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<blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 3696999" data-attributes="member: 65823">Vanman.. Your kiddin&#039; right? On this forum? You are gonna give it a shot? Tougher than I am. Better wear gloves to keep your fingers from bleeding.When do you think John wrote it? I think John could have been banished by Domitian and restored by Nerva, as the tradition tells us, but in AD 70-71 rather than later when Domitian became emperor and later still when Nerva took his place.I think key verse in dating Revelation is 17:10-11, where John says 8 kings, and tells us that one is, one will come and continue only a short time, and then the eighth will come. If you can determine the one that “is” then we will know when the book was written.With Augustus being the first Caesar until Domitian is 11 emperors and John mentions only 8. I believe the explanation to that is that John ignores the three who came and went during the Civil Wars. (Daniel 7, by contrast, mentions them but says they were plucked up.) If you omit those three, then number 8 is Domitian. Counting back one, is Titus, who reigned only a short time ( 17:10-11.) Count back one more, Vespasian, who then must be the king who “is.” So, I would argue that Revelation was written during the reign of Vespasian, but it likely was not circulated until some time later when John’s exile ended.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownFlush, post: 3696999, member: 65823"] Vanman.. Your kiddin' right? On this forum? You are gonna give it a shot? Tougher than I am. Better wear gloves to keep your fingers from bleeding. When do you think John wrote it? I think John could have been banished by Domitian and restored by Nerva, as the tradition tells us, but in AD 70-71 rather than later when Domitian became emperor and later still when Nerva took his place. I think key verse in dating Revelation is 17:10-11, where John says 8 kings, and tells us that one is, one will come and continue only a short time, and then the eighth will come. If you can determine the one that “is” then we will know when the book was written. With Augustus being the first Caesar until Domitian is 11 emperors and John mentions only 8. I believe the explanation to that is that John ignores the three who came and went during the Civil Wars. (Daniel 7, by contrast, mentions them but says they were plucked up.) If you omit those three, then number 8 is Domitian. Counting back one, is Titus, who reigned only a short time ( 17:10-11.) Count back one more, Vespasian, who then must be the king who “is.” So, I would argue that Revelation was written during the reign of Vespasian, but it likely was not circulated until some time later when John’s exile ended. [/QUOTE]

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