The Antichrist, According to Cyril of Jerusalem

By Richie Cooley

Cyril delivered a fascinating lecture about Bible prophecy around the middle of the fourth century. Come explore this interesting sermon with me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: Oct 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005968717

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The Antichrist, According to Cyril of Jerusalem

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (2022)

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Table of Contents

I. Love

II. Hope

III. Faith

Citations

Works by Me

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes…

*Old Testament Scripture is taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

*New Testament Scripture is taken from the English Majority Text Version (EMTV). Translated by Paul Esposito. Copyright © 2011.

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

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I. Love

Tammy: Do you want a Gatorade?

Chris: Oh, I’m good. Thank you.

Tammy: Are you sure?

Chris: Yeah.

Tammy: I figured that maybe you want something besides water.

Chris: Uh...uh...oh maybe.

Tammy: Maybe. Okay. Do you want a Mountain Dew?

Chris: Oh no, no Mountain Dew. I haven’t had s-…

Tammy: You stay away from that stuff?

Chris: I haven’t had soda in, like, years.

Tammy: Well don’t start now. All right? Do you have any bad habits?

Chris: Uh, I used to. Like, Oreos and soda were my...my go-to.¹

This is a snippet from the police files of one of my favourite true-crime tales. The man (Chris) being questioned had just murdered his lovely, pregnant wife (Shanann) and two sweet, doting daughters (Bella and Celeste). The woman (Tammy) asking him questions works for the police. She is about to administer a polygraph test on Chris which will reveal his deception and ultimately give Tammy leeway to slowly wring the truth out of him.

What makes this case so fascinating are the bizarre contradictions like the one we read at the start. Here is a man who callously murdered an amazing wife and mother, and then shortly thereafter took his precious daughters and literally stuffed them down oil wells. Yet, just hours later, he says that he won’t give into the temptation to drink a slightly caloric beverage. Like…wow. The human being is quite a specimen, eh?

And that same, strange hue of contradiction remains firmly intact as you zoom out from the story a bit. You see, Chris had always been a fairly dumpy dude. Then his wife started working for a company involved with health and nutrition and this led him to become obsessive about his appearance.

The company sounds like a typical pyramid scheme, but she was actually doing quite well for herself. Despite working from home she was making very good money and was given a luxury vehicle to drive.

The catch is that the business was indeed multi-level. You had to get people to sign up who in turn got others to sign up, and so on. Therefore your personal image was everything. You had to have a massive social media presence and it was in your best interests financially to give an illusion of perfection and bliss. Thus her life kinda turned into