The Dragon, That Old Serpent

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And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the Key of the Bottomless Pit and a great chain in his hand. And he seized the Dragon, that Old Serpent, which is the Tempter and Satan, who deceived the whole world, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal over him, that he should no more deceive the nations until the thousand years should be past; after that he will be loosed for a short time. [Rev. Ch. 20, vs 1-3]

And when the thousand years come to an end, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, even to China and Mongolia, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on a broad plain, and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city; and fire came down fron God out heaven and consumed them. And the devil who deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where also are the Beast and the False Prophet; and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. [Rev. Ch. 20, vs, 7-10]

 

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Essays on the History and Culture of Rome, Encyclopaedia Romana.

In the apocalyptic Revelation of John, Nero is the second beast who, through miracles and the threat of death, compels the worship of the first beast. Moreover, the second beast marks everyone, both the great and small, with its own mark. "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six" (13:18). (This riddle, in fact, was not solved until 1835.)
In both ancient Greek and Hebrew, letters also represented numerals (as they do in Latin), their values assigned according to the order of the alphabet, alpha and aelph, for example, having the numerical value of 1. By adding these values, words could be represented as the sum of their numbers. This literation of numbers and numeration of letters was known as isopsephism by the Greeks and gematria by the Jews (which, in cabalistic practice, has been used to interpret Hebrew scripture). If the Greek spelling of Nero Caesar (Neron Kaisar) is transliterated into Hebrew (nrwn qsr), the numerical equivalent is 666.
What is curious, however, is not so much that 666 can be decoded to signify Nero but that the name of the emperor is encoded in this particular number, especially since it could have been represented more readily in other ways. If "Nero" is retained in Greek, for example, the numeration would be 955 or, if "Neron," 1005; in Hebrew, then 256 or 306. It only is when the words are transliterated into Hebrew that the numeration adds up to 666 (nrwn qsr,50 + 200 + 6 + 50 + 100 + 60 + 200). Even so, this is an alternate spelling, a letter in "Neron" being transliterated (nrwn instead of nrw) but not in "Caesar" (qsr instead of qysr), although these forms do appear in both the Talmud and a contemporary Aramaic scroll from Qumran. It is intriguing, therefore, that 666 encodes the name of Nero in Hebrew when Revelation, itself, was written in Greek.
One should appreciate, too, that there were no numbers in Greek or Hebrew and that the "the number of the beast" was not presented as a figure but as letters of the alphabet or written in full. That is to say, it was not expressed as "666" (indeed, discrete Arabic numerals would not be invented for another five hundred years) but as the numerical values of the three letters representing 600, 60, and 6.

 

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United States of Awareness
Governing without leaders​

• This Awareness indicates there has occurred that moment in time whereby those forces of the occult, those forces which have moved from that area called Origani, those forces which have been moving in those areas of control throughout many eons of time, these forces which have been moving into and through Atlantis and from Atlantis up to the present time, those forces which have been used the principle of control in order to maintain and perpetuate their own actions and their own concepts, those forces associated which that which is structure, the hierarchy system and that which is known as the Luciferian system. This Awareness indicates those forces have reached that point in time, whereby through the Law of Paradox they have come face to face with their own being and have now begun to devour themselves even as the mythical serpent devours its tail.

• This Awareness indicates this as a symbolic reference to consciousness eating itself, that those entities who have worked in those organizations of that secret occult force for these eons of time, whereby these forces have used their secret knowledge to perpetuate their own action, whereby these forces have used the power of money, the power of communication and the networks of education to confuse and intimidate the masses, to condition, to control and regiment the masses, whereby these forces have moved for these eons to time to categorize and identify the masses into those smaller and smaller portions of experience into those more confined areas of being, into those greater and greater mechanics of regimentation, those forces have now reached that point whereby they begin to come face to face with their own excess, with their own over-specialization, and have reached that point whereby in their own over-specialization they are bursting through into the oblivion of the bottomless pit.

Chaos carries with it total bliss and harmony​

• This Awareness indicates that this action at this time as that which does lead to chaos, but the "chaos" does carry with it total bliss and harmony.

There is always that which is the opposite of that which appears to be​

• This Awareness suggests the Law of Paradox as that which assures that there is always that which is the opposite of that which appears to be. This Awareness indicates that in reference to the action of controls and order that this is that which is undergoing a great change, and whereby those who are attentive attempting to create a greater degree of order through regimentation, through identification and through categorization that these are those who shall find their action come to naught.

 

[NJBeliever]

Essays on the History and Culture of Rome, Encyclopaedia Romana.

In the apocalyptic Revelation of John, Nero is the second beast who, through miracles and the threat of death, compels the worship of the first beast. Moreover, the second beast marks everyone, both the great and small, with its own mark. "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six" (13:18). (This riddle, in fact, was not solved until 1835.)
In both ancient Greek and Hebrew, letters also represented numerals (as they do in Latin), their values assigned according to the order of the alphabet, alpha and aelph, for example, having the numerical value of 1. By adding these values, words could be represented as the sum of their numbers. This literation of numbers and numeration of letters was known as isopsephism by the Greeks and gematria by the Jews (which, in cabalistic practice, has been used to interpret Hebrew scripture). If the Greek spelling of Nero Caesar (Neron Kaisar) is transliterated into Hebrew (nrwn qsr), the numerical equivalent is 666.
What is curious, however, is not so much that 666 can be decoded to signify Nero but that the name of the emperor is encoded in this particular number, especially since it could have been represented more readily in other ways. If "Nero" is retained in Greek, for example, the numeration would be 955 or, if "Neron," 1005; in Hebrew, then 256 or 306. It only is when the words are transliterated into Hebrew that the numeration adds up to 666 (nrwn qsr,50 + 200 + 6 + 50 + 100 + 60 + 200). Even so, this is an alternate spelling, a letter in "Neron" being transliterated (nrwn instead of nrw) but not in "Caesar" (qsr instead of qysr), although these forms do appear in both the Talmud and a contemporary Aramaic scroll from Qumran. It is intriguing, therefore, that 666 encodes the name of Nero in Hebrew when Revelation, itself, was written in Greek.
One should appreciate, too, that there were no numbers in Greek or Hebrew and that the "the number of the beast" was not presented as a figure but as letters of the alphabet or written in full. That is to say, it was not expressed as "666" (indeed, discrete Arabic numerals would not be invented for another five hundred years) but as the numerical values of the three letters representing 600, 60, and 6.

We actually don't have 100% historical confirmation that Nero was even emperor at the time John wrote Revelation (remember, Nero died in 68 AD and there is much historical information that indicates that John wrote Revelation ca 90 AD). it's very possible it was Domitian who ruled at the time of the writing.

Furthermore, Nero was not that antichrist or the False Prophet. The Book of Revelation makes it clear in Chapter 17 that the antichrist had not yet arrived. And the Bible also states in more than one book that the antichrist will be destroyed by Jesus Christ our Lord. Nero killed himself.

 

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We actually don't have 100% historical confirmation that Nero was even emperor at the time John wrote Revelation (remember, Nero died in 68 AD and there is much historical information that indicates that John wrote Revelation ca 90 AD). it's very possible it was Domitian who ruled at the time of the writing.

Furthermore, Nero was not that antichrist or the False Prophet. The Book of Revelation makes it clear in Chapter 17 that the antichrist had not yet arrived. And the Bible also states in more than one book that the antichrist will be destroyed by Jesus Christ our Lord. Nero killed himself.

Using the reference to Revelation scriptures, those faithful who hear the trumpets can be awakened into awareness. Read about the anti-christ in the Fifth Trumpet and Vial Judgement: http://www.christianforums.com/t7472181 7 Last Trumpets & Plagues.