Timtofly
Well-Known Member
Because Satan has been the one with two horns from before Christ. He does not look like a dragon, because that is figurative. Satan will never look like a dragon will he?That makes zero sense. The beast that speaks like a dragon IS a dragon...except its not described as a dragon. So, you're just assuming its a dragon.
The text says beast. It says is speaks like a dragon. That means it cannot LOOK like a dragon, because otherwise we'd just be told 'it spoke'. Because then OF COURSE it would speak like a dragon...it WAS a dragon. To be told it 'spoke like a dragon' means it cannot look like a dragon, it must look different, and be speaking with a voice that needs to be clarified...
You are still mistaking the 3 'beasts' of Revelation; the 1st beast is not Satan, and neither is it the false prophet...which is the 2nd Beast. The text clearly delineates between the three; Dragon and 1st and 2nd Beast. The Dragon gives his power TO the first beast, but is not the first beast, and the second beast speaks LIKE the dragon, but is not it.
Again, to have any of these beasts being one or the same, you start dipping into the territory of 'God attributes', where the bible starts ascribing several 'persons' to one entity...and this cannot be...only God can have God attributes.
And 2 Thess 2 agrees. The Man of lawlessness is not named as Satan, or the Dragon. And no...not the false prophet either. John speaks about 'antichrist', naming him the ultimate last in a long line of men who have embodied certain ungodly characteristics throughout the age. Indeed, of many of them we may say they were under Satan's influence, as Revelation 13 says of the 'final' one, but of them too, we may not say were actually Satan in the flesh.
You have yet to provide any sort of decent explanation or scriptural evidence that shows both how and why you think these 3 'beasts'....dragon, 1st beast and 2nd beast, are not exactly what are described.
You reject the Scriptures I give. I will not have to wait 1000 years, but you have a 50/50 chance at whether a 1000 years is or is not a lie in Revelation 20. Paul says Satan has been working for over 2000 years. You claim there is a human who can live that long. You say Satan hangs out in hell? Or is Satan never seen at all?