This is a copy of the definition of the word all or 'pas' used in verses 7,8, and 12 from Strong's.
1) individually
a) each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything
2) collectively
a) some of all types
Revelation 13 is a great chapter for you to understand 2 of the 7 different ways in which the word all is used. I have gone over this a few times with you but you just can't grasp it......or you just don't want to grasp it.
Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
The word 'all' in verse 3 is 'holos'. It means,
1) all, whole, completely
http://www.bluelette...ngs=G3650&t=KJV
And that's because the entire world will wonder after the beast that was, and is not, and yet lives!.......when he/it returns!
Verses 7,8, and 12 use a different word of the 130 different words for all. It is the word 'pas'.
Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
To get the correct interpretation of verse 7-8 you need the correct definition of the word all in them.
I previously said that when you see the phrase, "and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations," it only refers to all the kindreds, and tongues, and nations under his power...not all of the kindreds, and tongues, and nations of the world! Verse 8 doesn't mean that everyone on earth who isn't a Christian will worship the beast. It means that all those under his power, authority, and religion will worship him. Otherwise John would have used the word 'holos' as he did in verse 3.
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
http://www.bluelette...ngs=G3956&t=KJV
The word 'pas' means.......
1) individually
a) each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything
2) collectively
a) some of all types
If John wanted to mean all, whole, completely in verses 7,8, and 12, he would have used the word 'holos' which is the word he used in verse 3! BUT HE DIDN'T!
Here is a list of Hebrew words for all.
http://www.eliyah.co...con&isindex=all
Here is a list of Greek words for all.
http://www.eliyah.co...con&isindex=all
I said that the word earth doesn't always mean the entire planet. In verse 8 the word earth means,
1093. ge ghay contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):--country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.
http://www.bluelette...ngs=G1093&t=KJV
http://www.eliyah.co...n&isindex=earth
By not utilizing the resources of the Greek and Hebrew lexicons........like Popeye who thinks those resources are 'extra-biblical', you will seldom get a correct understanding of bible prophecy.
NT:3956
pas (pas); including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole:
(Copyright Strong's Electronic Concordance (KJV) Copyright 1989 TriStar Publishing)
There do exist newer editions of the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, which I do not recommend, like those past 1991 where editors removed a lot of Dr. Strong's original definitions.
KJV - all (manner of, means), alway (-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no (-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
ALL
1. pas ^3956^ radically means "all." Used without the article it means "every," every kind or variety. So the RV marg. in <Eph. 2:21>, "every building," and the text in <3:15>, "every family," and the RV marg. of <Acts 2:36>, "every house"; or it may signify "the highest degree," the maximum of what is referred to, as, "with all boldness" <Acts 4:29>. Before proper names of countries, cities and nations, and before collective terms, like "Israel," it signifies either "all" or "the whole," e. g., <Matt. 2:3; Acts 2:36>. Used with the article, it means the whole of one object. In the plural it signifies "the totality of the persons or things referred to." Used without a noun it virtually becomes a pronoun, meaning "everyone" or "anyone." In the plural with a noun it means "all." The neuter singular denotes "everything" or "anything whatsoever." One form of the neuter plural (panta) signifies "wholly, together, in all ways, in all things," <Acts 20:35; 1 Cor. 9:25>. The neuter plural without the article signifies "all things severally," e. g., <John 1:3; 1 Cor. 2:10>; preceded by the article it denotes "all things," as constituting a whole, e. g., <Rom. 11:36; 1 Cor. 8:6; Eph. 3:9>. See EVERY, Note (1), WHOLE.
(from Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words)
(Copyright (C) 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers)