The beast-king and the false prophet are end times persons.
Douggg you are following the false understanding of the reformation fathers who made the Beasts, the Little Horn and the Antichrist into having human form so that they could demonise the RCC.
I on the other hand believe that the Beasts, the Little Horn and the Antichrist are wicked fallen Heavenly Host who will be judged in around 20 years' time when the Kings of the Earth will be gathered at Armageddon to be judged as Isaiah told us in Isaiah 24:21-22.
They have never been in the bottomless pit prison.
Your statement is true at this present time, but in around 20 years from now they will be imprisoned in the Bottomless Pit.
This is what scripture states: -
Re the Beast: -
Revelation 17:7-8: - 7 But the angel said to me, “Why did you marvel? I will tell you the
mystery/hidden truth of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and
will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to
perdition/destruction. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and
yet is/shall be present.
Re the Beast from the earth, i.e. The Little Horn/False Prophet
Revelation 13:11-12: -
11 Then I saw another beast
coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Now when the False Prophet comes up out of the earth, from where does he come?
Now Douggg, are Revelation 17 and Revelation 13 presented linearly, or have they been presented in the order in which they have been seen by/presented to John.
Isaiah 24:21-22 takes place at the time of the great white throne judgment.
Now Douggg if Isaiah 24:21-22 takes place at the time of the Great White Throne Judgement, then the heavenly hosts of Satan, the Beast and the Little Horn/False Prophet, cannot be judged a second time because they have already been judged at the time the kings of the earth are judged at Armageddon and just before the GWTR judgement they all have been dispatched into the Lake of Fire which is their punishment.
As such the quoted statement of yours is not scripturally based but is based upon your own private understanding.
Douggg, because of your private understandings many on this forum have not accepted what you post.
Goodbye Douggg.