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a strange commentary
A Church With Seven Associations
A first look at what no longer exists. Victorinus from the second century commented on the Apocalypse. He mentions the seven churches Paul wrote to but not the ones John wrote to. This has not been addressed by the scholars so we can only speculate why. His version of the Apocalypse didn't have seven churches.

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a church history
A Failure To Mention The Seven Churches
A fourth century historian, Eusebius, mentions six of the seven churches but fails to associate them with the Apocalypse. Early copies of the Apocalypse no longer exist but if they did they might not contain seven churches. John the Baptist knew the "lamb" but not the churches.

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a speculation
A Radical View That Is Consistent With History
A reasonable explanation. An unsettled mystery. Who, When, What, and Why? Especially the Why but the Who might explain all the others. John the Baptist preparing the way for the Way, the Truth, and the Light. The first coming. The Lamb of God. The time was near for this prophecy.

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a strange commentary
A Church With Seven Associations
A first look at what no longer exists. Victorinus from the second century commented on the Apocalypse. ...

An excerpt from the Wikipedia link

" [Victorinus's Commentary on the Apocalypse] is interesting to modern scholars as an example of how people in antiquity interpreted the book of Revelation. Victorinus sees the four animals singing praise to God as the [four] Gospels, and the 24 elders seated on thrones in Revelation [chapter] 4 are the 12 patriarchs of the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles. He also agrees with views that the Whore of Babylon "drunk with the blood of martyrs and saints" represents the City of Rome and its persecutions of Christians, and that The Beast described in chapter 13 represents Emperor Nero."

(Revelation chapter 13 is where the number 666 is found)

 

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a time that was near
A Preparation For The Way
A prophet, of which none were greater said Jesus. John the Baptist prepared the way for the Lamb of God. What other document uses the word "lamb" more than the Apocalypse? John knew the lamb but did not know it was Jesus. John the Apostle knew it all including the seven churches.

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a book eaten
A Prophecy Again
A second John to the seven churches. The apostle would eat the book and prophesy again. It is now his book. It gets in the bible because it is now his book. Not everyone believed that. Only the ones who were in charge of what went into the bible. Enter Jerome and the Vulgate.

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a first coming
A Bare Record
A connecting of the Apocalypse with John the Apostle and John the Baptist. Acts 19 connects Ephesus with the followers of the Baptist. The Apostle is already connected. Irenaeus of the 2nd century mentions ancient copies of the Apocalypse. Sounds like an Apocalypse that preceded the Apostle and the seven churches.

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a brother
A Third John
A place called Patmos. This is all we know. Everything else is speculation or interpretation. Is yours better than the others? Is your bible better than the others? Do they have anything in common? Numbers. Somehow they get the numbers right. We also have logic and reason to make sense of them.

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a location
A Place Called Patmos
A man named John. Just one of His servants. There are two more also named John. The first bare record. The second wrote to the seven churches. The third was on the isle of Patmos. Three different Johns. A reasonable explanation for some of the questions surrounding the Apocalypse.

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a date based on astronomy
A Revelation In Storm And Thunder
A Russian astronomer named Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov found it in the stars. A date for the Apocalypse and the name of the writer. John Chrysostom in 395. He was in Ephesus in 401 replacing seven corrupt bishops. This could be the third John, a brother, on the Isle of Patmos.

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a hidden meaning
A Book That Is A Mystery
J. Massyngberde Ford may have been the first to suggest John the Baptist was the first writer of the Apocalypse. She is not the first to suggest multiple writers. Others suggested that it was first written in Hebrew. Most agree that there is little agreement regarding the Apocalypse. So we continue to speculate.

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a time that was near
A Man Sent From God
A prophecy that must shortly come to pass. The first coming. The Lamb of God. John the Apostle knew the Baptist and the Lamb, a word used 27 times in the Apocalypse. John the Baptist was preparing the way for the "Lamb of God". He wrote the first Apocalypse.

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...John the Baptist . . . wrote the first Apocalypse.

Certainly remarkable if true. He prophesied about Nero when Nero must have been a child or a very young man. He couldn't have died any later than AD 33, probably not later than 30 or 31 really, and Nero and his persecution (putting both Peter and Paul to death in Rome) didn't come along until the 60s.

 

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a blessing
A Reading Of This Prophecy
A blessing if you have an ear for this prophecy. The time was at hand. That was then. Now we have history. That is where prophecy is fulfilled. Look for it using numbers which you can trust. Not your interpretation. Not even your version of the bible. Somehow all translations get the numbers right.

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a thousand years
A "Reign Of Christ"
A phrase not found in the bible. "Reigned with Christ" can be found. A thousand years can be found in history. Your interpretation, "reign of Christ", can be found on the internet but not in your bible. This is why you can't trust your interpretation. Trust the numbers.

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a fit with numbers
A Prophecy Fulfilled In History
A big number like "a thousand years" or maybe "666" should fit with the smaller numbers like "ten horns" and "seven heads". This is the way to connect history with prophecy reliably. Only history can confirm the fulfillment of prophecy and only numbers can connect them.

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a reference to years
A Number In Daniel
A mark is a starting point. The "number of the years" in Daniel makes you wonder what happened in the year 666. Which calendar? The Julian calendar started 46 BC. The Islamic calendar started 622 CE. Put 46 in an Islamic calendar converter and you get 666.

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a historian
A Book On The Roman Empire
A quote from "The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon. "Forty-six years after the flight of Mahomet from Mecca, his disciples appeared in arms under the walls of Constantinople". Put 46 in an Islamic calendar converter and you get 666.

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a thousand years
A "Reign Of Christ"
A phrase not found in the bible. "Reigned with Christ" can be found. A thousand years can be found in history. Your interpretation, "reign of Christ", can be found on the internet but not in your bible. This is why you can't trust your interpretation. Trust the numbers.

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You are as bad as the "trinity is not found in the Bible" people.

Reigning WITH Christ means that Christ is reigning... except to the super dense that have a bad theory to "support".

 

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a key year
A Significant Number 666
A look at what happened that year. Nothing. Historians avoid that year but Islam was getting ready to attack Constantinople which was the capital of a Christian empire that lasted "a thousand years". Other numbers like "ten horns" and "seven heads" fit.

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