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 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 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 Prince –
A general or other? Good luck if you are looking for the king of the north. The translators can’t agree on Daniel 11:5. 24 think he was a prince and 28 think he was anything but a prince. princes 24, commanders 11, officers 7, officials 5, generals 2, leaders 2, subordinates 1 – Go figure. Who can you trust? What can you trust? Numbers and history.
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A Great City Fell To The Tenth Dynasty of Islam –
A fourth beast of Daniel and the Second beast of the Apocalypse had ten horns. What makes a beast a beast? It could be the Temple. Babylon destroyed the first Temple. Rome destroyed the second. Greece desecrated the second. What is preventing the third? The Dome of the Rock. That would make Islam the fourth beast. It fits. Constantinople fell to the tenth dynasty of Islam. All named by Islam.
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A Daughter –
A king of the north. A fit with Islam. Fatimah, daughter of Mohammed who was king of the south, would have to deal with Muawiyah after he became the king of the north. The Umayyad dynasty, started by Muawiyah, placed the abomination that maketh desolate. The Dome of the Rock. These are fits with Daniel that are a fit with the Apocalypse.
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A Fourth Beast Of Daniel –
A rider of the red horse with power to take peace from the earth. He was also given the key of the bottomless pit – Sebeos may have been the first to see Islam as the true fourth beast of Daniel. Others like Tom Holland “In The Shadow of The Sword” would recognize this. There is something about the Temple that makes a beast a beast.
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A Temple –
A desolation. Babylon destroyed the first temple. Greece desecrated the second. Rome destroyed the second. Islam is preventing the third. The four beasts of Daniel. They all messed with the temple. That is what determines a beast in the mind of Daniel. John seems to agree. Jesus mentioned it. What is in the holy place now? The Dome of the Rock.
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A Bear –
A leopard. A connection with the beasts of Daniel. John knows Daniel knows beasts. Also in common are the ten horns. John’s beast was like a leopard, a bear, and a lion. Daniel is the key to understanding the beasts of the Apocalypse. What do the beasts of Daniel have in common? The Temple. Don’t mess with the Temple. This is new.
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A Babylon The Great –
A mystery,
Constantinople, the capital of a Christian empire that lasted a thousand years.
had seven hills
had many waters
had many merchants
was a mystery
is fallen
is fallen
can be found no more at all
started by the Roman Empire with seven dynasties
ended by the Ottoman Empire with ten dynasties
was attacked in 666 AD
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