REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Eight - The Death Stroke

 Early in the Lord's day, calamity strikes the wild beast. John reports: "And I saw one of its heads as though slaughtered to death, but its death-stroke  got healed, and all the earth  followed the wild beast  with admiration." (Revelation 13:3) This verse says that one head of the wild beast received a death stroke, but verse 12 speaks as though the entie beast suffered. Why is that? Well, the beast's heads are not all in ascendsncy together. Each in its turn has lorded it over mankind particularly over God's people. (Revelation  17:10)  Thus, as the Lord's day begins, there is only one head, the seventh, acting as the dominant world power. A death stroke on that head brings great distress to the entire wil beast. 

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