ok, you all have made great points and I've made adjustments.
I am still working through this, I have a preterist/historicist viewpoint
(funny how that is)
So, Revelation was written to the seven churches of Asia, who were being persecuted by Rome/Jerusalem
- Rev 1-3, letters to the churches in Asia
- Rev 4-5, New Covenant in Christ
- Rev 6-11, Judgment on OT covenant breakers (mimicking Exodus)
- Rev 11:8, The great city is Jerusalem
- Rev 12, Israel gives birth to Jesus, NT saints are persecuted
- Rev 13, the Sea beast is Rome
- Rev 13:11-18, The Land beast is the Corrupted Priesthood
- Rev 14-18, Mystery Babylon, Babylonian Talmudic false religion/harlot
- Rev 18-19, destruction of the Roman/Babylonian system
- Rev 20-22, future resurrection, Millennium, restoration of Eden.
Scripture is written for the 1st century audience, but is applicable to us today.
I think that "666" referred to Nero, and that Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD as a judgement on Judean covenant breakers and for rejecting Messiah.
Babel/Babylon is the mother of false religion, which infected the Judeans who were in captivity in Babylon, and that false doctrine not only corrupted the Judeans, but has corrupted the Church of Constantine and is still corrupting religion to this day.
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