A Past Self Would Be Proud Of –
A blog on the Apocalypse. A new interpretation based on numbers and colors. Connecting history and prophecy. Only history can confirm the fulfillment of prophesy. Only numbers and colors can be trusted.
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A Year 666 –
A mark, a beginning, a Julian calendar starting in 44 BC. 622 of the Gregorian calendar, starting in 1582, marked the beginning of Islam. The Hegira marked the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 666 also marked the beginning of the attack on Constantinople if we look at Gibbon, his history, and his problem with dates. And we will.
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A Rider Named Death –
A Pale of Settlement. Pale is a boundary mainly for Jews and it looks like Ukraine. They were not allowed beyond the pale. It is now an area of death and destruction. Anyone looking for signs can start here. Fear is what you will find. The opposite of faith. Religion is being replaced with social justice but the guilt remains.
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A Bible Study In A Year –
A course online with my wife and daughter. We got together once or twice a week to discuss it. We had to take a break because life got too busy. Hope to get back to it.
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A Thousand Years –
A beast at the end. The Byzantine Empire was preceded by the Roman Empire and ended by the Ottoman Empire, the tenth dynasty of Islam. The ten horns that shall hate the whore. The seven heads are the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire. Another fit. What about the number 666? Will that fit? Yes.
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A Testimony of Jesus Christ –
A “bare record”. It was John the Baptist “who bare record”. It was John the Apostle who wrote “to the seven churches”. It was John Chrysostom, “who also am your brother”, who was in Ephesus when Jerome was finishing his Vulgate and needed a reliable copy of the Apocalypse. Three Johns. Really.
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A Celebrity Named Jordan Peterson –
A man who can talk about anything seems to have fallen in love with the stories from the Old Testament. Who can make them more interesting? He has reached millions talking about what is most important.
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A Temple –
A revelation in Daniel. What makes a beast a beast? Daniel knows beasts and abominations. Jesus wanted us to pay attention to them. An abomination is something that you do to the holy place. The Temple. Only a beast would mess with the Temple. With only two Temples, how do you get four beasts?
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A Revelation –
A purpose was to prepare the way for the first coming. John the Baptist was to introduce the Lamb of God to the world. The word “lamb” can be found 27 times in the Apocalypse. “Jesus” only 12 times. The word “Jesus” could have been added later by John the Apostle who knows John the Baptist knows the Lamb of God.
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A Meaning –
A sense of guilt may lead to a fear of God which is the beginning of wisdom. For many unavoidable guilt leads to social justice which is a poor substitute.
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