What is the first -symbol of Revelation 13:9?
Answer
"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." Rev. 13: 1.
NOTES - As already learned from studying the Book of Daniel, a beast in prophecy represents
some great earthly power or kingdom; a head, a governing power; horns, number of kingdoms; crowned
heads or crowned horns, political ruler ship; waters, peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."
Rev. 17: 15.
"The beasts of Daniel and John are empires. The ten-horned beast is the Roman power. . . . The
head is the governing power of the body. The heads of this beast represent successive governments.' -"Romanism and the Reformation," by H. Grattan Guinness, pages 144, 145.
How were the Scriptures given?
What constrained God to give His Son to die for man?
Why did Adam call his wife's name Eve?
What was given into the hands of the power represented by the little horn?
Who alone went into the second apartment, how often, and for what purpose?
On opening the fifth seal, what was seen under the altar?
What will he one of the last great signs performed by this means, to fasten men in deception?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle