Christ has made us Kings unto God, to reign on the Earth
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Caesar Nero ruled the Roman Empire from A.D. 54 to 68. It seems quite likely that at least some of the immediate tribulations of Christians referred to in the Book of Revelation, were those suffered as a result of the persecution which broke out after Nero falsely accused the Christians of instigating the burning of Rome in the July of 64 A.D.
In that case, Revelation would have been written probably just a year or so later during the year immediately before 66-67. That would have been just three-and-one-half years or “time [and] two times and half-atime”(?) before the A.D. 70 Pagan-Roman destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.3 Thus very many Theologians such as Lightfoot, Westcott, Hort, Leon Morris, Vanderwaal, Francis Nigel Lee, Chilton and Gentry.