 | Mark L Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Prophet - 2004 - 162 strani
...had been inspired in part by this visionary statement. Columbus believed that God had made him to be "the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which He spake in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah."12 "In the carrying... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 strani
...new promised land in the religious vein, a rediscovered Eden. Columbus expressed himself accordingly, "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the...new earth, of which He spoke in the Apocalypse by St. John."25 These apocalyptic expectations thus became secularized and utopian concurrently with the... | |
 | John D. Gartner - 2008 - 370 strani
...deciphered. In 1500, after returning from his third voyage, Columbus wrote to a member of the Spanish court: God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it through the mouth of Isaiah; and he showed me the spot where... | |
 | Chris Lowney - 2005 - 358 strani
...history toward the conversion of the whole world to Christianity. Or, as he rather grandiosely imagined, "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse." His Book of the Prophecies teased out-of-context snippets of Scripture and Bible commentary to bolster... | |
 | Chris Lowney - 2006 - 335 strani
...history toward the conversion of the whole world to Christianity. Or, as he rather grandiosely imagined, "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse." His Book of the Prophecies teased out-of-context snippets of Scripture and Bible commentary to bolster... | |
 | David F. Noble - 2005 - 224 strani
...fabled voyages of discovery the "enterprise of Jerusalem," Columbus set sail for the promised land. "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John after having spoken of it through the mouth of Isaiah," Columbus wrote in his unfinished... | |
 | Michael Wintroub - 2006 - 328 strani
...f1nding the New World was a providential sign that the dawn of the Last Age had come. As he put it: "God made me the messenger of the New Heaven and the New Earth of which he spoke through Saint John in the Apocalypse . . . and he showed me to that location."48 The close association... | |
 | Carl Safina - 2006 - 428 strani
...he sighted a large island with three peaks — Trinidad — it seemed surely a sign. Columbus wrote, "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth . . . and he showed me where to find it." In the Gulf of Paria he found the sea freshening. An... | |
 | Craig Unger - 2007 - 451 strani
...ocean was to expedite the messianic fulfillment of God's plan for the millennial kingdom on earth. "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John . . . and he showed me the spot where to find it," Columbus wrote in his diary.13 More... | |
 | Craig Unger - 2007 - 368 strani
...ocean was to expedite the messianic fulfillment of God's plan for the millennial kingdom on earth. "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John . . . and he showed me the spot where to find it," Columbus wrote in his diary.13 More... | |
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God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah, and he showed me the spot where to find it. 
