Chapter Twenty-Eight/Contending With Two-Ferocious Beasts. - The Image of the Wild Beast

The outworking of history identifies this image as the organization proposed, promoted, and supported by Britain and the United States and known initially a the League of Nations. Later, in Revelation chapter 17, it will appear under a different symbol, that of a living, breathing scarlet-colored wild beast having an independent existence. This international body 'speaks,' in that it makes boastful claims to be the only one able to bring peace and security to mankind. But in reality it has become a forum for member Nations to exchange verbal tirades and insults. It has threatened with ostracism, or living death, any nation or people that does not bow to its authority. It has actually expelled nations that failed to abide by its ideologies. At the onset of the great tribulation, militaristic "horns" of this image of the wild beast will fulfill a devastating role. -Revelation 7:14; 17:8,16.

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