Faith is not validated by force of conviction, as seen in the suffering of martyrs, because convictions can arise from falsehoods. People can believe anything strongly, and the strength of this belief does not by itself make the belief true. For Nietzsche, convictions should arise out of an objective weighing of evidence and should still be honest and open enough to accept superior argument or the presence of evidence. Lietaert Peerbolte, Bert Jan (September 2021). "The Book of Revelation: Plagues as Part of the Eschatological Human Condition". Journal for the Study of the New Testament. SAGE Publications. 44 (1): 75–92. doi: 10.1177/0142064X211025496. ISSN 1745-5294. S2CID 237332665.

An eighth angel takes a "golden censer", filled with fire from the heavenly altar, and throws it to the earth (8:3–5). What follows are "peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake" (8:5). Hilary Clinton is, to the best of my knowledge, the only female candidate. US Republican politician Ryan Zinke who was US Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration from 2017 until his resignation in 2019, threw the accusation in 2014. She later reassured him, at Trump’s inauguration, that she wasn’t.Kiddle M. (1941). The Revelation of St. John (The Moffat New Testament Commentary), New York – London Upon the cry of the angel, seven thunders utter mysteries and secrets that are not to be written down by John. By reasoning analogous with Millerite historicism, Bahá'u'lláh's doctrine of progressive revelation, a modified historicist method of interpreting prophecy, is identified in the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith. [77]

Catholic Online (23 August 2006). "Pope Benedict: Read Book of Revelation as Christ's victory over evil – International – Catholic Online". Catholic.org. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013 . Retrieved 25 April 2013. Generally, predictions of a tyrant outside the church now dominate the idea of a deceiver within it. Nietzsche begins “ The Antichrist”with a preface describing his ideal audience; He is writing about what is to follow for the intellectually honest individual who is free from bias and hard allegiance to ideologies. This individual is strong enough to confront Nietzsche’s ideas squarely. The Beast of the Sea blasphemes God's name (along with God's tabernacle and his kingdom and all who dwell in Heaven), wages war against the Saints, and overcomes them. (13:6–10)

Thought Questions

As a result, Nietzsche considers Paul as the “the first Christian”, the one who as a result of his incapacity for living like Christ invented the remedy of justification by faith and in so doing allowed the sinful and immoral to persist in their way of life while calling themselves Christians. Charles C. Torrey The Apocalypse of John New Haven: Yale University Press (1958). Christopher R. North in his The Second Isaiah London: OUP (1964) p. 23 says of Torrey's earlier Isaiah theory, "Few scholars of any standing have accepted his theory." This is the general view of Torrey's theories. However, Christopher North goes on to cite Torrey on 20 major occasions and many more minor ones in the course of his book. So, Torrey must have had some influence and poetry is the key.