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beatus qui legit et qui audiunt
verba prophetiae et servant ea quae
n ea scripta sunt tempus enim prope est
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Blessed is he that readeth, and
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things
which are written therein: for the time is at hand |
Revelations.
Prophecy
written in the bible. Believers
of this faith have long thought of the implications of this book.
Are these passages a portent of things to come, or have they already
happened? A biblical Armageddon, the end of the world for
some thinkers, and a rebirth of a new for others. Yet, what is
Armageddon? The place where the final battle will take
place? The actual end of the world or a simple hill or mountain
in a distant country?
In a dream the
events were foretold to St. John the Divine of what was
to happen. He was to send the accounts of the sleep time
apparition to the seven churches of Asia Minor. As a
warning? ?The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the
night.? (1 Thessalonians 5:1-5 2, Peter 3:10, Rev 3:3, Rev
16:15). It would contradict itself time after time, no thief I
know of gave forewarning of the mess they were going to leave.
The seven churches, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos,
Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea were to have this
warning.
Repent
their sins and return to the teachings
of God, or be cast out. The first of many chastisements given in the
telling of the dream.
The corrupt
churches would be the first to go in this Armageddon
scenario, should such things come to pass in these times, there would
be very few left today. This would affect the religions of the
bible greatly, the fall of a church would be enough to shatter many
peoples faith, taken as a possible sign that their God had abandoned
them. Others would stand fast in their faith, those who have
their faith placed with God, and not the church.
Here would be the
beginning of worldly destruction, people who have
lost their faith turn in pain to destroying what is around them.
The human element can be just as severe as a mystical or natural one.
Revelations
5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on
the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven
seals.
Of the images in
the bible, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the
one that strikes fear second only to Satan. Famine, War,
Pestilence and Death are the biblical cleansers of the world, turning
man against man, and nature against man. We have seen and felt
the otherworldly fingers of these beings since the beginnings of time,
why should they be feared now, as they seem to be the order of things
in life? At the time of writing the book of Revelations, these
things were the worst events that could befall civilization then and
now. We cannot claim that these are the times of Revelation any
more than one of 100, 500, or even 1000 years ago, simply based on
these Four Horsemen, they have always been here. Famines in
third-world countries, War is in every conflict, Pestilence in all
countries, forms of disease stemming from any number of causes, and the
end to all suffering Death. The first four seals bring about the
second of human destruction and the first of natural. Ruthless
killing, starvation, disease and Death.
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