A Meditation –
A chance to let your mind wander. Block only negative thoughts. Entertain all others. This is a time when God might take over what you are thinking about. A good thing.
a positive change in my life
a calculation
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 holy place
A Desolation –
A third temple has not happened and will not happen. Not one stone here will be left upon another. Daniel has three references to the abomination. The first one is Antiochus IV and he shall make it desolate. The second is the Umayyad dynasty and they shall place the Dome of the Rock which now stands in the holy place preventing the daily sacrifice.
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a bike ride at dawn
A Best Exercise –
A red sky to appreciate and a bike trail to enjoy. Can’t say it’s fun. Dancing is fun. Don’t often get to do it.
a historian
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 head
A Dynasty –
A beast. What makes a beast? The temple. Don’t mess with the temple. Daniel’s beasts did. Babylon destroyed the first temple. Greece desecrated the second. Rome destroyed the second. Islam is preventing the third. Enter the Dome of the Rock. What is now in the holy place spoken of by Jesus?
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a book read over and over again
A Book Of Revelation –
A period in my life when I read it every day and each day something new would get my attention. The last book in the Bible. The Apocalypse. The beginning of my research into history to find prophecies that had been fulfilled. Numbers were used to connect them. Only numbers could be trusted.
a number
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 horn
A Dynasty –
A hatred of the whore. Constantinople, Babylon the Great, fell to the tenth dynasty of Islam in 1453. This ended a thousand year Christian empire that started with the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire. Behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. The “ten horns” ties the fourth beast of Daniel to the second beast of John.
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a character in the movies
A Hero –
A dragon slayer. A damsel in distress. This is what we want in a movie. What do we get now? Social justice. Nudity. Foul language.The chase. Forced equity. Violence. Let them entertain me with song and dance. With beauty and romance, not with sex, chaos, and destruction.
Daily writing prompt
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
