A Time To Enjoy –
A beer in my rocking chair on my porch watching the world go by. This includes checking to see what plants need to be moved, replaced, watered, trimmed, etc.
a leisure time
a commentary
A Witness –
A view of what was. We don’t know what the Apocalypse looked like in the third century. Victorinus knew and we know what his commentary looked like. It didn’t include the seven churches John wrote to. It did include the seven churches Paul wrote to. There is a reasonable explanation for this. He is not the only witness.
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a number
A Reliable Word –
A consistent interpretation. Numbers are one of the few things all 60 English translations of the bible agree on. They all agree on “a thousand years”, 666, “ten horns”, and “seven heads” . Can we find historical events that have all these numbers in a meaningful way? Start with the biggest number. A thousand years.
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a zoo
A Place With Animals –
A sad place to visit. Animals should be free. Free to think if they can. Free to speak if they will. Don’t fence me in. Let me wander and let me talk about it. Freedom is an attraction to visit whenever you can.
Daily writing prompt
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.
a repetition
A Recapitulation –
A reinforcement, a necessary theory in understanding the Apocalypse first introduced by Victorinus of Pettau. It holds that the visions are not necessarily in chronological order and possibly a repetition of other visions. Many interpretation errors are a result of assuming the chapters are in chronological order.
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a prophecy
A Fulfillment –
A historical event. Only history can confirm the fulfillment of a prophecy. Based on your interpretation. Can it be trusted? Can your bible translation be trusted? Can 60 different English translations of the bible be trusted? They don’t agree on the “word of God”. Do they agree on anything? Maybe numbers. Maybe colors.
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a river runs through it
A New Jerusalem –
A Church on a rock. Rome with twelve gates and one river running through it. Don’t wait for it to cometh down out of heaven. It is here now. Just as Jerusalem was the center of the Jewish religion, Rome, the New Jerusalem is the center of the Christian religion. See the map. His Church.
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a number
A Color –
A guide to interpretation. You can trust numbers and maybe colors to be reliably translated. Not so much with the other words. The “words of God” are seen differently by the many different bible translators. Who can you trust? Historians. What can you trust? Maybe numbers. Historians may have trouble with dates but they do get close enough.
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a fun thing
A List –
A word is sufficient. Gutfeld. WordPress. Beer. Music. Cats.
a witness
A Candlestick –
A church and a state represented by the olive tree. The Apocalypse and Zechariah are connected by “two olive trees”. This leads to Zerubbabel, the state, and that leads to Joshua, the church, and together they built the second temple. The Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire are the two witnesses of the Apocalypse.
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