A Necessary Ingredient
A Place
A Rider
with authority to kill with sword, famine, and plague. May not find a pale green sea but I will continue to look. It’s my job. I will also continue to look for people who are killed by the sword, famine, and plague. I will not waste my time trying to interpret the phrase. All we can do is look for historical events that might fit.
A Sea of Colors
that suggest the identity of the horsemen. Start with the Red Sea and the Black Sea. Start with a sword and the power to take peace from the world. Start with the history of Islam from the Red Sea . The colors have meaning. Early on the greatest threat to the Church was Islam. History shows that. The next great threat was Communism from the Black Sea.
A Rider
of the white horse from the white sea, the Mediterranean Sea. He had a bow not unlike the bow in Genesis 9:13. No one did more to grow the Church. Constantine the Great was followed by those who would attack it. The riders of the red and black horses from the Red Sea and the Black Sea.
A City
Watch for more pieces that fit. Blessed is the one who looks.
A Detective
following leads. Early on in this investigation, I found another city with seven hills, a mystery, and an empire that lasted a thousand years. There is only one that lasted that long. It was a Christian empire. It was the Byzantine Empire. So why am I the only one paying attention to it? How can you ignore it? Easy if you are looking for Christ to reign. So where does it say Christ will reign?
A Word
I guess that is my job. To fill the gap I will point out that Augustine had words with Jerome about not needing another translation of the bible. Jerome finished the Vulgate at least twenty years before Augustine wrote chapter 7, where he addresses the Apocoalypse, in Book XX of City of God.
A Prediction
found in the bible. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world. When I started my research twenty years ago I had to visit many libraries. Today thanks to the computer, Google, and online resources like New Advent and Wikipedia nearly all the material is at my finger tips. Apostles and missionaries have been replaced by the Internet. God bless the Internet. God bless those who made the information available to us.
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A Good Example
of the corruption in the eastern church at the beginning of the 5th century. John Chrysostom, one of the great saints of the eastern church was exiled because of this so called pope theophilus of alexandria. This was the beginning of the east west schism. Jerome who was apparently getting money from theophilus was forced to get involved in this dispute. Jerome’s letter to theophilus is very interesting.
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