Thursday, March 16, 2017

Revelation: Revealing the Coming King Chapter 13

 Revelation 13: The Two Beasts
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The First Beast

The Greek word for beast here is not the same as Rev 4 & 5.  Here it is the Grk word therion, which means "wild beast or animal."  In chp 4  the word was zoon which meant "living creature or created one".

Read the following passages and draw conclusions about the description of the 1st beast.
Daniel 7:1-8; Daniel 11: 36-39; Rev 17:3-16; 2Thess. 2:3-4

What does the sea represent?
Humanity or the nations

What are the seven heads?
Different views all revolve around forms of the Gentile Kingdoms, 
Since the seven heads are mountains the city of Rome and Jerusalem are both identified.
The seven heads are pagan kingdoms: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Revived Rome (10 kings)
The seven heads are all aspect of the Roman Empire of which the Imperial was the sixth, the Revived the seventh.
The seven heads are kingdoms which have ruled over Israel starting with Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Revived Rome (10 Kings), The Harlot, The Antichrist (after his resurrection)
The seven heads simply represent the total or finished run of the time of the Gentiles.

What are the ten crowns?
The ten kings which rule during the revived Roman Empire one of which is the Anti-Christ.

What is significant about the combination of several beasts?
This king will be the combination of all the previous empires, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome.

What does this beast do?
Blasphemes God and persecutes the saints.

What event brings this beast to domination of the world?
His apparent resurrection.

Is this death and resurrection of a person or of a kingdom?
Revelation 11:7 and 17:8 say that the beast ascends out of the bottomless pit.  The bottomless pit is a synonym for hell.  Only persons or demons inhabit it not governments or kingdoms.  Furthermore, the beast is said to be taken and thrown alive into the lake of fire at the end of the battle of Armageddon.  Only a person could be so judged.

What is God's promise to his saints and warning to the worshippers of the beast?
The beast will be punished and die in like manner as he lived.

The Antichrist In Scriptural
Revelation 13:1 Beast with 7 heads
 Beast having 7 heads and 10 horn and 10 crowns.

Revelation 17:3,8 Scarlet Beast

Daniel 7:8 The Little Horn

Daniel 11:36-39 The Willful King

2 Thess 2:3-4 Man of Sin, Son of Perdition

The Second Beast 11-18
Read the following passages to help identify the second beast.  Rev. 16:13, 19:20, 20:10

Who is the second beast?
The false prophet who together with the Anti-christ and Satan form a counterfeit trinity.

What is the role of the false prophet?
To cause the world to worship the Anti-Christ.

How does he accomplish this?
Miracles, lying wonders , an image of the 1st beast which appears to come to life and the threat of death to any which do not worship the beast.

If you relate this image with Daniel 9 and Matthew 27 when and where might the image be set up and cause to live?
At the mid-point of the tribulation in the temple at Jerusalem.

What does the number 666 tell us?
If seven is the number of man 666 may show the Anti-christs attempt to approach Godhood.  Since revelation says it is the number of man it may represent the complete man apart from God.  Some have related it to Latin, Roman and Hebrew numbers and have used it then to identify Nero, Hitler and even Jimmy Carter.  The true purpose will be plain during the tribulation.

What will be the actual mark of the beast?
Whatever tech is available at the time, tattoo, RFID tag, bar code, magnetic decal, invisible chip, etc.
The key will be who is issuing it, who has authority over its use, where it will be installed and what will happen if you don’t receive it.

Before the Tribulation or Earlier
First Half of the Week
Middle of the Week
Second Half of the Week
Immediately After the Tribulation
Rev 11

The two witness prophesy 1260 days
2 witness slain & 7th Trump
Gentiles tread down Jerusalem 42 months

Rev 12
Dragon Fights Christ

Dragon Fights Michael
Dragon Fights Israel for 1260 days

Rev 13

The Beast (AntiChrist) rises
The Beast resurrected, begins sole world domination
The Beast in power 42 months, All worship with influence of False Christ

At a time when so much of the world is changing so rapidly it is easy to imagine the events of Revelation taking place at any time.
Technology, communication, social networking, computers have moved us to a society that can erupt in chaos at any time.
Such an eruption will one day result in the Beast arising from the ashes of fallen kingdoms to rule the world.

What do we do? Paul dealt with this same question in 2Thess 2:13-16

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