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− | </noinclude> | + | <!-- 5. ¿Son todos los escritos o declaraciones de los profetas inspirados por el Señor? Citar ejemplos y frases que dan pistas para apoyar su respuesta. --> |
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| + | Notas para el instructor: Si bien todas las profecías verdaderas provienen de Dios, no todas las declaraciones del profeta son inspiradas. Los profetas son mensajeros humanos de Dios y, como tales, hay casos en los que los profetas que hablan desde su propia sabiduría predican o escriben mensajes no proféticos. Esta es una distinción importante, porque pensar que cada palabra de la boca o la mano de un profeta es de Dios ha llevado a muchos a desviarse de la iglesia o a denunciar la influencia profética de una persona. Hay muchos casos en los que los profetas comparten escritos que pueden no ser proféticos. |
− | Teacher's Notes: While all true prophecy comes from God, not all utterances of the prophet are inspired. Prophets are human messengers from God and as such, there are instances where prophets speaking from their own wisdom would preach or write non-prophetic messages. This is an important distinction, because thinking that every word from a prophet's mouth or hand is from God has led many to stray from the church or to denounce a person’s prophetic influence. There are many cases were prophets share writings that may not be prophetic.
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− | :<u>Balaam</u> – God would not let him curse the children of Israel. However, in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+31%3A16&version=NKJV Numbers 31:1], we see that Balaam did advise Balak, king of the Moabites, on a methodology to separate Israel from God. In subsequent chapters, the Israelites stray from God through the auspices of the fertility worship of false gods and from the women of Moab. Clearly, Balaam’s advice to Balak is not an utterance inspired by God.
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− | :<u>Daniel</u> – There are portions of the book of Daniel that are prophetic and other portions that are historic first person or third person narratives. Clearly, Daniel receives messages from God during the prophetic portions of the book (Chapters 2, 7, 8, 10-11), but Daniel did not need to be in a prophetic role to write the story of the three faithful Hebrew youths on the plains of Dura, or the story in Daniel 1 concerning the eating of the king’s food.
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− | :<u>Ellen G. White</u> – There has been much consternation concerning plagiarism in the Conflict of the Ages series. Ellen White was a church leader and a prolific author, as well as being God’s prophet. When writing, she often uses phrases similar to "and I was taken into vision" to delineate that which was shown to her by God, from that which is her own writing. When judging writing, a sense of historical context must be kept in mind of the rules of plagiarism when the writing was undertaken. There are examples where Ellen White "lifted" significant passages of historical description from other authors. This was a common practice in the late 19th / early 20th centuries. However, the fact that she borrowed writings to describe history does not negate her prophetic messages to the SDA church, or diminish her influence on growing this denomination.
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− | </noinclude> | + | <!-- 6. Leer Apocalipsis 2 acerca de la discusión de las siete iglesias y el mensajero que fue enviado a cada iglesia. Discutir si ese mensajero fue realmente un profeta. --> |
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− | Teacher's Notes: In every Biblical Age, there were prophets. Therefore, it is a conundrum for some to believe that from the end of the New Testament until very late in the modern age, no prophets were sent by God to enlighten His people or to provide them prophetic comfort or rebuke. If you couple the fact that Ellen G. White referred to herself as a messenger, and examine the close relationship of the words ''messenger'', ''prophet'', and ''angel'' in the Greek, then the depiction of the seven angels to the seven churches may take on significance. The question is, "Do these seven angels represent prophets, with specific messages, sent to each time period depicted by the seven churches?" Adventists regularly hold the periods to be as follows:
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− | * Ephesus – up to AD 100
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− | * Smyrna – AD 100-313
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− | * Pergamos – AD 313-538
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− | * Thyatira – AD 538-1560s
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− | * Sardis – AD 1560s-1790s
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− | * Philadelphia – AD 1790s-1840s
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− | * Laodicea – AD 1840s-End of Time
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− | This delineation certainly made sense to the early Advent writers who believed the second coming was imminent. Thus for many years, Ellen White was the messenger to the Church of Laodicea, and the last prophet. One might wonder if that is correct, given the unfolding of the last 100+ years of history. It is known the book of Joel mentions that there will be prophets in the end times. All teachers are encouraged to prepare their students to be open to messages from God, should a new prophetic voice arise for the end-time church. Remember, there are tests of a prophet, and God is in control. Be watchful for both true and false prophets among the people of God.
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− | Teacher's notes: The day-for-year belief is not widely held by many Christian religions. Wikipedia claims that this belief is most notably held by Seventh-day Adventists (or more rightly all Adventists seeing it was a founding principal of William Miller), Jehovah’s Witnesses, and some Pentecostals. While Wikipedia is not a definitive source, it is included in this note to highlight the fact that when dealing with young people that have grown up with Christian traditions associated with Catholicism or one of the major Protestant religions, the student may be unfamiliar with this traditional SDA belief. There is biblical precedent for the day-to-year prophetic coupling. In [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+14&version=NKJV Numbers 14], it describes Israel wandering in the wilderness for forty years, one year spent for every day of the spies’ mission in Canaan. In [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+29&version=NKJV Genesis 29], Laban requires an additional seven years work for the hand of Rachel in marriage, calling it a week.
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− | William Miller, upon the realization that his life was spared during the war of 1812, comes to study the Bible exhaustively. He went verse by verse and attempted to reconcile every truth from beginning to end. Upon arriving in Daniel, he understood the significance of the 1260 and 2300-day prophecies and began searching for their meaning. Upon his understanding of the verses mentioned in the paragraph above, he started looking at what these long term prophecies could mean to the church during his time period. This study ultimately led him to find the start of the 2300-day prophecy. A first look at the starting point was the 536 BC date, the year associated with Cyrus's decree to allow the Jews captive in Persian lands to return to Judea, rebuild Jerusalem, and re-establish their homeland. However, the decree itself was not the re-establishment of the Jewish nation, Cyrus died in 530 B.C. and it takes the Jewish people almost 80 years to self-organize. In 457 BC, Ezra received the decree from Artaxerxes giving the children of Israel the final authority to become self-governing. Therefore, William Miller selected 457 BC as the restoration of Jerusalem, and from this date, 2300 years mathematically becomes AD 1843. Further examination of the zero year (was there a year that was neither before Christ or in the year of our Lord?), Miller concludes that there was no zero year, and hence 1843 became 1844.
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− | Teacher's Notes: Here is a non-canonical list of Old Testament prophecies concerning Jesus. There are many others, but this list should get the students started on seeing the text of the prophecy and then tying that text to a fulfillment in one of the four Gospels.
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− | '''Birth:'''
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− | * ''Messiah would be born in Bethlehem'' - "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting." -Micah 5:2 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would be of the line of Abraham'' - "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice." -Genesis 22:18 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would be born of a virgin'' - " Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." -Isaiah 7:14 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would come to earth as a baby'' – "For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." -Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would be a descendant of Jacob'' - "I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, And batter the brow of Moab, And destroy all the sons of tumult.[" -Numbers 24:17 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would be a descendant of David'' - "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth." -Jeremiah 23:5 (NKJV)
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− | '''Life:'''
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− | * ''Messiah would be a prophet like Moses'' – "The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear." -Deuteronomy 18:15 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would enter Jerusalem triumphantly'' – "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey." -Zechariah 9:9 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver'' – "Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter." -Zechariah 11:12, 13 (NKJV)
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− | '''Death:'''
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− | * ''Messiah will be tried and condemned'' – "He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken." -Isaiah 53:8 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah will be smitten and spat upon'' – "He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken" -Micah 5:1 (NKJV)
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− | :"I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting" -Isaiah 50:6 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah’s clothes would be divided up'' – "They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots." -Psalm 22:18 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah’s bones would remain unbroken'' – "They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it." -Numbers 9:12 (NKJV)
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− | * ''Messiah would be buried in a rich man’s grave'' – "And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth." -Isaiah 53:9 (NKJV)
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− | Teacher’s Notes: This information is readily available in the Introduction to each Minor Prophet in the SDA Bible Commentary. Hence, a single example will be provided rather than provide sample answers for all twelve Minor Prophets. Remember the "minor" prophets are: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachariah, and Malachi.
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− | <big>'''Hosea'''</big><br />
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− | :<u>'''Time frame'''</u>: Hosea prophesied from some period around 753 BC to 729 BC. His date of birth is not known, nor what happened to him in later life, after his prophetic period ceased.
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− | :<u>'''To whom did Hosea prophesy'''</u>: Hosea was a prophet to the northern tribes of Israel (the tribes that abandoned the Davidic line and followed Jeroboam).
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− | :<u>'''The core message of the prophecy'''</u>: The dominant theme of this book is the love of God for His people, even after they have turned away from Him time and time again. Hosea's message does not condone the sins of the people; rather it calls on ghastly images of what will happen if the northern tribes do not turn from their wicked ways and return to God.
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− | :<u>'''The Power or Principality that ultimately fulfilled the immediate prophecy'''</u>: Assyria, in 722 BC, Sargon II completes the conquest of Israel.
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− | :<u>'''The message that is relevant for today'''</u>: "Hosea depicts the yearning love of God for His wayward people. The book is filled with appeals to repentance and messages of hope to those who will turn again to their loving Father." – Page 886, Volume 4 of the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Copyright 1955.
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− | Teacher's Notes: Here is a nice pictorial depiction of the Daniel 2 and 7 prophecies.
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− | [[File:Daniel 2 & 7 prophecies.png|center|thumb|700px|Prophecies in Daniel 2 and 7]]
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− | Teacher’s Notes: The principle difference between Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) interpretation of Daniel 7 and that of most other Christian religions is in the interpretation of the fourth beast, the horns on its head, and the meaning of the little horn.
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− | Seventh-day Adventists interpret the fourth beast to be the Roman Empire. This is born out of consistency with other prophecies in Daniel (the teeth of iron [ch. 7] and the legs of iron [ch. 2]) and the historical evidence that Rome’s primary weapons of choice were made of iron. Thus, Seventh-day Adventists interpret the ten horns to be the ten tribes (the Alemanni, Franks, Suevi, Vandals, Burgundians, Visigoths, Anglo-Saxons, Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Heruli). Common SDA belief on the little horn is that the Bishop of Rome transforms from a religious leader to a political entity, thus explaining why he was a different type of horn. The Bishop of Rome ultimately subdues (with the help of Justinian) the three tribes that rule the Italian peninsula, establishing political domination over the remaining tribes. Finally, the Bishop of Rome changes times and laws, Sabbath to Sunday, and numerous laws concerning man’s direct relationship with God, respectively.
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− | Obviously, the largest Christian church does not share the SDA interpretation and thus neither do many of the Protestant religions. These religions hold Babylon as the Lion, the Medean Empire as the bear, the Persians as the four-headed Leopard, with the Macedonian Empire as the fourth beast defying description. Thus the horns are representative of the Seleucid dynastic lineage with the 11th horn being Antiochus IV, more commonly known as Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus Epiphanes was a 2nd century BC ruler that came to power via three assassinations, ultimately persecuted the Jews, sacrificed a pig on the altar of the temple in Jerusalem, and created the environment that led to the Maccabean revolt.
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− | Teacher's Notes: The book of Revelation is a Chiasmus, a literary structure where a message is laid out in two or more clauses and presented to the reader or hearer, then presented again in reverse order. In mathematical terms, the first four chapters of Revelation are a reflected image of the last four chapters of Revelation. We find the rejoicing in Heaven over God’s victory (chapter 19), the Millennium of Understanding (chapter 20), the New Heaven and New Earth (chapter 21) and the Restoration of Eden, and the Epilogue (chapter 22) in the last four chapters. These were important messages to the early Christian church, giving assurance that God would prevail. Similarly, we find the Throne in Heaven (chapter 4), the last three churches (chapter 3), the first four churches (chapter 2), and the introduction of the message and John’s cision of Christ the Redeemer (chapter 1) in the first four chapters. These first four chapters gave the early church an understanding that there would be times of trial, however, Christ and Christ alone holds the keys of death and Hades, and that Jesus is ultimately in control and will triumph over evil. What a wonderful message for the early church and the church today!
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− | Teacher's Notes: Joel 2:28-32 describes the Day of the Lord and is understood to prophetically refer to the end of time. The passage reads:
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− | From Joel, it is evident, that if necessary, God will send more prophets to strengthen His people in the latter days. Is it necessary to believe we need another prophet after Ellen G. White? This question can be answered with a thought she herself discussed. You can find Ellen White’s thoughts in both Volume 5 of her [http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=5T&lang=en&pagenumber=665 Testimonies] and in Selected Messages, book 3, pages 29-33.
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− | It is not a matter of does the church have sufficient light to make it through until the end of time, but rather will the church diligently study that truth or will God need to send a prophet(s) to remind us of what He has already told us.
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− | * “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is not light in them” Isaiah 8:20 – The words of any new prophet have to be consistent with the Word of God and the not contradict the Bible
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− | The devil cannot send a counterfeit prophet that meets these four tests and still provide a bogus message. Many counterfeit prophets have arisen, but none meet all four of these tests.
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− | <u>Nostradamus</u>: Nostradamus was a French pharmacist who lived from 1503 until 1566. He wrote 942 quatrains (four line rhymes) of prophecy. To date thousands of supposed correct interpretations are attributed to these 942 prophecies. For example:
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− | Many would like to say that this predicted the 9/11 tragedy. However, how is 2001 the dawning of the new century for Nostradamus? That would be the year 1600. Who is the king of terror? There has been no singular figure that is the king of terror. Osama bin Laden was certainly a high profile terrorist, but he would not be considered ruler of all terrorists. What does it mean that the sky will burn at 45 degrees? The highest temperature in NYC on September 11, 2001 was 81° F (27° C), it was approximately ten degrees (F) cooler when the second plane struck the tower. If he intended 45° of latitude, it is abundantly clear that New York fails in this regard as well. What is the great new city? New York was hardly a new city as it was founded in 1624.
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− | When considering the four tests of a prophet, Nostradamus fails at least three. Test 1, he fails because he is not consistent with the Bible. Test 3, the majority of his prophecies have not come true. Test 4, he does not claim Jesus as Savior. It is difficult to speak to test 2 because too little about his life is accurately recorded to see if he lived a life in accordance with a reflection of Christ.
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− | <u>Rasputin</u>: Gregori Rasputin was a “monk” who became advisor to the Czar Nicholas II and his Czarina because of an almost hypnotic method he used which seemed to control the hemophilia of their child Alexi. Before his death, Rasputin sent the Czarina a “prophetic” letter describing his own death and the timeline of the royal family’s deaths if the Russian princes killed him. Rasputin did not have to be a prophet to understand that his undue influence on the royal family was causing great concern from members of the Russian court. Furthermore, he understood the tenuous nature that the Czar held over the country as the letter was written after hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties had taken place during the beginning of the World War I.
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− | When considering the four tests of a prophet, Rasputin clearly fails at least three tests. In his case, he was not consistent with previous truth, we know that Rasputin’s life was inconsistent with the reflection of Christ (regular deceit, fornication, alcoholism, drug abuse), and his prophecies did not proclaim Jesus as Savior.
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− | Again, a reminder to those who teach this honor that some of the dates held by Uriah Smith and other church leaders have been called into question with further historical and archaeological study.
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− | For some dates, there is exceptional evidence through past events that anchors accuracy to within a year. For example, the 457 date that anchors the 2300-day prophecy. It is possible to have great confidence in this date because of the seventy weeks prophecy that reveals when the Messiah was to live and die. If 457 is taken and 490 years added, the result is AD 34 (remember, no zero year). If you take AD 34 and go back ½ a week (3½ years), it will be AD 31, and it is known from Roman records that this is an accurate date for the crucifixion of Christ. Hence, it is posisble to have significant confidence that the 1843/44 date is correct in the 2300-year prophecy.
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− | Other dates are more challenging; 538 to 1798 for example. Adventist theologians have continued to teach an exact time period for the 1260 day and the 1290 day prophecy (see [http://www.historicism.org/Documents/SDA1260Days.pdf this link]). However, each uses one of two starting points: the fall of the Ostrogoths or the declaration of Justinian, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, declaring the Pope as the head of the Church. The 538 date for the Ostrogoth tribe being uprooted has been shown to be inaccurate. One might cite the fall of Ravenna (540) as the apparent completion of the Byzantine conquest of the Italian peninsula, but if taken into account a modern understanding of that conquest, the war continues into a second phase that is reinvigorated under the leader Totila and the Byzantine armies do not complete the conquest of the Ostrogoth tribe until 554. Others call out 538 because they believe that it represents Justinian’s recognition of the Pope in Rome as the head of the true Church (this can be found in certain modern Catholic documents dated at AD 538). However, it was in AD 533 that Justinian, in his Code of Justinian, addresses the pope as being “the head of all the churches.”
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− | Just as questionable is the assumption that the 1798 capture of the Pope Pius VI by General Berthier of France was the end of the political domination by the Bishop of Rome. Yes, the papacy was temporarily stymied; however, the College of Cardinals elected a new pope the following year and this new pope (Pius VII) revives the Jesuit order, again restricts the freedom of movement by the Jewish people, and reestablishes the Jewish ghettos that Napoleon had abolished. Pope Pius VII also rebuilt the walls of the Vatican and declared that the United States had done more for Christianity than the most powerful nations of Christendom, after the U.S. defeated the Barbary Pirates; hardly apolitical!
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− | Neither of these questionable dates need cause doubt to the 1260-day prophecy. The Bishop of Rome indeed rose far beyond religious leadership and for 1260 years dominated the political landscape of Europe and the New World (look up the Treaty of Tordesillas).
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