A Revelation of Jesus Christ
A number to connect it with history. You can trust numbers. Not interpretation. Not even the translators who somehow get the numbers right. Historians do have trouble with dates but eventually they get it right. The fulfillment of prophecy can only be confirmed with numbers.
A Revelation of Jesus Christ
A blessing for reading and hearing this prophecy. It must shortly come to pass. The first coming. Not the second. John the Baptist was preparing the way. John the Apostle knew this when he wrote to the seven churches. John Chrysostom, your brother, knew that when he was in Ephesus and Jerome was finishing the Vulgate.
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A Servant of God
A “lamb” and the “bare record” ties John the Baptist to the Apocalypse. Vischer holds the Apocalypse to have been originally a purely Jewish composition. It would not have included the seven churches that Eusebius and Victorinus failed to recognize. A reasonable explanation why they didn’t.
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A Servant of God
A servant named John. Named three times. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants. That’s plural. There are three different Johns. The Baptist, the Apostle, and the Chrysostom. A reasonable explanation.
A Lamb of God
A voice crying is the wilderness. The word “lamb” is mentioned 27 times in the Apocalypse. John the Baptist knew the “Lamb of God”. He was preparing the way for “the time is at hand”. John the Baptist did not know Jesus was the Lamb of God. John the Apostle knew that and was also aware of his following.
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A Misinformed Person
A distinction without a difference. The lie doesn’t care. Only the truth matters as far as the lie is concerned. The lie can’t handle the truth. It must be blocked. What is your test for the truth? Does the truth need to be protected? No. Only the lie. Is your source for the truth protecting the lie?
A Witness
A Church History that includes six of the seven churches that John wrote to but Eusebius never associates them with the Apocalypse. Victorinus doesn’t even mention them. Is it possible there is a version of the Apocalypse that doesn’t include the seven churches? It could be a reasonable explanation for what we are looking at.
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A Reason To Read
A reader who is blessed. Promised at the beginning and again at the end. Five times in between for a total of seven. Being blessed is a good thing. Especially during times of confusion. Our leaders are lying. Where do we go for the truth? Can we recognize the truth?
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.
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A Shame of Nakedness
A letter to the church of the Laodiceans. He will spue you out of His mouth if you are lukewarm. May you be clothed so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. He stands at your door, and knocks: if you hear His voice, and open the door, He will come in, and will sup with you.
