What does John next observe? "And another sign was seen in heaven, and, look! a great fiery-colored dragon, with seven heads and ten horns upon its heads seven diadems; and its tail drags a third of the stars of the heaven, and it hurled them down to the earth. And the dragon kept standing before the woman who was about to give birth, that, when she did give birth, it might devour her child." - REVELATION 12:3, 4.
This dragon is Satan, "the original serpent." (Revelation 12:9; Genesis 3:15) He is a ferocious destroyer-a seven-headed dragon or devourer, that can completely swallow his prey. How strange he looks! Those seven heads and ten horns indicate that he is the architect of the p0litical wild beast soon to be described in Revelation 13. This beast also has seven heads and ten horns. Since Satan has a diadem on each head-seven in all-we can be sure that the world powers represented in that wild beast have been under his rulership. (John 16:11) The ten horns are a fitting symbol of the completeness of power that he has exercised in this world.
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