A Christian Empire
and there were two of them. Two witnesses. One lasted a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire. The other was the Holy Roman Empire. The state is the olive tree and the church is the candlestick. Just another fit.
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A Clue
that can lead you to the two witnesses. The Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire. Church and state are the two witnesses. A bible search of “two olive trees” connects Zechariah 4 with Revelation 11 and that leads to the two witnesses.
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A Crown
with a white horse. Constantine the third most significant person of all time with a bow which is a covenant with God from the Mediterranean aka the white sea in Turkey.
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A Pale Horse
and on him was death. With the exception of oil spills, there is no pale sea. Death is everywhere. The pale horse is with us now.
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A Great Sword
with power to take peace from the earth. Mohammed from the Red Sea is the Antichrist and the rider of the red horse. The biggest threat to Christianity is Islam and it will remain so. The history of Islam. They deny the Father and the Son.
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A Bow
is a covenant between God and man. Another clue from the Old Testament that can help us identify the rider of the white horse. What can we learn from the color? White, Red, and Black seas could be geographical clues. Not so much with the White Sea until you realize the Turks call the Mediterranean Sea the white sea. Now that is interesting. Can we make it fit?
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A Unique Perspective
on who wrote the Apocalypse. J. Massyngberde Ford may be the first and only one to suggest the first version of the Apocalypse was written by John the Baptist. It takes a lot of courage to suggest something that was not considered by any expert. The chances are real good it won’t be well received. If it makes sense, it should be considered.
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A Reasonable Explanation
as to why some did not think the Apocalypse belonged in the Bible. It looked like a Jewish Apocalyptic book without the churches, and the name of Jesus. Something John the Baptist would write to prepare the way for the Lamb of God. You will find lamb 27 times in the Apocalypse.
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A Book
A City of God includes his analysis of the Apocalypse well after Jerome’s Vulgate. Did Augustine wait for it? They did have some issues. Jerome also had some issues with Victorinus but may not have realized that Victorinus may have been looking at another version, the first version written by John the Baptist which did not include the seven churches. In his commentary Victorinus called them the seven spirits.
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