Chapter Thirty-Five/Executing Babylon the Great - Why Called an Eighth King?

 The angel further explains to John: "And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eighth king, but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction." (Revelation 17:11) The symbolic wild scarlet-colored wild beast "springs from" the seven heads; that is, it is born from or owes its existence to, those of the original "wild beast . . . out of the sea, of which the scarlet-colored wild beast is an image. In what way?  Well, in 1919 the Anglo-American power was the ascendant head. The previous six heads had fallen, and the position of dominant world power had passed to this dual head and was now centered in it. This seventh head, as the current representative of the line of the world powers, was the moving force in establishing the League of Nations and is still the major promoter and financial support of the United Nations. Thus, in symbol, the scarlet-colored wild beast-the eighth kin-"springs from" the original seven heads. Viewed in this way, the statement that it sprang from the seven harmonizes well with the earlier revelation that the wild beast with two horns like a lamb (the Anglo-American World Power, the seventh head of that original wild beast) urged the making of the image and gave it life. - REVELATION 13:1, 11, 14, 15. 

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