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

 The wild beast comes out of "the sea," which is a fitting symbol of the turbulent masses from which human government springs. (Isaiah 17:12, 13) This wild beast began to emerge   out of the sea of turbulen humanity away back in the days of  Nimrod  (about the 21st century B.C.E.), when a post flood system of thigns, opposed to Jehovah, first manifested itself. (Genesis 10:8-12;  11:1-9) But only  during the Lord's day has the last one  of its seven heads has fully manifested itself.  Notice, too, it is the dragon that "gave  to the beast its power and its throne and great authority." (Compare Luke 4:6) The beast is Satan's political creation among the masses of mankind. Satan is truly  "the ruler of this world." - JOHN 12:21. 

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