"Hasn't been determined yet?" I was incredulous. "Nero and Caligula have come and gone. Even if we assume that one of them will come back after the rapture, their first incarnation on Earth was before the Book of Revelation was written. If the people who wrote about the beast thought it was Nero, Caligula, or anybody else who lived before Revelation was written, then the identity of the beast would have been determined back then. Only if the beast hadn't come to Earth yet would its identity be determined in the future."

Tuck flashed his mischievous smile. "Do I need to explain to you again that time is not linear?"

"Oh God, not the nonlinear time thing again," I sighed. "After you told me about it the last time, I spent the next three days trying to figure out if you really believed it, or if you were just having fun."

"Well, couldn't it be both?" Tuck suggested. "Yes, a lot of the stuff I talk about is pretty far out there, and nonlinear time is one of the hardest things to accept. But I'm not just making this up. Einstein didn't believe that the four observable dimensions are a three-dimensional reality evolving over time. He said it was more accurate to think of it as four dimensions of spacetime existing all at once."

"I'm a fan of Einstein," I said, "and I believe that this spacetime stuff can be true on some theoretical level. But things break down when you try to apply the theory to reality. I still don't believe that whole reverse car accident thing."

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