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Rev 17:8
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
(KJV)
Rev 17:10-11
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
(KJV)
I don't see n2thelight's post mentioning the Rev.17:10-11 verses. But since you bring it up...
The Rev.17:8 verse is pointing to Satan, and the Rev.17:10-11 verses are also. The beast of Rev.17:8 cannot be any other than Satan, because 1) he only is already assigned to perish as of yet; and 2) he only is that "angel of the bottomless pit" that ascends out of it in the last days, per Rev.9 & 11.
In several Scriptures of the OT prophets, God used the Assyrian as a symbolic name for Satan, pointing to the ancient pagan kings of history being under Satan's authority. In Isaiah 14; Ezek.28 & 31, God uses those ancient flesh kings as types for Satan himself. So Christ is pointing to those old beast king natures within these Rev.17 markers about these 8 beast kings.
The 6th beast king established in John's day was Domitian, emperor of Rome. The 7th is for the tribulation future to us, and the 8th is Satan's role at the end of Christ's Millennium reign released one last time to go deceive the nations.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
(KJV)
Rev 17:10-11
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
(KJV)
I don't see n2thelight's post mentioning the Rev.17:10-11 verses. But since you bring it up...
The Rev.17:8 verse is pointing to Satan, and the Rev.17:10-11 verses are also. The beast of Rev.17:8 cannot be any other than Satan, because 1) he only is already assigned to perish as of yet; and 2) he only is that "angel of the bottomless pit" that ascends out of it in the last days, per Rev.9 & 11.
In several Scriptures of the OT prophets, God used the Assyrian as a symbolic name for Satan, pointing to the ancient pagan kings of history being under Satan's authority. In Isaiah 14; Ezek.28 & 31, God uses those ancient flesh kings as types for Satan himself. So Christ is pointing to those old beast king natures within these Rev.17 markers about these 8 beast kings.
The 6th beast king established in John's day was Domitian, emperor of Rome. The 7th is for the tribulation future to us, and the 8th is Satan's role at the end of Christ's Millennium reign released one last time to go deceive the nations.