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Church history and linear combinations
1. Church history and linear combinations
The book of Revelation has the letters to the seven churches right after the introduction.
One view of these letters is that they have a secondary meaning as a prophecy of some two thousand years of church history.
This idea can be better seen as linear combinations over time rather than having distinct beginnings and ends for each period.
2. Historical interpretation of church history
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The probability that all three would be ordered together is 1 in 5040*5040*5040 or 1 in 128,024,064,000 ≈ 128 billion.
Some people prefer to just use church history to help remember the order of the churches, parables and beatitudes.
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The horizontal scale is time. The vertical scale is the proportion that history evidences the traits of those verses. The historical interpretation is like a linear combination in mathematics in that what the verses say is more valid in some time periods than other time periods.
The probability that any
7 objects would be ordered at random in a given order is
7! =
7*6*5*4*3*2*1 or
1 in
5040. Note that there were many more possible churches or parables or beatitudes than used by Jesus.
3. Historical interpretation of church history
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Churches |
Parables |
Beatitudes |
Church ages |
1 |
Ephesus |
Sower |
Poor in Spirit |
Jesus and the Good News |
2 |
Smyrna |
Weeds |
They that mourn |
Roman persecutions |
3 |
Pergamus |
Mustard |
Meek inherit |
Roman acceptance |
4 |
Thyatira |
Leaven |
Hunger and thirst |
Catholic Church |
5 |
Sardis |
Treasure |
Merciful and alms |
Protestant Reformation |
6 |
Philadelphia |
Pearl |
Pure in heart |
Great Awakenings |
7 |
Laodicea |
Harvest |
Peacemakers |
Apostate church age |
If you do not like the historical interpretation, as prophecy, just use the model to remember the order of the Churches, Parables and Beatitudes.
[spread spectrum communication]
[self-similar like fractals]
4. Historical interpretation of church history
1 Churches
2 Parables
3 Beatitudes
4 Time periods
Interpretations |
☐ Literal |
☐ Christian living |
☐ Figurative |
☐ Heresies over time |
☐ Historical |
☐ Prophetic details |
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Note that the time of Roman persecutions was that of the universal church as a collection of small "mustard seeds" while the time of Roman acceptance was that of the universal church as "tree with birds making a home in the branches".
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5. Letters to churches in Revelation
Interpretations:
Literal
Figurative
Christian living
Historical
Prophetic details
6. Kingdom parables
Interpretations:
Literal
Figurative
Historical
Christian living
7. Beatitudes
Interpretations:
Literal
Figurative
Historical
Christian living
8. Controversy
If in fact these letters to the seven churches have such a prophetic meaning, then some of the controversy between "
quickly" and "
soon" is resolved since that church history had already started so that would be very "
soon" indeed.
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