What is the first -symbol of Revelation 13:9?
Answer
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten
horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." Rev. 13: 1.
NOTES - As already learned from studying the Book of Daniel, a beast in prophecy represents
some great earthly power or kingdom; a head, a governing power; horns, number of kingdoms; crowned
heads or crowned horns, political ruler ship; waters, peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."
Rev. 17: 15.
"The beasts of Daniel and John are empires. The ten-horned beast is the Roman power. . . . The
head is the governing power of the body. The heads of this beast represent successive governments.' -"Romanism and the Reformation," by H. Grattan Guinness, pages 144, 145.
5. What further statement of Christ seems to lay the responsibility for the origin of sin upon Satan and his angels?
What threefold union is thus established?
What will result if correction is withheld?
2. After being threatened with death if they did not make known the dream and the interpretation, what did the wise men say to the king?
What is the first which He took away?
How did the Israelites in the wilderness on the sixth day prepare for the Sabbath?
Where do the dead sleep?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle