Bible Discussion Thread

I need to preface my opinion with the following 1 God himself tells us He creates both the good and the evil 2 Pope Francis recently stated that the god of this world is money 3 Let us assume that verse 3 is simply a continued description of the gentiles in verse 2 The witnesses are killed by the beast from the bottomless pit after their 1260 days are completed If we count 1260 days from the beginning of the Iraq war we arrive at the date nov 16 2005 It was on this date that the senate of the U S finally stood up to Pres Bush and told him to end the war and begin reconstruction Now comes the scary part ch 13 seems to represent the new financing of the war Ch 13 definitely indicates a continuation of 1260 days under the guise of bringing democracy to Iraq since no wmd were found At the end of the 42 months in ch 13 we meet the beast whose number name mark is needed to buy sell or tade If we count 1260 days from the death of the two witnesses we come to apr 30 2009 On that exact date 250 multinational corporations met with the finally established bank of Iraq to divide up the economy riches buy sell trade