REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Five - Why Called an Eighth King? -Continue

 The angel further explains to John: "And the wild beast that was but is not,  it is also itself an eighth king, but it springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction." (Revelation 17:11) The symbolic scarlet-colored wild beast  "springs from the seven heads that is, it is born from, or owes its existence to, those heads of the original "wild beast . . . out of  the sea," of which the scarlet-colored wild beast is an image.   In what way? Well, in 1919, the Anglo- American power was the ascendant head. The previous six heads had fallen and  the position of  dominant world power had passed to this dual head, as the current representative  of the line of the world powers, and was now centered in it.  This seventh head. as the current representative of the line of world powers, was the moving force to establishing the League of Nations and  is still the major promoter and financial support of the  United Nations.  Thus, in symbol, the scarlet-colored wild beast-the eighth king-"springs from" the original seven heads. Viewed in this way, the statement that it will spring from the seven harmonizes well with the earliest revelation that the wild beast with two horns like a lamb (the Anglo-American World Power, the seventh head of that original wild beast) urged the making of the image and gave it life. - REVELATION 13:1, 11, 14, 15. 

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