What do You Mean By Seven Heads And Ten Horns In Revelation? That Ascending in The Sea?
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The religious sytem spoken of as Babylon the Great in Revelation is the world empire of false religion as a whole, including so-called Christians as well as non-Christian religions.\n\nIt is near its end.\n\nHow will false religion end?\nPicture the scene. A harlot is sitting on the back of a fearsome beast. The beast has seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation 17:1-4) Whom does the harlot represent? She exerts influence “over the kings of the earth.” She dresses in purple, uses incense, and is exceedingly wealthy. In addition, by means of her spiritistic practice, ‘all the nations are misled.’ (Revelation 17:18; 18:12, 13, 23) The Bible helps us to see that this harlot is a worldwide religious entity. She depicts, not any one religion, but all religions that produce rotten fruit.\n\nThe beast that the harlot rides pictures the world’s political powers.* (Revelation 17:10-13) False religion straddles the back of this political beast, attempting to influence its decisions and to control its direction.\n\nSoon, though, an amazing event will take place. “The ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire.” (Revelation 17:16) In a sudden, shocking move, the world’s political powers will turn on false religion and completely destroy her! What will prompt this action? The Bible book of Revelation answers: “God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought.” (Revelation 17:17) Yes, God will call false religion to account for all the despicable acts she has committed in his name. In a stroke of perfect justice, he will use her political paramours as his instrument of execution.
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Rev 19:11  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. \nRev 19:12  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. \nRev 19:13  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. \nRev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. \nRev 19:15  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. \nRev 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. \nRev 19:17  And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; \nRev 19:18  That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. \nRev 19:19  And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. \nRev 19:20  And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. \nRev 19:21  And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
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The seven rays of diadem, which represent the seven oceans of the world.
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No, Revelation chapter 18 speak of Mystery Babylon.\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa)
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No.  The images and language of Revelation was a common literary type at the time.  This type of literature (called "apocalyptic") was characterized by visions filled with fantastic images, which were NOT understood as attempting to be a literal description but depicted major and cataclysmic events (esp acts of God) in human history, and the great struggle between good (God) and evil (his enemies).\n\nIn fact, the images found in Revelation have traceable roots to things that are by no means "alien" (that is in the "ET" sense). For instance, it uses symbolic language based on the Old Testament prophets as well as OT HISTORY -- those who knew their OT well would recognize it. \n\nIn particular, the descriptions of the plagues echoes things like the plagues on Egypt, preceding the exodus, expanded to a much grander scale with poetic embellishments.   Much of the description of heaven reflects the OT tabernacle and Temple (which were themselves meant to be a picture of "heaven on earth", that is where God comes down to meet with man).   Some of this language has been 'filtered' through OT poetic writings, such as the prophets.  (Thus, Ezekiel writing during the Babylonian Exile after the Temple in Jerusalem had been sacked, describes the hope of a more glorious new temple being erected.  Revelation picks up Ezekiel's language.)  \n\nSome of the most unusul imagery is derived from Daniel, who described four great  world kingdoms, beginning with Babylon in his own day and apparently extending to the Roman Empire, as horrible, powerful "beasts" cruelly taking over the earth.  (The end of that vision in Daniel 7 is the restoration of God's intent in creation when "one like a son of man" is given rule over the earth and overcomes these beasts [ompare Genesis 1:26-27].)   Well, in Revelation the images of the four beasts are COMBINED into one great, final beast (the Antichrist).\n\nThe notion that some of the poetic and prophetic language os Scripture was a description of encounters with aliens was put forth in a popular book of the 1970s, *Chariots of the Gods* by Eric vanDaniken.  Unfortunately, he had no real familiarity with the imagery he was reading and so saw things that simply are not there.  He did not recognize, for instance, when Ezekiel was poetically using the imagery of the Temple    (Esp. when Ezekiel describes a wheeled vehicle manned by four winged creatures, he fails to recognize that this is a vision of the ark of the covenant in the Temple -- a stylized 'throne of God' guarded by cherubim-- LEAVING the Temple because God has pronounced judgment on the city and Temple.   This misunderstood vision is the source of the book's name.)
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I will add a few chapters to the first answer and then I´ll give you other descriptions about the entity:\n\n               CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION\nThe word "Leviathan" appears five times in the Bible:\n\n1) Isaiah 27:1: "In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."\n\n2) Psalms 74:14: "Thou didst crush the heads of the Leviathan, thou didst give him for food to the desert people."\n\n3) Psalms 104:25,26: "O Lord, how manifold thy works, in wisdom you have created them all. So is this great and wide sea... there go the ships and the Leviathan which you have created to play with";\n\n4) Book of Job 3:8 "Lo let the night be solitary, let no joyful cry be heard in it. Let them curse it who curse the day who are ready to awake the Leviathan";\n\nThe Christian interpretation of Leviathan is often considered to be a demon or natural monster associated with Satan or the Devil, and held by some to be the same monster as Rahab (Isaiah 51:9).\n\nSome biblical scholars considered Leviathan to represent the pre-existent forces of chaos. In Psalm 74:13-14 it says "it was You who drove back the sea with Your might, who smashed the heads of the monsters in the waters; it was You who crushed the heads of Leviathan, who left him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. (JPS edition)" God drove back the waters of the pre-existent Earth (Genesis 1:2 "the earth being unformed and void with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water-" [JPS edition]) and destroyed the chaotic marine monster Leviathan in order to shape the unformed and void Earth in his liking.\n\n \nPicture of Leviathan often found in grimoires, by an unknown artist.Leviathan also appears in the Apocryphal Book of Enoch, giving the following description of this monster's origins there mentioned as being female, as opposed to the male Behemoth:\n\nAnd that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named Leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of water; and (the other), a male called Behemoth, which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is Dundayin, east of the garden of Eden. - 1 Enoch 60:7-8\n\nSome interpreters suggest that Leviathan is a symbol of mankind in opposition to God, claiming that it and beasts mentioned in the books of Daniel and Revelation should be interpreted as metaphors. The usage of Leviathan in the Old Testament books (Isaiah 27:1) would seem to be a reference to a Semitic mythological beast mentioned in Ugaritic literature (of Ugarit, a city-state in North Syria). According to Canaanite myth, the Leviathan was an enemy of order in Creation and was slain by the Canaanite god Baal. The word Leviathan to the ancient Jews became synonymous with that which warred against God's kingdom. This especially included nations warring against Israel such as Assyria and Egypt. \n\n                       SATANISM\nIn The Satanic Bible, subsequently the final section, the "Book of Leviathan", authored by Anton LaVey, and according to most Satanist groups, particularly LaVeyan Satanism, Leviathan is one of the "Four Crown Princes" and represents the number three, the colour blue, man's carnal side and the human element chaos. There, Leviathan's element is water, water being that which human forms are primarily created of. This representing the unity of matter and anti-matter, chaos and order, yin with yang, and Leviathan's direction is west, west being used to represent chaos and disorder.\n\nCONCERNING TO THE SYMBOL / There is a primary representation of the Leviathan in the symbol called Ouroboros, which is the depiction of a serpent swallowing it´s own tail. Thus, represents the cyclical nature of things, eternal retur
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Gladly.\n\nThe Wild Beast of chapter 13 speaks "blasphemies" and "great things" vs. 6 and 7 tell us.  The prophecy of Daniel 7:7,8 speak very similarly of the fourth beast of his vision.  Therefore, there must be at least some similarities between the two.  In verse 7 of Revelation, it also says that authority was given it to "wage war with the holy ones and conquer them, and authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation."  So this beast would have control over the world and would persecute God's "holy ones".  It also, as verses 16 and 17 bring out, would have the authority to control who can buy or sell things, who would have the power to have business, and the like.  Even so far as to say in verse 15, he could say life or death of a person.  Certainly, this would be symbolic of someone who had earthly control and power.  No doubt this beast would be ruled and controlled by the "ruler of this world" Satan the Devil.  However, these descriptions aptly describe the world's governments as a whole, who have, throughout history, told people what they ought and ought not to do, controlling business and the like, as well as persecute God's people.  Even religious leaders have poked their head into the business of governments and told them what to do and what not to do.  Interestingly, verse three says it got a deathstroke but then came back and got healed.  This happened quite in line with the League of Nations' evolution into the United Nations, as they emerged from a "deathstroke" in WWII.  The Wild Beast, controlling the world, would aptly then fit the World's Nations as they, unknowingly led along by Satan, persecute and rule mankind.
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666 is the number ascribed to the beast in revelation. It is presented as the number of man, with the number of God being 777, the number 666 represents imperfection, falling short of God's perfect standard. Outside this, the number has no mystic powers or secret meanings. 6-6-06 will be a day like any other. Satan will have no more or less power on that day than any other. Also associated with the Beast is the Mark, which will be used to conduct financial business in the AntiChrist's empire. Contrary to a previous poster, the current sitting president is not the beast. The beast will point people to worship the antichrist. The current sitting president professes belief in the Christ of the Bible. The Beast will seek to relace Christ with the AntiChrist, who becomes indwelt by Satan himself. \n\nVerses describing Satan's desire, and his final fate.\n\n"Isa 14:12-15  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."\n\nAlso the biblical time table calls for the rapture of believing christians from the earth prior to the beast/antichrist's ascent to power.\n\nI also know that a movie is going to be released on that date about the apocalypse/end of the world. Having not heard anything about it, I don't know if i can recommend it.
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The number of the beast referred to in Revelations.\n\nEDIT: Catcherintherye asked \n"Contrary to what others have said 666 is not in the Bible. I bet all my balls if you can find it. \nSource(s):\nMedieval Philosophy Class. "\n\n\nso here it goes:\n\nIn the New Jerusalem Bible, Revelation 13:18 reads\nThere is need for shrewdness here: anyone clever may interpret the number of the beast: it is the number of a human being, the number 666. \n\nIn the New American Bible:\nWisdom is needed here; one who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and sixty-six. \n\nIn the King James Version:\nHere 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 three score and six. \n\nI assume his medieval history professor was pointing out that some Greek Language scholars believe that the Codex Alexandrius is actually the oldest surviving document containing what is now referred to as Revelations.  In that document the passage reads "kai ho arithmos autou hexakosioi hexēkonta hex" which they say does not literally translate to 666. \n\nI'm not a greek etymologist and have no idea whether their right.  Most Christians accept on faith whatever they are told to believe by their respective church leaders.  Most non-christians don't care.\n\nI kinda care but realize noone living today really knows.\n\nHope that helped,\nArmus
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Hello..\n\nRevelation 20:11-15\n\nThe Judgment at the Great White Throne \n\n11  ¶ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.\n \n12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  \n \n13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.\n \n14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.\n \n15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.\n\n====================================================\n\nRevelation 21:1-8\n\nThe New Heaven and the New Earth\n \n1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.\n \n2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. \n \n3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.\n \n4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.\n \n5  ¶ And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.\n \n6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Ome'ga, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.  \n \n7  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. \n \n8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Isaiah 14:12-15 (King James Version)\n12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! \n\n 13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: \n\n 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. \n\n 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.\n\nLuke 10:18\nAnd he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.\n\n\nJob 1:7\nAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
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Yu must understand this carefully : The book of Revelations is written symbolically. The 'horse with Death as a rider" means a certain time period  - which further means that when the horse begins to ride over the earth, there's going to be a lot of death occuring due to natural calamities, pestilences and what not - we are seeing cyclones, floods, tsunamis, terrorisms, famines, and so many many tragedies occuring - meaning that the death horse rider is busy riding over all the earth.  Where there is death, there is ofcourse Hell following.
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Exodus 15:27  And they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees. And they camped there by the waters.\n\nThe 70 palms were sustained by the 12 wells of water. 70 is the number of nations that were formed by the confusion of the languages at the tower of Babel. 12 is the number of Tribes of Israel, they were to be a nation of priests to all the other nations. So symbolically the 12 springs represent Israel sustaining the 70 nations of the world.\n\nDuring the Feast of Tabernacles a total of 70 bulls are offered up, see Numbers 19:12-34.  These 70 bulls are thought to be an offering on behalf of the 70 nations.
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I just saw this version on the newly released DVD:\n\n"And the prophet said: 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day it was as one dead.' 'Old Arabian proverb.'"
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666 is associated as "The Number of the Beast". (from Revelation 13: 16-18)\n\n(UGGH, I don't like quoting "the good book").
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Hi,\nThe four horsemen you read about in Revelation relate to the breaking of the seals by the Lamb.  The seals that are broken represent God's curses on the world.  The horses symbolize these curses.  There are four of them.  The general consensus is they are pale, black, red and white.  They represent death, famine, war and the antichrist.  Hope this helps.