A Thinker –
A time to think about me. Can you overthink it? The real danger is not to think at all. Meditate and let God control your thinking.
a favorite thing about myself
a pale horse
A Rider Named Death –
A Pale of Settlement. Pale is a boundary mainly for Jews and it looks like Ukraine. They were not allowed beyond the pale. It is now an area of death and destruction. Anyone looking for signs can start here. Fear is what you will find. The opposite of faith. Religion is being replaced with social justice but the guilt remains.
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a mystery
A Great City –
A beast that was, is not, and is yet to come. Constantinople can be found no more at all. It comes with two beasts. It started with the Roman Empire and ended with the Ottoman Empire a thousand years later. This is the mystery and it will likely remain so. Go figure.
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a retirement
A Work In Progress –
A slow reduction in activity. Started morning bike ride at 71 and still doing it at 83. Time with grandchildren. Potted plants. Rocking chair. Neighborhood watch.
a revelation
A Testimony of Jesus Christ –
A “bare record”. It was John the Baptist “who bare record”. It was John the Apostle who wrote “to the seven churches”. It was John Chrysostom, “who also am your brother”, who was in Ephesus when Jerome was finishing his Vulgate and needed a reliable copy of the Apocalypse. Three Johns. Really.
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a destruction
A Temple –
A beast in the making. Babylon and Rome destroyed the first and second Temples. They are beasts. Greece is also a beast based on the desecration of the second Temple by Antiochus IV Epiphanes. What is in the holy place now preventing the third Temple? The Dome of the Rock makes Islam the fourth beast.
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a thing that is the oldest
A Daily Use –
A stereo receiver that my son left with me. Being hard of hearing I need a speaker, the next oldest that my daughter gave me, close to my right ear. Both are connected to my TV. Now I have an ear to hear.
a prophecy
A Revelation –
A purpose was to prepare the way for the first coming. John the Baptist was to introduce the Lamb of God to the world. The word “lamb” can be found 27 times in the Apocalypse. “Jesus” only 12 times. The word “Jesus” could have been added later by John the Apostle who knows John the Baptist knows the Lamb of God.
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a beast
A Temple –
A revelation in Daniel. What makes a beast a beast? Daniel knows beasts and abominations. Jesus wanted us to pay attention to them. An abomination is something that you do to the holy place. The Temple. Only a beast would mess with the Temple. With only two Temples, how do you get four beasts?
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a favorite moment
A Daily Writing Prompt –
A mind challenge. New at this. Will I get tired of it? I don’t think so. Get a life? What is wrong with the one I have?
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