Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (December 15, 37 AD - June 9, 68 AD), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. On February 25, 50 he became heir to the current Roman Emperor, his grand-uncle and adoptive father Claudius, as Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus. He succeeded to the throne on October 13, 54. In 66 he added the prefix Imperator to his name. In 68 Nero was deposed. His death was reportedly the result of suicide assisted by his scribe Epaphroditos (Greek for "lovely" and "charming").

Many people, or even nations or movements, have been thought by some to be the Antichrist. The age of Israel in relation to the references in both Eziekiel and Daniel would place the appearance of the anti-christ to be sometime in the next 10 years because a generation in Jewish tradition was a period of forty years. Israel starting in 1967 would therefore place the arrival of the anti-christ before 2007.

Paul of Tarsus has been theorized by some (among them Thomas Jefferson, Albert Schweitzer, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sagan and Carl Jung) to have fulfilled the role of the antichrist within the chronicles of the New Testament of the Bible itself. This theory is premised on an idea common among some scholars of religion, that the original teachings of Christ were subverted by Paul, who some characterize as a Jewish spy and false convert.

The Roman emperor beginning with Nero, sometimes together with the four emperors who succeeded him in the year following his suicide, until the elevation of Nero's general Vespasian to emperor, have been interpreted from very early times, either alone or collectively as the Beast of the Apocalypse.

In this tumultuous period, superstitious fear and mob violence grew against Christians, and the Roman wars against the Jews intensified (AD 66 - 70), ending with the destruction of the Temple in AD 70 under the command of general Titus (later emperor), and the maniacal slaughter of the Jews who were living at Jerusalem. According to tradition, Nero ordered the crucifixion of St. Peter and the beheading of St. Paul. Both Jewish and Christian literature survives, referring to Emperor Nero as the Antichrist. A more detailed description of this interpretation can be found in the entry on the Book of Revelation.

Another idea that began appearing early in the history of the Christian church, is the opinion that the Antichrist will be an apostate priest or Christian secular ruler, perhaps a Pope or other high leader of the Christian church, or a pretender to the Papacy. Some Christian sects have made it an issue of faith to identify the Bishop of Rome and the papal system as the Antichrist. Virtually all popes have been called the Antichrist by their enemies, and many popes have applied this title of "Antichrist", "son of perdition", or "man of sin", to their enemies as well. Even St. Peter, the first Pope according to Roman Catholic tradition, was called "Satan" by Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew chapter 16, the same chapter of the gospel in which Peter is told by Jesus, "on this rock [Greek: petra] I will build my church".

St. Bellarmine gives in full the theory set forth by the Greek and Latin Fathers, of a personal Antichrist to come just before the end of the world and to be accepted by the Jews and enthroned in the temple at Jerusalem -- thus endeavoring to dispose of the Protestant exposition which saw Antichrist in the pope. Bellarmine's interpretation, in modified form, is now accepted by most premillennial dispensationalists.

After the reforms of Patriarch Nikon to the Russian Orthodox Church of 1652 a large number of Old Believers held that Peter the Great was the antichrist.

Identifying the Antichrist has become a hobby of the Internet age, and a body of literature in its own right.

we have to trust him he has never lied to me as long as ive known him he would not make this stuff up
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whatever cross stop acting like you know what your talking about
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how do you know that i dont know what im talking about
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well thats fine with me cross i dont care what you think theres a proven fact that there is life after death and jesus is waiting for us
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there is no such thing as a proven fact of reincarnaten there has never been
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there is no such thing as a proven fact of reincarnaten there has never been
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rofl ok frost go do some research on evp and astral projection and obe then get back to me

hey man i asked no fighting on this topic but no 1 wanted to listen except stellar if people are gona act like a butthole towards me i can be the same way
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lol cross im telling the truth man
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planet x is real its just the skeptics keep saying its not real cause they scared to take a big blow there is a 10th planet in our solar system its true
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no these are FACTS not lies
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no these are FACTS not lies
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There may be no Planet X but Kuiper objects exist, whether they can be identified as planets by main stream scientifica America remains to be seen.

if boks count yes hehe