A Year 666
A mark, a beginning, a Julian calendar starting in 44 BC. 622 of the Gregorian calendar, starting in 1582, marked the beginning of Islam. The Hegira marked the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 666 also marked the beginning of the attack on Constantinople if we look at Gibbon and his history.
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A Thousand Years
A beast at the end. The Byzantine Empire was preceded by the Roman Empire and ended by the Ottoman Empire, the tenth dynasty of Islam. The ten horns that shall hate the whore. The seven heads are the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire. Another fit. What about the number 666? Will that fit?
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A Christian Empire
A reign with Christ. The Byzantine Empire was a Christian empire that lasted a thousand years. They reigned with Christ. This is where to start. Will the other numbers fit? 666, ten, seven. Daniel can help us with “ten horns”. The fourth beast of Daniel is the second beast of John. What do we know about beasts?
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A Number To Connect Them
A thousand years bracketed by seven dynasties of the Roman Empire, the third beast of Daniel, and the ten dynasties of Islam, the fourth beast of Daniel. Constantinople, a perfect fit for Babylon the Great, was started by the rider of the White Horse, attacked in 666 by the second dynasty of Islam, and destroyed by the tenth.
A Passage in Daniel
A reference to years. What happened in the year 666? What calendar do you use? What calendar was in effect? John understood Daniel. Daniel understood by books the number of the years. John sends us to the Old Testament for clues. John understood by books. John understood the Lamb of God. Do you understand?
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A Julian Calendar
A beginning in 44 BC. 622 in the Gregorian calendar, which began in 1582, was the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 666 in the Julian calendar marked the start of Islam. A number in Daniel 9:2 refers to the number of years. That is what Daniel understood by books.
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A Historian
A problem with dates. Gibbon gets real close. 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.
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A great city that can “be found no more at all”. Constantinople is the “mystery” and likely to remain so. It has all the characteristics. No other city has them. “Many waters”. “Seven mountains”. “Is fallen, is fallen”. “Merchants of the earth”. It has all the numbers. 1000, 666, 10, and 7. Count them. You can count on them.
A Date
A year. A mark. A beginning. On your mark, get set, go. A date is the most common mark there is. Nearly all products have it. 666 marks the beginning of Islam. It also marks the attack on Constantinople. Revelation 15:2 ties Greek fire, the Sea of Marmara, and the year Islam attacked Constantinople. – 666 – Really.
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A Sea Of Glass Mingled With Fire
A key passage. 15:2 Greek fire was used and the “Sea of Marmara was like a sheet of glass”. It was the “first Arab siege of Constantinople” by the Umayyad dynasty, the second dynasty of Islam, in 666. Constantinople finally fell to the tenth dynasty of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, in 1453.
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