The Mark Of The Beast?

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Nicene:
Taking revelation out of it’s time and applying it only to today or prophetically for tomarrow robs it of it’s beauty and it’s relevance not only to the first century, but to all succeeding generations, including today. In effect it marginalizes the writing.

A minor example: why are only 7 churches mentioned (one of them being St. Timothy’s) in Asia Minor when there were also Troas, Colossae, and Hierapolis? Or is John trying to draw significance to something?

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Is this addressed to me? I hope not, because I don’t interpret it that way. I am not a Fundamentalist who intreprets it with “political scenarios” of the “very end of the world.” Rather, I view it, on one level, as a prophecy of the entire set of spiritual ages that the Church passes through across her ***entire history. ***

For example, I am not interested in nonsense like Hal Lindsay’s, “Well, first Russia will invade Israel and then China will do this and then the EU will do that…” That’s nonsense and completely irrelevant.

Rather, I see the text as expressing the ages of spiritual trials and victories that the Church passes through: Islam, the Great Schism, the Protestant Rebellion, the Enlightenment, the modern (Minor) apostasy, the near total Restoration of Catholicism and Age of Peace, the Great Apostasy, etc. That, in fact, gives even greater beauty and meaning to the text than the Early Church or Fall of Jerusalem interps. Also, this interp makes the book relevant to the entire ages of the Church, not just the very beginning, now, or the very end.
 
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