REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty EIght - Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts - Continue

 It is clear, therefore, that the Author of the inspired Bible regards the political powers of the earth as beasts. What kind of beasts?  One commentator calls the wild beast of Revelation  13:1, 2 a "brute," and adds:  "We accept  al the connotatioons that Onpiov [the-ro'on, the Greek wor for "beast"] conveys, suchas that of cruel, destructive, frightful, ravenous, etc., monster." How well that describes the bloostained political system by which Satan  had dominated mankind! The seven heads of this wild beast stand for six major world powers featured in Bible history up to John's day-Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome and a seventh world power  prophesied to appear later. - Compare REVELATION 17:9, 10.

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