A Sea of Marmara
A Greek fire on the Sea of Marmara, which was like a sheet of glass is a good fit with “a sea of glass mingled with fire”. Constantinople used Greek fire on the Sea of Marmara against the Islamic attack. The year was 666. Historians will never agree on this date but Gibbon got real close to it.
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A Julian Calendar
A Hijri marked the beginning of Islam in 622 of the Gregorian calendar which didn’t start until 1582. Before that, the Julian calendar was in effect. The common year, 44 BC, has the Hijri in 666 of the Julian calendar. Most bible translations calculate this number. A sea of glass mingled with fire is an interesting fit.
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A Problem with Dates
A history of Rome by Gibbon. Go ahead, pick an Islamic calendar converter and put 46 in it. You get 666. 46 is the number Gibbon used. 46 years after the Hijri year Constantinople was attacked. A date is a mark. Gibbon notes the problems with dates. There are other ways to get to 666. Stay tuned.
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A Year
A date, a beginning, a start, a mark. Nearly every product sold today has a date marking its beginning. The word “number” in Daniel refers to years. Historians are good at ignoring what may have happened in the year 666 but we do know Islam was getting ready to attack Constantinople about that time.
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A Great Sultan
A fit with Daniel. Saladin came out of the Fatimid Caliphate, the fourth of ten Islamic dynasties, and would start the fifth, the Ayyubid dynasty. We also have the Battle of the Horns of Hama and the Battle of the Horns of Hattin. Saladin was involved in both of them. He not only beat the crusaders, he beat Richard the Lionheart. It’s a fit.
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A Red Sea
A great sword and power to take peace from the earth. Mohammed is the rider, the Antichrist and the father of Islam which is the fourth beast of Daniel and the second beast of the Apocalypse. The other threat to Christianity is Marxism. Marx, the rider of black horse, is the father of Communism from the Black Sea.
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A Dome of the Rock
A desolation. What is in the holy place now? The Dome of the Rock is preventing the third temple and that makes Islam a beast different from all the others. The “ten horns” are the ten dynasties of Islam. Counted by Islamic sources. The Ottoman Empire, the tenth dynasty, ended the thousand year Christian empire, The Byzantine Empire, in 1453.
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A Fit with Daniel 11
A fit with the Apocalypse and Matthew: Mohammed, the king of south
Fatimah, his daughter
Muawiyah, his commander, the king of the north
Abd Allah ibn Mas’ada al-Fazari, a raiser of taxes
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, placed the abomination that maketh desolate What is in the holy place now?
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A Fit with Numbers
A thousand year empire starting with the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire and ending with the tenth dynasty of Islam. The first beast, Rome, whose deadly wound was healed was replaced by the second beast Islam. The Byzantine Empire fits with all the numbers you can trust. You can’t trust interpretation.
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A Prophecy
A servant of God. He comes quickly. The Lamb of God known only to John the Baptist. Who, what, when, and why are now clear. The first coming. Prepare the way for the second coming. The way is the same. Repent for the time is at hand. Paul said there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,
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