Who else gets the blessing of having done something no one else has ever done before?
The profoundness of the task won't sink in for a while.
Maybe never.
The argument that John "just made up the book of Revelation?"
Gone.
Forever in the trash bin of history.
To many verses cross referenced with way to many other verses.
The argument that he had all the scrolls of all the books of the bible ( on a penal colony no less) with him and he cross referenced everything and came up with it all on his own?
Yeah, sure.
And people of faith are the crazy ones they say.
I had the luxury of modern conveniences and time that he didn't have and the cross-referencing was all already done and it was still a monumental task.
And this was with copy and paste.
Plus he was working in the mines.
How he wrote anything is a miracle from God, let alone this prophetic message of God.
"...the Roman government used the island as a place of banishment (“banish” means “to expel from a place, especially by an official decree as a punishment. To drive away” - Collins) for criminals. The prisoners were compelled to work the mines of the island. The Emperor Domitian banished the revelator St. John to this island"
He simply wouldn't have had the time to cross reference everything on his own.
That argument?
Also, forever in the trash bin of history.
Which now begs the question:
"Where did this book of prophecy come from?"
Believers know.
We've always known.
Will the truth make a scintilla of difference to the unbelieving?
Probably not.
We'll see.
"But you added to it like it says not to and blah blah blah..."
No I didn't "add to it"
I backed it up in literary form with other verses like I was told to.
I was also told to not put in the chapters and verses that were cross-referenced.
Sorry.
Hey?
All you gotta do is go find you a copy of the Mendenhall Reference bible and you can have them for yourself.
If you don't have one?
Have fun figuring them all out :-).
Hey, it's what I was told to do, so I did it.
Peace.
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