Denis,
I really enjoyed the letter that you posted on all seven
churches being in what is now called Turkey. You did a lot of
studying and cross-reference.
Your letter
encouraged me to look at Satan’s seat. That seat is mentioned
three times, twice as Satan’s seat, an finally as the beast’s
seat, after it was given to him. The church in Pergamos was
told that Satan’s seat was right there in their same place:
Revelation
2:13
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest,
even where Satan's
seat is: and thou holdest fast my
name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein
Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain
among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Then in the
tribulation, Satan gives that same seat to the beast:
Revelation
13:2 And
the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet
were as the feet of
a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and
his seat,
and great authority.
Then at the very end
of the tribulation, the wrath of God is poured out onto that
seat, which Satan had given to the beast:
Revelation
16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his
vial upon the seat of the beast;
and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their
tongues for pain
The church was told
that Satan’s seat was in Pergamos, which is in modern day
Turkey. That same seat, in Turkey, is later given to the beast
in the Tribulation. There is nothing in the scriptures to
indicate that Satan’s seat was moved to Rome, or to New York,
or to Washington D.C., or even to Salt Lake (only Alexander
Hislop tried to make a case for a moving seat, the scriptures
do not). The revived Islamic Empire comes back to life, with
its head of the caliphate in Turkey, where it suffered a
mortal head wound after the end of WWI. So a revived Islamic
Empire headed in Turkey, the Eastern leg of the Roman Empire
which also had its head in Turkey, with the beast given
Satan’s seat, right there in Turkey, and to be the focus of
God’s wrath in the fifth vial – well it seems interesting at
least, and even possible to me, and I’m thinking of all this
now, in response to that great post of yours.
Thank you,
Gino