The Beast (Part 1)

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."  

        First, Let's look at one feature of  Both Daniel and John's "Beast. They both have ten horns, but they differ because John's "Beast" had seven heads, while Daniel's "Beast" only had one. Among the ten horns of Daniel's "Beast" there came up a little horn, which is not seen within the ten horns of John's "Beast." These as we will see, are features that refer to the last stage of the "Beast," and it shows that we cannot understand the last stage of the "Beast" without carefully comparing Daniel's and John's "Beast."

        For the Little Horn of Daniel's plucks up Three of the Ten Horns and destroys them, or takes their Kingdom away. The Anti christian character of Daniel's "Beast" is seen in it's Little Horn whose conduct corresponds with John's "Beast" and for the same length of time "Times" and "Times" and "Dividing of Time" which equals "Forty And Two Months." 
        Now we will examine the "Beast" that John saw come up from out of the sea, and try to discover the meaning of it's various features. We have two descriptions of this "Beast."  Daniel's "Fourth Wild Beast" as we have seen, represents the Roman Empire as it exited from B. C. 30, until as a nation it shalll cease to exist. The Nation was divided in A. D. 364, as the result of an ecclesiastical schism, into it's Eastern and Western  Divisions, and lost it's natural life as a world power, yet it has never lost it's religious existence or influence as seen by the continuance of the Greek and Roman Churches, and the Roman Law is still a controlling power in our laws. In this sense the Roman Empire in its influence has never ceased to exist. We are now to consider it in its last stage as outlined in John's "Beast." 
        It is important to see that John's "Beast has a dual meaning. It represents both the revived Roman Empire, and its Imperial Head "The Antichrist." As the revived Roman Empire it is seen coming up out of the sea of nations. As the Antichrist it is seen coming out of the Abyss. For instance it cannot be said that the Roman Empire of John's day, that it was not,  for it was at the height of its power in John's day. Neither can it be said that it shall ascend out of the pit and go into perdition, because that can only be a person.
       We must distinguish between the body of the "Beast and it's "Heads and Horns." The body being that of a Leopard, with the feet of a Bear, and the mouth of a Lion is to show that the revived Roman Empire in its last stage will include the characteristics of the first "Three Wild Beast" of Daniel, that is of the "Lion" (Babylon), the "Bear" (Medo-Persia), and the "Leopard" (Greece), and as the largest part of the "Beast," the body, it represented by the "Leopard", the prevailing characteristic of the revived Roman Empire will be Grecian.  John's Beast From the sea will be continued:  
        Amen!!

Reading: (Rev. 13:1-18)  
               (Dan. 7:1-28; 8:1-27)
Ref: (HG SB; BSB)
       (C. Larkin)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry