a prophecy 

A Revelation – 

A book of what is to come.  Only history can verify what has been prophesied.  History based on numbers.  Not on interpretation.  You can only trust numbers.  Numbers do not have to be interpreted.  Start with the big numbers like a thousand and it might lead you to the Byzantine Empire that fits with all the other numbers.  And colors.  

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a misinterpretation 

A Premillennialist – 

A thousand year “Reign of Christ”.  They “reigned with Christ” is what is in the bible.  That is a big difference.  Look for a thousand years where they reigned with Christ.  They did the reigning in a Christian empire that lasted a thousand years.  Like the Byzantine Empire.  It’s the only one.  Check it out.  It fits with the other numbers.  And colors.  

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a history of the bible 

Canon – 

A redaction at the turn of the fifth century.  Jerome defined the bible when he finished the Vulgate which would become the official bible of the Church. It contains the oldest existing copy of the Apocalypse.  We can only speculate on what it looked like before that time based on other older existing documents.    

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a translator 

A Bible – 

A version of each translation.  Before the printer, no two bibles were alike.  Now no two translations are alike.  And there are way too many.  About 60 English translations.  Each translation has more than one version.  So the “Word of God” is subject to translations, revisions, and interpretation.  For the most part they agree on numbers.  And colors.   

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a golden mouth 

A Third John – 

A necessary connection to the Apocalypse.  How it became part of the bible.  Many did not think it belonged there.  John Chrysostom was one of them and he was in Ephesus when Jerome was finishing the Vulgate.  Astronomy points to Chrysostom as the writer of the Apocalypse according to Morozov.  There are other reasons.   

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