A Dog That Didn’t Bark –
A commentary by Victorinus on the Apocalypse. He mentions the seven churches that Paul wrote to but not the ones John wrote to. Eusebius has the same problem. He mentions six of the seven churches of the Apocalypse but never associates any of them with the Apocalypse. Is there a reasonable explanation for this?
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A Problem with Dates –
A history of Rome by Gibbon. 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. There are other ways to get to 666. Stay tuned.
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A Year –
A date, a beginning, a start, a mark. Nearly every product sold today has a date marking its beginning. The word “number” in Daniel refers to years. Historians are good at ignoring what may have happened in the year 666 but we do know Islam was getting ready to attack Constantinople about that time.
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A New Earth –
A new Jerusalem. A pure river of water of life. The Tiber is not clear as crystal. That which comes out of Rome is now as corrupted as that which has gone into Rome. It will take a chastisement to correct it. Life, marriage, and family is the environment that we need to worry about. Protect the child. Let them come.
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A Great Sultan –
A fit with Daniel. Saladin came out of the Fatimid Caliphate, the fourth of ten Islamic dynasties, and would start the fifth, the Ayyubid dynasty. We also have the Battle of the Horns of Hama and the Battle of the Horns of Hattin. Saladin was involved in both of them. He not only beat the crusaders, he beat Richard the Lionheart. It’s a fit.
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A Second Coming –
A long time ago the time was near for the first coming. Just ask John the Baptist who was preparing the way. He knew the Lamb, a word used 27 times in the Apocalypse. Just ask John the Apostle who knew who bare record. Prepare the way for the second coming. The time is near.
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A Red Sea –
A great sword and power to take peace from the earth. Mohammed is the rider, the Antichrist, and the father of Islam which is the fourth beast of Daniel and the second beast of the Apocalypse. The other threat to Christianity is Marxism. Marx, the rider of the black horse, is the father of Communism from the Black Sea.
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A Beginning –
A new world order and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. You just need to overcometh and you shall not be hurt of the second death. This is eternal life.
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A Dome of the Rock –
A desolation. What is in the holy place now? The Dome of the Rock is preventing the third temple and that makes Islam a beast different from all the others. The “ten horns” are the ten dynasties of Islam. Counted by Islamic sources. The Ottoman Empire, the tenth dynasty, ended the thousand year Christian empire, The Byzantine Empire, in 1453.
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A Vulgate –
A canon that included the Apocalypse. Before Chrysostom, Jerome, and Augustine, it was not clear if the Apocalypse belonged in the bible. At the beginning of the fifth century these three were major players in the Church and the bible was being defined. It is clear now. Thank you Jerome.
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