Monthly Archives: April 2018

When a Character is Killed Off…

Posted on April 19, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Designated Survivor I suspect the hint is in the show’s title. We have been watching this one since its beginning and have enjoyed the parallels to (and divergent differences with) Trump’s presidency. But behind it all are love stories being … Continue reading →

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Revelation: Cosmic Timeline?

Posted on April 19, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Scripture as Guideline There are several books of the Bible which are focused on future events: in the Old Testament, they are Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah and Daniel; in the New Testament, Revelation. Together they tell a story about what will … Continue reading →

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Revelation: Some Beastly Speculation

Posted on April 18, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Number of the Beast There is probably no other sequence of numbers in the whole (Christian) world that is more recognized than these three digits. There are several ways to look at the numbers, but to do them proper justice … Continue reading →

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Revelation: A Divine Document?

Posted on April 18, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Proof: The Number Seven I think by now, readers of my posts have seen that seven is considered a sacred number. Well, Revelation is full of examples of that number in relationship with the symbolic language used by St John … Continue reading →

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Revelation: Seven Churches Equal 7 Eras?

Posted on April 17, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Letters to the Seven Churches Years ago, I read that each of the seven churches of Asia Minor represented an era of the Christian Church. In other words, Jesus’s message to them, through St John the Divine, was meant to … Continue reading →

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Revelation: Nightmare or Vision?

Posted on April 16, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) 9 I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 On … Continue reading →

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Who is King Arthur, Really?

Posted on April 15, 2018 by cdsmiller17

The Once and Future King When T H White captured this legend in print form, the story of King Arthur had been around in written form for nine hundred years. And the oral history may have gone back another six … Continue reading →

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Experience: Negative to Positive

Posted on April 14, 2018 by cdsmiller17

“Don’t touch! It’s hot!” As a species, we are wired to disobey. It must have been built into our DNA to be negatively suggestible. From the minute we are told not to do something, that’s all we want to do. … Continue reading →

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Fulfilling One’s Destiny

Posted on April 12, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Tearing Down the Temple It’s an ‘inconvenient truth’: Jesus saw his own destruction in terms of the Temple in Jerusalem being torn down. “Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it … Continue reading →

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Proverbs 31: Wise Women

Posted on April 11, 2018 by cdsmiller17

An Acrostic Poem In the course of writing poetry over the years, I have employed a technique that helps drive the process of creating sonnets, while ‘hiding’ the meaning in plain sight. I write acrostic poems. What I hadn’t realized … Continue reading →

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