Who is the beast of the sea and the head wounded of death? (Part 1)
• Rev 13:1 -> “And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.”.
I delayed very much to understand this. First of all, what is a beast? Beast is a domestic animal used as a load animal. This animal isn’t wild animal, but one that can be used as a riding animal. So much so that we can see this animal carrying a woman (Rev 17:3).
But, who is this beast?
• Rev 17:8 -> “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.”.
Observe his characteristic: “it was and is not and is to come”. Considering that it was in about 90 A.D. that this prophecy was uttered, what is the nation that fills these requirements. Only Israel was a nation in the past, wasn’t more in 90 A.D. (it was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Roman Empire), but would rise in the future (in 1,948 A.D).
And this can be confirmed by Hosea:
• Hos 10:11 -> “Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.”.
Ephraim here is representing, at first, the ten tribes of the North (Israel). Nonetheless, Judah became, in the future, like the ten tribes:
• Eze 16:51,52 -> “Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.”.
So, the beast of the sea represents all the Israelites. But, what does it mean?
Israel is a trained heifer (beast), that loves to tread out (Hosea 10:11). How could Israel turn into a well-trained heifer and pass to like treading out (to the point of satisfy the ambition of perverse kings) in a way that, when Rome (the woman who has mounted the beast) arrived, Israel carried Rome in its back naturally without any resistance?
Each one of the heads taught Israel to tread out and enticed them to give in to them in exchange of sure maintenance (as we can see below):
• Num 11:5 -> “We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.”.
But, why is this beast called also beast that comes up out of the abyss?
Have a good day. Tomorrow we will carry on.
• Rev 13:1 -> “And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.”.
I delayed very much to understand this. First of all, what is a beast? Beast is a domestic animal used as a load animal. This animal isn’t wild animal, but one that can be used as a riding animal. So much so that we can see this animal carrying a woman (Rev 17:3).
But, who is this beast?
• Rev 17:8 -> “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.”.
Observe his characteristic: “it was and is not and is to come”. Considering that it was in about 90 A.D. that this prophecy was uttered, what is the nation that fills these requirements. Only Israel was a nation in the past, wasn’t more in 90 A.D. (it was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Roman Empire), but would rise in the future (in 1,948 A.D).
And this can be confirmed by Hosea:
• Hos 10:11 -> “Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.”.
Ephraim here is representing, at first, the ten tribes of the North (Israel). Nonetheless, Judah became, in the future, like the ten tribes:
• Eze 16:51,52 -> “Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.”.
So, the beast of the sea represents all the Israelites. But, what does it mean?
Israel is a trained heifer (beast), that loves to tread out (Hosea 10:11). How could Israel turn into a well-trained heifer and pass to like treading out (to the point of satisfy the ambition of perverse kings) in a way that, when Rome (the woman who has mounted the beast) arrived, Israel carried Rome in its back naturally without any resistance?
Each one of the heads taught Israel to tread out and enticed them to give in to them in exchange of sure maintenance (as we can see below):
• Num 11:5 -> “We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.”.
But, why is this beast called also beast that comes up out of the abyss?
Have a good day. Tomorrow we will carry on.