The Introductory to the Biblical Beasts

THE INTRODUCTORY TO THE BIBLICAL BEASTS

 

Let’s commence this study where the Angel told John: I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” Revelation 17:1-2

Then in Revelation 17:5 He called her Babylon and said: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Now the woman that had “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT” written upon her forehead was Old Jerusalem.

That was not the first time Jerusalem bore that label.  The LORD GOD rebuked her during the OLD TESTAMENT with: “Thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.” Jeremiah 3:3

And she was no saint for: “In her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” Revelation 18:24

JESUS laid the blood of the prophets and saints at the door of Jerusalem when He pined: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!”

Luke 13:34  

Now, Jerusalem of old was to the LORD GOD what the Church is to JESUS CHRIST in these scriptures. In fact He plead with her: “Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:” Jeremiah 3:14

Jerusalem of old wasn’t always rebellious.  Jeremiah said: “The word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.” Jeremiah 2:1-2

THE BEAST AND HIS RIDER  

The Apostle James assured: “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and up braideth not; and it shall be given him.” James 1:5

Knowing from whence cometh my help I took the Apostle’s advice.  After much study, prayer and supplication the Most Holy directed my study to Revelation chapter seventeen verses 1, 3, and15.

In verse (1) one, the Angel summoned John: “Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:” Revelation 17:1

Then in verse (3) three said John: “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” Revelation 17:3

Then in verse (15) the Angel told John: “The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” Revelation 17:15

Now this is to be taken serious. 

John saw a woman setting upon many waters, then in the next scene, verse (3) three, she was setting upon a scarlet colored Beast and then in verse (15) fifteen John was told: “The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

Now the essence of what we were shown was that the many waters were a figure of many people.

And the physical bodies of the people served as the Beast, setting a precedence.

GOD called the Beast Scarlet because it was composed of men that had blood on their hands.

THE BEAST HAD SEVEN HEADS:

The heads of the Beast were: Jerusalem’s Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes, the Herodians, the chief priests, Caiaphas the High Priest, Pilate the governor and Herod the king.

THE BEAST HAD TEN HORNS:

The ten horns represent the Ten Commandments. This meant they had the Law on their side.

Now what John has shown, is liken to a panoramic view of what a photographer would take with a still camera.

King Solomon said: “I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.” Ecclesiastes 3:18

And so He has, for all beasts of Revelation and Daniel are made up of a man (singular) or a group of men brought together through a common cause.  This includes the original sin past on by the first man Adam.

Paul called him: “The man of sin” and “The old man” in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and Ephesians 4:22.