The British Lion Meets the Lion of St. Mark of Venice.
In
the book of Revelation chapter 10, there is a great prophecy about
the glorious Reformation. A mighty angel (Christ) descends from heaven
with a little book open. That little book is the BIBLE and
it was opened for all the world by the invention of printing in 145O:
"And
I saw another mighty angel come down from Heaven, clothed with a cloud:
and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun,
and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book
open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot upon
the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and
when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voice. . . And the
angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up
His hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever,
who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth,
and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which
are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the day of
the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the
mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants
the prophets" (Rev. 10:1-7).
This mighty Angel
has a rainbow about his head which reminds us of the story of NOAH
and the Great Flood. When the old world became exceedingly corrupt,
God destroyed it by means of WATER. God started over again with Noah
and his 3 sons. Billions of gallons of water separated that old corrupt
world from the new.
Just before the
Reformation, the world was just as corrupt as the days of Noah. The
Vatican was the scene of unmentionable crimes and perversions. God
had a New World hidden from Europeans waiting to begin the world over
again with Biblical Christianity.
Christ is the
LION of the tribe of Judah. The two nations that he used to discover
this New World were represented by LIONS: the British LION and the
LION of St. Mark of Venice.
Banner
of the king of England.
The
Fleur De Lis was the banner of France. Because of
the Norman Conquest of 1066, the British monarchs claimed
the throne of France.
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Lion of
St. Mark of Venice.
The banner
of John Cabot.
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From the Public
Record Office, Warrants for Issue, 13 Hen. VII, E. 404, Bundle 82.
Henry by the grace
of God King of England and of ffraunce and lord of lrland To the Tresourer
and Chambrelains of oure Eschequier greting:
Where as We by oure warrant under oure signet for certain consideracions
have yeven and graunted unto John Caboote xx Ii. [£20] yerely
during oure pleasur to be had and perceyved by the handes of oure
Custumers in oure poorte of Bristowe, and as we be enfourmed the said
John Caboote is dilaied of his payement bicause the said Custumers
have no sufficient matier of discharge for their indempnitie to be
yolden at their accomptes before the Barons of oure Eschequier; Wherfore
we wol and charge you that ye oure said Treasourer and Chambrelains
that now be and hereafter shallbe, that ye, unto suche tyme as ye
shall have from us otherwise in commaundement, do to be levied in
due fourme ij severall tailles, every of theim con teignying x Ii.
upon the Customers of the revenues in our said poort of Bristowe at
two usuell termes of the yere, whereof oon taill to be levied at this
tyme conteignying x Ii. of the Revenues of oure said poort upon Richard
Meryk and Arthure Kemys, late Custumers of the same, And the same
taill or tailles in due and sufficient fourme levied ye delyver unto
the said John Caboote to be had of oure gift by way of rewarde without
prest or eny other charge to be sette upon hym or any of theim for
the same. And thies our letters shalbe youre sufficient warrant in
that behalf Yeven undre oure prive seal at oure manour of Chene the
xxiith day of ffebruary The xiiith yere of oure Reigne.
With lion-like
courage, John Cabot sails his tiny ship the Matthew
home after his Great New World discovery in 1494.
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Imagine
if King Henry VII had copied the arrogant Pope Borgia and made
a law stating that nobody but English, Hibernians (Irish) French
and Italians were allowed to go to the New World!!
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Vital
Links
The
Reformation in Prophecy
Royal
Coats of Arms of England and France
References
Williamson, James A. (Editor) The
Voyages of the Cabots and the Discovery of North America, N.
Israel, Amsterdam, 1970.
Wilson, Ian, John Cabot and the Matthew,
Redcliffe Press, Bristol, England, 1996.
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