My
Sheep Hear My Voice- Rev. 17:8
Before
Jesus was crucified He told the disciples to watch and pray,
something so simple, but they let their physical bodies take over and
they fell back asleep. In these last hours of time you need to hear
His voice. When He tells you something, it is very important, but
most ignore my voice or just discuss it and go on with what they were
doing. You will see many things start to happen shortly and if you do
not hear and obey His voice,... it will mean death for some of
you....Jesus has only your best interest in mind. Christ knows you
heart, and if you are truly His you will hear His voice. He awakes
many of you at 3am on the dot, but most will roll over and go back to
sleep. There are a few who will get up and pray. Your day is filled
with so many things and Jesus is the last thing many of you give your
time to. But Christ needs to talk to you,... to fellowship with you
and only when you are still and quite (3am) can you hear Him,... the
rest of your day is so busy you do not have time for Him,... but you
need to make time, for time is short and the Lord has instructions
for you.
Revelation
17
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” Rev. 17:8
beast
that thou... Seven-Headed
Ten-Horned Beast
The
beast is a symbol of three things:
1.
A supernatural angel out of the abyss, as required in points 1-6
below
2.
A mortal man, as proved in points 7- 46 below
3.
A kingdom, as proved in points 47-60 below
Many
fallacies have come by not recognizing all three things in the same
symbol. Some passages apply to all three; some to only one.
Six
Facts—the beast out of the abyss:
1.
Comes out of the abyss (Rev. 11:7; 17:8)
2.
Will war on the 2 witnesses (Rev. 11:7)
3.
Will finally kill them (Rev. 11:7)
4.
Once lived out of the abyss (Rev. 17:8)
5.
Was in the abyss in John’s day (Rev. 17:8)
6.
Will go into perdition (Rev. 17:8)
Forty
Facts—the beast out of the sea:
7.
Will be a man (Rev. 13:1, 13:18)
8.
Has 7 symbolic heads (Rev. 13:1; 17:3-11)
9.
Has names of blasphemy (Rev. 13:1; 17:3)
10.
Has 10 horns; 10 crowns (Rev. 13:1; 17:3)
11.
Is like a leopard, a symbol of the Grecian Empire (Rev. 13:2; 17:3;
Dan. 7:6)
12.
Has the feet of a bear, a symbol of Medo-Persia (Rev. 13:2; Dan. 7:5)
13.
Has the mouth of a lion, a symbol of Babylon (Rev. 13:2; Dan. 7:4)
14.
Receives power from Satan (Rev. 13:2; 2Th. 2:8-12; Dan. 8:24; 11:38)
15.
Ten kings give their power to him (Rev. 17:12-17
16.
Ten kings agree to give their power to him after he overthrows three
of them (Rev. 17:12-17; Dan. 7:23-24)
17.
Leads the 10 kings against Christ at Armageddon (Rev. 17:14;
19:19-21)
18.
Will destroy the great whore (Rev. 17:16)
19.
Will be commander-in-chief of all earthly armies at Armageddon
(Rev_19:19)
20.
Will be slain at Armageddon, proving him to be a mortal man (Rev.
19:20; Dan. 7:11; Isa. 11:4; 2Th. 2:8-12)
21.
Is to be defeated by Christ (Rev. 19:20)
22.
Will be cast into hell (Rev. 19:20)
23.
Will still be in hell 1,000 years later (Rev. 20:10)
24.
World will wonder after him (Rev. 13:3; 17:8)
25.
Will be worshiped by people (Rev. 13:3, 13:8, 13:16-18; 14:9-11;
16:2; 20:4)
26.
Will speak blasphemies (Rev. 13:5-6; Dan. 7:20, Dan_7:25; 11:36)
27.
Will be given power 42 months, the last 3 1/2 years of this age (Rev.
13:5; 19:11-21; Dan. 7:25-27; 9:27; 12:7)
28.
Will make war on saints (Rev. 13:6; 14:9-11; 15:2-4; 20:4-6; Dan.
7:21; 8:25)
29.
Will overcome saints and kill them (Rev. 13:7; 14:9-11; 15:2-4;
20:4-6; Dan. 7:21)
30.Will
rule many nations (Rev. 13:7; 17:12-17; Dan. 7:23-24; 11:40-45)
31.
Will have a co-worker, the false prophet (Rev. 13:11-18; 16:13-16;
19:20)
32.
Will have miraculous powers (Rev. 13:2-14; 16:13-16; 19:20; 2Th.
2:8-12)
33.
An image will be made of him (Rev. 13:2, 13:12-14; 14:9-11; 15:2-4;
20:4-6).
34.
The image will be given life (Rev. 13:15).
35.
It will do personal acts (Rev. 13:15).
36.
Will brand people with a mark (Rev. 13:16)
37.
Or with his name (Rev. 13:17-18; 15:2)
38.Or
with the number of his name (Rev. 13:18)
39.
Will kill people who do not take his brands and worship him (Rev.
13:15; 20:4)
42.
Will cause people to be damned (Rev. 14:9-11)
41.
Will be opposed by angels (Rev. 14:9-11)
42.
Will cause people to be damned (Rev. 14:9-11)
43.
Will be opposed by people (Rev. 15:2)
44.
Will receive plagues (Rev. 16:2, 16:10)
45.
Will have a throne and kingdom (Rev. 16:10)
46.
Will league with Satan and demons in mobilizing nations (Rev.
16:13-16)
Fourteen
Facts—the beast as a kingdom:
47.
Is the 8th kingdom (Rev. 17:11)
48.
Is to be dominated by the great whore until Antichrist comes to power
over the 10 kingdoms (Rev. 17:1-7, 17:12-17)
49.
Existed before John’s day (Rev. 17:8-11)
50.
Was not in John’s day (Rev. 17:8-11)
51.
One head is killed (Rev. 13:3)
52.
The head will be made alive (Rev. 13:3-14)
53.
Is revived again in the last days by Antichrist (Rev. 17:10-17; Dan.
7:24)
54.
Succeeds 7 world empires (Rev. 17:9-11)
55.
Five empires had fallen before John’s day—Egypt, Assyria,
Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece (Rev. 17:10)
56.
The 6th kingdom (Roman Empire) was in John’s day (Rev. 17:10)
57.
The 7th kingdom (made up of the 10 kingdoms inside the Roman Empire
territory) is not yet come (Rev. 17:10-17; Dan. 7:23-24)
58.
The 7th must continue a short space before Antichrist comes (Rev.
17:10)
59.
The 7th becomes the 8th kingdom when Antichrist gets full power over
the 10 kingdoms (Rev. 17:9-17)
60.
The 8th is one of the 7 kingdoms, that is, the 5th that had fallen
before John’s day This is in harmony with the facts that the beast
was before the 6th and 7th and is not during the 6th and 7th, and
becomes the 8th after the 6th and 7th (Rev. 17:8-11).
Seven
proofs the Antichrist is not from the abyss:
1.
Only a person could be referred to in such statements as a beast
coming from the abyss. A kingdom could not possibly come from such a
place. This would mean that every person in the original kingdom
would come back to live on earth again. This is not taught of one
human being in Scripture, much less of thousands of people coming out
to carry on with their original lives and kingdom. If only a person
can be referred to, then it must be either an angel or a human being
who is now confined to the abyss and will come out to fulfill this
prophecy. It is not necessary to hold that the beast of the abyss
must be a man brought back from the dead, or that the beast out of
the abyss and the beast out of the sea must be the same person.
2.
The Antichrist or beast out of the sea of humanity must be an
ordinary mortal because he will die at Armageddon (Dan. 7:11; 8:8,
8:22, 8:25; 2Th. 2:8-9; Rev. 19:20). This would be impossible if he
were some man resurrected and made immortal during his second
lifetime on earth.
3.
The doctrine of a resurrection of any man from corruption to become a
mortal again and die again on earth in his second lifetime is not
taught in Scripture (Heb. 9:27). Neither Judas, Antiochus Epiphanes,
nor any other man is an exception to the law of dying only once and
after this the judgment. One does not have to make the Bible
contradict itself in order to find an explanation of all facts.
4.
The doctrine of a reincarnation is not once mentioned in Scripture,
so this would be impossible for any human being who ever lived on
earth (Heb. 9:27; Rev. 20:11-15). To be reincarnated one would have
to be born again in the flesh as a baby, grow to maturity, and go
through every process in his previous lifetime. This is utterly
unscriptural. The next time people are to live in bodies is in the
resurrection when their own grown bodies will be brought forth (Dan.
12:2; John 5:28-29; 1Cor. 15:20-58; 1Th. 4:16; Phil. 3:21; Rev.
20:11-15).
5.
The abyss is not the place of confinement for human beings who die in
their one and only mortal lifetime. It is a place for confinement of
demons and certain fallen angels (Luke 8:31; Rev. 9:1-21; 11:7; 17:8;
20:3, 20:7). Human souls that are righteous go to heaven at death
(2Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:21-24; Heb. 12:23; Rev. 6:9-11). The wicked go to
hell (Luke 16:19-31; Rev. 20:11-15. Therefore, no human being could
ever come out of the abyss as the Antichrist.
6.
There is no scripture to prove that Antichrist will be different from
any other natural man in his lifetime as to his birth, death, etc. He
will merely be used by satanic powers in the last days. It is not
necessary for God or Satan to call anyone back from the dead to
fulfill any purpose on earth. If some man in history could fulfill
the prophecies then some man who has never died can fulfill them. No
reincarnation or resurrection has been necessary for the operation of
supernatural powers of either God or Satan at any time. The only
thing necessary is the complete yieldedness to the operator.
7.
That the Antichrist will be assassinated in the middle of Daniel’s
70th week and then rise from the dead as an immortal being and an
incarnation of Satan is unscriptural. The head "wounded to
death" and revived again (Rev. 13:3) has no reference to
Antichrist, but to one of the heads on the beast, which are all
kingdoms and not people (Rev. 17:9-11). The Antichrist is merely the
human head of the 8th kingdom. He is not any one of the 7 heads or 10
horns. They symbolize other things before he even comes (Dan.
7:23-24; Rev. 17:9-11). Antichrist will never be an incarnation of
Satan, for we see the dragon as a separate person from the beast in
all Scripture (2Th. 2:8-9; Rev. 13:1-18; 16:13-16; 20:10). Satan is
an angel with his own body and could never be on the inside of any
man physically (Luke 22:3).
The
beast out of the abyss identified:
The
beast out of the abyss is a satanic angel and not the human spirit of
some dead man. He does not incarnate himself in the human Antichrist
or beast out of the sea, but merely uses him as a tool to revive the
5th or Grecian kingdom as the 8th and last kingdom in the times of
the Gentiles. This spirit ruled the old Grecian Empire, the 5th of
the 5 kingdoms that had fallen before John’s day (Rev. 17:10). When
his kingdom fell he was confined to the abyss where he remained
during the 6th kingdom (the Roman Empire, which was the one in
existence in John’s day) and where he has been ever since. He will
be confined to the abyss until the 10 kingdoms are formed inside the
Roman Empire to make the 7th kingdom of Rev. 17:10. He will then be
loosed and use the Antichrist to revive the old Grecian Empire as the
8th kingdom of Rev. 17:11. This is what the angel meant when he said
the beast was (had existed on earth before John’s day), and is not
(on the earth in John’s day); and shall ascend out of the abyss and
go to perdition (Rev. 17:8).
Kingdoms
of this world have always been controlled by godly or satanic angels
and wars on earth are lost or won as a result of battles in the
heavenlies between the good and bad angels. God plans the rise and
fall of certain kingdoms and Satan seeks to keep the prophetic Word
from coming to pass (Isa. 24:21-23; 25:7; Dan. 10:13-21; 11:1; 12:1;
Eph. 6:12; Rev. 12:7-12; 16:13-16). In Dan. 10:12-21; 12:1 we have
the satanic prince of Persia, the prince of Grecia, Michael, Israel’s
prince, and other angelic rulers mentioned.
He
is the prince of Greece because:
1.
The last visions of Daniel concern the Grecian Empire, its 4
divisions, and the rise of Antichrist out of one of them (Rev.
8:9,20-25; 11:1-45).
2.
The Antichrist, the earthly head of the 8th kingdom (which is a
revival of the 5th kingdom that had fallen before John’s day; ’s
John 17:10), will come from the Syrian division of the old Grecian
Empire (Dan. 8:9, 8:20-25; 11:36-45. If he comes from the old Grecian
Empire and revives it, then it is definite that the spirit out of the
abyss is the prince of Grecia of Dan. 10:20.
3.
In Dan. 7:23-24 Antichrist uses one of the 10 kingdoms, the Syrian
kingdom, to overthrow 3 others, that is, the other 3 divisions of the
old Grecian Empire of Dan. 8:9, 8:20-25. This points to the prince of
Grecia as the beast out of the abyss.
4.
The body of the beast of Revelation is like a leopard (Rev. 13:2),
which, in Dan. 7:6, symbolizes the old Grecian Empire, proving that
the kingdom of Antichrist will be mainly Grecian in character and
policy, as the Syrian division in Dan. 8:9-14, 8:20-25; 11:21-45.
This identifies the beast of the abyss as the prince of Grecia.
5.
In Joel 3:6 with Zec. 9:13 we have prophecies of the Grecian Empire
in the last days under Antichrist, proving beyond doubt that the
prince of Grecia is the spirit of the abyss. This revival of Greece
will be the head healed that was wounded to death (Rev. 13:3,
13:12-14). The 8th kingdom will be the Revived Grecian Empire, not
the Revised Roman Empire, which is the 7th head on the beast.
The
beast out of the sea identified:
1.
He is a man (Rev. 13:18; 2Th. 2:3). See points 7-46, above.
2.
Who is he? At present he is unknown—not any man now prominent in
world affairs.
3.
When will he come? He will not come on the scene of action until
after 10 kingdoms are formed inside the old Roman Empire territory
(Dan. 7:23-24, and until after the rapture of the church (2Th.
2:7-8). He will come at the beginning of Daniel’s 70th week (Dan.
9:27; Rev. 6:1-2). Warning: any speculation regarding any man as the
Antichrist before then is pure human guesswork and valueless.
4.
Where does he come from? He will come from Syria, as proved in Dan.
7:23-24; 8:9, 8:20-25; 11:36-45.
5.
What will he be called? The Antichrist.
6.
How long is he to be here? For 7 years; 3 1/2 years getting power
over the 10 kingdoms inside the Roman Empire territory (Dan. 7:23-24;
11:36-45); and 3 1/2 years as ruler over them (Rev. 13:5).
7.
Where is he to reign? From Babylon the first 3 1/2 years, or during
his rise to power (Isa. 14:4-17) and from Jerusalem the last 3 1/2
years (Dan. 9:27; 11:45; Mat. 24:15; 2Th. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:1-2).
8.
What power will he have? He will receive power from Satan (Dan. 8:24;
11:38-39; 2Th. 2:8-12; Rev. 13:1, 13:4; 17:12-17). The spirit out of
the abyss will be Satan’s agent in dominating the Antichrist (Rev.
11:7; 17:8).
Twenty-fold
Power—He Will Have Power To:
1.
Blaspheme God (Rev. 13:5-6; Dan. 7:8, 7:20, 7:25; 11:36)
2.
Overcome saints (Rev. 15:2-4; 20:4-6)
3.
Overcome Jews (Rev. 13:7; Dan. 7:21; 12:7)
4.
Conquer nations (Rev. 13:7; Dan. 7:7-8, 7:19-24; 11:40-45)
5.
Destroy mystery Babylon (Rev. 17:12-17)
6.
Kill the two witnesses (Rev. 11:7)
7.
Change times and laws (Dan. 7:25)
8.
Understand mysteries (Dan. 8:23)
9.Do
as he wills (Dan. 11:36)
10.
Do miracles (Rev. 13:13; 2Th. 2:9)
11.
Cause craft to prosper (Dan. 8:25)
12.
Control money (Dan. 11:38-43)
13.
Deceive many (Rev. 13:1-18; 2Th. 2:10)
14.
Contract with Israel (Dan. 9:27)
15.
Control religion (Rev. 13:1-18; Dan. 11:36)
16.
Control lives of people (Rev. 13:12-18)
17.
Control kings (Rev. 17:12-17)
18.
Cause nations to fear (Rev. 13:4)
19.
Fight against Christ (Rev. 19:19-21)
20.
Reign for 42 months (Rev. 13:5)
from
the foundation...
See Rev. 13:8.
the
beast that... Both a king and kingdom are referred to by this term.
was,
and is... The
head "wounded to death" and revived again (Rev. 13:3) has
no reference to Antichrist, but to one of the heads on the beast,
which are all kingdoms and not people (Rev. 17:9-11).
out
of the... The Antichrist will become possessed by a great demon from
the abyss (see13:1, 3).
I
believe this mark indicates that the power given unto this group
comes from the bottomless pit.
Here
it is speaking of the reforming of the old Roman empire. The old
Roman empire will have been reformed by the ten common market nations
in Europe today. In my opinion, these "ten horns" are these
ten common market nations. The headquarters for these ten nations is
in Rome. In 1954 the 10 Member States were: Belgium, France, Germany,
Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the
United Kingdom.
go
into perdition... Eternal destruction (compare verse 11; Matt. 7:13;
John 17:12; Phil. 1:28; 3:19; 2 Thess. 2:3; Heb. 10:39; 2 Peter 2:3;
3:7, 16). This is the lake of fire, the place of Antichrist’s
destruction (19:20).
“Book
of life”: The roll of the elect, written in eternity past by God
(see 3:5). Only the elect will escape the Antichrist’s deception
(Matt. 24:24).
“from
the foundation... (see13:8; compare 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 1:2; “long
ages ago”). A frequent phrase (Matt. 13:35; 25:34; Luke 11:50; John
17:24; Eph. 1:4; Heb. 4:3; 9:26; 1 Peter 1:20), referring to God’s
pre-creation plan.
Go
to chapter 13 and re-read the first 2 verses and the descriptive
comments of those two verses for an accurate description of what the
beginning of verse eight's meaning is.
This
word "perdition" means ruin, loss, or damnable. This Roman
empire was in great power, it fell, and then revived again in the ten
nations. It is a wonder how Berlin was divided into two parts after
World War II. This was done so the line of the old Roman empire would
be the same. Of course, the governments of U.S. and Russia did not
know why they did this, but it established the old territory anyhow.
Whose
names were not written in the book of life. The false religious
system of the end times will be very convincing and popular among the
unsaved, but those who have committed themselves to Christ will
understand that anything idolatrous is not of God.
The
fact that the beast was, now is not, and will come up in the future
is another indication of what was introduced in Rev. 13:3. The
supernatural survival and revival of both the world ruler and his
empire will impress the world as being supernatural and will lead to
worship of the beast and Satan. (On the book of life see 3: 5; 13:8.
Also cf. Rev. 20:12, 20:15; 21:27.)
