A Color
do not require interpretation. Numbers like 1000, 666, 10, 7, 5, and 2. Colors like white, red, and black. Stick with numbers and colors and you won’t be misled. Also look in the Old Testament for similar words like ‘bow‘ and you will find that it could be a ‘covenant‘ and not a weapon.
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A City
that connects all the pieces. Constantinople has it all. A thousand years, a seven headed beast that was, a ten horned beast that was yet to come, an attack in the year 666, and all the characteristics of Babylon the Great.
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A Dynasty
and there are seven of them. Kings but way too many to count. Dynasties are also hard to count but not for some historians. It’s their job. Rome had seven dynasties:
– Julio-Claudian dynasty 68
– Flavian dynasty 96
– Nerva–Antonine dynasty 192
– Severan dynasty 235
– Constantinian dynasty 361
– Valentinian Dynasty 455
– House of Leo 476
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A Common Characteristic
with the beast of Daniel and the Apocalypse. Both Daniel and John tell us that the horns are kings. That doesn’t help much. There are way too many kings. This forced the interpreters to consider dynasties or kingdoms. This helps if you know how to count them. I don’t so I have to rely on the beast to count them for me. No problem. The ten dynasties of Islam.
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A Key
to unlock the door to understanding the Apocalypse. They are connected. You can’t solve one without solving the other. The abomination of desolation and the attack on Constantinople in 666 point to Islam. To make it fit we need to identify the “ten horns” and while were at it, let’s see if we can identify the “king of the north” and the “king of the south”.
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A Holy Place
in Daniel spoken of by Jesus. Not there but the abomination of desolation is. Three times. Which one is Jesus talking about? What is standing in the holy place? Is it an it or a person? There is little agreement here. Wikipedia has three possibilities to consider: Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167 BC, Titus in 70 AD, and the Dome of the Rock by the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in 691 AD. The last one is with us today. This is the one we need to consider.
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A Beast
is a beast. That is four. Daniel had four. John had two but they had “ten horns” in common. So what makes a beast a beast? Only Daniel can tell us that. Most agree on Babylon, Greece, and Rome. What do they have in common? The Temple. The first destroyed the first. The second desecrated the second. The third destroyed the second. The fourth must be preventing the third. That would be the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. So what is in the holy place now?
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A Fit
with other pieces of the puzzle. You need a lot of pieces that fit to get a clear picture of what you have. That is why you start with the big pieces. Little pieces are way too easy to find and they will always fit your interpretation especially in the future. So there is no proof. Just historical pieces that seem to fit a literal interpretation. More pieces are better.
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A Date
Edward Gibbon used to mark the first attack on Constantinople by the Arabs. More precisely he had it “Forty-six years after the flight of Mahomet from Mecca“. That year was 622. If he had used an Islamic calendar converter, it would have calculated 666. Most versions of the bible “calculate the number”.
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A Mark
a beginning, a date stamp, which is the most common mark there is, and nearly everything made has it. To get the date right we must look at the Proleptic Julian calendar and 44 BC. The Gregorian calendar didn’t start until 1582. We must also look at 622, the beginning of Islam and the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 666 of the Julian calendar marks the beginning of Islam. The Hijra.
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