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This date was arrived at by adding 1,600 days (taken from Revelation 14:20) to May 21, 2011, which McCann still teaches is the beginning of the day of judgment. He noted that October 7, 2015, is the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles , and exactly 10,000 days from May 21, 1988, which he claims is the date the Church Age came to an end.
The red dragon and the beast from the sea each have ten horns, signifying their claim to total power (A horn is a symbol of power in Deut. 33:17; 1 Kings 22:11; Psalm 89:17; Revelation 5:6; 1 Enoch 90.6-16.). The beast from the sea has ten diadems on its ten horns (Revelation 13:1), emblematic of its claim to unlimited or total ruling authority ...
Revelation maintains another typical aspect of New Jerusalem tradition – the reunification of the twelve tribes of Israel (Ezekiel 48:33–34, 4Q554). Verse 22 marks a sudden and remarkable shift in New Jerusalem apocalyptic rhetoric: "I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb."
Revelation 14:19–20 says: And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."
1 stadium (ris) = 1600 palms (2 ⁄ 15 mile) (tefah). [15] Others say that 1 stadium was equivalent to 470–500 cubits. [16] 1 day's journey (derekh yom) = 10 parasangs (parasa) The other two additional units are more ambiguous.
Interpretacja 12 rozdziału Apokalipsy św. Jana w świetle historii egzegezy [Interpretation of Chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation in Light of the History of Exegesis] (in Polish). Poznań: Pallottinum. {}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default ; Kealy, Sean P. (1987). The Apocalypse of John. Liturgical Press.
Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().
Revelation's historical context may also influence the depiction of the black horse and its rider, Famine. In AD 92, the Roman emperor Domitian attempted to curb excessive growth of grapevines and encourage grain cultivation instead, but there was a major popular backlash against this effort, and it was abandoned. Famine's mission to make wheat ...