I have been reading the Geneva Bible--the Bible that the pilgrims brought with them to America. It predates the King James Bible by roughly 50 years and the KJV translators made ample use of the Geneva Bible. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but in Chapter 9 is the discussion of the blowing of the 5th trumpet. (I'm standardizing the spelling here because the Geneva Bible has no J's, the u's are v's, the s's sometimes look like f's, etc.)
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And there came out of the smoke Locusts upon the earth; and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. [Like the sting of a needle maybe?]
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And it was commanded them, that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree: but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. [a footnote for this verse regarding the men in question says: "That is, the infidels whom Satan blindeth with the efficacy of error." (Interesting word choice there: "efficacy" of error, since "efficacy" is a word generally used now in relation to medicine. And we certainly saw a lot of people blinded by MSM and the whole COVID puppeteers who certainly seem to be working for Satan)]
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And to them was commanded that they should not kill them, but that they should be vexed five months, and that their pain should be as the pain that cometh of a scorpion, when he hath stung a man. [one of the footnotes for this verse: "The elect for a certain space and at times are in troubles: for the grasshoppers endure but from April to September, which is five months." Another footnote regarding the sting: "For at the beginning, the sting of their conscience once seemeth as nothing, but except they soon seek remedy, they perish." This reminds me of all the discussion of venom and other poisons being in the vaccines.]
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Therefore in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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And the form of the locusts was like unto horses prepared unto battle, and on their heads were, as it were, crowns, like unto gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. [Crown like "corona"? Faces like men like manmade maybe?]
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And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. [Hair like the blood clots maybe?]
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And they had habbergions [a type of chainmail armor apparently], like to the habbergions of iron: and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots when many horses run into battle.
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And they had tails like unto scorpions and there were stings in their tails & their power was to hurt men five months. [Footnote on stings in this one: "To infect & kill with their venomous doctrine." The Geneva Bible translators were seeing this all as allegory, but what if it was maybe also more literal than they imagined?]
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And they have a King over them, which is the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name is Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is named Apollyon. [Footnote for this verse for the word "Angel": "That is, destroyer, which is Antichrist, the Pope, king of hypocrites & Satan's ambassador." The pilgrims where very early protestants, so they weren't fans of the Catholic Pope.]
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One woe is past, and behold, yet two woes come after this.
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The the sixth Angel blew the trumpet & I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden alter, which is before God,
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Saying to the sixth Angel, which had the trumpet, Loose the four Angels, which are bound in the great river Euphrates. [Footnote on this: "Meaning the enemies of the East country, which should afflict the Church of God, as did the Arabians, Sarasines, Turks, and Tartarians." (It mentions TARTARIANS in the footnote. Interesting!)]
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And the four Angels were loosed, which were prepared at an hour, at a day, at a month, and at a year, to slay the third part of men.
Is it just me or does this sound a lot like the unleashing of the coronavirus on humanity?
What is the topic of your book, if I may ask?
I haven't been online much lately, so I'm late answering. My book was a genealogy on my family, starting with the first of my last name entering the country in the early 1700s and containing all the descendants I could find. The book listed is the first of three editions, each larger than the previous. I'm now working on the 4th edition, and the rough draft is over twice the size of the 3rd edition. And the rough draft doesn't have all the photos, documents, maps, news clippings, etc., as well as an index of every name. The completed book will be at least three times the size of the previous edition. People all over the place are finding out I'm the genealogist of the family and are contacting me. Also, I am finding new DNA matches that help me with information.
It's a never ending project, but I think I will stop with this edition, as I'm old and have other projects that have been on hold for years.
Genealogy is fascinating. I did a decent amount of digging into our family's genealogy when my kids were quite young. Your response made me remember something I wrote in my 1997 Christmas letter out to family and friends:
"When you go back 30 generations (about 900 years) and count your great-grandparents up-that is add up all the great-grandparents you have at the 30th generation back--we each of us have 1,073,741,824--yes, that number is correct--over 1 billion 28th great-grandparents! How do we get this number? Well, we each have 2 parents (biologically speaking here), 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 great-great, etc.--that is the number rises exponentially. So, 2 parents going back 30 generations is 230 = 1,073,741,824. And that's just grandparents in that 30th generation back. If you add all of them from now through the 30th generation back together, the number is a whopping 2,147,483,646. Shocking, isn't it? It took over the course of 900 years more than 2 billion people to make each of us who we are. It gives you a good idea of just how unique we all are. It also gives you a good idea of just how true the old sentiment that we're all related somewhere down the line is. Of course, it should be remembered that going that far back the lines cross all over the place, so that number of over 2 billion isn't 2 billion unique separate individuals--the same person will turn up many times in the pedigree."
Your handle is "Aspie". Are you, in fact, Aspergers? I'm not trying to be intrusive. My son is very mildly Aspergers, so it's a topic close to my heart.
Yes, I have Asperger's. Just to prove it, I'll have to correct you on one thing. There weren't 2,147,483,646 people on earth 30 generations back. The explanation is cousin marriages. I can trace dozens of descents from Edward I. Two of my grandparents were distant cousins of the same last name, and all four of their parents were cousins. And the grandparents of one of those were cousins as well. I suppose I'm also a redneck, as my family tree doesn't fork.
My son is Aspergers. Coincidentally, his line through his father (who is also Aspergers though was not diagnosed until our son was diagnosed when he was 20 years old) also traces through Edward I. Yes, once you trace into one line of the "royal" lines in Europe, you're tied into nearly all of them due to the intermarriage.
My son is a welder. He always had a fascination with metal as a kid. I had a book on blacksmithing and he read that when he was 9 or 10, then worked at a local old-time-town museum as a sort-of apprentice blacksmith to the older men who did the smithing. They loved him. He was so enthusiastic at such a young age. That is one of his charms--his enthusiasm for the topics he loves.