The Beast

In order to make any sense out of this we need to break down the components of the beast

The Beast connsists of:

7 heads

10 horns

The Harlot that rides the beast.

Understanding how these components are related to eachother is very important. Remember, the main thing you need to know about prophecy is that it is God`s warning to us that Satan will be allowed to rule the world politically and spiritually for a time, and that he will be granted to give power to an antichrist that will deceive the world into worhsipping his image. The punchline of revelation is therefore, Do not worhsip the image!

7 heads

The most contraversial part is certainly the heads. Politics and religion, the things the upset people the most. As meantioned, the heads have blasphemous names, and therefore must be religious powers.

pictured here is a symbol for the new world religion. note that it includes Budhism, Hinduism, Christianity, New Age, Islam, Judaism, and ofcourse Catholithism at the center. Now even though there is no way to be certain that this Symbol is ligitimate, it certainly makes a perfect fulfillment of prophecy.

Wounded Head

The key is that one of the blasphemous heads appeared to have received a deadly wound, then came back to life. History records persecution in almost every religion, but only one world religion received what could be described as an instant death. In 1798, Napoleon`s complete destruction of the Catholic empire, spiritually and politically is by far the most significant wound that any religion has ever received. And sure enough, just as the prophecy predicts, the deadly wound was healed. By the mid 1900`s, Catholithism had regained most of its previous stature, minus the power to excecute heretics.

Is the wound fully healed today? `his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.` although the head has not returned to its full glory yet, it is fairly close. Basically not till the beast comes back to power, will the Catholic church have fully recovered to its previous state of world domination and ability to kill heretics. it was granted to him to make war with the saints

Why should we focus so much on this one wounded horn.

14. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth—by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

• A few verses later, the antrichrist is deceiveing the world into worhsipping "the beast" who`s deadly wound is healed. Do you see this transformation? Now instead of Catholic church being just one head, it is now being refered to as the beast!

Here again:

Rev 17
8. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

• In Revelation 17, the beast is the one that receives the deadly wound, not just a horn. It is clearly important to realize how significant the role of the Catholic church is

10 Horns

"are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast, " who rule over "every tribe, tongue and nation" and give "their kingdom to the beast."

• This is fairly straight forward. They are not couuntries like France, America, or Iran, but kindoms or countries that do not exist yet. Common sense would dictate that they are the result of "kingdoms rising against kingdoms" and the red horse. Today we are witnessing the very beginnings of this as the European Union gains streangth, the African Union moves forward, and the North American Union has emerged as far more the outlandish conspiracy theory. How exactly the king of the north will "divide the land for gain" is not overly important. What we need to know is that these events are a part of prophecy, and that we shouldnt worry ourselved too much with political matters.

The Harlot

Described in Revelation Ch 17 as riding the beast, the transformation continues as she becomes the main focus of gGod`s warning. Described as riding the beast, one can only assume that she controls the beast. And since she represents the diabolical opposite to God`s bride, one can assume she represents the false church.

Rev 17
1. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,
2. with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication."
3. So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
5. And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6. I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

• The harlot deceives all the kings and all those who dwell on earth to worship her, and she is called Babylon. How is it possible for the entire world to embrace ancient babylonian sun and goddess worship. For an interesting look at the similarities between world religion today and ancient babylonian sunworship, go to the Religious Iconography page.