A Necessary Ingredient
to verify the fulfillment of prophecy. Your interpretation can prevent you from identifying the historical events that have been prophesied. Numbers do not require interpretation. All bible translations agree on numbers and colors. That is where you need to start.
A Cottage Industry
that goes beyond home bible studies. It uses private interpretation of ambiguous phases in prophecy to support a particular agenda. It ignores two thousand years of history simply because it doesn’t fit with preconceived interpretations. History is the only advantage we have over the early fathers of the Church so why not use it? How can we use prophecy to search history without first interpreting it? Numbers. Numbers and possibly colors don’t require interpretation. Start with numbers. Big numbers like a thousand.
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A Literal Interpretation
when different bibles use different words. Numbers and some colors are the only words you can rely on. Especially when it comes to prophecy. How can you be sure a historic event fulfills what has been prophesied? Numbers. Numbers that fit historical events. Almost all the bibles agree on numbers. No interpretation required. Use them.
A Study
of the Apocalypse. The results of this research have been presented on four different forums over the past 15 years. The latest and possibly the greatest presentation is at Theology Forums. Here using history I have specifically identified all the major parts of the Apocalypse. I don’t think you will find another presentation like this.
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A Date
for the Apocalypse. 30 September 395 and the author is John Chrysostom. All this according to Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov. For some reason R. H. Charles chose to include this in his book, “STUDIES IN THE APOCALYPSE”. There are more reasons to consider Chrysostom.
A Clue
that there is more than one writer of the Apocalypse. John is told to eat the little book and then is told he must prophesy again. It could be John the Apostle eating the little book written by John the Baptist. The Apostle would add Jesus, Antipas, and the seven churches.
A Conjecture
it is a reasonable explanation for the questions surrounding the Apocalypse. The original was about the first coming hence the time was near. Later in Ephesus there were John the Baptist followers who didn’t know Jesus. John the Apostle was well aware of this.
A Catholic Website
has this to say about the Apocalypse. “We cannot conclude without mentioning the theory advanced by the German scholar Vischer. He holds the Apocalypse to have been originally a purely Jewish composition, and to have been changed into a Christian work by the insertion of those sections that deal with Christian subjects. From a doctrinal point of view, we think, it cannot be objected to. There are other instances where inspired writers have availed themselves of non-canonical literature. Intrinsically considered it is not improbable. The Apocalypse abounds in passages which bear no specific Christian character but, on the contrary, show a decidedly Jewish complexion. Yet on the whole the theory is but a conjecture.”
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A Problem
with the Apocalypse. Why would he introduce himself three times at the beginning of the first chapter? There is only one reasonable explanation. They are three different Johns. John the Baptist, John the Apostle, and John Chrysostom. Nothing else makes sense. It must be considered.
A Reasonable Theory
posed by Josephine Massyngbaerde Ford was that John the Baptist wrote the first version. It was not well received even though many scholars have held that the Apocalypse was the work of more than one author. It has also been held that the Apocalypse was first written in Hebrew and later translated into Greek.
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