A Necessary Pet –
A rat killer. We will never have too many cats. There will always be too many rats. Some of them are registered to vote. 17
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a number
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 pale horse
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 bike ride
A Loss Of Time –
A meditation. I let my mind wander. I watch for cars. A necessary activity. Don’t forget to exercise. More important than diet. 16
a beast at the start
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 revelation
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 problem for me
A Reason Why –
A lack of charity. I don’t like people. I don’t think I judge them but I know that I judge what they do. It is hard to separate the two. 15
a beast
A Temple –
A desolation. The abomination of desolation, spoken of by Jesus, leads us to the abomination in Daniel. They shall take away the daily sacrifice. That’s the Temple. The first one was destroyed by Babylon. The second was desecrated by Greece and destroyed by Rome. Islam is preventing the third. That is what makes a beast a beast. Count ’em.
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a prophecy
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 certainty
A List Of 10 Things –
A truth that is known: a Creator, I think, reason, life, meaning, order, cause, effect, beauty, and guilt. Just ask AI for seven, 14
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