1. Revelation 13 – the two beasts
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Revelation 13 – the two beasts
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2. The first beast Then ‘He’ stood on the sand of the sea
If true then ‘He’ must be Satan
The sea is usually the sea of humanity
7 heads and ten horns with diadems crowns on the heads.
Diadems indicates Kings
Links to Daniel 7 beast
Lion leopard
Bear Bear
Leopard Lion
Dragon Dragon
Rev 13 – there are 7 heads but 10 horns
Daniel 7 – there are ten horns from the one kingdom
V 20 – another horn (King) arose and subdued 3 (so 7 heads left)

3. The first beast
Matt 24 v 24 and Mark 13 v 22 – Jesus warns against false Christs
2 Thessalonians 2 verses 3 and 4 describes this figure
Daniel 7 verse 25 shows his intentions before time
1 John 2 verse 18 speaks of Anti (instead of) Christ
1 John 4 v 3 – how to recognise Antichrist and that his spirit is already in the world
2 John 1 v 7 – antichrist does not acknowledge that Jesus came in the flesh
Also that we have had types in the past
1 John 2 verse 22 again defines antichrist
Rev 13 v 5 – a great orator
Daniel 7 v 24 – the more powerful king

4. The first beast Daniel 8 v 9 – 12 – the little horn emerges
Daniel 11 v 36 – 45 speaks of his behaviour towards
Revelation 7 v 7 – 14
A passage that identifies Antichrist’s place in history.
At the end of 7 world empires
5 have fallen – Egypt,Assyria, Medo-Persia, Babylon,Greece,
One is – Rome
One is yet to come – the 7th, who is also an 8th but is one of the 7
10 kings who have not yet received a kingdom
These receive power with the beast for one hour
All have the same purpose – to war with The Lamb and The Saints

5. The first beast
The latest King to emerge is the greatest and is victorious.
Also blasphemous
Speaking against God
Similar to the Garden of Eden
Also similar to the temptation in the wilderness
Persecutes the saints
Not the church – saints referred to in Old Testament and means ‘Believers’
Saints given into his hand – why?
Intends to change times and laws – develops his own system of rituals and worship.
Time is short – time, times and half a time (42 months)

6. The first beast
Two beasts seem to divide into political and religious.
Clearly the political regime had the ‘attributes’ of all those of its contemporaries.
We see the first expressions of the counterfeit trinity
Dragon, beast and false prophet
As the father gives power to the son, so the beast empowers this figure.
The beast is killed and there is a counterfeit resurrection
Zechariah 11 v – woe to the worthless (idol) shepherd – possibly referring to this person, describing a mortal wound that was healed.
One of the consequences is worship of The Dragon – open Satanism
And worshipped the beast
A counterfeit perhaps of worship of The Father and The Son?

7. The first beast Clearly they marvel at The Beast
Possibly he was seen as the one who was able to kill the two witnesses
He performs miraculous signs
He was resurrected
He has military success
Probably he has the answer, seemingly, to peace in the Middle-East
Like The Dragon, he is allowed to continue 42-months
He blasphemes:
God’s name – God fulfils his word to honour His name
God’s tabernacle – symbolises God’s covenant, so the blasphemy is to imply God is breaking covenant
Those who dwell in heaven – unless the church is raptured, who are these

8. The first beast Clearly this is a world leader
V 7 – every tribe, tongue and nation
All authority was given to him over the saints
He chose to exercise this authority by murdering them
All those not written in the The Book of Life of The Lamb WILL worship him (The Beast)
Some comfort in verse 9 and 10
He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity
He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword
This seems to say that the saints need to be patient to see God’s justice unfold

9. Teaching the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27)
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