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THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN be darkened, and the MOON shall not give its light, and the STARS shall fall from heaven" (government) (Matt. 24:29). Eusebius describes the ruling Roman GOVERNMENT as "celestial powers, the SUN, the MOON and the STARS" (Eccl. Hist. 10:4). Genesis 37:9-10 reveals that the father is the SUN or chief ruler, mother is the MOON or second in command and children are STARS or subordinate rulers. A mighty WIND is an ARMY (Jer. 4:11-13; 49:36; 51:1-2; Dan.7:2-3). A MOUNTAIN is a KINGDOM (Isa. 2:2; Jer. 51:25; Dan. 2:35; Micah 4:1). Since the SUN, MOON and STARS were worshipped alongside other heathen gods in the pantheon of Rome, this verse has a double meaning: "Upon their gods also, the Lord executed judgments" (Nu. 33:4) in Pharaoh's Egypt. Diocletian sent Constantius to govern Britain. He married a British lady named Lady Helena, a native of York. Their son was called Constantine, and his mother, Helena, appears to have early taught him the Christian faith. Constantius died at York in 306 A.D. The people of Italy, crushed beneath tyranny and misrule, sought Constantine's deliverance. Constantine traveled to Rome to deliver Christianity from Diocletian. Eusebius records that on the eve of battle, he saw at mid-day the two initial letters of Christ in Greek, X (Chi) and P (Rho) in the sky and above them was written in Latin: "In Hoc Signo Vinces" or "By This Sign Conquer." A dream followed in which he was directed to put the cross on his banners if he wished for victory. He did so. This was a small fulfillment of "Then shall appear the SIGN of the Son of Man in HEAVEN" (Matt. 24:29). He put this symbol on his banner or Labarum. In the Battle of "Milvian Bridge" he defeated the army of Maxentius (successor of Maximian) in October 27, 312 A.D. about nine miles from Rome. Maxentius was drowned in the River Tiber while fleeing. Constantine defeated the rival pagan emperors in 313 A.D. and became Emperor himself (324-337 A.D.). Constantine abandoned the dragon standards of the Roman armies and adopted instead "the Sign of the Cross" which seemed to assure him of victory after victory over fear-stricken pagan armies (cp. Isa. 44:28). Constantine issued the Milan Edict in 313 A.D. giving complete tolerance to all religions, including Christians. Later in his rule, he suppressed heathen sacrifices, destroyed pagan temples, and tolerated no other public form of worship than Christianity. This is why heathenism came to be called "pagan" because it could only be practices in the "pagi" or villages (Pagus meaning rural) from where we get the word "peasant." He also elevated Christians to high offices in the State, and displaced pagans. Heathen priests lost their great power over the people. They"fell from heaven." The Roman population thought the Day of Wrath had come but it was just a type and forerunner. "A stone (Constantine's British & Gallic -- Israelite -- troops) ... smote the image upon its feet" (Dan. 2:34). It was more superficial than substantial. Neverthless, Diocletian was so panic-stricken that he died insane in 313 A.D. Maximinian committed suicide. Galerius was smitten in 310 A.D. with an incurable disease. In 311 A.D., softened by suffering, he allowed Christians to rebuild their places of worship. Then he died. After this Maximin was struck with a sudden plague all over his body. He died in 313 A.D. Licinius lost his life in battle against Constantine. Newton quoting Eusebius says, "Galerius, Maximin and Licinius made even a public confession of their guilt, recalled their decrees and edicts against the Christians and acknowledged the just judgments of God and of Christ in their destruction" (p.461, Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies). These "kings of the earth" experienced "the wrath of the Lamb." Later, Julian the Apostate in 363 A.D. gave orders for the rebuilding of Jerusalem's Temple to disprove the origins of Christianity by strengthening their enemies the Jews. But "horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with repeated attacks, rendered the place inaccessible to the scorched workmen" (Amm. Marc.). He reigned one year and eight months. While dying from a Persian lance on the battlefield, he cried, "O Galilean, Thou hast conquered." Pagans hid their idols and heathen rites in the dens and caves. As Gibbon says, "The ruin of the pagan religion is described by the Sophists as a dreadful and amazing 166
THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN prodigy, which covered the earth with DARKNESS, and restored the ancient dominion of chaos and of NIGHT" (ch. 28). The pagan Roman Empire had slain over 10 million Christians. When he had opened the sixth seal (sun pulled off crescent "underneath" by Aries), there was a great earthquake (political revolution -- Heb. 12:27-28; Haggai 2:6,21; Isa. 34:2-4; Matt. 24:29) ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood (6:12); And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth (Pagan emperor as well as solar and astrological worship replaced by Christians), even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind (an army -- Jer. 4:11-13; stars rotated down to horizon) (6:13). And the heaven (throne -- Haggai 2:21-22) departed as a scroll when it is rolled together (stars rotate in a circle); and every mountain (big nation --Micah 4:1; Isa. 2:2) and island (small nation) were moved out of their places (6:14). And the kings of the earth (Cepheus & Coma; e.g. Maximian, Galerius, Maximin, Maxentius & Licinius), and the great men (Orion), and the rich men (Auriga), and the chief captains (Perseus), and the mighty men (Hercules & Ophiuchus), and every bondman (Andromeda & Pisces), and every free man (Aquarius & Bootes), hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains (their constellations rotated down behind the horizon) (6:15); And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us (under the horizon) from the face of him that sitteth on the throne (Cepheus and Sagittarius both represent Constantine from 313 A.D. till 337 A.D. when he died; Chi Rho sign appeared in heaven [Crux & Centaurus]-- Matt. 24:29), and from the wrath of the Lamb (Aries or Constantine) (6:16): For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand (6:17)? "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world." (Ps. 19:1-4) From 96 A.D. till 337 A.D. is 240 years and from the sun seal removed by Aries to the sun "messiah" riding (Sagittarius) is 240 degrees (2/3 of 360). Notice that the lunar open seal near Aries' hoof also corresponds to the lunar crescent in Sagittarius's hand. Just as the pagan Roman Empire rose and fell over a period of 240 years culminating in persecution of Christians for 10 years till Constantine came, so also the secular United States will rise and fall over a period of 240 years (Declaration of Independence 1776 to 2016) (War of Independence ended 1783 to 2023) (Constitution ratified in 1788 to 2028) (First president elected in 1789 to 2029) culminating in persecution of Christians for 10 years till Christ comes. We believe persecution of Christians in the U.S. will begin in 2016. Not only is Constantine a type of Christ, he is also a type of anti-Christ. We know this because he appears as Roman Emperor FIRST chronologically in chapter 6, BEFORE all the calamities strike the Roman Empire in chapters 7 to 11 (or 12 to 18) whereas Christ returns AFTER in chapter 19. In the same way, an end-time anti-Christ will become the last president of the U.S. BEFORE its rapid decline. "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done" (Eccl. 1:9). God says, "I change not" (Mal. 3:6). He is "the same yesterday, today and forever" (Heb. 13:8). 167
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