A Problem For Me –
A problem for some if I said why. I don’t understand why anyone would get one.
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Daily writing prompt
If you had to get a tattoo right now, what would it be and why?
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a bottomless pit
A Recapitulation –
A vision not in chronological order. In chapter 9 and 11 we have the beast coming out of the “bottomless pit” and in chapter 20 the beast is being cast into it. Victorinus was the first to suggest this theory of recapitulation. The bottomless pit is also consistent with the beast that was, is not, and yet is. The two beasts are really the same.
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a black horse
A Marxist Rider –
A father of communism from the Black Sea. A threat to Christianity. A threat to liberty. A class struggle that would lead to Russia and China. The Church had to be eliminated for communism to succeed. Over 100 million had to be killed. Don’t call it communism or marxism. Call it liberalism, progressivism, or socialism.
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a meeting of my significant other
A Good Friday Morning 53 Years Ago –
A bar where my siblings were according to my dad who I stopped in to see. She was a friend of my sister and didn’t have anything better to do. Later on in the afternoon she invited me to her mother’s house to get something to eat. Later on we were to meet my sister at another bar but she didn’t show. It was just the two of us. Three months later we were married.
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a fourth beast of Daniel
A Common Beast –
A second beast of the Apocalypse. John knows Daniel knows beasts. The beast which he saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. The “ten horns” also ties them together. Numbers tie history to the fulfillment of prophecy.
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a whore
A Great City –
A capital of an empire that lasted a thousand years. Constantinople is Babylon the Great. The Byzantine Empire lasted a thousand years and its capital was Constantinople. At the start there were the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire. At the end there was the tenth dynasty of Islam. All the pieces fit.
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a cultural tradition from my country that I love
A Thanksgiving –
A family, food, football, tradition. My wife was sick and told me I would have to do the turkey. After each step I would return to the bedroom for instructions. No problem. She never got a chance to do another turkey. I would have it in the oven before she got out of bed. How about turkey for breakfast?
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a little horn
A Caliph –
A sultan, and a perfect fit with Saladin if you know how to count caliphates, sultanates, or dynasties and can tell the difference. Islam can and they counted ten as in ten horns and they shall hate the whore. A connection between Daniel and the Apocalypse. Connected with numbers.
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a third john
A Storm and Thunder –
A Russian astronomer claimed John Chrysostom wrote the Apocalypse in 395 based on astronomy. This John was in Ephesus at the beginning of 401. He could have said, “there are seven kings: five are fallen.” At the time, five of the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire had fallen. Really.
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a day from your past to relive
A Football Game –
A win over the best team we played. It was the best game I ever played. It was the only touchdown I ever scored. It was my play at defensive end that won the game.
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Daily writing prompt
If you could relive one day from your past, which day would it be and why?
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