future
There are many lies about him. The big one is he didn’t fiddle while Rome burned.
If you wanted to dig them out you had to develop “the light”. This would give you depth and train the mind to look deeper. After all the truth is “within you”. The 7 churches of Asia represent the 7 mansions in Assiah. The translators did not know what Assiah meant so they translated it as Asia. The 7 churches were a Christian version of that. The 7 mansions of Assiah as they were known in Jewish Kabbalism were known by eastern religions as the 7 chakras. These are energy vortexes in the body which are the bridge between this world and the unseen. The whore of Babylon is the unsublimated sex energy. When sublimated is the basis of spiritual enlightenment.
The virgin giving birth as a demonstration of what must become of the whore” is a sublimated version of that sexual energy. If you will read the virgin giving birth in the wilderness with the birth of Horus by Isis you will see the Graeco Egyptian antecedents of revelation. The second coming or the coming of the Messiah is the opening of Consciousness with super consciousness.
Here is an interesting thought to ponder...
There is another city, capital of the roman empire, that was built atop 7 mountains.
That city is constantinople.
You are sadly mistaken. Good luck with your cult though.
Gobbledygook and balderdash.
“Gobbledygook and balderdash”
Take the time to study ancient religion and look at the paralells in them to Christian writings and you will see who is Gobbledygook and balderdash.
Revelation 1:10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet..
John did not pen he was at an Easter Sunday mass... The Lord’s day is a time signature, and lasts a thousand years.. the return of Christ is day one of His reign.
John was brought forth in the Spirit to reveal what would be and what had been. Nero was a tin horn in comparison to what and who is coming... the beast is likened to a whole new world and it’s intertwined religious government system.. Like the Babylonian kingdom, then Persians, then Greek/Roman then the ‘iron’/clay mix.. Iron and clay do not mix.. and will last for a short season...
Did Nero Caesar have the technological capability to require that every living person take a mark on the right hand or forehead in order to buy or sell? Or be killed for refusing to take that mark?
“Awww, ain’t no beast comin’...he been here an’ left!”- Marco D’Beast
What was the mark the historical Beast forced upon those who wished to buy and sell in the first century?
Not particularly new.. In Genesis the serpent was called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil... and he subtlety whispered sweet nothings into Eve’s ear..
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