Part of Revelations seems to exactly parallel the Book of Daniel as well. In that John doesn't seem to be all too inventive. However, many seem to have gotten inventive with Revelations for the purpose of manipulating. Those who rejected the notion of Jesus Christ being any Messiah have had to project a similitude of the past onto the future and had to go through great lengths to support their idea of a coming Messiah and also to divert the light of Revelations from being too revealing (of themselves). Its pretty simple--but the deception might be well defined as 'mind-boggling'.
One key factor is that in all of history is how arduously both Romanesque and Islamic (which Alberto Rivera and others assert is a creation of Romanesque influence) influences have worked together to destroy and subdue non-Constantine Christians from North Africa and Palestine to North America to Asia. If Revelations were trivial mental fluff its odd how well it has played out when read minus the spin doctoring.
If what you refer to as a "local brand of Charismatic psychological rape" refers to something modern, perhaps it might be an offshoot of Scofieldism and designed to snare many under the guise of it being Biblical. The trouble might be that few might be saavy enough to disassociate that with the Bible. Some might refer to it as "Dispensationalist Dementia". Its important to consider that this whole revision of the past and projection onto the future of past events might very well be coming out of Rome. That many "Christians" are or have been set up to believe something cooked up for to deception. It always seemed very clear to me that many things Jesus was written as having said about events were events that would "come quickly" in the sense of by 70AD rather than with a two-thousand-or-so year wait.
So this great propaganda machine has set out to fabricate and stir up events in order to match their projection of the past onto the future--with the operators of that machine outing themselves in the process.
Remember that time you said someone was out to undermine the New Thought meeting you came across? This might all be related.
Reagan was sworn into office on Jan 20, 1981 on the WEST WING of the Capitol Building, all previous Presidents took their oath of office on the East side of the building. This was done so that Reagan would face the Washington Monument (obelisk) during his swearing in ceremony as President of the United States.
(Reagan re-established diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1984.) (Related: Ronald Reagan and the Pope)“...a secret sign was to be given to the Jesuits world-wide when the ecumenical movement had successfully wiped out Protestantism, in preparation for the signing of a concordat between the Vatican and the U.S. The sign was to be when a president of the U.S. took his oath of office facing an obelisk.” The God Fathers; Alberto pt 3, pg 26.
From March 4, 1837 when Martin Van Buren was inaugurated through to January 20, 1977 when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated, the ceremony was conducted on the East Portico of the Capitol Building. But when it came to Ronald Reagan it all of a sudden changed to the West Front of the Capitol Building, from whence one looks to the west straight to one of the biggest obelisks.
Remember, all of the heads of Holy Roman Empire kingdoms were crowned/anointed by the same.
Napoleon I crowned himself.
At the moment of the crowning when the Pope said, "Receive the imperial crown...", Napoleon unexpectedly turned and, forestalling the Pope, removed his laurel wreath and crowned himself and then crowned the kneeling Joséphine with a small crown surmounted by a cross, which he had first placed on his own head.
Taking the perspective of a neutral observer, the foregoing is made plain and makes many things plain.
Also, AFAIK a king was held to have right to profit from enterprises as part of his reign.
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The American Revolution is spun into a bad light as a rebellion because it meant separation from both the British Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire and there have been those out to undo that.
The movement or effort that is is out to piss people off (through false impersonation) and make people hate true Bible believers seems to be the same movement that is out to piss the world off and hate people of America (through false impersonation). Imagine being encouraged to start the study recognizing a dragon by standing in its mouth but without knowing that you're standing in its mouth since you don't know how to recognize dragons--well, obviously the realization that one is standing in its mouth is key to one's safety.
Related:
Cyrus I Scofield Pope of Premillennialism / Dispensationalist Dementia.
What Is a Dispensation?
The American Revolution and War of Independence was not a Rebellion
Simon Magus (Samarian Magician)
Simon Peter vs Simon the Sorcerer