A Great City –
A fallen city that can be found no more at all. Constantinople. A name change. Time to pay attention. What is going on? Why the change? It could be important.
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a city to visit
a beast
A Temple –
A revelation in Daniel. What makes a beast a beast? Daniel knows beasts and abominations. Jesus wanted us to pay attention to them. An abomination is something that you do to the holy place. The Temple. Only a beast would mess with the Temple. With only two Temples, how do you get four beasts?
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a number of questions
A Reason for Prophecy –
A search for understanding. Why, Where, Who, When, and What????? The answers should make sense. All the questions must be considered. For the most part we are limited to speculation which should be consistent with what we do know. The first question is Why. Why was the Apocalypse written?
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a thing they will say about me
A Reliable Person –
A careful person who avoided risks to a fault. He remembered others. He wanted to be remembered.
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a mark
A Number –
A year, a starting point, a date. Nearly all products have a mark or a date marking the beginning of its existence. A beast will also have a starting point and in most cases an end point. There could be an exception. One was diverse from all the beasts that were before it. How do we identify a beast?
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a fit with history
A Number –
A connection with prophecy. Different interpretations have led to over 60 different English bible translations. They all seem to agree on numbers. They all agree on a thousand years, 666, ten horns, seven heads, and five are fallen. Numbers can be used to connect history with prophecy which is the only way to verify the fulfillment of prophecy.
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a first day at work
A New Start –
A chance to make a first impression. Five times it involved a move. New everything. A good time to bond with the family. Not distracted by old friends or in-laws. It was also a chance to explore different parts of the country. Change is good.
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Daily writing prompt
Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
a number
A Starting Point –
A thousand years in history where they reigned with Christ. The “reign of Christ” cannot be found in the bible. Only on the internet. Go figure. Start with the big number. There’s only one. No interpretation required. The smaller numbers are not so hard to find.
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a head
A Dynasty –
A suggestion that “the heads are seven successive dynasties” can be found in Sir Isaac Newton’s Daniel and the Apocalypse. The seven dynasties of the Roman Empire are listed here. The ten dynasties of Islam are listed here. Both are a fit with history. The Byzantine Empire started with the fifth dynasty of Rome and ended with the tenth dynasty of Islam.
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a speech given
A Big Deal For Me –
A few speeches but needed a lot of preparation. Don’t ever pass up a chance to give a speech but make sure you have something to say and prepare for it. Don’t wing it. Keep it short. Make ’em laugh.
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