God is reaching people in the Middle East where Christianity is banned
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I've heard that the spelling of bismallah (if that English transliteration is correct) is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letters for 666. So John wrote the characters that had an appearance that was like Bismallah. Perhaps there is another meaning, in addition to the numerical significance.
"Nero Caesar" written in Hebrew letters, which also have numerical values, equals 666.
He was torturing, murdering, and persecuting Christians that would not say "Kaiser curios" "Caesar is Lord “ because he demanded to be worshiped above all other gods.
His image was also on all the coins of the land which you needed to use to buy or sell.
It also dress up an animal furs with claws and maul Christians to death.
He was quite literally a beast.
Personally I have never really cared for the Nero Caesar argument, because Caesar is a title. It makes no sense to include it in the gematria calculation. It would be like trying to calculate your own gematria value and using "Mister X," or deriving a number from Donald Trump by using "President Trump." It just doesn't make sense.
"let the reader understand" very much implies that someone at that time would easily be able to make the connection.
Hebrew speaking Jews would have easily been able to make the connection in that time. This would allow them to write negative things about Caesar without being executed. This way of pointing towards Nero would have gone under the radar to Romans.
You are glazing over some of the other indicators I mentioned plus there are many more....
Seven-headed, 10 horned beast was in reference to Rome which had seven hills or providence's with 10 governors.
Also when you see the abomination of desolation surrounding the holiest of holies... Flee to the mountains... Well room's army surrounded Jerusalem and started to lay siege to it... And then according to secular history they stopped their siege and left for some reason. Christians seeing the filament of this prophecy fled to the mountains... Then Rome's armies returned and finished the siege, slaughtering just about everyone inside and destroying the temple.
There are so many parallels that it's really mind-blowing when you look at it.
Also Jesus said this generation shall not pass. Well Jesus died around 33 AD and this all transpired culminating in the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. That's in the same generation.