I was looking into revelation, stuffs about the "great harlot", often interpreted in christian eschatology as a prediction of a one world religion/church to come And I noticed something that retained my attention https://biblehub.com/bsb/revelation/17.htm >>8The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast **that was, and is not, and yet will be.** "that was, and is not, and yet will be" It sounds like a spoiler, like somebody telling you what you're going to see in a movie he has already seen and that you are about to see Like there's a delay between the moment things happen and the moment we get to perceive them/go through them, pretty much like when we get to see an hypothetical star explode; at the moment we see it explode, that star has in fact already exploded a long time a go Of course all this has little to do with the prnewswire.com article, it's just an observation on my part