Revelation 13:1-4
THE SEVEN-HEADED BEAST OF BLASPHEMY AND THE TWO-HORNED BEAST OF DECEIT. The description of the first beast:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVEN-HEADED BEAST OF BLASPHEMY AND THE TWO-HORNED BEAST OF DECEIT. The description of the first beast:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 AUTHORITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAW ONE OF HIS HEADS AS IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH; AND HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED; AND ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WORSHIPED THE DRAGON WHICH GAVE POWER UNTO THE BEAST; AND THEY WORSHIPED THE BEAST, SAYING, WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM? Luther writes of this whole chapter: "There comes, then, in the thirteenth chapter, after the trumpeting of the last of the seven angels... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES, AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The power of the first beast:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD, TO BLASPHEME HIS NAME, AND HIS TABERNACLE, AND THEM THAT DWELL IN HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS AND TO OVERCOME THEM; AND POWER WAS GIVEN HIM OVER ALL KINDREDS AND TONGUES AND NATIONS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN HAVE AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT LEADETH INTO CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY; HE THAT KILLETH WITH THE SWORD MUST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD. HERE IS THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS. From these words it is plain that the old heathen Roman Empire is continuing in the form of the papacy, for the description is so cl... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I BEHELD ANOTHER BEAST COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH; AND HE HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB, AND HE SPAKE AS A DRAGON.... [ Continue Reading ]
The second beast:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE EXERCISETH ALL THE POWER OF THE FIRST BEAST BEFORE HIM, AND CAUSETH THE EARTH AND THEM WHICH DWELL THEREIN TO WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST, WHOSE DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS, SO THAT HE MAKETH FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DECEIVETH THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH BY THE MEANS OF THOSE MIRACLES WHICH HE HAD POWER TO DO IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST, SAYING TO THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH THAT THEY SHOULD MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST WHICH HAD THE WOUND BY A SWORD AND DID LIVE. That there is a close connection between the t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK AND CAUSE THAT AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BE KILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The mark of the second beast:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CAUSETH ALL, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND BOND, TO RECEIVE A MARK IN THEIR RIGHT HAND OR IN THEIR FOREHEADS,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL SAVE HE THAT HAD THE MARK OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME.... [ Continue Reading ]
HERE IS WISDOM. LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST; FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN; AND HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX. There is a remarkable show of authority which is here described: And there was granted him to give spirit to the image of the beast, that th... [ Continue Reading ]