The mark of the beast "666" is the Greek numeric value for the name "Nero."
It was about Nero and the persecution of Christians within Rome. References to "Babylon" were thinly veiled references to it's then modern equivalent: Rome.
Joevol, believe what you want, but people have been claiming that "this is it" for 1,000 years. It isn't it. "It" is a figment of a misunderstanding of context and meaning.
you obviously don't read or study it and have no clue what your talking about. trying to compare Rome with what Revelation says is so inacurate, it's sad.