Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Study: Ever noticed all the references to Israel in the opening chapters of the Gospel according to Matthew?References to their entrance into Egypt and the Exodus? Why are they there? What is the point of them? ...  Because there is a point! "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream ,..." Matthew 1:18-20 "And when they [the wise men] were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. ... And when they were departed, behold, the

Text: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six ." Revelation 13:18 Quote: [...] Quarta tabula solis, ex quadrato senario cōstituta est, & cōtinet numeros trigintasex, quorūsex in quolibet latere & diametro, producunt centum & undecim, & summa omniū sexcentum sexagintasex. Præsuntilli nomina diuina cum intelligentia ad bonum, & dæmonio ad malū, & eliciūtur ex ea characteres solis & spiritum eius. Hec fortunato sole in lamina aurea sculpta, reddit gestantē gloriosum, amabilē, gratum, potentem in omnibus operibus, & cōparat hominē regibus & principibus, eleuās eum ad sublimia fortunæ fastigia, impetrare faciēs quicquid uoluerit: sole autē infortunato, facit tyrannū, superbum, ambitiosum, inexplebilē, & malo sine terminantē. [...] Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, D

Text: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six ." Revelation 13:18 Quote: [...] The fourth table is of the Sun, and is made of a square of six, and contains thirty six numbers, whereof six in every side, and Diameter, produce 111, and the sum of all is 666. There are over it divine names with an Intelligency to what is good, and spirit to what is evil, and out of it are drawn Characters of the Sun, and of the spirits thereof. This being engraven on a Golden plate with the Sun being fortunate, renders him that wears it to be renowned, amiable, acceptable, potent in all his works, and equals a man to Kings, and Princes, elevating him to high fortunes, inabling to do whatsoever he pleaseth: but with an unfortunate Sun, it makes a tyrant, and a man to be proud, ambitious, unsatisfiable, and to have an ill ending. [...

Text: "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." Daniel 11:30 Quote:    After the battle of Issus, 333 B.C., Alexander the Great made himself master of Palestine, Egypt, and the towns on the Mediterranean coast, which included Cyprus. He thought so highly of this latter conquest that he is reported by Arian to have said, "and Cyprus being in our hands, we shall reign absolute sovereign at sea, and an easy way will be laid open for making a descent upon Egypt." On his death the Empire was divided, Egypt falling to the share of Ptolemy, while Asia Minor fell to Antigonus, who thus became possessed of Cyprus.    Ptolemy crossed over to Cyprus with a fleet about 313 B.C., and landed there with so large a force, that he met with no resistance, and app

Text: "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." Daniel 11:30 Quote: [...] 30. ships of Chittim —the Roman ambassadors arriving in Macedonian Grecian vessels (see Note , Jeremiah, 2.10.). Chittim , properly Cyprian , so called from a Phenician colony in Cyprus: then the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean in general. [...] Jamieson, Robert; Fausset, Andrew Robert; Brown, David, A commentary: critical, practical and explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, with a Bible dictionary, compiled from Dr. Wm. Smith's standard work, a copious index, chronological tables, maps and illustrations , Chicago; New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1880, Old Testament - vol. 2 - Proverbs-Malachi, p. 653 . Online source:   archive.org/details/

Text: "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant." Daniel 11:30 Quote: 3794. כִּתִּי  Kittîy ,  kit-tee';  or        כִּתִּיִּי  Kitt îy îy ,  kit-tee-ee';  patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plur.); a Kittite or Cypriote; hence an islander in gen., i.e. the Greeks or Romans on the shores opposite Pal.:---Chittim, Kittim. Strong, James, A Concise Dictionary of the words in the Hebrew bible; with their renderings in the Authorized English Version , p. 58 ,  in ... The exhaustive concordance of the Bible , New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1890. Online Source:   https://archive.org/details/exhaustiveconcor1890stro Book Images:

Text: "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed ." Daniel 8:14 Quote: 14 Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, ἕως ἑσπέρας καὶ πρωΐ ἡμέραι δισχίλιαι καὶ τετρακόσιαι, καὶ καθαρισθήσεται τὸ ἅγιον. 14 And he said to him, Evening and morning there shall be two thousand and four hundred days; and then the sanctuary shall be cleansed. Brenton, Lancelot Charles Lee, Sir, The Septuagint version of the Old Testament; with an English translation, and with various readings and critical notes , London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1879, p. 1063 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/septuagintversio1879bren Book Images:

Text: "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed ." Daniel 8:14 Quote: 14  Et dixit ei : Usque ad vesperam et mane, dies duo millia trecenti : et mundabitur sanctuarium. Daniel 8:14, Latin Vulgate , in... Biblia Triglotta: continentia scripturas sacras Veteris et Novi Testamenti; scilicet: textus originales, una cum versionibus Septuaginta, Syriaca (Novi Testamenti), Vulgata, parallelo ordine positos, cum completis prolegomenis, ediderunt alumni literarum sacrarum , Opus totem in duos tomos tributum, Londini: Richard D. Dickinson, 1890, tomus 1 - Vetus Testamentum... The triglot Bible: comprising the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in the original tongues; also the Septuagint, the Syriac (of the New Testament), and the Vulgate versions, arranged in parallel columns, with a complete prolegomenon, edited by several eminent Biblical scholars , 2 vols., London

Text: "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also." Matthew 13:24-26 Quote: [...] The word rendered tares has been the subject of much discussion, but it is pretty generally agreed that it denotes darnel, a plant of the same family as wheat, and not readily distinguished from it in the early stages. Jerome, who lived in Palestine A. D. 385-420, states that it was quite difficult to distinguish them until the head of the wheat appeared. Robinson, journeying in Galilee in April, 1852, says, "Our path now lay through fields of wheat of the most luxuriant growth; finer than which I had not before seen in this or any other country. Among these splendid fields of grain are still fo