Virtually all historians, ancient and modern, are of general agreement that St. John wrote the Apocalypse during the reign of Domitian, sometime in the early-mid 90's of the first century. I agree that the number of the beast refers to Nero; but John wasn't writing contemporaneously with Nero, Nero had been gone for several decades already. It is more likely that John refers to the Nero Redivivus legend. As we read in History by Eusebius,
-CryptoLutheran
I suppose.
So much for my 15yrs of viewing 1st century Jerusalem in Revelation.
https://www.preteristarchive.com/BibleStudies/ApocalypseCommentaries/Dating/Early/index.html
Apocalypse: Early Date Advocates
https://www.preteristarchive.com/BibleStudies/ApocalypseCommentaries/Dating/Late/index.html
Apocalypse: Late Date Advocates
No matter the dating, the Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God arrived at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70ad as prophecied by our Lord Jesus and the OT Prophets
Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach and to say,
“Repent,
for the kingdom of the heavens is nigh<1448>.”
Mark 1:15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled,
and
the kingdom of God is nigh<1448>. Repent! and believe in the Gospel.”
Luke 21:
20 Whenever yet ye may be seeing
Jerusalem being compassed by armies,
then be ye knowing that
nigh<1448> the desolating of Her. [
Daniel 12/Revelation 18, 19]
28 “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because
your redemption is nigh<1448>.”
30 - When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh<1451>.
31 - So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass,
know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh<1451>
Romans 13:
11 And this knowing the time, that hour it-is already out of sleep to be roused,
for
now nearer<1452> of us the Salvation than when we believed.
12 The Night progresses, the yet Day is nigh<1448>.
We should be putting off then the works of the Darkness, we should be putting on the implements of the Light.
Hebrews 8:13
in the to be saying `
New', He hath made
Old the first
The yet being aged and being obsolete
nigh<1451> of disappearance
1 Peter 4:7
Of all-things yet
the End is nigh<1448>
be sane then, and be sober into the prayers,
James 5:8
be patient! and stand-fast! the hearts of ye,
that
the Parousia <3952> of the Lord is nigh<1448>
Revelation 1:3
Blessed/happy the one reading, and the ones hearing, the words of the Prophecy and keepings in it having been written/gegrammena <1125> (5772),
That the Time nigh/egguV <1451>.
Revelation 22:10
And he is s
aying to me "no thou should be sealing the Words of the Prophecy of the Scroll, this.
That the Time is nigh<1451>