How Does the Apocalypse Relate to Today's World?
The fallen five in historical order were: the Egyptian, the Assyrian, the Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, and the Greek empires. The sixth head is the Roman Empire, and the “seventh head” represents the whole seventh beast
It has become commonplace in modern times to look at stories in the Bible, especially the miraculous stories in the Gospels, as symbolic or metaphorical parables designed simply to inform us about our own human nature. Nowhere does modernism clash with the plain speaking of Jesus Christ more than his encounters with Satan and demons.
Read MoreApparently, latitude in the noun's definition admitted the attitude of the translators to an alteration in altitude. I do not know whether the translators, when they trampled down the little big noun, acted out of nescience or acted out of knowledge: if the former be the case, I would offer them each a box of soft, sweet raisins as food for thought, but I do not think that they, as yet, believe in cannibalism; and, if the latter be the case, they have already long indulged in the vile practice; whilst, in either case, I remind them of the final warning in 22:18-19.
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