A Key
to unlock the door to understanding the Apocalypse. They are connected. You can’t solve one without solving the other. The abomination of desolation and the attack on Constantinople in 666 point to Islam. To make it fit we need to identify the “ten horns” and while were at it, let’s see if we can identify the “king of the north” and the “king of the south”.
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A Holy Place
in Daniel spoken of by Jesus. Not there but the abomination of desolation is. Three times. Which one is Jesus talking about? What is standing in the holy place? Is it an it or a person? There is little agreement here. Wikipedia has three possibilities to consider: Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167 BC, Titus in 70 AD, and the Dome of the Rock by the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in 691 AD. The last one is with us today. This is the one we need to consider.
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A Beast
is a beast. That is four. Daniel had four. John had two but they had “ten horns” in common. So what makes a beast a beast? Only Daniel can tell us that. Most agree on Babylon, Greece, and Rome. What do they have in common? The Temple. The first destroyed the first. The second desecrated the second. The third destroyed the second. The fourth must be preventing the third. That would be the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. So what is in the holy place now?
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A Fit
with other pieces of the puzzle. You need a lot of pieces that fit to get a clear picture of what you have. That is why you start with the big pieces. Little pieces are way too easy to find and they will always fit your interpretation especially in the future. So there is no proof. Just historical pieces that seem to fit a literal interpretation. More pieces are better.
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A Date
Edward Gibbon used to mark the first attack on Constantinople by the Arabs. More precisely he had it “Forty-six years after the flight of Mahomet from Mecca“. That year was 622. If he had used an Islamic calendar converter, it would have calculated 666. Most versions of the bible “calculate the number”.
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A Mark
a beginning, a date stamp, which is the most common mark there is, and nearly everything made has it. To get the date right we must look at the Proleptic Julian calendar and 44 BC. The Gregorian calendar didn’t start until 1582. We must also look at 622, the beginning of Islam and the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 666 of the Julian calendar marks the beginning of Islam. The Hijra.
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A Telling Verse
that ties it all together.
“2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”
The Sea of Marmara was like a sheet of glass and Greek Fire was used by Constantinople to defeat the Arabs and the year was 666.
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A Year
to look at. So what happened in the year 666? Nothing. Historians are really good at staying away from that year. So you have to look around that year. You will find a lot. The second greatest religion was attacking the greatest religion. So pay attention to this.
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A Year
A Thousand Years
is where you start. It is not where I started. I just assumed it didn’t exist. So I started with 666 like everyone else and it led me to the thousand years. How? I searched Daniel for the word number and it referred to years. That led to Constantinople, a city with seven hills, and the capital of a Christian empire that lasted a thousand years. Really? Am I the first one to stumble across this?
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A Reliable Method
to verify the fulfillment of prophecy. It may be the only way. If your interpretation relies on the future, how can it be any better than any other interpretation that relies on the future? We have history. Let’s use it. So how do you use history without some kind of interpretation? Some words like numbers and colors do not require any interpretation. That is where you start. You don’t have to interpret history even though many are trying to rewrite it.
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