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Posted on March 28, 2020March 17, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

translations

A Bigger Problem
compared to the problem with interpretation if you are looking for the king of the north. There are eight different words in 52 different translations: princes 24, commanders 10, officers 7, officials 5, generals 2, leaders 2, principalities 1, subordinates 1. The word prince suggests a family member unlike the other seven words which have a common meaning. Makes you wonder about words used in other parts of the bible. These are major differences in words used before you get to the problem of interpreting them. Reader beware.
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Posted on March 27, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

NEWTON

A Design
“Amongst the Interpreters of the last age there is scarce one of note who hath not made some discovery worth knowing; and thence I seem to gather that God is about opening these mysteries. The success of others put me upon considering it; and if I have done any thing which may be useful to following writers, I have my design,” a quote that can be found in “Observations On Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John” by Sir Isaac Newton, an online book that is searchable. Newton spent a lot of time investigating the Apocalypse and his views should be considered by anyone who wants to understand.

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Posted on March 27, 2020March 12, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

Newton

A Historian
who did not appreciate interpretation. “The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretel times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men’s curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.”
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Posted on March 26, 2020March 12, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

Newton

A Valuable Source
for information on the Apocalypse and it is all online. The Newton Project for all his works.
“Observations On Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John” by Sir Isaac Newton, an online book that is searchable. Newton spent a lot of time investigating the Apocalypse and his views should be considered by anyone who wants to understand.
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Posted on March 23, 2020March 12, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

Babylon the Great

A Mystery

and likely to remain so. Rome was not a mystery. Constantinople is even though it is a better fit. It has all the characteristics. No other city has them. Many waters, seven hills, trade, is fallen, is fallen, and can be found no more at all. Experts on the Apocalypse can’t find it.

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Posted on March 22, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

the time is at hand

A Prophecy

made two thousand years ago. This was not about the end times! It was about the first coming. His “time is at hand” was two thousand years ago. John the Baptist knew that and he was preparing the way for the “Lamb of God”. You will find the word “lamb” 27 times in the Apocalypse. This suggests John the Baptist wrote the first version.

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Posted on March 21, 2020March 12, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

behold

A Dragon

in the Apocalypse. It is tied to the ten horns of Daniel’s fourth beast. It is also tied to the lion, bear, and leopard of the first three beasts of Daniel. John’s two beasts must fit Daniel. To understand Daniel is to understand the Apocalypse. We need to find two common beasts.

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Posted on March 20, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

is it

A Chastisement

for our immorality? Many spiritual leaders might want you to believe that. Fear of hell doesn’t seem to work. The second death should give you pause. Fear only God.

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Posted on March 20, 2020March 7, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

the beasts

A Fit With Daniel

based on the “ten horns”. The two beasts of the Apocalypse are the last two beasts of Daniel. Numbers and history are used to identify the fourth beast of Daniel. History clearly shows the ten dynasties of Islam made war with the saints. The Ottoman Empire, the tenth dynasty of Islam ended a thousand year Christian empire, the Byzantine Empire. It’s a fit.

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Posted on March 19, 2020March 7, 2020 by apocalypse2blog

Saladin

A Little Horn

in Daniel. Another fit with history that can’t be denied. Not proof but a fit. A better fit, if found, should be presented. Both John (the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings) and Daniel (the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings) tell us horns are kings. A dynasty has kings and Islam had ten dynasties named by Islam. Saladin, before whom there were three of the first horns, came out of the fourth dynasty and started the fifth. A fit with numbers.

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