[[Image:Nero.jpg|right|100px]] '''Nero''' (37 - June 8, 68) was the Emperor of [[Rome ]] from AD 54-68. He persecuted countless It is believed the [[Saint Peter|apostle Peter]] was [[martyr]]ed under Nero as well as the [[Saint Paul|apostle Paul]]. * In 64 A.D. the Roman Emperor Caesar Nero attempted to systematically exterminate all people who professed faith in the newly found Christian religion. Under his evil rule, Romans witnessed the worst atrocities upon his victims; he did not just kill Christians, mudered he made them suffer extremely. Nero enjoyed dipping the Christians in tar, and impaling them on poles around his wife palace, he would then light them on fire, and yell: "Now you truly are the light of the world." <ref>[http://www.shelleylubben.com/sites/default/files/Lubben_Truth_Book.pdf Shelley Lubben: Circus Maximus Prophesy (shelleylubben.com)]</ref> He murdered [[Claudius]]' daughter Antonia and had his own motherkilled in 59. He stole [[Otho|Otho's]] wife Poppaea and later beat her to death. Finally, he was declared a public enemy by the Senate and eventually commited with mobs coming to get him, he committed [[suicide]] on June 8, 68, with the help of an eager slave. His last words were said to be, "What an artist dies in me!"<ref>''Ancient Rome'', Nigel Rodgers, Hermes House, page 73. </ref> Nero is remembered as was called "a beast" by the emeror pagan writer Apollonius of Tyana, a contemporary of Nero, who said of the Tyrant, "I know not how many heads it has...".<ref>[[Apollonius of Tyana]] specifically mentions that Nero was called a "beast": "In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.... And of wild beasts you cannot say that they were ever known to eat their own mother, but Nero has gorged himself on this diet." <br/>See [http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/beast.html 'fiddled while Rome burned'The Mark of the Beast'', by Richard Anthony]</ref>And according to the system of [[gematria]], one calculation of the numerical value of the letters for ''NRWN QSR'' (''NiRoN QaiSaR''), or ''Nero Caesar'', at the time of the Roman Empire is 666. Nero's likeness and various different forms of his name were stamped on coins of the empire.<ref>[http://www.dielleditore.com/02-the-coins-of-rome-nero.html Vol. 2 - The Coins of Rome: Nero at dielleditore.com]. <br/>One possible form of the name of Nero Caesar which does not appear on his coins fits the gematria code number "666." Using this code, his name could be rendered as "NRWN QSR". The number values of the Hebrew letters are: :N = 50:R = 200:W = 6:N = 50:Q = 100:S = 60:R = 200 which, when added together, equals 666.<br/>See analysis [http://www.agapebiblestudy.com/charts/gemetria%20and%20the%20number%20of%20the%20beast%20666.htm Gematria and the Number of the Beast 666 (agapebiblestudy.com)]</ref> ==References==<references/> [[Category:Roman Emperors]]