Chapter Twenty-Eight/Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts

 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 turbulent humanity away back in the days of Nimrod (about the 2oth century B.C.E.), when a post-Flood system of things, opposed to Jehovah, first manifested itself. (Genesis10:8. 12; 11:1-9) But only in the Lord's day has the last one of its seven heads 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 12:31. 

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

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