A Rampant Corruption –
A falling away. Who or what can you trust? How can you protect yourself or your loved ones? Listen and learn. Watch and see. Pray for guidance. Repent and worship. Go to church. Just show up.
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a lesson learned recently
a destruction
A Temple –
A beast in the making. Babylon and Rome destroyed the first and second Temples. They are beasts. Greece is also a beast based on the desecration of the second Temple by Antiochus IV Epiphanes. What is in the holy place now preventing the third Temple? The Dome of the Rock makes Islam the fourth beast.
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a necessary question
A Reason for the Apocalypse –
A revelation of what must shortly come to pass. Why? To prepare the way for the first coming. The Lamb of God. Not the second coming. Jesus. Lamb is mentioned 27 times. Jesus is mentioned only 12 times. John the Baptist prepared the way for the Lamb of God. He didn’t know it was Jesus.
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a city to visit
A Great City –
A fallen city that can be found no more at all. Constantinople. A name change. Time to pay attention. What is going on? Why the change? It could be important.
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a beast
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 number of questions
A Reason for Prophecy –
A search for understanding. Why, Where, Who, When, and What????? The answers should make sense. All the questions must be considered. For the most part we are limited to speculation which should be consistent with what we do know. The first question is Why. Why was the Apocalypse written?
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a thing they will say about me
A Reliable Person –
A careful person who avoided risks to a fault. He remembered others. He wanted to be remembered.
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a mark
A Number –
A year, a starting point, a date. Nearly all products have a mark or a date marking the beginning of its existence. A beast will also have a starting point and in most cases an end point. There could be an exception. One was diverse from all the beasts that were before it. How do we identify a beast?
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a fit with history
A Number –
A connection with prophecy. Different interpretations have led to over 60 different English bible translations. They all seem to agree on numbers. They all agree on a thousand years, 666, ten horns, seven heads, and five are fallen. Numbers can be used to connect history with prophecy which is the only way to verify the fulfillment of prophecy.
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a first day at work
A New Start –
A chance to make a first impression. Five times it involved a move. New everything. A good time to bond with the family. Not distracted by old friends or in-laws. It was also a chance to explore different parts of the country. Change is good.
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Daily writing prompt
Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
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