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  1. Stormcrow

    what needs to happen for the end times to arrive ?

    I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was beholden to your timetable. I have a life away from the keyboard and have been living it with my daughter and granddaughter, whom I flew in to see me from Germany. I may not get back to addressing this for awhile, as I'm about to undertake a long road trip to...
  2. Stormcrow

    what needs to happen for the end times to arrive ?

    Revelation 20:3 (NASB95) 3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. Are the thousand years of the millennium of...
  3. Stormcrow

    what needs to happen for the end times to arrive ?

    I have some errands to run with my daughter and granddaughter today, so it will be sometime later when I can get back to this. As to the rest of your post, I'm not sure how it fits with what I was addressing. Paul said the Law was good. Moses stood as the accuser of those who broke the...
  4. Stormcrow

    what needs to happen for the end times to arrive ?

    OK, ezrider, I'm going to do the best I can to explain this very difficult passage in Revelation 20. I think the easiest place to start is with the information we know: The identity of the deceiver. The prophetic use of the number 1,000. If we can establish these, I think we can begin to make...
  5. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    "...For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all."...
  6. Stormcrow

    what needs to happen for the end times to arrive ?

    Thank you, EZrider. The milennium is a very complex topic and my daughter and granddaughter are coming in from Germany later today. Need sleep. Will have to get back to you on this one. :)
  7. Stormcrow

    what needs to happen for the end times to arrive ?

    Someone, somewhere, is always in the "end times". It depends on how you define it.
  8. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    And here is the scene of Nero illuminating his gardens with Christians being burned on crosses, 1882 oil on canvas by Henryk Siemieradzki..
  9. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    Your Wikipedia link makes no familial connection between Nero and Domitian. But it does go into great detail about that which I have written on the "Year of the Four Emperors". Year of the Four Emperors On 9 June 68, amid growing opposition of the Senate and the army, Nero committed suicide...
  10. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    There is no credible Biblical scholar that supports or teaches any of this.
  11. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    I don't use labels. They obfuscate rather than enlighten. The only thing that should matter to anyone here is whether what we believe is true or not. Nero was not related at all to Domitian and Nero was succeeded immediately by Galba, who reigned for 7 months, replaced by Otho, who reigned...
  12. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    Mary's story... 4. (201) There was a certain woman that dwelt beyond Jordan, her name was Mary; her father was Eleazar, of the village Bethezub, which signifies the House of Hyssop. She was eminent for her family and her wealth, and had fled away to Jerusalem with the rest of the multitude, and...
  13. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    I would also like to add that there is so much more to discuss in this book beyond Revelation 17. I'll tease you with this one tidbit. Revelation 16:17–19 (NASB95) 17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, “It...
  14. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    You're welcome! Glad to be of service! :)
  15. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    One other note about the harlot of Revelation 17: The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. REV 17:4 The golden cup symbolizes the ancient Jewish...
  16. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    "Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters..." REV 17:1 There can be no question here that John is writing about the generation of Jews and Jerusalem's apostate...
  17. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    Yet more evidence that John is writing about 1st century Jerusalem. So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. REV 17:3 As noted in an earlier post, the scarlet...
  18. Stormcrow

    Revelation Chapter 17

    Philip Schaff, in his work "History of the Christian Church, Vol. 1", writes the following: Nero, owing to his youth, beauty, dash, and prodigality, and the startling novelty of his wickedness (Tacitus calls him “incredibilium cupitor,”Ann. XV. 42), enjoyed a certain popularity with the vulgar...
  19. Stormcrow

    what needs to happen for the end times to arrive ?

    “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” DAN 12:4 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. DAN 12:9 And he said to me, “Do not seal the...
  20. Stormcrow

    The War To End All Wars

    From the early church father Eusebius in his work, "The Ecclesiastical History": Those who wish can retrace accurately from the history written by Josephus how many evils at that time overwhelmed the whole nation in every place and especially how the inhabitants of Judaea were driven to the...
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