A Public Speaker –
A knowing when to be silent. An ability to speak when I should. The courage to speak when I should.
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a secret skill
a prophecy
A Fulfillment –
A historical event. Only history can confirm the fulfillment of a prophecy. Based on your interpretation. Can it be trusted? Can your bible translation be trusted? Can 60 different English translations of the bible be trusted? They don’t agree on the “word of God”. Do they agree on anything? Maybe numbers. Maybe colors.
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a christian empire
A Big Part –
A key to understanding the Apocalypse. They reigned with Christ a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire has all the pieces. Babylon the Great. Seven Heads. Ten Horns. Two Beasts. All the pieces fit. The numbers fit. They fit with Daniel. This is where you start.
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a favorite type of weather
A Cool Sunny Day –
A little breeze. Or warm enough to sit in the shade having a beer in my rocking chair on my patio watching others go by.
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a number
A Color –
A guide to interpretation. You can trust numbers and maybe colors to be reliably translated. Not so much with the other words. The “words of God” are seen differently by the many different bible translators. Who can you trust? Historians. What can you trust? Maybe numbers. Historians may have trouble with dates but they do get close enough.
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a governor
A High Priest –
A candlestick and olive tree. Two witnesses. A search for two olive trees leads to Zechariah 4:3 and that leads to Zerubbabel a governor who is always associated with Joshua a high priest. Church and state. History has two Christian empires; the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. Both were defeated by the horns of the second beast. The Byzantines actually used Greek Fire coming out of the mouths of animal figures mounted on the boats to defeat the Muslim attackers.
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a teacher most influential
A Fourth Grade Teacher –
A counter store in home room built by fathers on a Saturday morning. Cans of food brought in by all eight grades used in math class donated to the poor at the end of school year.
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a missing word
A Kingdom of God –
A reference to the millennium. The word “kingdom” cannot be found in Chapter 20 . It is not the “reign of Christ”. They “reigned with Christ”. A thousand years has a beginning and an end. The Kingdom of God will not end. Way too many think the thousand years will begin with the Second Coming. They need to check history. The first place to look.
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a river runs through it
A New Jerusalem –
A new earth with no more sea. Just a river. 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. A river and twelve gates. Three in each direction.
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a wish to do more each day
A Prayer –
A worship of God. We are being tested. Are we worthy of eternal life? Can you get along?
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