Your ad hominem is noted and treated for what it is: fallacious.
Everything I have posted has been or can be easily evidenced. Yes, Dispensational eschatology is futurist. It has also bread a never-ending series of false teachers, false predictors, and false prognosticators that no other theology fosters. No other theology comes remotely close. This fact is right here and now being demonstrated if what this op stated does not come true in the next ten years. He will be just one more guy in an avery, very, long list of false teachers.
He claims not to be Dispensationalist but that's not wholly important because a false teacher is still a false teacher. An unrepentant false teacher is still an unreentant false teacher. And an unrepentant false teacher who will not be accountable for what he posts is still an unaccountable unrepentant false teacher.
And nolidad, if you are an adherent of Dispensationalism then this is one of many reasons for you to reconsider that eschatology.
This op, asserts a preterist position for the first six kings of Revelation 17:10 and then departs from that context without explanation to hypothesize (re: imagine) a 21st century fulfillment without cause because first century conditions of Rome satisfy the metrics of the verse in question. That does not change even if Galba isn't the seventh king. The fact remains several posters asked for the scriptural basis for interjecting the Julio-Claudian into the text and no valid explanation has been provided. None.
If a person's eschatology is what drives the departure from the first century context inherent in the scripture's text then that....
...is the cart before the horse.
Which is one more reason to reconsider the entire far-futurist paradigm.
If Nero is the sixth king then look to the first century for the seventh king. Doing otherwise must be explained before offering alternatives. Without such justification there is no basis for any possible alternative.
So to you those who hold ot a dispensational eschatology are wolves in sheep clothing like I said prior!
I do hold that 6 of the 7 mountains which are kings have come and gone. I have not seen one of you futurists list an honest answer to that! Five are fallen and one is!
Domitian is the "one is" for he is the one who reigned during Johns exile on Patmos! He is the eleventh cesar and not of the Julio/Claudian dynasty so those two "futurist hypotheses" false!
There are many dispensationialists who hold to very quirky eschatologies! Clarence Larkin was the first and many have followed.
As for Nero, He died at least 14 years before John wrote Revelation so He cannot be the sixth king or the one that is in Rev. 17:10.
The Word translated as king is basileus which can also be kingdom or rule.
I cannot say for sure what or who the five and sixth are , but one very interesting possibility is this:
The Form of Government that Rome had evolved over time that can be seen historically.
The Tarquin Kings from 753-510 B.C.
The counsulors 510-494 B.C.
The Plebians or dictators 494-390 B.C.
Republicans or Decimvers (counsel of ten) 390-59 B.C.
The Triumverate 59-27 B.C.
The Cesars and Imperialistic Rule 27 B.C.- present.
As you can see byt the time John wrote, 5 had fallen, one is and another yet to come who is known as the antichrist.