11-08-2021, 09:51 PM
David, your objections miss some key points.
1) A spiral is not a circle. For any kind of orbit, we expect a circle (or an oval, either way a closed loop) and people have always known this very well. A spiral orbit would end in disaster. Circular text is extremely common, but spiral text is rare in medieval manuscripts, and I don't know of a single other example of spiral text in the sky.
2) We are not just talking about any roll, we are talking about a roll in the sky.
One could elaborate about how the rest of the image might fit with the rest of the Revelation paragraph, but I know from experience that this is the quickest way to kill a thread. Everybody will pile on their favorite theory and it will become a mess.
1) A spiral is not a circle. For any kind of orbit, we expect a circle (or an oval, either way a closed loop) and people have always known this very well. A spiral orbit would end in disaster. Circular text is extremely common, but spiral text is rare in medieval manuscripts, and I don't know of a single other example of spiral text in the sky.
2) We are not just talking about any roll, we are talking about a roll in the sky.
One could elaborate about how the rest of the image might fit with the rest of the Revelation paragraph, but I know from experience that this is the quickest way to kill a thread. Everybody will pile on their favorite theory and it will become a mess.