A Bike Ride In The Morning –
A cool quiet time to breath fresh air and flex joints. As you get older walking gets more difficult but not the bike ride, even over 80.
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a favorite physical exercise
a little book
A Second John –
A prophecy repeated. John the Apostle to the seven churches. John the Baptist who bare record knew the Lamb of God and the Apostle knew the Baptist. John Chrysostom, a third john and a brother, was in Ephesus at the beginning of the fifth century when Jerome was finishing the Vulgate, the official bible of the Church.
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a sea of glass
A Sea of Marmara –
A Greek fire on the Sea of Marmara, which was like a sheet of glass is a good fit with “a sea of glass mingled with fire”. Constantinople used Greek fire on the Sea of Marmara against the Islamic attack. The year was 666. Historians will never agree on this date but Gibbon got real close to it.
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a something others do
A Good Neighborly Deed –
A picking up of a newspaper or moving of their garbage cans. What I see from my patio. Puting their car in the garage and closing the garage door.
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a prophecy repeated
A Little Book To Eat –
A command to prophesy again. Why would John eat a little book? To get it into the bible. It is in the bible because certain key players believed it was written by the Apostle. So who wrote the little book that John ate? The Baptist. He was preparing the way for Lamb. The ‘Lamb’ can be found 27 times in the Apocalypse. “Bare record” can be found five times in the bible.
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a calculation
A Julian Calendar –
A Hijri marked the beginning of Islam in 622 of the Gregorian calendar which didn’t start until 1582. Before that, the Julian calendar was in effect. The common year, 44 BC, has the Hijri in 666 of the Julian calendar. Most bible translations calculate this number. A sea of glass mingled with fire is an interesting fit.
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a favorite cartoon
A Roadrunner –
A Tom and Jerry as a kid. The Saturday matinee would include an hour of cartoons. What a treat. Great memory.
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a clue
A Dog That Didn’t Bark –
A commentary by Victorinus on the Apocalypse. He mentions the seven churches that Paul wrote to but not the ones John wrote to. Eusebius has the same problem. He mentions six of the seven churches of the Apocalypse but never associates any of them with the Apocalypse. Is there a reasonable explanation for this?
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a historian
A Problem with Dates –
A history of Rome by Gibbon. 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. There are other ways to get to 666. Stay tuned.
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a thing to do less of
A Consumption –
A food and drink. Fasting is the goal. Increasing the time when you are not eating or drinking. Especially before bedtime.
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