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

Study: John Ogilby, Nova Terrae-Mariae tabula , 1671. Huntingfield Collection, Maryland State Archives, MSA SC 1399-1-187. Our starting point for this study... a map of Maryland (and a part of Virginia). The history of these two colonies is important for an understanding of prophecy. So we thus begin here. Virginia and Maryland, do you know the sources of their names?  First, Virginia... Virginia... its name! What is its source?    §. 3. Her Majesty accordingly took the Hint, and espoused the Project [...]; being so well pleased with the Account given, that as the greatest Mark of Honor she could do the Discovery, She call'd the Country by the Name of Virginia ; as well, for that it was first discovered in her Reign, a Virgin Queen ; [...] Beverley, Robert, The History and Present State of Virginia, in four parts , London: Printed for R. Parker, 1705, p. 3.     Queen Elizabeth was her self so well pleas'd with the ...

Text: none Quote: Maryland Day commemorates March 25, 1634. On that day, settlers disembarked from two small sailing ships - the Ark and the Dove - on to Maryland soil. At St. Clement's Island, they landed in what is now St. Mary's County, Maryland. "Maryland Day - March 25," Maryland Manual Online , Maryland at a Glance: Holidays,  https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/mday.html , accessed: 2021/01/03. Online Source:   msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/mday.html Images:

Text: none Quote: St. Clement's Island Historic Marker, September 2009 [On the Marker: "Saint Clement's Island (one-half mile offshore) Site of the first landing of governor Leonard Calvert and the Maryland colonists, March 25, 1634. Here, on the same day, Father Andrew White, S. J. celebrated the first Catholic Mass in the British-American Colonies. ... Maryland Historical Society] "St. Clement's Island State Park," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clement%27s_Island_State_Park , accessed: 2021/01/03. Online Source:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clement%27s_Island_State_Park ;  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Clements_Island_Marker_Sept_09.JPG Images:

Text: none Quote: [...] propositum hujus itineris esse, Sanguinem Redemptoris Nostri in salute Barbarorum honorare: eidem servatori Regnum (si conatus tenues secundare dignetur erigere,) Dotem alteram Immaculatæ Virgini Matri consecrare et similia multa. [...] [...] that the purpose of this journey was to glorify the Blood of Our Redeemer in the salvation of barbarians, and also to raise up a kingdom for the Saviour (if he would condescend to prosper our poor efforts,) to consecrate another gift to the Immaculate Virgin, His Mother, and many things to the same effect; [...] White, Andrew; McSherry, William, tr.; Dalrymple, Edwin A., ed.; Jesuits: Letters from missions (North America), Relatio itineris in Marylandiam: declaratio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro; Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum ab anno 1635, ad annum 1638[77]. Narrative of a voyage to Maryland: an account of the colony of the lord baron of ...

Text: none Quote: [...] Sancti Ignatii Patroni Marylandiæ [...] [...] Saint Ignatius, the Patron Saint of Maryland, [...] White, Andrew; McSherry, William, tr.; Dalrymple, Edwin A., ed.; Jesuits: Letters from missions (North America), Relatio itineris in Marylandiam: declaratio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro; Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum ab anno 1635, ad annum 1638[77]. Narrative of a voyage to Maryland: an account of the colony of the lord baron of Baltimore; Extracts from different letters of missionaries, from the year 1635 to the year 1677 , Baltimore: John Murphy, Printer to the Maryland Historical Society, 1874, p. 16 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/relatioitinerisi00jesurich Book Images:

Text: none Quote:    Ac tandem hinc solventes, caput quod vocant consolationis in Virginiâ tenuimus, 27. Februarii pleni metu, [...]    At length, sailing from this place, we reached the cape , which they call Point Comfort , in Virginia, on the 27th of February, [...]    Post octo vel novem dierum benignam tractationem, tertio Martii vela facientes, et in sinum Cosopeak (Chesapeak) invecti cursum ad aquilonem defleximus, ut fluvio Patomeack  potiremur. [...]    After being kindly treated for eight or nine days, we set sail on the third of March, and entering the Chesapeak Bay, we turned our course to the north to reach the Potomeack River. [...] White, Andrew; McSherry, William, tr.; Dalrymple, Edwin A., ed.; Jesuits: Letters from missions (North America), Relatio itineris in Marylandiam: declaratio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro; Excerpta ex diversis litteris mission...