A Child With His Mother At Church –
A special memory. She chose me to go with her to the early mass. My dad would take my two older brothers to a later mass. The younger ones stayed home.
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a positive example of where I felt loved
a problem with dates
A Historian Named Gibbon –
A year 666. Constantinople was attacked 46 years after the Hijrah. Put 46 in an Islamic calendar converter and you get 666. The Julian calendar which started in 45 BC will also result in 666 for the Hijrah of 622. The Gregorian calendar didn’t start until 1582. A date is a mark and no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, This is true today. Home 17
a reduction in clutter
A Room Where I Sit –
A lot of stuff I see on every horizontal surface. I should start with the floor so I don’t trip and fall. The waste basket is empty because I can’t decide what to throw away. It might be important or something I can use later. Envelopes that are not opened.
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a sea of glass mingled with fire
A Greek Fire –
A Sea of Marmara like a sheet of glass. They used Greek Fire on the Sea of Marmara when Islam attacked in the year 666. ” And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”. 15:2
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a favorite animal
A Cat –
A bird would be second. Tiny, a black cat, was my favorite as a kid. My first pet and the scratches on my hands proved how much I played with it. Much later as a retiree I would feed feral cats on my patio and I loved them. We will never have too many cats.
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a beast with ten horns
A Historian Named Sebeos –
A first to name Islam as the fourth beast of Daniel. Most still think it is Rome even though it doesn’t fit. What does fit? Rome with seven dynasties starting the Byzantine Empire that would last a thousand years ending with the tenth dynasty of Islam. It was the second dynasty of Islam that attacked Constantinople in 666.
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a communication online
A Forum –
A blog and email. Started with email 30 years ago. Forums 20 years and my blog 9 years. Can we talk? Have a dialogue? It can be a great experience but rarely happens. It helps when you have something to say.
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a lot of beasts in the bible
A KJV with 296 –
A book of Daniel with four great ones. What is so great about them? Jesus gives us a clue with the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. What is in the holy place now? The Dome of the Rock is preventing the third Temple. Does that make Islam the fourth beast of Daniel? Babylon destroyed the first one. Rome destroyed the second. Greece desecrated the second. The only time Jesus got mad was with the money changers at the Temple. I wonder if he feels the same about His Church.
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a most memorable road trip
A Spring Break –
A drive through the night. First experience with the light before dawn. My brother and I are in an old station wagon with a mattress in the back. Two girls who knew about a party would not get in the car when they saw the mattress.
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a ten horns shall hate the whore
A Great City Fell To The Tenth Dynasty of Islam –
A fourth beast of Daniel and the Second beast of the Apocalypse had ten horns. What makes a beast a beast? It could be the Temple. Babylon destroyed the first Temple. Rome destroyed the second. Greece desecrated the second. What is preventing the third? The Dome of the Rock. That would make Islam the fourth beast. It fits. Constantinople fell to the tenth dynasty of Islam. All named by Islam.
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apocalypse 