Who Is The Scarlet Colored Beast ?
Who Is The King of The North ?
Who Is The Eighth King ?
And What Does This Mean For Babylon The Great ?
A review of: Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand! (JW.org)
Executing Babylon the Great
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101988035?q="eighth+king"&p=par
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/publication/r1/lp-e/re
IN FURTHER describing the scarlet-colored wild beast of Revelation 17:3, the angel tells John: “Here is where the intelligence that has wisdom comes in: The seven heads mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top. And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet arrived, but when he does arrive he must remain a short while.” (Revelation 17:9, 10)
2 The seven heads of that ferocious beast stand for seven “mountains,” or seven “kings.” Both terms are used Scripturally to refer to governmental powers. (Jeremiah 51:24, 25; Daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45)
In the Bible, six world powers are mentioned as having an impact on the affairs of God’s people: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
Of these, five had already come and gone by the time John received Revelation, whereas Rome was still very much a world power. This corresponds well with the words, “five have fallen, one is.” But what of “the other” that was due to come?
4 Rome’s Eastern Empire, centered at Constantinople, endured in a somewhat uneasy relationship with the Western Empire.
THE DEATH OF ROME and THE BIRTH OF BRITIAN
(The Legs of Iron)
By the eighth century, however, much of the former territory of ancient Rome in North Africa, Spain, and Syria had come under the new empire of Islam and thus passed from the control of both Constantinople and Rome.
5 The city of Constantinople itself endured somewhat longer. It survived frequent attacks from Persians, Arabs, Bulgars, and Russians until in 1203 it finally fell—not to Muslims but to Crusaders from the West.
Thus, although the city of Rome fell in 410 C.E., it took many more centuries for all traces of the political Roman Empire to pass from the world scene.
6 By the 15th century, however, some countries were building brand-new empires. While some of these new imperial powers were found in the territory of former colonies of Rome, their empires were not mere continuations of the Roman Empire. Portugal, Spain, France, and Holland all became seats of far-flung domains.
But the most successful was Britain, which came to preside over a huge empire on which ‘the sun never set.’ This empire spread at different times over much of North America, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia, as well as the expanse of the South Pacific.
THE BIRTH OF AMERICA and
THE ANGLO AMERICAN WORLD EMPIRE
Politically, some conflict between the new nation and the former motherland continued. Nevertheless, the first world war forced both countries to recognize their common interests and cemented a special relationship between them. Thus, a kind of dual world power came to exist, made up of the United States of America, now the world’s wealthiest nation, and Great Britain, seat of the world’s largest empire.
Here, then, is the seventh ‘head,’ or world power, that continues into the time of the end and in the territories of which the modern-day Witnesses of Jehovah first got established. Compared with the long reign of the sixth head, the seventh remains only “a short while,” until God’s Kingdom destroys all national entities.
Why Called an Eighth King?
8, 9. What does the angel call the symbolic scarlet-colored wild beast, and in what way does it spring from the seven?
8 The angel further explains to John: “And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eighth king, but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction.” (Revelation 17:11)
The symbolic scarlet-colored wild beast “springs from” the seven heads; that is, it is born from, or owes its existence to, those heads of the original “wild beast
in 1919 the Anglo-American power was the ascendant head. The previous six heads had fallen, and the position of dominant world power had passed to this dual head and was now centered in it. This seventh head, as the current representative of the line of world powers, was the moving force in establishing the League of Nations and is still the major promoter and financial support of the United Nations. Thus, in symbol, the scarlet-colored wild beast—the eighth king—“springs from” the original seven heads. and gave it life.—Revelation 13:1, 11, 14, 15.
9 Additionally, original members of the League of Nations included, along with Great Britain, governments that ruled in the seats of some of the previous heads, namely Greece, Iran (Persia), and Italy (Rome). Eventually, governments ruling the territory controlled by the previous six world powers came to be supportive members of the image of the wild beast. In this sense, too, it could be said that this scarlet-colored wild beast sprang from the seven world powers.
10. (a) How can it be said that the scarlet-colored wild beast “is also itself an eighth king”? (b) How did a leader of the former Soviet Union express support for the United Nations?
10 Notice that the scarlet-colored wild beast “is also itself an eighth king.” Thus, the United Nations today is designed to look like a world government. At times it has even acted like one, sending armies into the field to resolve international disputes,
Ten Kings for One Hour
11. What does Jehovah’s angel tell about the ten horns on the symbolic scarlet-colored wild beast?
“And the ten horns that you saw mean ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but they do receive authority as kings one hour with the wild beast.
These have one thought, and so they give their power and authority to the wild beast.
These will battle with the Lamb, but, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, the Lamb will conquer them. Also, those called and chosen and faithful with him will do so.”—Revelation 17:12-14.
Daniel 11:40 “In the time of the end the king of the south will engage with him in a pushing,
and against him the king of the north will storm with chariots and horsemen and many ships;
and he will enter into the lands and sweep through like a flood.
He will also enter into the land of the Decoration,
12 The ten horns depict all the political powers that presently hold sway on the world scene and that support the image of the wild beast.
Who Is The King of The North ?
see Who Is The United Nations ?
https://godsword.locals.com/post/5539172/who-is-the-united-nations
Devastating the Harlot
15. What does the angel say about the harlot and the attitude and action of the ten horns and the wild beast toward her?
15 God’s people are not the only objects of the enmity of the ten horns. The angel now draws John’s attention back to the harlot:
“And he says to me: ‘The waters that you saw, where the harlot is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. And the ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire.’”—Revelation 17:15, 16.
13 These have one thought, so they give their power and authority to the wild beast.
20 Again Jehovah uses human rulers in executing judgment.
“For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought, even to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished.” (Revelation 17:17)
What is God’s “thought”? To arrange for the executioners of Babylon the Great to band together, in order to destroy her completely.
They will feel that it is in their nationalistic interests to turn upon the great harlot.
They may come to view the continued existence of organized religion within their boundaries as a threat to their sovereignty.
But Jehovah will actually be maneuvering matters; they will carry out his thought by destroying his age-old, adulterous enemy at one stroke!—Compare Jeremiah 7:8-11, 34.
They will feel that it is in their nationalistic interests to turn upon the great harlot. They may come to view the continued existence of organized religion within their boundaries as a threat to their sovereignty. But Jehovah will actually be maneuvering matters; they will carry out his thought by destroying his age-old, adulterous enemy at one stroke!—Compare Jeremiah 7:8-11, 34.
(see Who Are The Seven Headed Beasts of Nations, with Ten Horns ?) https://godsword.locals.com/post/5698529/who-are-the-seven-headed-beasts-of-nations-with-ten-horns
Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand! (JW.org) Executing Babylon the Great
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101988035?q="eighth+king"&p=par
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/publication/r1/lp-e/re
