Patterson will finish up the final lines of the Book of Revelation during a ceremony at his church, St.

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John's narrative in the book of Revelation or secular chronologies that fit the events of history into a larger cosmic design.

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That ending the Book of Revelation has every element that Michael Bay could want: dragons, seven-headed sea beasts, double-horned land beasts, huge C.

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But Miss Hernandez said the badge was the "mark of the beast", as described in chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation in the Bible.

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That gets its first outing in the Book of Revelation, a lurid account of the apocalypse probably best read as an allegory of the individual Christian's journey to salvation.

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Further north is the island of Patmos, where visitors can see the grotto where St John the Divine once lived and where, after a series of apocalyptic visions, he penned the Book of Revelation.

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This former heroin addict takes us through the painful personal history of a friend who took too many drugs, lost his grip on reality, and, shortly before his death at 28 became obsessed with the numerological minutiae of the Book of Revelation with all its dark horrors and visionary frenzy.

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Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the "Left Behind" book series about the Rapture within the Christian Bible's end-of-days Book of Revelation, doesn't completely agree with Hall's assessment.

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After the revelation of the affair, Sanford's wife Jenny divorced him and wrote a book.

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