Chapter Twenty-Eight/Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts - The Death Stroke

 Early in the Lord's day, calamity strikes the wild beast, John reports: "And I saw one one of its heads as though slaughtered to death, but its death-stroke got healed, and in all the earth followed the wild beast with admiration." (Revelation 13:3) This verse says that one head of the wild beast received a deaths stroke, but verse 12 speaks as though the entire beast suffered. Why is that? Well, the beasts heads are not all in ascendancy together. Each in its turn has lorded if over mankind, particularly over God's people. (Revelation 17:10) Thus, as the Lord's day begins, there is only one head, the seventh, acting as the dominant world power. A death stroke on that head brings great distress on the entire wild beast. 

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