The Beast Revelation

[Sister]

In these verses we hear Jesus refer to Satan’s fall (which He had already "beheld") as something about to happen. We also see it referred to as the time in which "the prince of this world is judged." It was just prior to His crucifixion that Jesus said, "NOW shall the prince of this world be cast out" and "the prince of this world cometh." Both these phrases are unquestionably announcing an event about to occur and not one that already has.

The time of occurrence appears to be linked with the time of Christ’s death, or as John 12:23 refers to it, the time for Jesus to be “glorified.” Four key words to remember: "Justified, glorified, judged" and "condemned." God was "justified" and therefore "glorified." The devil was "judged" and therefore "condemned," both at the same time. Both by the same event; the shedding of God’s blood on Calvary! 

If  we are to believed the devil was judged and condemned then and there, then don't you think we ought to believe Jesus's words that "now shall the prince of this world be cast out" as well?

I do.

Blindseeker

Thank you.  You nailed this one on the head.

[Sister]

 

Ok Michae1,

It says in Revelations - 

17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.  11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

1. Which of the two beasts in Chapter 13 "is of the seven and goes into perdition?" Certainly, according to the verse this would be where we must start if we are to have the wisdom to understand chapters 13-18. For that is the clue the angel gave John as he was wondering about all he had seen from Chapter 13 to then.
2. Who are the seven that preceded the 8th? 
3. Why does the angel say "the beast that was, and is not, even he is..?"

 Blindseeker

I eagerly await Michael's answer to this one.  I really want to jump in, but will be patient!  This would have to be one of the trickiest verses in the entire bible.  The answer is so simple once it's worked out.

 

God bless

[Sister]

 

In conclusion, to my three beast definitions. Mahmoud Abbas fits all three definitions. He was a member of the P.A. when it was formed. He took over from Yasser Arafat after his death. He was one of the two kings of the second beast in Rev.13:11. Lastly, he is the one identified by the number 666, which could have been Arafat had he lived.

Michael1

Where are you getting all this information from?

Throw this book away.

The Beast with the 10 kings has not come yet into full power.  When they do, you will know it.

Now, concerning the false prophet. The following four verses below all refer to the false prophet, Ismail Haniyeh.

Rev.13:11- and I beheld another beast coming up out of the Earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev.13:12- And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev.13:13- "And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the Earth in the sight of men".
Rev.13:15- And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast, should be killed.

Hamas exercised all the power of the first beast (Abbas's P.A.) because they were now an equal partner in the Government. Also, the leader of Hamas caused them to worship or honor the first beast because Hamas would not honor the first beast. The first beast was the PA without Hamas as a member. The image of the beast is what the Government of Mahmoud Abbas represented. Verse 12 does not mention the image yet, we are just informed that the false prophet caused them to worship the first beast. Verse 14 and 15 gives the details of how that worshipping or honor was to commence. An image was created of the first beast that he (the false prophet) caused to be honored. This image of the beast is three items; the recognition of Israel, the honoring of all prior Palestinian agreements, and a renunciation of terror.

 The first beast producing the 10 kings are at the top of this 7th empire. When power is given to them, then it quickly turns into the 8th empire.  These are the ones who will bring in "The New World Order".  This NWO will bring in new laws, and change the current system we have today.  The second beast who arises out of the earth is a man.  He is the one captivating the world with his smooth words and miracles, ... telling the world to worship (obey) the new laws and system which the 10 Kings have set up.  It's as simple as that. The world will love this man because he provides "solutions" for everybody and seems to be anything but ordinary. This man is the Son of Perdition....The False Prophet. He is Satan's chosen one. There's only one man who will falsely claim in the end he is god, not two.

Dear brother, we were warned about him in 2 Thessalonians, and in Daniel... he is coming. The world is getting ready for him and they don't even know it. So just one man who will sweet talk the world and deceive all into receiving the Mark of the Beast by "enforcing" the laws that those 10 Kings introduce.. He is their spokesman, their puppet, they have groomed him.  He is the one to come and to watch out for.  All authority will be given to him, and the 10 kings are his "man power".  They run the police, the army, the courts, the nations, the media, the money, ..everything.  Without them he can do nothing.

If we accept the Laws of the first beast, then we have to do what they say, ...we have to take this Mark which without it, NO MAN both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, can buy or sell without it.  This means every single person in the whole world will go hungry if they don't use this new system.  It's a new "world system" a "new world order", and the False Prophet's purpose is to sway all the nations, and every man to surrender all power to him and do everything he says or else. He will pretend it's for peace.  This is our test, a time for Christians to chose a side.  A time to stand up and say NO, we will not conform because we know who you are and who you are standing for.  So he is telling us to worship (obey) the first beast, ..their laws which happens to be a new system of trade replacing cash and cards with a whole heap of other laws.  A centralised system that controls our money.  One push of the button and they can block all our funds.  There is no other way to survive now, it's all controlled by them.  Easy to trace, and they can trace us with it too because it will be "in" our right hand or "in" our forehead.  So something inserted into us which can only be a RFID microchip.  Smaller than a grain of rice.  So small you won't even know it's there....but God knows.

If our money system is going to change, then only those who are in control of the money have the power to make those changes.  They are not going to spring up overnight, because they are here already getting everything ready. They will show their faces soon. 

Come back to the Word of God Michael, all the information we need is in the scriptures.  Christ has provided truth for us to prepare.

[Sister]

 

Ok Michae1,

It says in Revelations - 

17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.  11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

1. Which of the two beasts in Chapter 13 "is of the seven and goes into perdition?" Certainly, according to the verse this would be where we must start if we are to have the wisdom to understand chapters 13-18. For that is the clue the angel gave John as he was wondering about all he had seen from Chapter 13 to then.
2. Who are the seven that preceded the 8th? 
3. Why does the angel say "the beast that was, and is not, even he is..?"

Blindseeker

Seeing that Michael has not come back on, I would like to discuss this Rev 17:9-11, starting with Rev 13.

Which of the two beasts in Chapter 13 "is of the seven and goes into perdition?" Certainly, according to the verse this would be where we must start if we are to have the wisdom to understand chapters 13-18. For that is the clue the angel gave John as he was wondering about all he had seen from Chapter 13 to then.

 The beast rising out of the sea consisting of 7 heads are 7 empires that have ruled society from beginning to the end.  These are the same empires that the harlot in Rev 17 has been sitting on the whole time since the beginning.  The 7th empire, the last, will quickly transform into an eight empire when their laws change.  It's the same empire , only the 10 kings have taken power and they will produce "The False Prophet" who will enforce the new laws.

This is when the 7th empire turns into the 8th; 

Daniel 7:25   And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
(Note: we are in the 7th empire now waiting for it's change.  It's this same empire that was wounded and healed.  This empire is healed already because she is powerful and holds most of the world's wealth in her hands by a few who control her.  She has the power to shape our opinions and influence us to back her policies. She has dumbed us down and fed us lies, therefore we could not see that the real enemy is in our own backyard and has infiltrated us. She is always providing many enemies for us to point the finger at and we are so dumb we just believe her,...but she is the one who God will use to fulfill his plan, and she is our real enemy (the 7th empire)

Revelation 17:8   The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Now there's a twist.  The beast we just saw was this same beast the whore has been sitting on the whole time, but the focus is on the 10 kings.

 Revelation 17:3   So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

God is going deeper here now and there is a message within a message.  You will be told all sorts of things, but this is only to cause confusion.  It's really quite simple.

Rome was ruling at the time of the prophecy, yet...we are told that this beast is not.  So RULE OUT ROME for starters.  This beast that WAS (in power) and IS NOT (in power) but, SHALL come (to power) from John's time onwards - so AFTER ROME.  But God is not speaking about an EMPIRE now that we are familiar with, no he is going deeper than that to a TIME when there was a SYSTEM where all the WORLD was ONE.  ONE KING, ONE RULER, ONE LANGUAGE, ONE LAW, ONE BELIEF.  During John's day under the rule of ROME, this Beast was not in power, however the idea was to combine the world again as ONE.  This is SATAN'S IDEA, and he has been working hard ever since, only God has restrained him.

And this beast that WAS, was from the beginning of time - BABEL.  It's the system of BABEL. remember Nimrod?.... The 10 kings of the 7th empire will combine the whole world under ONE LEADER AGAIN.  This did not happen in the days of ROME, nor GREECIA, nor MEDO-PERSIA, nor BABYLON, nor ASSYRIA, but go to EGYPT'S ROOTS, and we have BABEL.  Where it all started from.  THIS IS THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT AND YET IT.  IT'S BABEL.  We will have ONE KING again, and he will tell us what to believe and we will all speak his language if we stay in the spirit of BABYLON.  It's this last kingdom, the 7th which turns into the 8th that will give BABEL a rebirth.  It's easier for Satan to control the whole world now through his ONE LEADER. 

The False Prophet will be a type of NIMROD all over again.  And like Nimrod, his kingdom will be broken without hands, leaving the world in much confusion all over again when Christ comes to destroy it.

The idea is from long ago, from Satan, and comes out of the bottomless pit..  This last empire is his special chosen empire, the one we are in now that will go into destruction, and although all the empires before them are already gone, but what they left behind, all their beliefs and influences which have survived our society's will be no more and the whole lot will never rise again.

Edited August 17, 2015 by Sister

[Last Daze]

 

I'm watching that date with interest as well.  I expect the second seal to be opened about that time.

Last Daze

The second seal is Wars and Rumours of wars.  This seal was already opened when the 1st and 2nd world wars took place.  Since then wars have not stopped.  This horse is contiunually running, but the fact is it has already started back then. 

It's important because after the 2nd ww, we have new global bodies being established such as the "United Nations", and EU, to bring the leaders together and initiate a plan of so called peace and order. It's all a front, and these new bodies will shape the worlds future, giving them more power to change international laws and shape our opinions.

You see, now we await the third seal to be opened.  This one is depicting food shortages, and although this has always happened, it will happen on a global scale and affect all of us.  The food industry throughout the world is mainly in the hands of the Corporations.  They have made us so dependent on them.  We have lost many farmers because they just cannot compete.  If we follow the trail of these giant corporations, we find they also control the world banking system.  All the nations are in debt to them, and they will use this power to collapse the world economies.  How they do this exactly I don't know, but presume they will raise interest rates to some ridiculous level forcing nations to "cut back" even further, resulting in loss of jobs, businesses closing down, banks foreclosing on loans, welfare abolished and so it goes.  Poverty overnight.  The farmers are not there anymore to deal directly with the people, and most of us have no land to grow our own food, so this is where it will hit us hard.  Food prices will rise considerably and it will be a hard time.  People will steal just for food.  This has all been orchestrated and designed to happen.  This must come first leaving the world in such a mess that we have no choice but to cry out for some justice, and then the false prophet will come.

So my point, is that many have missed that 2nd seal being opened already.  It has already been opened, and this set the stage for the global bodies to arise after the two world wars, bringing the nations leaders together so that they can plan to destroy this current system, ....selling out their countries because they have been bought and corrupted by the elites.  It just has to go this way for God's plan to be fulfilled.

We're pretty close, just a seal off.  I correlate the first seal to the release of the beast (evil angel) from the abyss. The beast was (and produced Rome), is not (thrown into the abyss), is to come (released from the abyss...first seal).  This evil angel is one of several that spawn notable world kingdoms i.e. Persia, Greece per Daniel 10.  His first efforts resulted in the Roman Empire.  Upon his release at the first seal, he goes back to work again doing what he does.  The description of this kingdom (Rome part 2) is in Daniel 2 being pictured as the feet of iron and clay.  This is seen today as the U.N. and subsequently other global initiatives like you mentioned.

The second seal, as I see it, begins when the ten leaders destroy the world's capital (NYC at this point) per Rev 17.  This leads to wars and rumors of war where nation rises against nation.  Three of the ten leaders (horns) are ripped out by the roots by the false prophet by calling fire down from heaven or some other sign or wonder.  This ends the time of war and establishes the false prophet's authority and leads to the great tribulation associated with the AoD.

But, time will tell.

[Sister]

Last Daze

Thanks for your reply.

Please just look at it this way. .... Satan has not left one stone unturned.  He has covered every single corner and planned it a long time ago. The best way for him to start would be to introduce false religion.  Here he can operate through believers to deceive them. He can control this section, (the spiritual) and introduce a teaching to take us away from the truth before we even receive it.  From here, we have branches shooting off the Roman Catholic church, still holding on to some of her teachings, and from there, shoot other branches still holding on to small parts of the mother church's teachings even if it's just a tiny teaching they are holding on to, and some don't, but so it goes until we get so many christian denominations (rivers and streams as described in the OT) that the average person looking for God has got a lot of denominations to chose from according to taste.

I see this as the white horse.  The rider is conquering not through war, but through a spiritual take-over.  So subtle.  It starts a trend and it goes downwards until their lights are so dim that they are in darkness leading up to a great falling away.  But it didn't happen overnight, it takes time, even hundreds of years.  Enough time for the new denominations to spring up so he can work through them as well because they will be here right up to the end times.  We will see many churches telling their members to take the mark of the beast.  I see it happening now, they pretend the mark is something else.

The only thing that comes out of the bottomless pit first, is Satan's special empire, the dreadful beast that will groom his special brain child.  It's Satan's idea, and it comes out of the bottomless pit,...  The 10 kings are just being used to pave the way because they have the power to make this happen for him. He gave them that power because they worship him (behind closed doors) and he makes them very rich.   I don't see it as a spirit coming out of the bottomless pit, but the idea the plan, is from below, from hell where Satan's heart abides, the bottomless pit.  It's just the way God describes it and the wording he uses to show that something very evil is going to be unleashed, because God, the restrainer says it's time and allows it.

After the 5th seal, we have the 7 trumpets, the wrath of God.  The false prophet comes right before the 5th seal where the saints are being killed.  It makes sense the false prophet and his kingdom (10 kings) is that rider of the pale horse coming just before the 5th seal. The seals are just visions, and events that lead up to the end.  There are many years between the first three, and then they get opened closer after that.

These prophecies were written over 2000 years ago, and the OT prophecy's dating back a thousand or two before that, maybe more I don't know, but the first seal opened only approx 430 years ago.  It was the start of the end.  And if you don't agree with me that's ok.  I'm only having my say about a subject I love so much and I appreciate your input.

[Last Daze]

I agree in general.  I just have a difficult time visualizing an "idea" or an "empire" being thrown into the lake of fire.  These ideas or empires have sources.

[BlindSeeker]

I just posted this in Is Pope Francis the False Prophet of Revelation? But due to the direction this thread is taking I will repost it here as well - 

  The false prophet isn't the beast. Therefore he wouldn't have the biblical number assigned to him.

   One of the main clues told to the apostle John by the angel is one which most people tend to overlook, almost as if it was needless old King James terminology word-filler. The angel told John, “The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition.” In another place the angel repeats it this way, “the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”

Revelation 17:8 - The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Most people read right past this clue and place all their focus on the part about the “seven mountains,” many yielding to the common temptation to redefine them as “seven hills,” as those upon which Rome is situated. This is done out of a determination of some to apply the significance of these “seven mountains” to the Roman Catholic Church.

My main question for those laboring to interpret it that way would be when did the Catholic Church cease to exist (and not just simply flounder at times from political oppression) and then revive again? For this prophetic phrase “was, and is not, and yet is,” unquestionably indicates something which had a prior existence, but then ceased to be, and yet came back into existence once again. Regardless what theory people are inclined to lean towards, all these verses must fit their interpretation; or they simply do not say whatever it is people keep attempting to assign to them.

 Revelation 17:9 - And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 

The angel prefaces his message to John stating, “Here is the mind which hath wisdom,” or perhaps simply, “here is wisdom” for those willing to prayerfully reason all this through. Regardless, the angel reveals unto John another clue to record for those who would later be seeking understanding of these things. “The seven heads are seven mountains… there are seven kings, five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come.” What we see woven in this phrase is the concept that was just given up above in 17:8; a past, a present, and a future.

Since the beast has seven heads which prophetically represent the seven mountains or kingdoms with their respective seven kings, five of which John was told “are fallen,” we can positively determine who these five kingdoms were through scripture, as well as their corresponding kings. For at that time of the vision these five were all in the comparative PAST of the Apostle John. Furthermore, the angel tells John that this seven headed beast “is,” or was being represented yet again a sixth time as a functioning empire at the very time of John’s vision.  Since the angel is connecting “the one is” to the Apostle John’s PRESENT time frame, if one would have asked John if there was a king and nation that was oppressing Israel he would have definitively answered, “Yes, Caesar of Rome.”

Because there are seven heads on the beast, it is obvious that just like the five before it that this sixth king and his kingdom were going to fall as well. There would then be an unspecified duration of time in which this seven headed beast “is not” manifested. When the beast does reappear it will be the next head representing the seventh mountain and king. The angel tells John this king’s identity will be notably marked by the fact that he will only be permitted to “continue a short space.”

Revelation 17:10 - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

But first, here are some scriptures to further confirm what is being prophetically implied through the angel’s use of the word “mountain” in his interpretation of the seven heads to John.

 Jeremiah 51:24 - And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. 

Zechariah 4:7 - Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 

Daniel 2:35 - Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 

Daniel 2:45 - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Amos 4:1 - Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 6:1 - Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 

So all that should remain is to determine just who the “seven mountains” nations are that were represented by the beast’s seven heads.  The first head of the beast is easy; for Israel was birth as a nation in Egypt when Moses was sent by God to lead “My people” out of their slavery under Pharaoh. It was there that the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them,” so much so that the Egyptians began to fear them.

Years later after inhabiting the Promise Land the nation of Israel was divided under two separate kings, Rehoboam and Jeroboam. However, Jeroboam became fearful that the hearts of the people in the northern kingdom might again return towards Jerusalem and he would lose control and began to fear that the people might then kill him. Therefore, seeking to save his own life, he sinned against the Lord by making two golden calf idols for the people; and thus Jeroboam tempted God and frustrated the grace whereby God had been with him. For did not the LORD God of Israel say to Jeroboam, “Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee?” (I Kings 11:31) Therefore we can see Assyria is the most likely candidate for the second head of the beast.

To know who the next four of the “seven mountains” are that were represented by the beast’s seven heads we need not speculate, for we can know with certainty their identity from the 7th chapter of the book of Daniel.

Daniel 7:1 - In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. [Babylonian Empire] 5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. [Medo-Persia Empire] 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. [Greek Empire] 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it [Roman Empire]; and it had ten horns. 

The seven heads upon the beast are there solely to provide prophetic imagery for “the mind which has wisdom.” The angel told John that they represented “seven mountains” and “seven kings” with the intention that the studious might be able to determine who they are from scripture. Since scripture is God’s “sure word of prophecy” often given hundreds, if not thousands of years to His people before it becomes historical reality, we can be confident in the irrefutability of its witness. The five empires which we have thus far clarified from scripture have such a witness by their sharing a chronologically correct biblical correlation directly with the nation Israel. Below is the list of the five that are fallen and the one is.

The fallen -

1.   Egypt

2.   Assyria

3.   Babylon

4.   Mede/Persia

5.   Greece

Next is the sixth head referred to by the angel as the “one is,” would be Rome; the fourth beast of Daniel’s vision. The angel prophesied that this fourth beast would “be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.” That is in fact what Rome did to Israel in 70 A.D. at which time Jerusalem was again destroyed according to the prophecy of Jesus our Lord.

Therefore the one that “is” -

6.     Rome

Remember, the key to identifying the seven heads of beast is to remember that all the heads or empires of the beast must correlate directly with Israel, or as the Angel Gabriel expressed it to Daniel, “Thy people and… the holy city.”

 Matthew 24:2 - And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Luke 19:43 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

While at the time of John the Jews had already been somewhat dispersed into the surrounding nations prior to Jerusalem’s destruction, the Jews as “a  people” survived. However, their national entity of “Israel” because of Rome ceased to be a functioning kingdom on the land of their inheritance. For after the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Romans under Titus, both Israel as a nation and their religion of Judaism as defined and practiced under the stringent guidelines of the Levitical Law “was not.”

From that time forward it was impossible for the Jews to lawfully offer sacrifices, for the priests were killed or dispersed and the priesthood record of genealogy forever lost, and the sanctuary, the altar and the Holy of holies with all its furniture were destroyed or lost, a topic to be further examined in Chapter 16. After 70 A.D. the Covenant Land was never again in the sovereign possession of the Jews nor recognized as a nation until after the conclusion of World War II.

But who had possession of the land once Israel ceased to exist? Perhaps more importantly, who had gain possession of it prior to Israel’s rebirth in 1948? The British Empire controlled it. Having become the largest empire in history, the British Empire was the foremost global power for over a century. It was once boastfully said that “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” Having conquered so much under its conquests, all around the world there were territories subjugated to the British Empire and it was in 1948 that Israel was “born again” on land that had become part of the British Empire. Therefore, England qualifies to be considered as a strong candidate for this Seventh Head of the beast.

Revelation 17:9 - And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.  11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Some may have already detected an apparent discrepancy of how “the foremost global power for over a century” could fulfill the prophecy which says “and when he cometh, he must continue a short space?” However, in order to rightly divide the word, we must consider its entirety. It isn’t the mountain, or the empire that fulfills this prophecy, rather its king who must “must continue a short space.” For George VI, King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth lived only four short years after the rebirth of Israel, only to be succeeded by his elder daughter, Elizabeth which to date continues to reign. Thus George VI was England’s last king.

Because it is a fact that England was in sovereign control of the land at the time of Israel’s rebirth, both it and King George VI alone can qualify as the fulfilment of this seventh head; of which the prophecy accurately predicted, “when he cometh, he must continue a short space.” That is, only four short years after Israel which “was, is not, and yet is” as a nation born again.

Thus we can see how Israel, just like the beast, went through the prophetic stages defined by the angel as “was, is not, and yet is” a nation today. We must not ignore Israel’s importance in regards to rightly dividing the prophecies in both Daniel and John’s visions, since Gabriel told Daniel these things pertained to “thy people and… thy holy city.”

So if we look at the complete list of those seven nations or empires which have had a direct relationship with Israel, either by taking her into captivity or having dominion over them and their land, it would be as follows:

1.     Egypt

2.     Assyria

3.     Babylon

4.     Mede/Persia

5.     Greece

6.     Rome (Which destroyed Israel, causing both the beast and Israel answer to the prophetic expression of "was not")

7.     England

But look now what the scriptures says:

Revelation 17:11 - And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Now, because of the phrase “is of the seven,” it must be concluded that “the eighth” is either a direct extension or descent from the seventh, or it is a mixture of each of the seven empires, being an end time conglomeration of multitudes, languages, nations and tongues; a nation existing as a cultural melting pot, a land of international immigrants. Either way, America alone can comfortably wear this prophetic Cinderella slipper.

We would also do well here to recall how it was mostly because of England that America sought to get involved in World War II. Plus, it was World War II that brought the sudden decline of the British Empire, gave way to the rebirth of Israel, and gave America its occasion to rise to its global supremacy. Thus America is “the eighth… and goeth into perdition.” Meaning America is the first beast that rises up out of the sea in Revelations 13:1 and its president the second beast.

Thus the false prophet is neither the first of second beast. But he is coming to America September 23, on Yom Kippur….

 

 

[Sister]

Blindseeker

Such a good post brother!

Yes I agree the British empire is the 7th beast.  This is the beast that was wounded and healed.  She was healed after the 2nd ww and still operates.

The USA and the UK are brothers in arms.  The 10 kings rule over them and through them and even though they have infiltrated them, are not of them.

So yes, to say the 7th Empire is the British Empire (now UK)  is accurate. 

You are the first person I have ever heard acknowledge this on this site.

Edited August 18, 2015 by Sister

[Serving]

Blindseeker

Such a good post brother!

Yes I agree the British empire is the 7th beast.  This is the beast that was wounded and healed.  She was healed after the 2nd ww and still operates.

The USA and the UK are brothers in arms.  The 10 kings rule over them and through them and even though they have infiltrated them, are not of them.

So yes, to say the 7th Empire is the British Empire (now UK)  is accurate. 

You are the first person I have ever heard acknowledge this on this site.

 

Agreed Sister ..

And well done Blindseeker, I haven't seen another person saying this before either, and I don't mean just on worthy too.

And now .. the 8th is almost upon us.

God bless.