apocalypse

is a youtube video with a billion views.  A wedding song that is not quite good enough to justify that many looks.  It must be the title.  It suggests a growing interest in the Apocalypse.  Many are looking for the “reign of Christ” that can’t be found in the bible.  What you will find in the bible is “they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years”, which is significantly different.  A good example of unjustified interpretation.  The thousand years is history.

that has all the little parts including Babylon the Great which really isn’t that little.  It has many waters, seven heads, ten horns, and, most important, it has the beast that was, is not, and yet is. The only thing missing is the “reign of Christ”, which is also missing in the bible, but it does have those who reigned with Christ a thousand years.  Look for The Byzantine Empire.

Watch for more pieces that fit.  Blessed is the one who looks.

searching history for the fulfillment of prophecy.  Numbers do not require interpretation.  Forget about numbers being symbolic.  If it says seven, count ’em, it means seven.  If it says a thousand years, look for a thousand years.  It’s real easy, there was only one empire that lasted that long and guess what, it was a Christian one where they reigned with Christ.  If you are looking for the reign of Christ, you won’t find it in history and you won’t find it in the bible either.

Watch for more pieces that fit.  Blessed is the one who looks.

that goes beyond home bible studies.  It uses private interpretation of ambiguous phases in prophecy to support a particular agenda.  It ignores two thousand years of history simply because it doesn’t fit with preconceived interpretations.  History is the only advantage we have over the early fathers of the Church so why not use it?  How can we use prophecy to search history without first interpreting it?  Numbers.  Numbers and possibly colors don’t require interpretation.  Start with numbers.  Big numbers like a thousand.

Watch for more pieces that fit.  Blessed is the one who looks.

Google “reign of Christ” and you will get more than 5 million hits in less than a half second.  Search the bible for “reign of Christ” and you will get 0 Bible results for “”reign of Christ”.”  How do you explain this?  Interpretation run amuck.

is who can say “five are fallen” or “the beast that was, and is not”?  John Chrysostom could.  He was in Ephesus at the time replacing seven corrupt bishops.  At the time Jerome was finishing up his translation of the Bible.  At the time there was a question as to whether or not the Apocalypse belonged in the Bible.  It is in the bible because Jerome and others believed John the Apostle wrote it in spite of a  great deal of evidence to the contrary.

Watch for more pieces that fit.  Blessed is the one who looks.

at sea greeted John Chrysostom, the patriarch of Constantinople, at the beginning of the fifth century when he was on his way to Ephesus to replace seven corrupt bishops.  Morozov, a Russian astronomer dated the Apocalypse to be in the year 395, based on astronomy, in his book “REVELATION IN THUNDERSTORM AND TEMPEST” and suggested John Chrysostom was the only one around at that time who could have written it.  For some strange reason R. H. Charles decided to include this in his “Studies in the Apocalypse”. Go figure.

Watch for more pieces that fit.  Blessed is the one who looks.

commented on the Apocalypse.  How did he get a copy?  Tertullian produced the only record we have on  Antipas and the churches prior to the fourth century.  He didn’t say much about the Apocalypse but somehow it included Antipas and three of the churches.  Victorinus and Eusebius, who was obsessed with martyrs, had plenty to say about the Apocalypse but failed to mention either.  What were they looking at?

Watch for more pieces that fit.  Blessed is the one who looks.