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Wayne Howard
- Nov 23, 2017
- 18 min
Constantine
Constantine's Parents Before we can move into the fifth head of the beast, we need to take a little time to get to know someone who had a huge influence on bringing Christianity out of persecution, popularizing it, and also merging pagan rituals to fit into its practices. This man was known as Constantine the Great, born as early as 272 A.D. (reports vary as to the actual date of his birth) to an innkeeper's daughter by the name of Helena. His father was a general in the Roma
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Wayne Howard
- Oct 31, 2017
- 8 min
Pagan Rome
This new beast is different...that's the best that can be said for it. In Daniel chapter 7, we go from seeing animals that we recognize, even if a bit fanciful: a lion with eagle's wings, a bear, a leopard with four heads and four wings, to a beast that can't even be given a label of something recognizable. It had iron teeth, and was terrible and strong, and had 10 horns. This brings to mind something very violent, and make no bones about it, Rome was a violent nation, with g
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Wayne Howard
- Dec 9, 2015
- 9 min
The Beast
I would like to break things down about the Beast from Revelation 13, which is the same as the statue in Daniel 2:32-33 and Daniel chapter 7 in order to better understand what the heads of the beast represent so that it does not seem so frightening. Each head represents a period of time when a nation or major world power turned its back on God and then was defeated. I will be going through one by one and addressing each head as described in Revelation 13 and compare it (when
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