According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

According to Numbers 31: 16 and St. John ( Revelation 2: 14 ), Balaam returned to King Balak and informed the king on how to get the Israelites to curse themselves by enticing them with prostitutes and unclean food sacrificed to idols.

According to Revelation 2, vv.

According to the literal interpretation of prophecies in the Revelation of John, this kingdom of God on Earth will last a thousand years or more ( a millennium ).

According to Revelation, a woman named Jezebel ( who called herself a prophetess ) taught and seduced the Christians of Thyateira to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

According to the gnostic teachings of Samael Aun Weor, the third eye is referenced symbolically and functionally several times in the Book of Revelation 3: 7-13, a work which, as a whole, he believes describes Kundalini and its progression upwards through three and a half turns and seven chakras.

According to Eusebius, Theophilus quoted the Book of Revelation in his work against Hermogenes ; a very precarious allusion has been seen in ii.

According to Catholic doctrine, Mary was assumed into heaven and is with Jesus Christ, her divine Son and is represented in Book of Revelation 12 as the woman clothed with the sun who gives birth to Christ.

According to the Book of Revelation ( 7: 4-8 ), the tribe of Dan is the only original tribe of Israel which is not included in the list of tribes which are sealed.

According to this view, Adventists are " chosen " by God to proclaim the three angels ' messages of Revelation 14 to the world.

According to the Revelation of Esdras, the angels that will rule at the end of the world are Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, Gabuthelon, Beburos, Zebuleon, Aker, and Arphugitonos.

According to her, in the four Canonical Gospels, Acts and Revelation, historical facts have been encoded into the text, that is, they were written ( and may be revealed ) by applying the method, forgotten for twenty centuries.

According to classical rabbinical literature, the specific agate was of a sky-blue colour, and though Jacinth now refers to a red-tinted clear gem-the Jacinth-this wasn't the case at the time the Book of Revelation was written, and at that time Jacinth appears to have referred to a bluish gem ; Pliny describes Jacinth as a dull and blueish amethyst, while Solinus describes it as a clear blue tinted gem-the modern Sapphire.

According to Gregg Jakobson, Manson mentioned " Revolution 9 " more often than any of the other album tracks, and he interpreted it as a parallel of Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation.

According to his calculations, he claimed, the Books Daniel and Revelation predicted the " Dark Ages " would last until around 1935.

According to this letter, the Philadelphian Christians were suffering persecution at the hands of the local Jews, whom Revelation calls " the synagogue of Satan " ().

According to a bronze placard affixed to the monument, the woman represented by the statue is the Woman of the Apocalypse, as described in the Book of Revelation ( Revelation 12: 1 – 18 ).

According to his website, Mr. Baxter became intensely interested in Bible prophecy at the age of 20, when a visiting evangelist taught that the four beasts of the book of Revelation, chapter four, were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

According to recommendation X. 200, there are seven layers, labeled 1 to 7, with layer 1 at the bottom.

* According to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X spent part of his childhood in Mason.

According to Porphyry of Tyros, the Egyptians used an X within a circle as a symbol of the soul ; having a value of nine, it was used as a symbol for Ennead.

According to frontman Doug Pinnick, while longtime King's X producer Sam Taylor had a big influence on the band's sound, he never captured the heaviness of their live performance in the studio.

This creates a broad approach on marketing towards that certain demographic, which is why the X Games marketing and economic outlook is so “ out of the box .” According to EXPN ( 2008 ); The Winter X Games inaugural year, 1997, was televised to 198 countries and 38, 000 spectators attended the four day event.

According to dramatist and novelist X.

According to Egyptologists, facsimile No. 1 and Facsimile No. 3 are part of the Scroll of Hor, which contained Joseph Smith Papyrus I, X and XI.

According to the most common one, a polynomial P ( X ) over a given field K is separable if all its roots are distinct in an algebraic closure of K, that is the number of its distinct roots is equal to its degree.

According to John the Deacon, John X was buried in the atrium of the Lateran Basilica, near the main entrance.

According to the Federation of American Scientists, US PACOM will likely assume control of all Keen X exercises by 2009.

According to the 1853 Act of Succession, the throne passed to those descended from duke, now King Christian IX of Denmark ( having ascended the throne in 1863 ) who was the grandfather of King Christian X.

According to Ahmad Y. Hassan, a mercury escapement in a Spanish work for Alfonso X in 1277 can be traced back to earlier Arabic sources.

According to him, many modern far right movements, including parts of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front or Lefebvre's Society of St. Pius X, are considered fully parts of the Legitimist family.

According to Apple, some changes involved Mac OS X – specific features ( e. g., Objective-C, KWQ, Mac OS X calls ) that are absent in KDE's KHTML, which called for different development tactics.

According to Paul Levesque ( Triple H ), Vince McMahon was hesitant to let them perform the " X " at first, but he was later talked into it.

According to Yahoo !, the LAUNCHcast music player was not compatible with the Mac OS X or Linux operating systems, however as of February 16, 2009 ; this may not be the case.

According to X Server project lead Rob Lembree, the name was inspired by the Cinerama widescreen theatre process.

According to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, all the races other than the black race were byproducts of Yakub's work, however, the " black race " included all Asian peoples, considered to be shared ancestors of the Moors.

According to Michael J. Papa, if the organizational goals are to be met, theory X managers rely heavily on threat and coercion to gain their employees ' compliance.

According to Maui X-Stream, it allowed users to install and run versions of Mac OS X on platforms that would not normally support such software, such as Pentium processor-based systems.

According to the magazine's website, the SF stands for " science fiction ", but the X may stand for anything.

According to his own testimony, he never actually saw things as shaped but only as generally amorphous `` blots '' of color of a more or less indefinite size ; ;

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to Tylor, the more scientifically advanced the society, the less that society believed in Animism ; however, any remnant ideologies of souls or spirits, to Tylor, represented “ survivals ” of the original animism of early humanity.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assiduous labour ; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man and woman, who were also formed from trees.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

According to the theory, the human experience of moral obligations was the result of evolutionary pressures, which attached a sense of morality to human psychology because it was useful for moral development ; this entail that moral values do not exist independently of the human mind.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to Kant, beauty is objective and universal ; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot ; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis.

According to Gelder, Mayou &* Geddes ( 2005 ) people with a depressive illness will experience a therapeutic effect to their mood ; however, this will not be experienced in healthy individuals.

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

According to some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia ; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandria.