A Most Important Question –
A test. That is the answer. What is the purpose? Prepare for eternal life which is a long time to put up with someone who can’t get along. The test will determine who can. Can you?
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a meaning of life
a meaning of life
A Trust Test –
A proof that you can get along. What will you do with your free will? Eternal life is a long time. Trouble makers must be eliminated. Can you be trusted?
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a speculation
A Conjecture –
A reasonable explanation to address what is not settled. Who wrote it? When was it written? Why was the Apocalypse written? The Apocalypse has “a decidedly Jewish complexion” and it was suggested that John the Baptist was the first writer. Others have suggested multiple writers. All named John.
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a river runs through it
A New Jerusalem –
A Church on a rock. Rome with twelve gates and one river running through it. Don’t wait for it to cometh down out of heaven. It is here now. Just as Jerusalem was the center of the Jewish religion, Rome, the New Jerusalem is the center of the Christian religion. See the map. His Church.
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a word or phrase that annoys me
A Racist –
A word that is overused by politicians to get elected because it works. The Supreme Court is now racist because it won’t allow racist congressional districts. I am now a racist for writing about the word. We have to stop using this word because it works. Sorry I used it.
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a constellation
A Date for the Apocalypse –
A bishop, John Chrysostom, is the writer according to the astronomer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov who sets the date as 395. At this time five of the seven dynasties of Rome had fallen. Chrysostom was in Ephesus at the end of the fourth century. Would he not look for evidence of the most famous book of the bible? Was Chrysostom the third John of the Apocalypse?
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a witness
A Candlestick –
A church and a state represented by the olive tree. The Apocalypse and Zechariah are connected by “two olive trees”. This leads to Zerubbabel, the state, and that leads to Joshua, the church, and together they built the second temple. The Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire are the two witnesses of the Apocalypse.
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a reasonable explanation
A Third John –
A confirmation that the apostle wrote the Apocalypse was necessary to get it in the Bible which was being translated and defined by Jerome. Just before the Vulgate was completed John Chrysostom was in Ephesus replacing seven corrupt bishops. Jerome needed a reliable version of the Apocalypse. A third John who also am your brother.
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a perfect road trip plan
A Hotel With Walkable Restaurants –
A gas station location. A rest stop about noon for a sandwich and beer. A couple more beers in cooler to drink after reaching hotel and before walking to restaurant.
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a white horse
A White Sea –
A bow, a covenant between God and man. Not from the White Sea but from the Aegean or Mediterranean Sea aka the white sea. Constantine is the rider of the white horse who made the world safe for Christianity. This artist has a rainbow in his hand. Constantine started the thousand years where they reigned with Christ.
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