“Beasts” in Bible Prophecy are Empires

In Bible prophecy beasts represent empires. Of course each empire has a king; however, primarily a beast is an empire. In Revelation Chapter thirteen we are told that a beast empire arises out of the sea of the nations and constitutes an empire that has the marks of all previous empires before it. It has seven heads which historically represented seven empires before it. You had Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome combined being the Greco-Roman empire, followed by a seventh empire, the one that conquered the Greco- Roman Empire.

However, there is also an eighth empire which has within it all the features of the previous empires before it as it belongs to the seven, having the same spirit of rebellion against God. These are referred to as mountains which represent kingdoms or empires (Revelation 17:9-10). This seventh empire that conquered the Greco-Roman Empire was an empire that seemed to have received a mortal would but is resurrected in the eighth empire (Revelation 17:11)…

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