tailgator
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I've been watching the king of Babylon (beast from.the sea,)smite palestinia with his rod.Again, what you say is not what is written. It's an invented interpretation of what is written.Notice that everything above is what is written, and the only interpretations I made was in the question "Why are there these ten crowns now on the beast?" It's because the dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority to rule, and:
.. a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns.
And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore (Nefree, close of Revelation 12:17). And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.
Why are there these ten crowns now on the beast? It's because:
The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority to rule.
The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive ruling authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss and then go to destruction.
The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings: five have fallen; one is, and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.
The beast that was, and is not, is himself an eighth king and yet is one of the seven, and is going to destruction.
These ten kings have a single intent, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.
There is only one beast. The sea represents the nations. The abyss is the abyss. The beast rises up out of the abyss and from out of the nations.
Now the beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority to rule.
In the book of Daniel, the lion, the leopard and the bear represent the empires of Babylon, Media-Persia and Greece, including the four kingdoms that the Greek empire split into after the death of the first Greek king (Alexander the Great). Those are the nations (the sea) from which the beast ascended from the abyss are derived. The abyss represents the lowest part of hades a.k.a hell.
In the book of Daniel, the lion, the leopard and the bear represent the empires of Babylon, Media-Persia and Greece, including the four kingdoms that the Greek empire split into after the death of the first Greek king (Alexander the Great). Those are the nations (the sea) from which the beast ascended from the abyss are derived. The abyss represents the lowest part of hades a.k.a hell.
.. which are still both interpretations derived out of scripture.
Your interpretations are speculations based on human imagination.
It is written.
Do you watch prophecies as they are being fulfilled or do you speculate what will be fulfilled while the prophecy is being fulfilled?