Ki Won

Wow, cheers, throw all those hours, days, months, years of research in the bin, obviously I'm going down rabbitholes.. As I said in my OP, "what can be more blasphemous to God than the name of a false god or religion" obviously the answer has to be nothing, because nothing can be more blasphemous than a false god.. You also forgot to wait for part 2, bad etiquette Revelation Man I read the rest of your post and realised that you didn't clear your mind of all the junk that was in there before. I know it's hard to let go of but you have to because, for one thing, the EU isn't in the Bible and it definitely isn't the beast. You're mixing all sorts of unrelated verses with trying to equate the parable of the ten virgins with the letter to the church at Smyrna and the ten horns of the beast. Your understanding of the meaning of crowns is flawed too, it doesn't have to be a government, crowns signify authority and that authority could be anything. We all have our own little fiefdoms, are you a parent? Have a crown. Supervise or manage staff at work? Have another crown. Sit on the board? Another crown.. Even if you only live alone and have no job or children you still get a crown, why? Because your home is your fiefdom where you set the rules.. No smoking, take your shoes off, keep off the grass.. You get to set whatever rules you want because you're the king of your castle, have a crown.. As I said in my OP I can identify the two beasts and demonstrate why it's them. And it's not who you think it is.. I urge you to re-read my original post and use logical thinking to approach it and compare it with what you know of God. I promise you that it is quite correct. Again as I said in the OP, it is entirely Scriptural that God will bring judgement for the worship of false gods or false religions because he's done it before. It definitely makes more sense than the EU.. As Walid Shoebat says, where in the Bible does it say God brings judgement on Rome? Nowhere is the answer, every nation mentioned in the Old Testament end-times prophecies are middle eastern countries, no EU or Rome to be found. Anyway, I only dropped in to apologise for not posting Part 2 yet, I've just been really busy the last few days. Oh yeah Revelation Man, I'm Irish.. Close though

This is going to be a long post so I'll apologise in advance for that but you will see that the length is necessary. Everything that I write here I can expand upon, indeed, I won't go too deep into detail because the post would fill a book if I did. You may have to read it twice to really get it to sink in, read it carefully and prayerfully. I have been studying eschatology and the end-times for around 15 years or so and have read dozens of books, papers, sermons, theses, blogs, articles, probably tens of thousands of posts on social media or forums and watched countless hours of videos and Bible teachings during my research alongside constant prayers asking for the wisdom to understand God's word. I am confident that the interpretation I am going to share with you is 100% correct, can be backed up with Scripture and is in line with what we know about God and the reasons why He brings judgement. I have never seen this interpretation anywhere else before although a couple of articles I read did come quite close and perhaps if the authors had just expanded their thinking slightly they would have come up with it long before I did. Unfortunately, that means that I have to ask you to forget everything that you have ever thought or been taught about the book of Revelation especially when it comes to the beasts of Revelation 13 because it is almost certainly wrong. The question I ask myself is "have the church leaders deliberately taught the wrong thing?" because of the potential ramifications should the correct interpretation become common knowledge. So, clear your mind then read Revelation 13:1 and 13:11, perhaps even the whole of chapter 13, familiarise yourself with the Scripture that I'm going to interpret. The key to understanding this passage and I suppose the book of Revelation as a whole is the blasphemous names on the heads of the beast. When you read the Old Testament what is it that provokes God to anger the most? What was it that caused God to bring judgement first on Israel and eventually on Judah? Answer: Idolatry! The worship of false gods or false religions.. It follows then that the blasphemous names on the heads of the beast are the names of false gods or false religions because what could be more blasphemous to God than the name of a false god or religion? But which religions? As the only religion that leads to heaven is Christianity and the beast is the Anti-Christ presumably that means that he will mimic Christ by posing as a "messiah" of some description. Do you know how many religions there are besides Christianity that have a messianic figure? Seven! And only seven.. Seven blasphemous names, seven false religions.. Those seven religions are further separated into 10 different branches, that is, three of the seven have two major branches. The horns on the beast therefore are the ten major branches of those religions and the ten crowns are the authority each religion/branch possesses to give to their messiah currently held by the figurehead leader of each religion/branch. Ten horns, ten branches.. Ten crowns, ten figureheads.. The seven heads are the respective "messiahs" , each one an obvious counterfeit Christ.. Read that again and understand what it means. Seven "messiahs" means that there isn't going to be just one antiChrist, there are going to be SEVEN! The many antiChrists of 1 John 2:18. Seven antiChrists, one for me and one for you depending on where in the world you live and on which side of the aisle you fall. The seven religions are Judaism (Orthodox and Zionism), Islam (Sunni and Shia), Buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana), Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Taoism and Ba'bism/Bahá'i. (7 names /10 branches/10 crowns) The respective "messiahs" are Mashiach, Mahdi , Maitreya, Kalki, Saoshyant, Li Hong and "he whom God will make manifest" . (7 "messiahs"/7 heads) We can even extrapolate that formula of heads being religions and horns being branches of them to the second beast and figure out who he and his horns represent. In Revelation 13:11 we are told that the second beast has "two horns like a lamb". As we know that Jesus is the Lamb we can say that the second beast must represent a false Christianity and his horns must represent two branches of that false Christianity, but how do we know which branches of Christianity are the false ones? Luckily God gives us a clue in verse 13 by telling us that the second beast calls fire down from heaven and then later in Revelation gives us a second clue by identifying him as the false prophet. Which prophet called fire down from heaven? Answer: Elijah. So the second beast is coming as a false Elijah, do you know how many branches of "Christianity" are expecting Elijah in the end-times? Two! The LDS and the JW's. Beast 2 then represents false Christianity and his horns represent the LDS and the JW's. Two branches, two horns.. It's already widely accepted that the harlot represents the Roman Catholic church but through her daughters she also represents most organised Christianity and all religions that have a female godhead. It should be noted that virtually every religion in the world is covered and that those religions cover practically the whole world. When God said "and all that dwell on the earth shall worship him" it's because they already do! And they don't even know that they do.. It should also be noted that it is entirely Scriptural that God will bring judgement for the worship of false gods or false religions, He's done it before.. (Just ask Israel and Judah) Going back to the seven heads, the Bible tells us in Revelation 13:3 "And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed" , with the heads being messiahs it becomes possible to identify the head that had the deadly wound healed. To be a genuine fake Christ, the beast has to have a death and resurrection. It would also have to be a Jew.. The head that suffered the fatal wound therefore must be the Jewish messiah, Mashiach. He is going to be killed and seemingly resurrected as an imitation of Christ. Sticking with Mashiach, he is also the rider on the white horse of Revelation 6:2. I have always been uncomfortable with the mainstream teaching that the rider on the white horse is antiChrist simply because he is portrayed as a Prince of the Covenant like Christ is in Revelation 19:2. If it's Mashiach then he fits the imagery perfectly. As does the rider on the red horse. He is the Islamic Mahdi. If you read the description of him in Revelation 6:4 you could almost say that he is described as a terrorist. I believe that the rider on the black horse in Revelation 6:5-6 is the Taoist messiah Li Hong because China controls the world's purse strings and owns almost all of the world's debt. In the tribulation they're going to call the debts in, they'll be the world's quartermaster. The rider on the pale green horse in Revelation 6:8 is probably the Hindu messiah Kalki but I confess that is only because India possesses nuclear weapons and the colour of the horse is reminiscent of radiation sickness. Hades following is probably also one of the other messiahs as it says "they were given power.. " but stick a pin in to decide which one. A guess would be the "man who God will make manifest" simply because he needs to be revealed at some point. Also, another guess is that the remaining two "messiahs" don't have the same level of power as the others and are therefore too weak to have any significant impact on world events. End of Part One. Tomorrow in Part Two I will identify the beasts and the harlot and will hopefully show why it has to be them. (It's 3:30am here in the UK)