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chrysostom;2818233[U said:]the seven heads[/U]
the seven heads are the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire
Julio-Claudian dynasty 68
Flavian dynasty 96
Adoptive and Antonine Emperors 192
House of Severus 235
Tetrarchy and the House of Constantine 364
House of Valentinian 455
Family of Leo I the Great 476
many have been counting the kings
not many understand that there were seven dynasties
but
the historians are the ones who determined this when they came up with the Byzantine Empire to separate the eastern Roman empire from the western one
back to
the apocalypse
When the prince of the power of the air unclean spirit of the world is gone out of a man he walks through the dry-arid places seeking rest: and finding none, he says, I will return to my house from where I came out. And when he comes he finds it swept and garnished, (with idols). Then he goes and associates unto himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. And the eighth is of the seven because he is the first goat which was cast out into the desert in the commencement with all the sins upon his mortally wounded head, (for an atonement to be made at a later date which no man knows). No exceptions to the rule: each in his or her own appointed times, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
Matthew 12:43 KJV - Matthew 12:44 KJV - Matthew 12:45 KJV -
Luke 11:24 KJV - Luke 11:25 KJV - Luke 11:26 KJV -
tell us more about the goat -
you connect that to Revelation 17:11 KJV - ?
I repeat
a "city where also our Lord was cruficfied" which clearly would be Jerusalem
The Rev is not prognostication of world events. If a doctrine is not absolutely clear from a NT letter, do not generate it out of the Rev. It is a pastoral montage to help the 1st century Judean Christians as they had to leave everything and relocate in Little Asia.
this is not prophecy?
so
what is this?
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass
I am interested in the ambiguities of the Apocalypse regarding a "city of 7 hills' (which alludes to Rome
-- and a "city where also our Lord was cruficfied" which clearly would be Jerusalem -- though they are alluded to as Sodom, Babylon and Egypt
city where the Lord was crucified can only be Jerusalem
things which must shortly come to pass
this makes sense
if
john the baptist wrote it