The 70 Weeks Recap Bottom is the green years are the Aramaic or Eastern Calendar used by the Jews, Samaritans, Idumaeans, etc. The yellow bar are the years of the Julian Calendar in use by the Romans
More Recap! Continuous Historical Basic Structure of the Book
One Last Thing... Who s the Antichrist?
The Seals Reign of Domitian 81-96 AD Son of Vespasian Brother of Titus 1st Dacian War 86 Roman V Legion Annihilated Decabalus Another Disastrous Defeat Praetorian Eagle Lost 88 Ignoble Peace: Decabalus receives Roman Engineers 8 Million sesterces annually 89 Revolt of Saturninus Governor of Germania Superior Damnatio Memoriae Domitian Double Triumph Paranoid Dominus et Deus Lord and God Assassinated September 18, 96 court officials & wife Damnatio Memoriae
96-183 192-284 235-284 250-265 303-312 312-395
1st Trumpet 2nd Trumpet 3rd Trumpet 4th Trumpet Visigoth Invasion 401-410 Rome Sacked Vandal Invasion 409-455 Rome Sacked Attila s Huns invade Gaul 451-453 Scourge
1st Trumpet 2nd Trumpet 3rd Trumpet 4th Trumpet Visigoth Invasion 401-410 Vandal Invasion 409-455 Attila s Huns invade Gaul 451-453 Odovacar s Heruli conquer Italy 9/4/476 Rome Sacked Rome Sacked Scourge 1st King of Italy
The Byzantine-Sassanid War 602-629 Justinian s reconquest taxed the manpower & resources, Sassanid Persia surged. Disaffection led to a brief civil war which Persia took advantage of.
5th Trumpet: Arab Muslim Conquest
Revelation 9:11 Abaddon (Hb) = Destruction (place of) Job 26:6 The grave (sheol) is naked before Him, and destruction (abaddon) has no covering. Psalm 88:11 Shall Your lovingkindness be shared in the grave (sheol) or Your faithfulness in destruction (abaddon)? Apollyon (Gr) = Destroyer (person) 614 Jews in Palestine capture Palestine with Sassanid backing 628 (9?) Emperor Heraclius retakes Palestine (end of the Sassanid War) A general MASSACRE of Palestinian Jews is ordered
The 6th Trumpet (2nd Woe) 9:13-11:14 Covers the ENTIRETY of the 6th Trumpet/2nd Woe 9:13-21 End of the Byzantine Empire (Temporal Rome), accomplished by the Turks (Seljuk-->Ottoman) 9:15 HOUR-DAY-MONTH-YEAR (Day for a Year) = 396 years and 4 months January 1057 (1/1057) to May 1453 (5/1453)--> Fall of Constantinople
Mehmed the Conqueror Born March 30, 1432 Son of Sultan Murad II Duty to capture Constantinople February 3, 1451 Ascended to the Sultanate (age 21), prepared end the Byzantine Empire May 29, 1453 57 day siege (70+ LARGE artillery), Mehmed takes the capital Adds Qayser-i Rum ( Caesar of Rome ) to his titles...recognized by the Patriarch of Constantinople Not the POPE Died May 3, 1481 (age 49) Conquered ALL of SE Europe, entire Black Sea Coast Europe REJOICED at his death (poisoned by his son and heir) Cathedral bells RANG
Mehmed the Conqueror Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. 1469 Published the following Vow in every Mosque I, Mehmed, son of Murad,...emperor of emperors and prince of princes, from the rising to the setting sun, promise to the only God, Creator of all things, by my vow and by my oath, that I will not give sleep to my eyes, that I will eat no delicates, that I will not seek out what is pleasant, that I will not touch what is beautiful, nor turn my face from the West to the East, till I overthrow, and trample under the feet of my horses, the gods of the nations, those gods of wood or brass, of silver, of gold, or of painting... Which the disciples of Christ have made with their hands.
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