REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Five - Executing Babylon the Great - Continue

 The seven heads of that ferocious beast stand for seven "mountains," or seven "kings."  Both terms are used Scripturally to refer to goverenmental powers.  (Jeremiah 51:24, 25; Daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45) In the Bible, six world powers are mentioned as having an impact on the afairs  of God's people: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Of these five had already come and gone by the time time received Revelation, whereas Rome was still very much a world power.  This corresponds well with the words, "five have fallen, one is. But what of "the other" that was due to come?

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