Spoke 8: The Biblewheel and The 8th Century

Spoke 8: The Biblewheel and The 8th Century

When you look at the pattern of the Biblewheel, where the pattern of the Hebrew Alphabet, being 22 letters is found not only in the Alphabetic Psalms and poetic parts of the Bible, but also found in the pattern of books and chapters and numerical values within the text as well (days, years, amounts mentioned in the text).

This alpha-numerical pattern is found in history as well. In this case let us compare the Spokes of the Biblewheel with the books of the Bible related to the Spoke as well as the letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.

The 8th Spoke with Post-Christian History of the 8th Century and Links

Spoke 8: The Biblewheel and The 8th Century (Go back to main Menu) - Iconoclasm (destroying icons used for worship) in the Byzantine Empire and Islam which although eventually the Arab invasions ceased when the Abbasids turned against the Umayyads and took control in the Middle East, this created an inner-struggle in the Byzantine Empire as it did to the Thessalonians when the gospel was preached unto them in the 8th epistle 1Thessalonians; - Arab-Byzantine wars; - Franks under Charles Martel defeat the Umayyads in tours; - Frank and Charles mean free; - the Abbasids seek wisdom and learning; - Scottish monks from Ireland offer to teach wisdom at the time of Charlemagne. - Byzantine Empress Irene stops the Iconoclasm (destruction of icons) which Emperor Leo III the Isaurian had begun; - the short reign of Constantine VI and his imprisonment by his mother Irene; - the Second council of Nicaea reverses the council of Hieira on Iconoclasm; - Byzantine Empire Under the Isaurian Dynasty.