I recommend that you re-study Rev. 13:2 and re-read the descriptions of those beasts as vs. 2 states it. All of it is in Daniel
What I have shown is biblically factual, accurate and is not tainted by "the wisdom of men" through the religions of church-ianity. 1Cor. 2:5.
Your post adds to the Word of God and is just the wisdom of man.
You came up with 8 heads, but there are only 7 heads. You left out the point that Jesus is declared King of all nations at the 7th Trumpet. Revelation 11:15 is also part of Scripture.
The 7 heads of the dragon are the same 7 heads of the sea beast, and the same 7 heads of the scarlet colored beast. The same historical kingdoms are in Revelation 12, as well as Revelation 13, and Revelation 17. You have attempted to create 8 heads plus Jesus making 9 kingdoms in total. You would change Revelation 17:10-11 to say:
"And there are eight kings: six are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the ninth, and is of the eight, and goeth into perdition."
You change what John wrote as only 7 heads and declare 8 heads.
I agree that John gives us 3 different perspectives of the same historical view. The dragon in Revelation 12 is about Satan, and the coming involvement he had with the other 6 historical kingdoms, but there are only 6. Revelation 13 is the view of those 6 kingdoms, starting with Nebuchadnezzar. But from Revelation 17, we see that 5 heads have been dead already throughout time. The 6th head is current, and Satan is still the 7th head. John is not reinventing 3 different beast in each chapter. The 7 heads are always the same in each chapter. You do not have to add your opinion to Scripture to come up with 8 kingdoms.
The 7th Kingdom is not part of the 7 headed beast at all. The 7th Kingdom is declared in Revelation 11, at the 7th Trumpet.
That means, if there is an 8th kingdom, it will only last a short time, 42 months, and then the 7th Kingdom will return. Revelation 19 is the return of the 7th Kingdom, and that 7th Kingdom will rule the earth for the next thousand years. During that time Satan will be bound and will not be able to deceive any human on earth.
Revelation does not cover the 2300 days, because Revelation does not cover events in 2nd century BC. The fulfillment of the 2300 days happened to Israel during the third head of the historical kingdom of Greece. This dream is not during the 4th head of the Roman kingdom. Daniel 8 is about Greece, not Rome, nor the 5th kingdom after Rome from the 5th century to the Reformation. When John wrote that 5 heads had fallen, that places Daniel 8 as the third head that had already fallen. Daniel 8 has already been fulfilled.
The 6th head or kingdom is the time between the Reformation and the 7th Trumpet. It is mortally wounded. Perhaps some humans have tried to Unite the world to heal that wound, but it cannot be healed until after the Second Coming, and then only until the 7th Trumpet sounds. At that point the 6th head will be past history as well, and fallen.
"After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it."
This is Greece mentioned in Daniel 7. In Daniel 8, Greece is back to:
"And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes... Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land."
The 4th beast in Daniel 7 was Rome. Then in Daniel 8, Daniel goes back to cover Greece. Daniel 8 was fulfilled before the events mentioned in the last half of chapter 7. What Daniel sees in Daniel 8 is not an expansion on, nor a further revelation of the events of Daniel 7. Daniel 8 was fulfilled in the 2nd century BC. Daniel 7 was fulfilled in the first century AD.
Daniel 8 covers the third kingdom of Greece. Daniel 7 covers the 4th kingdom of Rome. Then in Daniel 9 we see a mystery that is introduced that many still cannot fully understand. Daniel 10 may never be understood until after the Second Coming. Daniel has more visions or dreams, but never tells us what they were. For 21 days he agonized over them, because the angel was detained from coming to Daniel and explaining them. In chapter 11 we get an explanation about Greece again on the vision never declared in chapter 10.
Daniel was told about the end of this current creation, but no one seems to accept that would be 3500 years after Daniel's time.
