No, they were kings not heads.
The angel said they are also 7 mountains.
Focus on the mountain part first.
"This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.
No. Only one is said to be wounded but it heals. The other 6 were not harmed.
Bingo! This is the big clue to get. Once we identify the wounded/healed one, the rest of them should fall into place. (The other 6 are of the same kind of thing as the wounded head).
The heads are not lands, sorry man.
All seven kings, mountains and heads are alive and with us now. Like a "fallen" woman, they have all been proved false. But every single person on the planet who has ever lived can trace a connection to one of these 7 things.
The 7th king rules the beast kingdom because that kingdom is the 7th one.
Nope. The 7th is the junior mountain, he started late and has only had a short time.
The beast kingdom, the kingdom of the transgressors, is being ruled now by the 8th king. The Dragon gives the composite beast his power and his throne and his great authority.
In a way. The 8th king, Lucifer's theocratic government, has corrupted all of the previous 7 religious belief systems.
This is why teh FP has two little horns. He is the AC little horn and will be a king in two different ways.
I don't think so. I think that the FP, the Antichrist, AND the Dragon are all the same persona. They give the Devil many different names in the Bible as a way to describe the many evil roles that he plays. But Satan's house is NOT divided. They have over them only one king. The Destroyer, he was a Murderer from the beginning. For there is no truth in him.
I think the second beast speaks like a Dragon because he IS the Dragon. The two horns like a Lamb point to his two prophetic time periods of authority, 1st in the middle ages, 2nd one right now. Like the Lamb of God has been scheduled to make two visitations.
You are confusing heads with kings.
It's easy to do. There are also ten horns which we are told are ten kings which will have power for one hour. Horns and heads and mountains and kings, Oh My!
None of the heads are kings or ever were.
The heads are described as seven mountains and seven kings
All 7 heads exist as land and naturally exist right now.
You're right about the "right now" part.
Likely they symbolize the 7 continents showing the beast rules the world.
Not a bad idea, but the composite beast rises from the many peoples of the world. That's how the Devil took over. The people voted the 10 kings of the composite beast into power, they are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast. (The beast that rises from the bottomless pit. This is Abaddon, the destroyer, the Antichrist, the Dragon and our Adversary) (Like a roaring lion)
The main thing is that this composite beast is happening now, it's not something happening 20 years from now. Price action makes for market commentary. (The prophetic time periods force the doctrine)
The first step that must be realized is non negotiable. It's a must. It's the main key to realizing what this composite beast is. That 6th head which was wounded by the sword and yet lives. At least once a week I hear the head of that outfit mentioned in the news. He started out as the early Christian Church, but was corrupted by the Dragon during the middle ages. Satan used the Catholic church like a hand in a glove to hit the Woman very hard during the Foxe Book days. In 1798, during the French Revolution, Napoleon closed the Vatican down. He arrested that Pope and after a torturous ride back to France, the Pope died in a jail cell. The Vatican didn't open for business again until 1929 when Mussolini got it going again at the Lateran treaty. When John sees the composite beast rise from the sea of many peoples in the end times, one of it's heads appears to have been healed from a wound.
The next hint is that all the seven heads have "blasphemous" names written on them, so this should navagate us to a religious orientation. And being able to identify the Catholic Church in the middle ages as the 6th head wounded by the sword, it should begin to make it easy to realize that the other six heads must be something of the same kind.
Seven Heads, Seven Kings, Seven Mountains.
Mountains = places where we get closer to God. Remember all the OT "high places" where they erected the asherah poles? Or the mount of transfiguration, Mount Moriah, Mount Zion, or God's Holy Hill. Mountains are where you build Temples. Remember the mount of the congregation from Isaiah 14? The place where God met with angels. It's to do with religion.
Seven Kings.
These are not the same as the ten kings who receive the royal power, the government power, for one hour. The seven kings are religious kings.
Look up "king" in the dictionary. A "king" is also something that is PREEMINENT in it's class. Elvis is the KING of rock and roll. Budweiser is the "king" of beers. The Pope is the king of Catholicism, like Martin Luther is the king of Protestantism and Islam is the king religion of the middle east.
When John spoke with the angel in AD95, he said 5 had fallen.
Be careful again with the terminology. "Fallen" doesn't always mean dead, in some cases, like with a "fallen woman", it can mean fallen from grace, or proved false. I like the "fallen woman" example especially as Revelation calls a church a "woman", a bad church a "harlot". Think of it like "fallen" church, or a "fallen" belief system.
"This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.
The "five" religious belief systems who were fallen, or proved false, in AD 95 after Jesus' birth, death, and resurrection were:
1) Atheism
2) Paganism
3) Eastern Mysticism
4) Islam
5) Judaism
While the angel spoke with John, the early Christian church was just forming and was what was being refereed to at that time as the one that "is", which, I hope we can figure out at this time now, as the one healed from a mortal wound:
6) Catholicism
The "the other has not yet come, (IN AD95), and when he does come he must remain only a little while" arose in the middle ages thanks to the reformers like Martin Luther in 1517 and is known as:
7) Protestantism
Now all seven of these "kings" have "fallen", and have found their home as a part of Revelation's composite beast and are now controlled by the 8th "king" which is the "harlot" that rides the beast, Lucifer's theocratic church/state, the great city.
Fallen woman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term
fallen woman was used to describe a woman who has "
lost her innocence", and fallen from the
grace of God. In 19th-century Britain especially, the meaning came to be closely associated with the loss or surrender of a woman's chastity.
The term "fallen" was nevertheless most often conflated with sexual "knowledge" (
i.e., experience), particularly for women at a time when the social value of their sexual inexperience was insisted upon. As the term narrowed to imply any socially unauthorized sexual activity, including premarital or extra-marital sex, whether initiated by the woman or not, it concealed the different reasons for such a "falling" out of God's and society's favor. "Fallen" was therefore an umbrella term that was applied to a variety of women in a variety of settings
Fallen woman - Wikipedia
"With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.” ...
