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October 1, 2018

In Part 10 an attempt was made to prove the beast of Revelation 11:3 comes up the shafts of the abyss (pit) in the interior of the earth, and that he is the antichrist as opposed to the false prophet. In the book of Revelation, at times, the beast is the final evil empire itself. However, at times it refers to its final king, a person, who is antichrist. In Revelation 11:7 it refers to the antichrist as a person.

Revelation 11:7
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

I am convinced that the antichrist himself represents the king of the seventh head on John’s first beast. And that he will suffer a killing wound by a weapon of war and die physically, after which he will apparently be resurrected from the dead. Whether the resurrection will be phony or genuine, I cannot say, but the world will believe it.

Revelation 13:3,4
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. [4] And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

A “deadly” wound is one that leads to a man’s death. He will apparently die stone cold dead, and then return to life. This is what the world has always wanted to see as a mass congregation, a man who actually comes back from the dead. They will worship this man as being from the true God, but in reality they will be worshipping the one who indwells him, the Dragon Satan. They will worship Satan through his son antichrist by the leadership of the spirit of the false prophet, an ungodly false trinity that counterfeits the true trinity. And it is easy to understand why they wonder after him, saying, “who is able to make war with him.” How do you defeat a man who can keep coming back to life?

The premise of him being a resurrected man appears several times in Revelation.

Revelation 13:12,14
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
[14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

By Chapter 17 the seventh head, on the beast in Chapter 13, which was bleeding, has stopped bleeding, and the 10 horns have surrendered their crowns to it. The color of the beast has changed to scarlet, the color of blood, and this may signify the antichrist as informing the world his blood from the deadly wound was shed for their freedom. And it has long been taught that when Satan counterfeits the works of God, he tries to paint as authentic a duplicate as possible.

Revelation 13:1
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

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.

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.

The antichrist was (was alive), and is not (he died from a deadly wound), and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit (be resurrected by coming up the shaft from the abyss), and shall go into perdition (the lake of fire burning with brimstone). The antichrist that was (was alive), and is not (he died), and yet is (he came back to life). When does he go into perdition (final destruction by God)?

Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

The bleeding head on the beast of Chapter 13, and the healed head on the beast in Chapter 17, are the seventh and eighth kings, who are one and the same, and both are the antichrist. The first five horns represent the kings of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Grecian Empires that came before John, and the sixth horn represents the kings of the Roman Empire, which existed in John’s day. All of these empires had an effect on Israel in varying degrees of persecution. The seventh empire that is now afflicting Israel is an Islamic Empire, and soon it will also have a king. He will be the seventh king, but will die from a deadly wound, which will end his reign as the seventh king. But he will return from the dead to also be the eighth and last of the kings that afflict Israel.