On my current main blog (third so far), there actually is a label with that name. It's apocalypticae considerationes where only the first four posts were before Covid, 71 after the pandemic was announced.
How to Actually Read the Book of Revelation | The Jimmy Akin Podcast
Jimmy Akin | Sts. Peter and Paul, 29 June 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1Ekl3AtII
5:50 Apoc. 11 "spiritually Sodom and Egypt" ... would we be right to look outside Apocalypse to Genesis 19 and to Exodus to find out the social mores of end times earthly Jerusalem?
Does it seem to match anything in current news?
6:06 If St. Hilary of Poitiers had had newspapers, his exegesis would have been newspaper exegesis.
His newspapers would also have been conspiracy leaning.
He considered that the Antichrist was in the wings somewhere in the Byzantine court.
6:13 What the audience would have had in mind is not always automatically true of either early-times records or end times prophecy.
The audience of Moses' Genesis 6 and 11 could not have known of Mahabharata or Göbekli Tepe, yet that seems to perfectly fit "men of renown" before the Flood and the geography of Genesis 11:2.
The audience of John could not have known of ASCII. But it allows a gematria to be made in the most common, i e Latin alphabet, without skipping letters.
St. Irenaeus, I think it was, or possibly St. Hippolytus, said he ruled out Latin bc the letters mostly don't have numeric value and Hebrew because it's too abstruse. Today Greek is if possibly even more abstruse than Hebrew, and ASCII allows Latin letters, the now most used ones, to give full numeric translations of each syllable and letter.
Ruling out this bc the first audience is forgetting God isn't limited to the first audience, if it's not about sth they have to apply directly. Like the first audience of Matthew 6:7 were supposed to apply that immediately and would have known things like the finishing prayer in Velleius Paterculus, but be totally ignorant of "Allah's 99 names" and except for St. Thomas a few decades later of Hindu mantras ... unless even that is an innovation in a later reorganised Hinduism. But Genesis 6 and Apoc 13 left nothing to immediately apply.
8:27 Can you give even one Roman Catholic ruling from prior to Vatican II that says prophecy or early-times records (aka prehistory and to those ancients even more ancient history) needs to be interpreted as the first audience must have done?
Like Pontifical Biblical Academy, Holy Office, and so on.
A grade above Scheben or Ott, who had imprimatur, but each was only used in some seminaries ...
12:51 Daniel.
And the fourheaded leopard is Greece. Whatever was fourheaded about Greece in Hellenistic times, I can make a case for four heads in the end times.
Greece at this time worshipped Hercules very much and practised Stoicism.
So, we would expect ultra-masculine societies with sodomy issues, and has a huge fad for Immanuel Kant.
Judaism. Islam. Calvinism. Freemasonry.
Also, Greece compared to Rome had a more totalitarian and societally fixed education standard (Antonine Rome had full liberty in school choice, legally). All of the four have too precise criteria of maturity and tend to favour very centralised schooling.
You notice I didn't say "Protestantism" but "Calvinism" ... Lutherans and Anglicans in home base are very liberal theologically, basically a kind of neo-pagans. They score lioness of Babylon / lion as mouth.
It can be noticed, England and Scotland no longer have Elisabeth and Denmark no longer has Margarethe, though she is still alive. In the case of Elisabeth, one can argue that eagles wings being taken off her back was loosing the Empire of India (or in a longer sense, UK losing the US after 1776), being forced to stand was being forced to take a coronation oath, because someone else was supposed to be king, and being given the heart of a man could either be taken in a very modern sense, Prince Philip "didn't worship her, only the ground she walked on" ... or in an ancient sense, parallel to Nebuchadnezzar getting sane, if she saw Protestantism doesn't make sense. Or in a somewhat intermediate sense, the World War II version of St. Joan or of Jeanne Hachette. However, the Greek says: καὶ καρδία ἀνθρώπου ἐδόθη αὐτῇ. I presume she took some mental distance from Protestantism, if not from being a kind of Popess for it.
13:38 The ten horns certainly point to Republican and early Caesarian Rome.
Decemviri. Legibus faciundis. Stlitibus whatever the gerund was ... from at least the Gracchi, newly acquired soil for Rome was distributed by this kind of office. And the Twelve Tables were still in force, nominally. Essentially ten kings at a time.
At a certain point the Soviet Union had 12 concurrent Peoples' commissariats, one of them led by Yagoda, NKVD. Народный комиссариат внутренних дел. Would be instructive to see how many KKVD chiefs who were executed or assassinated, like if there were three of them, like Genrikh Yagoda was one.
16:53 The Middle Advent also involves Jesus as now coming in the flesh.
The Eucharist.
