THE
BOOK OF REVELATION
By:
Bertrand L. Comparet
Lesson
#6 Of A Series Of 14, Transcribed From Audio Tapes
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We’ve been studying the Book of Revelation and we had gotten through the first
four of the seven trumpets. The fourth trumpet, you remember, and the things
that were given in symbols following the blowing of that trumpet, signified the
extinguishment of the power and glory of the empire of
With
Revelation chapter 9, verses 1 to 12, we come to the fifth trumpet, or the first
of these three woes: “And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from
heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And
he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the
smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the
smoke of the pit. 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. 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. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but
that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when
he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find
it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of
the locusts were like unto horses
prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and
their faces were as the faces of men.
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had
breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many
horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were
stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they
had a king over them, which is the
angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath
his name Apollyon. One woe is past;
and, behold, there come two woes more
hereafter.”
Obviously,
none of this can be taken literally. Thus, the question is: What does the
symbolism here represent? That star falling to earth was evidently a rebellious
angel. Compare this, for example, with Revelation 12, verses 3 and 4, where John
said he saw “A great red dragon in heaven, and his tail drew the third part of
the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth.” In other words, Satan in
his rebellion got exactly a third of the angels to follow him. And, they were
driven out of heaven and cast to earth. Then with the same symbolism here, it is
evident that this was one of the rebellious angels that was doing this. So he
opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke pours out and darkens the sun and the
air. We saw previously, when we were dealing with the seals, that when one of
those seals was opened, the sun and the moon and the stars were darkened a third
of the time. Of course, the sun there represented the glory and power of
imperial
Therefore,
what we are coming to here is obviously the remainder of the old
Before
the Roman conquest of them, the Greeks were a very warlike people. In fact, they
were too warlike to use any common sense at all. We’ve mentioned how the Arabs
were a very impractical sort of people because they would much rather cut each
others’ throats than unite for their common defense against any enemy. But at
least Mohammed was able to unite the Arabs by religion, and nobody ever united
the Greeks. The fall of the ancient Greek civilization came about directly and
exclusively from the fact that the only thing they wanted to do (these different
Greek cities), because each city was a little independent nation of its own,
they were constantly trying to conquer each other, partly through jealousy of
any commerce that the other might be cutting in on; partly from the fact that
the strongest passion known to humanity in those days was the desire to conquer
and rule one’s neighbor. So they were constantly fighting, and whichever Greek
city was getting the worst of it would then ask the Persians, or the
Macedonians, or the Romans to come in and help them. These other nations, of
course, soon saw the point. What reason was there to spend their money and their
lives conquering Greeks for the benefit of another Greek city? If they conquered
it, they might just as well conquer it for their own purposes. [See note #3 at end of lesson.]
The
Greeks did succeed in beating off the Persians, although Persia made a number of
attempts to conquer Greece, and the Greeks briefly lost their cities on the
mainland of Asia Minor from time to time during those Persian invasions
(“briefly lost their cities” because the Greeks would gain them back again). But
the conquest of Greece under Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the
Great, was brought about exclusively by the fact that these fools in their
stubborn, bitter warfare with each other kept calling on Philip of Macedon to
come in and help one city or the other, until he finally saw that if he was
going to be busy during all the years, sending an expedition in every two or
three years to rescue some Greek city, he might as well take it once and for all
and impose on them the peace and order that they were incapable of thinking out
for themselves.
Of
course, after Alexander’s empire fell apart, after his death, the Greek,
It
was then out of
He
finally had a series of visions when he was in a cave or pit, an underground
cave in the mountain where he received these visions. And for some time Mohammed
himself was doubtful whether these were really from the angel Gabriel, as he was
told they were, or whether they were satanically inspired, from the fact he got
them in this pit. But, at any rate, he got these repeated visions which gave him
a new religion to propagate, and told him that his duty was to go out and
convert all the unbelievers to this religion. Now, Mohammedanism has many good
things about it – that much can be said for it. It did a great deal to bring a
degree of civilization among the peoples who took it up, which they had never
had before. They recognize the prophets of the Old Testament and say that they
were all prophets inspired by “God.” They recognized also “Jesus” Christ to the
extent of saying that He also was a great prophet. They do not recognize Him as
we do, as the Savior and Redeemer. They recognize the apostles of the New
Testament as being also prophets. But they say the last and greatest of the
prophets was Mohammed. Well, that might not be too bad if it weren’t for this
thing which shows the basic satanic inspiration from it that he had
appropriately received in the pit. They deny that Yahshua the Christ died to pay
the penalty of our [Israelite] sins and bring us
[Israelites] salvation. [See note #5 at end of lesson.]
Mohammed
said that “God” loved “Jesus” so much that He wouldn’t allow Him to die on the
cross, that He sneaked Him away and put some other fellow in His place to die
there. Well, of course, the essence of Christianity is the atonement made by
Yahshua the Christ paying the penalty of our sins, yet that is completely denied
by Mohammedanism. Whereas the Arabs were a very barbarous people to begin with,
Mohammedanism did bring them, as I say, a pretty good degree of civilization for
its day. He taught them a certain degree of kindness and mercy, which they had
not been inclined to show before, and it taught them honesty and fair dealings
toward each other. The principal occupation of the Arabs, up to that time, seems
to have been blood feuds between the different petty tribes. There were a great
multitude of these petty tribes, and like always, if four hundred years ago some
member of another tribe had killed some member of your tribe, then of course in
revenge, your tribe would finally kill some member of that tribe, and then in
revenge for that, they killed a member of your tribe, such had gone on for
several centuries and was expected to go on for the next ten thousand years, at
least, before they got enough sense to break it off. Mohammed commanded them to
give up these blood feuds, that as long as both tribes were Mohammedans, they
had to remain at peace with one another. It was wrong to shed the blood of a
fellow Mohammedan, unless of course he attacked you and you had to act in self
defense. Arabs being as they are, this teaching was followed to a somewhat
limited degree, but at least he was able to weld them into a united force. As
long as they were able to keep on conquering cities and sharing in the plunder,
they were able to keep their forces united for that purpose instead of fighting
among themselves. [See note #6 at end of
lesson.]
In
622 A.D., Mohammed had, for the last ten years, been openly preaching his new
religion. Mohammed was driven out of his home town of
Mohammed
received periodic inspirations from which he sometimes had to amend his earlier
inspirations, but they often had a pretty practical tone. Since he had gotten
nowhere by preaching, his inspirations taught him that converts were to be made
by the sword. You were offered a choice; you could become a Mohammedan or you
could have your throat cut. Not surprisingly, a good many people became
Mohammedans. Then they would all organize and go capture the next town and make
Mohammedans of its population. That town would then throw in their army, their
male population of military age, so you had a still bigger army to go out and
capture another city, and so on. It just spread like compound
interest.
The
death of Mohammed in 632 A.D. didn’t check the advance of it at all. For quite a
long time his successors were mainly of considerable ability and they really
spread it. Between 633 and 636 A.D., the Arabs took Bosra, 75 miles inland from
the Persian Gulf, and
By
639 to 641 the Arabs had conquered
Thus,
the last resistance to the Arab ceased and
In
the next four years he sent two expeditions down there, and both of them were
soundly defeated by the Arabs. Hence,
In
647 the first Arab expedition that crossed
Of
course you know what happened – that was the last straw. The people of northern
The
so-called eastern Roman Empire, at that time, had only a very small district
around
You’ll
remember some peculiar things that were mentioned here – it was commanded them
that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any trees. Now you’ll
remember at Revelation 8, verse 7, we noted that the Germanic tribes, when they
invaded
It
says: “They should hurt only those men which have not the seal of Yahweh in
their forehead.” Interestingly, Mohammed gave orders to his men and the caliphs
who succeeded him to follow the same policy. They were out to destroy a corrupt
“church.” Therefore, Mohammed said that those who were living in monasteries,
those who felt they could best serve their “God” by retiring to a poor and
humble and hard working life in monasteries were not to be disturbed, but that
the priests in these wealthy city “churches” were to be simply killed without
any question of converting them, and he said, “Just split their skulls.” Thus,
wherever Mohammedans conquered a city, they offered the people three choices: be
converted to Mohammedanism, in which case they would be received as brothers and
equals; if they were not willing to give up their religion, they were allowed to
continue their more or less Christian worship upon paying a heavy tribute tax
and recognize the fact that they were a defeated and conquered people; if they
wouldn’t do either one, they were killed.
Lacking
in ethical obligation, a totally corrupt “church” inspired very few martyrs.
Instead of holding out, practically all of them paid the tribute tax. Some
accepted Mohammedanism. The rest paid the tribute tax. As it said, they kind of
wished for strength of character to fight to the death as martyrs, but they
didn’t; “death fled from them.” Thus, the great bulk of them paid the tribute
tax to the Arabs and got along that way. Its said of these locusts that came out
of the smoke ... (Have you ever, by the way, taken a good look at a grasshopper,
or a picture of a grasshopper, and noticed that their heads do have a
surprisingly horse-head look to them?) ... its said “on their heads were crowns”
not of gold, but crowns like gold. A yellow turban was a very common article of
clothing among these Arab warriors, so the yellow made these turbans look, at a
little distance, like gold. [See note #8 at end of
lesson.]
They
had hair like the hair of women, and many of these Arabs did let their hair grow
long. And He said “they had ... breastplates of iron.” The Greeks apparently
originated the systematic use of heavy breast and back plates of iron, but the
Arabs invented a new type of armor. Now a man in the Grecian armor was like a
crab in his shell, and he was just about as clumsy too, weighted down with that.
On horseback, it could be a considerable burden and interference. So the Arabs
invented chain armor, a perfectly flexible jacket of chain links. You take it
off and drop it on the ground and it would just slump like so much wet fish net.
But when put on, just the same, these iron chain links prevented a sword or a
spear point or an arrow point from penetrating enough to do any damage. So the
Arabs were largely armored with this chain armor.
Then
it said they “had power to hurt men five months.” Of course you know the
Biblical prophetic scale of a year for a day, and that a prophetic month of
thirty days equaled thirty years. Therefore, five months would be 150 years.
Well, in 612 A.D. Mohammed first proclaimed his mission to convert all the
infidels. So for the ten years, from then until 622, he was trying to make
converts by preaching, and he did make some 40 converts before he was driven out
of
Remember
now, this was written by John not later than 96 A.D., and you’ll note the
surprising accuracy in these many points of this prophesy. The events that were
pictured on the blowing of the fifth trumpet made up the first of these three
woes. Then you come to the second woe which is described in Revelation 9, verses
13 to 21:
“And
the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden
altar which is before Yahweh, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet,
Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river
This
second woe was the Turkish invasion. During the 11th century, the first portion
of the Turks – the Seljuk Turks appeared. They settled near the Aral Sea by the
east end of the
About
1250 A.D. the Ozman Turks appeared near the headwaters of the
The
Turks, even more so than the Romans, were the soldiers par excellence – they
really made a science of warfare. They quickly developed a strategy that worked.
Like the Arabs, they were nomadic horsemen. They relied principally upon
cavalry. Warfare before that time had consisted of the main bodies of the two
armies rushing against each other and sticking each other with spears and
chopping at each other with swords, and they got to it as directly and
expeditiously as possible. Sometimes a smaller but better trained and
disciplined force routed a large one. The Turks had a bright idea – they had
their best trained and best equipped troops kept as a reserve, back at the rear.
In the front they put their light armed irregular cavalry, people who were not
primarily soldiers but simply had gotten into the army for the hope of sharing
in the loot if there was victory. These were not well disciplined, not well
trained, not very effective, and if they all got killed the army didn’t lose
anything significant.
Thus,
they were put out in front and sent out to attack the enemy. Of course, they
were beaten off quickly, but they kept coming back again closing ranks with the
enemy. The enemy cavalry would charge them and drive them into head long flight,
and that was repeated several times. The enemy cavalry always drove them off
without any particular difficulty, but they tired themselves out in doing so.
Then, when the horses and men were tired, these irregular cavalry Turks would
run off to the side and the main cavalry body of the Turks, rested and fresh,
would make a furious charge against the enemy who were too tired now to keep up
the battle. And this strategy brought the Turks victory after victory after
victory. For a period of three centuries, they hardly ever lost a major battle.
Another thing they developed, from about 1330 A.D., was that they kept a
standing army. Up to that time, in all kingdoms when wars came, all the able
bodied men of military age were subject to being drafted into the armed forces,
but they were made up principally of farmers, merchants or workmen. Therefore
they didn’t have very much practice at military arts and they weren’t especially
skilled at it. But the Turks, from about 1330 on, raised a considerable sized
army of professional soldiers. This was their whole job, they were paid regular
salaries for this and they wasted no time doing anything else. Thus they were
constantly in training, practicing warfare. Because they were well armed, they
were, of course, tremendously effective, and it was very difficult for untrained
forces to stand up to them. This was a full century before the first use of a
professional standing army appeared in
You
can’t say much for the Turkish morals, or kindness, or anything of that sort,
but you do have to give them credit for being effective soldiers. Incidentally,
during the Korean war the Turks sent a small contingency of soldiers over there
to help us, and they were probably the most effective troops on our side. You
notice how
Another
thing developed at this time, peculiar to the Turks. You’ve heard of these
troops under the name of “Janizaries.” Of course, the name in Turkish was Yani Cheri, meaning “new troops.” But,
as I say, there is that satanic disposition to always change and garble things
till they’re unrecognizable. The Turks had conquered quite a number of Christian
towns and they were wondering what to do. If they let them alone, they might
bring rebellion against their rule. Hence, by way of both strengthening the
Turkish forces and weakening the conquered, they took a thousand, at least, each
year, of Christian children, the very cream of the boys of 8 to 12 years old.
They were taken by force from their parents, converted to Mohammedanism, and
right from the start put under military training – strict discipline – learning
to undergo hardship, they became tough and hardy. While it was rough going and
strict discipline, on the other hand the pay was good and promotion came quickly
to one who really put his mind to it and showed the makings of a good soldier.
Thus they relied upon these Janizaries as among their picked troops. Of course,
they didn’t see they were doing anything wrong in that. They said, well you know
how today we say “its our missionary duty to convert the heathen to
Christianity.” They said “Its our duty to convert all unbelievers to
Mohammedanism.” They considered they were doing the kids a favor. The time that
the use of these Janizary troops were continued was some three centuries. It’s
been estimated that a full half-million Christian children were thus kidnapped
and made into Turkish soldiers. [See note #’s 9, &
11 at end of lesson.]
The
Arabs had moved out to conquer lands primarily for the purpose of converting the
conquered to Mohammedanism. They, of course, followed the custom of all armies
in doing a certain amount of looting when they captured a place. And that isn’t
entirely ancient – talk to anybody who was in the American army that invaded
The
Turks, on the other hand, instead of trying to see how fast they could spread
out, they would move on 50 to 100 miles, taking that much new territory, and
then for 20 or 30 years they’d stop there while they completed the consolidation
of their conquest and got it thoroughly organized, and made sure everybody knew
just who was boss now in these conquered lands. They were out to rule. In 1356
the Turks gained their first foothold on the European side, landing first at
Galipoli. The main portion of the city of
Thus,
from 1361, when the Turks captured Adrianople, the emperors at Constantinople
lived in utter dread of the Turks and were always very conciliatory in trying to
enter into treaties with the Turks, by which they could guarantee that the Turks
wouldn’t tax
Thus,
the emperor kept intriguing, trying to gain the support of the Pope. He became
very subservient to the Pope, where before there’d been no love lost at all. By
this, as it became known, the emperor lost the support of the Greek portion of
his population who were very much attached to their “church”, corrupt as it was,
and in fact the patriarch of the Greek Orthodox “Church” at this time said, “I
would rather see the Turks in Constantinople than to see the Pope’s power
restored here.” So they were really in a rather bad way. The Turks, meantime,
were vigorously pushing their conquest on into the Balkan countries. In 1389
they absorbed
In
1394 they finally managed to get together a very minor sort of a crusade. About
12 thousand knights, some eight thousand of them from France, and the remainder
from
The
Turks moved on and occupied
You
had the great invasion of Tamerlane. He was a Mongol, the head of a vast group
of nomadic Mongol horseman. In other words, the same sort of thing you had a
thousand years earlier under the Huns – Attila the Hun. His name was called Timur Lenh, “Timour” meaning iron; Lenh
meaning “the lane.” Hence, “Tamer-lane” was a corruption of Timur Lenh by the Europeans who wrote
about him. His capital was in
Like
all the Mongols, he was extremely cruel. Historians have said that he caused
more misery and killed more people than any one person that ever lived in all
history. When he captured a city, he generally massacred most or all the
population. He used to chop off heads and pile these heads up into a huge
pyramid outside the city walls. When he began invading the Turkish kingdom, they
really had trouble on their hands. I’ve mentioned how stupid the Roman emperors
were, but some of these Turkish sultans were as bad. Sultan Báyezíd, who led his
Turkish army of some hundred and twenty thousand men out in 1402 to meet
Tamerlane, and Tamerlane had an army of – well, you can conservatively say a
half million men. Some of the ancient historians called it as much as eight
hundred thousand, but it’s an exaggeration because the land couldn’t have
supported them. It couldn’t have furnished the food and other supplies. But
probably it was a half-a-million men. [See note #12 at
end of lesson.]
These
Turks, remember now, for three centuries had been winning substantially every
battle they fought. They were conceited and arrogant. Sultan Báyezíd was very
much of a hunter. The way he liked to hunt was to take some of his troops out
and have them form a great circle around an area containing game. He would go
into the middle of it and his troops would march through this area toward the
center, driving the game before him, until finally, as the animals were driven
up to where he was, the sultan could shoot them with bow and arrow. So he
brought his forces out to where he was on one side of the valley and the Mongol
forces were on the other side, a few miles apart. There was a small stream that
ran into the valley from the side where the Turks were. With that, to furnish
them water he set up his camp there, deposited all his supplies of food and
whatever other supplies they had. Then to show his contempt for the Mongols
across the way, he led his army out into the hills beyond the valley and spent
the better part of the day hunting. Tiring out his men, of course, the way they
had to go beat the bushes to drive out the game. When he came back to his camp
with his tired out thirsty army, the Mongols had taken his camp and all his food
supply. They held the only water supply for his thirsty troops. Worn out,
thirsty, hungry, his Turkish army had to give battle to the Mongols, and of
course they were practically exterminated by the Mongols.
Well,
Tamerlane decided this didn’t offer enough prospects of worthwhile conquest for
him. As I say, he’d already carried his forces clear through to the
Mediterranean coast, and the sultan down in
In
1442 to 1444 the Serbians, Hungarians, Albanians and Poles got together a
considerable army and almost drove the Turks out of
I
brought with me here a little book, Marvels of Prophesy, by Howard Rand,
because I want you to see the illustration on the front of it. It is one of
these old Turkish cannon. It’s in the form of an animal. It sits on its
haunches, head up, four legs on the ground and the mouth of the thing is, of
course, the muzzle of the cannon. Now, as you see it here, a tampon, a plug, is
inserted in the mouth of it so that rain water won’t collect in the thing and
rust it out. But I want you to look at this and see what this thing looks like,
and then you’re going to understand some of these things that John was talking
about here. “The heads of the horses were as the heads of lions.” You notice
that this cannon thing is in the form of what’s recognizably intended to be a
lion.
“And
out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.” That is sulfur. Well
now, black powder was the only explosive they had in those days – common black
gun powder. And black gun powder is a mixture of potassium nitrate, powdered
charcoal and sulfur. Hence, smoke and brimstone, or sulfur, was spouted out of
the mouths of these cannon when they were fired. “By these three was the third
part of men killed, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which
issued out of their mouths.” The Turks were the first ones, as I say, who
learned to make effective use of artillery, and they went in for it in a big
scale. They not only had these great heavy siege guns with which to batter down
the walls, but they also developed a use of smaller, easily moved field guns
which were used in warfare on the battle field.
You
see, if you stuff a few pounds of pebbles and cobblestones, and so on, in one of
those cannon, and fire it, you get what is in effect a gigantic shotgun. It just
sweeps a terrific swath through enemy troops out in front. And the Turks, as I
say, being the professional soldiers par excellence, they had learned to do
this, and with their cannon, they inflicted quite a number of terrible defeats
on the opposing Christian armies. By battering the walls of
They
opened a great breach in the walls through which the Turkish army was able to
drive into the city. They tremendously out-numbered the defending forces. The
emperor had probably 10 to 12 thousand good, well-trained, professional
soldiers. And of course, for the rest, everybody who could handle a sword or a
spear was there trying to defend his life, but they were not trained as
effective forces. The Turks lost heavily, but they were able to force their way
through the breach in the wall and take
The
Book of Revelation is not easy to understand. It’s all in symbols. If you won’t
study the Bible enough to learn what the symbols mean, you can’t make heads nor
tails of it. The average bartender knows pretty nearly as much about the Bible
as the average preacher. The preacher can spot him about fifty verses, that is
all. That’s why you find very few preachers venturing to talk about the Book of
Revelation. They say, “Oh, its a sealed book.” But you remember John was told,
“Seal not the words of the prophesy of this book for the time is at hand.” But
when you dig into this enough to know what its talking about, the inspiration of
it becomes unmistakable. This sort of thing simply could not have been written
from any source except divine inspiration. [End of
Comparet’s Lesson #6.]
CRITICAL
NOTES ON LESSON #6
Comments
by William Finck initialed W.R.F.
Comments
by Clifton A. Emahiser in brackets in lesson text as “your
transcriber”
or
initialed C.A.E. in critical notes.
Note
#1:
The stars falling from heaven at Revelation 8:10 and 9:1 do not necessarily
represent an immediate “rebellious” or fallen “angel”, but perhaps
descendants of one. Jude calls these “wandering stars.” W.R.F.
Note
#2:
Romans actually had made colonies throughout the empire, and the inhabitants of
most Greek cities included a good many Romans. W.R.F.
Note
#3:
Although they were all considered “Greek”, the many Hellenic wars were, under
the surface, simply due to the fact that the different Greek tribes, whose
customs and dialects set them apart from the others, constantly contended for
hegemony. While by appearance the Greek wars were
Note
#4:
A more correct version of this statement may read: ... after his death, the
Greek and
Note
#5:
Comparet fails here to recognize Mohammedanism’s hypocrisy. Islam “recognizes”
most of the Bible while ignoring the greater parts of what it claims to
recognize. Yet the even greater matter is this: who should care about the
“religion” which non-Adamites profess? I’d rather it NOT be Christian. I’d
rather they didn’t claim to “recognize” the Bible! And it’s no great sin that
Mohammedans deny Yahshua Christ – they’re expected to do so! For most Arabs,
too, carry the genes of Cain. W.R.F.
Note
#6:
Although “blood feuds” have existed often even within our own race, any “degree
of civilization” brought to the dark races by Mohammedanism is only by
compulsion, for they are forced to do certain things at certain times and are
under a threat of punishment unless they act in a certain way. The rule of any
law would do this, yet Islam offers the Arabs the fulfillment of every lustful
desire not in this life, but in the next! W.R.F.
Note
#7:
Comparet left North Africa in the hands of the Vandals with the fall of
Note
#8:
Comparet’s aside here concerning grasshopper heads seems questionable, at best.
John never said that the heads of the locusts were like horse’s heads. John
wrote “And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto
battle.” The use of the “locust” metaphor only likens the Arab battle-hordes to
a swarm. John is seeing symbols, not realities, although the symbols represent
real things! W.R.F.
Note
#9:
All through the ages writers of various cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greek
to our own, have named things or changed names to accommodate their native
language and tongue. While I’m not saying that such is right, I would
hardly consider it a “satanic perversity”, and I would chide Comparet for
calling it such!
“And
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for
a pillar. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones,
and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. And Laban called it
Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.” (Gen. 31:45-47). Was Jacob wrong
for renaming the pillar? Was that a satanically perverse
act?
Were
the English colonists “satanically perverse” for calling the Deutsche colonists
“Dutch”? How many people would recognize Svensk for
Note
#10:
The Saxon Kings maintained thegns (or thanes), who served as a “professional”
soldiery, many centuries before the Turks were heard of in
Note
#11:
Comparet again shows a tendency to support the ideas of organized religions, in
making favorable comparisons to “missionary duty.” W.R.F.
Note
#12:
I do not see the basis for Comparet’s logic that “the land couldn’t have
supported” an army of 800,000 men “but it was probably a half a million men.”
Why, without other evidence, should we question the historian’s records? The
Persian army of Xerxes which invaded