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Revelation Chapter 13

Revelation 13 brings sharper focus to the two competing powers which are the chief actors in the final events of this world’s history.

Revelation Chapter 13 “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 Chapter 13 “. . . And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great Revelation 13: 1, 2 authority. ”

Revelation Chapter 13 Beast from the sea • Body like a Leopard • Feet like a Bear • Mouth [head] of a Lion • Power from the Dragon

Revelation Chapter 13 Beast from the sea • Seven heads • Ten horns • Ten crowns • Blasphemy on his heads

Revelation Chapter 13 “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. ” Revelation 12: 3

Beast from the sea “The WATERS which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. ” Rev. 17: 15

Beast from the “. . . the Lord bringeth up upon sea them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria. . And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over. . . ” Isaiah 8: 7, 8

Beast from the “It must be accepted as a fact that sea when a symbol is once used in prophecy, with a certain meaning, it must have the same meaning in whatever other prophecy it is found. If this were not so, there would be no harmony in the Bible. ” E. J. Waggoner Prophetic Lights, p. 86 (1888)

Beast from the sea

Daniel’s “O king, thy thoughts came Prophecy into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and He [God] that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. ” Daniel 2: 29

Daniel’s “This image’s head Prophecy was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. ” Dan. 2: 32, 33

Daniel’s “Thou sawest till Prophecy that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. ” Dan. 2: 34

Daniel’s Prophecy “Thou art this head of gold. ” Dan. 2: 38

Daniel’s “The ram which Prophecy thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia. ” Dan. 8: 20, 21

Revelation Chapter 13 parallel prophecy Daniel Chapter 7

Daniel Chapter 7 “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “. . . I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it”

Daniel Chapter 7 “Another beast, like to a bear. . . and it had three ribs of it between the teeth. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 The three ribs signify the kingdoms of Babylon, Lydia (an ancient name for Turkey), and Egypt which were oppressed by this “bear” power.

Daniel Chapter 7 “After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “Another, like a leopard, which had upon the back also four wings. . . and four heads. ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “. . . it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “Fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly. . . and it had ten horns. ”

Daniel Chapter 7 And the angel Gabriel said: “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. ” Daniel 7: 17

Daniel Chapter 7 “I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “. . . and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. ” Daniel 7: 1 – 8

Daniel Chapter 7

Daniel Chapter 7

Daniel Chapter 7 “As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. ” Daniel 7: 12

Daniel Chapter 7 “The same truth was represented in the fourth chapter of Daniel, when the tree representing Babylon was cut down, but the roots remained in the ground. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “The roots represented the foundation principles upon which Babylon was built, and they have remained in the earth ever since. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “When Medo-Persia fell, she left her principles of government, education, and religion still alive, transmitting them to her posterity, the nations of the earth. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “Greece did likewise, and with each succeeding empire those foundation principles, so clearly portrayed in Babylon, instead of appearing in a weakened state. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “. . . sprang into life with renewed vigor. ” S. N. Haskell Daniel the Prophet (1908)

Revelation 13: 1 and 2

Babylon • Imputed her power and wisdom to false gods • Developed organized education and a system of law for governance • Invented a system for measuring time

Medo-Persia • Took Babylon’s code of law and turned it into a tyrannical form of government • Retained Babylon’s alliance of religious and civil ideas

Greece • Greece added a system of philosophy based on man • Determined that matter and mind were separate concepts that could not co-exist (“dualism”)

Rome Pagan Rome’s religion retained all of the religious errors of Babylon; followed Greece in it’s philosophical education; and utilized the cruelty and oppression of Medo-Persia in governing its people.

Revelation “Daniel was 13: 1 and 2 looking forward into history yet to come. He saw a succession of powers arising. ”

“John, who was living six hundred years after Daniel, viewed those same powers but from a different perspective. He was looking both backward and forward. ”

“Though Rome was the ruling power, nevertheless so much of the Greek civilization was preserved in the empire that we speak of it as “Greco. Roman. ”

“The prophetic symbol combines the ten-horned head of Rome with the leopard body of Greece. But the beast also embodies features of the former kingdoms. ” Roy Allen Anderson Unfolding the Revelation, p. 123

“This great beast symbolized the world-empire of Rome, diverse from all that were before it; because it was not originally a kingdom or monarchy, but a republic. ” A. T. Jones Consecrated Way, p. 92

Revelation Chapter 13 “The first symbol in chapter 13 is a beast with seven heads and ten horns arising out the sea. It is described as having the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear, and the mouth of a lion—naming the symbols of Daniel 7 in reverse order. . ”

Revelation Chapter 13 “Daniel was looking at the series as reaching forward into the future, but John saw the same series backward. The powers represented by the leopard, the bear, and the lion had already passed into history. ” George Mc. Cready Price The Time of the End, p. 28 (1967)

Revelation Chapter 13 “The subsequent details, however, concerning this leopard beast of Revelation 13 show that it corresponds more precisely with the arrogant, blasphemous horn growing out of Daniel’s nondescript beast. ” George Mc. Cready Price The Time of the End, p. 29 (1967)

Revelation Chapter 13 “The seven heads and ten horns directly identify this power as the successor of the Roman Empire, which in the former chapter [chapter 12] was represented by the red dragon with its seven heads and ten horns. ” W. A. Spicer Beacon Lights of Prophecy, p. 279 (1935)

Why the Difference? Revelation 12 Revelation 13 • Seven heads • Ten horns • Seven crowns • Ten crowns • Crowns on heads • Crowns on horns

Beast Comparison • Red dragon • 7 heads • 10 horns • 7 crowns on heads

Beast Comparison • Leopard • Bear • Lion • 7 heads • 10 horns • 10 crowns on horns

Beast Comparison • 7 heads • 10 horns • 7 mountains

Beast Comparison “The seven heads can hardly be at once seven kings or kingdoms, and seven literal geographical mountains. . ”

Beast Comparison “Mountains have a symbolical meaning, namely, prominent seats of power. Especially such as are prominent hindrances to the cause of God. ”

Beast Comparison “The woman sitting on the seven hills implies the church conforming to, and resting on, the world’s power, that is, on all the seven world kingdoms. ” Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Beast Comparison • Red dragon • 7 heads • 10 horns • 7 crowns on heads

Beast Comparison • 7 heads • 10 horns • 10 crowns on horns

Beast Comparison • 7 heads • 10 horns • 7 mountains • 7 kings

1. Babylon (605 to 538 BC) 2. Medo-Persia (538 to 331 BC) 3. Greece (331 to 168 BC) 4. Pagan (imperial) Rome (168 to 538) 5. Papal Rome (AD 538 to 1798) 6. Organized atheism (after 1798) 7. Restored papal Rome (soon)

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