apocalypse

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.  So what happened that year?

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“Forty-six years after the flight of Mahomet from Mecca, his disciples appeared in arms under the walls of Constantinople.”  source  If Gibbon had known about the Islamic calendar and was able to convert it to the Gregorian calendar, he would have gotten 666.

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“In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbours of Gaul, from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran; that protected the majesty of Rome, and delayed the servitude of Constantinople; that invigorated the defence of the Christians, and scattered among their enemies the seeds of division and decay.”  source

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that protected the Christians of Europe from Islamic expansion.  Historians from Gibbon to Captivating History are recognizing the importance of the walls of Constantinople.  It makes me think of a great chain that might restrain a beast.

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just by changing the name of Constantinople to Istanbul.  Before this five key characteristics of Babylon the Great were already met:

and now six

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you will not find in the bible but you will hear it often in Christian forums.  For the record it says ‘they will reign with Christ’.  It does not say Christ will reign with them.  Big difference.  Consequently many ignore a Christian empire that lasted a thousand years.  The Byzantine Empire.  A big piece of the puzzle called the Apocalypse.  Many pieces of the puzzle you will find in the history of the Byzantine Empire.

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with all the pieces of the puzzle.  The Byzantine Empire was a Christian empire the lasted a thousand years where they reigned with Christ.  Constantinople, its capital, is Babylon the Great. It was started by Constantine the rider of the white horse.  At its beginning the beast from the sea, paganism of the Roman Empire, was mortally wounded with seven heads, which were the seven dynasties.  It was ended by the tenth horn of the beast from the earth.  The ten horns were the dynasties of Islam.

in dating the Apocalypse if you know how to count kings.  I know how to count the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire.  Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come.  There is only one famous John who could have said that.  John Chrysostom was in Ephesus at the beginning of 401.  The third John of chapter one with John the Baptist and John the Apostle being the first two. Chapter 17 ties it altogether.  Babylon the Great, the two beasts, the seven heads, and the ten horns.

who reigned with Christ at the same time.  The thousand years had already started and the first beast had been mortally wounded.  Jerome gave us the bible.  Augustine gave us theology.  John gave us liturgy.  It was John Chrysostom who was exiled from Constantinople, Babylon the Great, the capital of a Christian empire that would last a thousand years.  It was ended by the tenth dynasty of Islam.

knows when the Apocalypse was written and who wrote it.  John Chrysostom in 395.  This John was in Ephesus in 401 replacing seven bishops when five of the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire had already fallen.  Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov is the astronomer.  Most of us know that the Apocalypse was written well before 395 but few understand that three Johns are  involved.  John the Baptist, John the Apostle, and John Chrysostom