Have you ever wondered just who and what the Beast from the Sea of the Book of Revelation really is"? This is my speculation based on the scriptures dealing with this Beast.
Who and
What is the Antichrist, The Beast from the Sea of the Book of
Revelation?
D.P. Weary
November 2023
An Overview
(Ezekiel 28:1-10; Daniel 7:7-8, 20-26; 8:23-25; 9:26-27; 11:36-45; 2
Thessalonians 2:3-10; Revelation 11:7, 12:3-9, 13:1-10; 17:5-14)
He will appear in Israel's “latter times” (Daniel 8:23).
He will not appear until the Day of the Lord has begun (2 Thessalonians
2:2).
The ‘Restrainer’ is now hindering him (2 Thessalonians 2:6-7).
He will be preceded by an apostasy, a great rebellion against God and His
law (2 Thessalonians 2:1-3).
He arises from the sea (generally symbolic of the nations of the earth in
contrast to “the land” which often symbolizes Israel; Revelation 13:1)
He may be a Jew or have Jewish ancestry as indicated in Daniel 11:37-38
and Ezekiel 21:25-27.
He may be from the tribe of Dan as indicated in Genesis 49:1-17.
He rises from the remnant of the old empires that have plundered
Jerusalem and the Temple since he is a ruler of the people who destroyed
Jerusalem and the Sanctuary (Daniel 9:26).
He is the head of the last form of Gentile world dominion. He is like a
leopard, a bear, and a lion (Revelation 13:1; Daniel 7:7-8, 20, 24; Revelation
17:9-11).
He is a political leader. The seven heads and ten horns (Revelation 13:1;
17:12) are federated under his authority.
He rules over all nations (Revelation 13:8). This influence comes through
the alliance that he makes with other nations (Daniel 8:24; Revelation 17:12).
He overcomes three rulers in his rise to power (Daniel 7:8; 24).
One of the heads of the Beast seems to have a deadly wound (by a small
sword) but is healed (Revelation 13:3, 12, 14).
He will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition (Revelation
17:8). His rise
comes through his peace program (Daniel 8:25).
He is intelligent, persuasive (Daniel 7:8, 20; 8:23), subtle, and crafty
(Ezekiel 28:6). He rules over others by their own consent (Revelation 17:13).
He rules with absolute authority (Daniel 11:36), and he changes laws and
customs (probably Jewish ones, Daniel 7:25).
His motivation and chief interest are in might and power (Daniel 11:38).
He makes a seven-year covenant with Israel that he breaks after three and
one-half years (Daniel 9:27).
He introduces idolatrous worship in which he sets himself up as god
(Daniel 9:27; 11:36-37; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:5).
He is a blasphemer because of the assumption of deity (Ezekiel 28:2;
Daniel 7:25; Revelation 13:1, 5-6).
He is energized by and receives his authority from Satan, and is
controlled by the pride of the devil (Ezekiel 28:9-12; Revelation 13:4; Ezekiel
28:2; Daniel 8:25).
He is the head of Satan’s lawless system (2 Thessalonians 2:3) and proves
his authority by signs wrought through satanic power (2 Thessalonians 2:9-19).
He is received as god and as ruler because of the blindness of the people
(2 Thessalonians 2:11).
He becomes the great adversary of Israel (Daniel 7:21, 25; 8:24;
Revelation 13:7).
There will come an alliance against him that will contest his authority
(Ezekiel 28:7; Daniel 11:40, 42).
He will gain control over Israel and adjacent territory (Daniel 11:42) and
will make his headquarters in Jerusalem (Daniel 11:45).
He rises to power with the help of corrupt religious systems called the
harlot, which he destroys when he requires all to worship him (Revelation
17:3).
The ruler destroys these systems, the harlot so that he alone is
worshiped and may rule unhindered (Revelation 17:16-17).
He becomes the special adversary of the Prince of Princes, Jesus, (Daniel
8:25), His program (2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 17:14), and His people
(Daniel 7:21, 25; 8:24; Revelation 13:7).
He continues in power for 7 years (Daniel 9:27), but his overt satanic
activity is confined to the last half (3 ½ years) of the tribulation period
(Daniel 7:25; 9:27; 11:36; Revelation 13:5).
His rule will be terminated by a direct judgment from God (Ezekiel 28:6;
Daniel 7:22, 26; 8:25; 9:27; 11:45; Revelation 19:19-20). This judgment will
take place in a military campaign in and around Israel (Ezekiel 28:8-9;
Revelation 19:19), and he will be cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:20;
Ezekiel 28:10).
This judgment will take place at the second advent
of Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:8; Daniel 7:22) and will constitute a
manifestation of Christ’s Messianic authority (Revelation 11:15).
The kingdom of the beast will pass to the
authority of the Messiah and will become the Kingdom of the Saints (Daniel
7:27).
He is a Beast from the Past.
The Beast is not just the
Antichrist of the last days. This thing comes out of the abyss for the last
days.
The speculation: The Beast of
Revelation could be a fallen angel and the coming Antichrist of the remnant of
the Nephilim.
[Rev 11:7 NKJV] When they finish their testimony, the beast
that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome
them, and kill them.
The Beast ascends out of the abyss
or bottomless pit and kills the two witnesses of the last days.
[Rev 13:1 NKJV] Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I
saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on
his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
This Beast rises out of “the sea,” generally
inferring the nations or gentiles. It has seven heads (kings) and ten horns
(Daniel’s ten nations of the 7th and last king, the Antichrist of
the last days.
[Rev 13:2 NKJV] Now the beast which I saw was like a
leopard, his feet were like [the feet of] a bear, and his mouth like the mouth
of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
This Beast looks like Daniel’s
beasts representing Babylon, Greece, and Medo-Persia. Note that the Beast is
not Satan. It is Satan the dragon that gives it his power, throne, and
authority.
[Rev 13:3 NKJV] And I saw one of his heads as if it had been
mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled
and followed the beast.
One of the heads, a king is mortally
wounded but was healed. This would be the last king, the one we call the
Antichrist.
[Rev 13:5 NKJV] And he was given a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two
months.
The Beast is given authority for
only 42 months or the last 3 ½ years of the 7 years of tribulation.
[Rev 13:7 NKJV] It was granted to him to make war with the
saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe,
tongue, and nation.
[Rev 13:8 NKJV] All who dwell on the earth will worship him,
whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world.
The Beast is given authority over
all who dwell on the earth except those whose names are written in the Book of
Life of the Lamb, Jesus. Those whose names are not written will worship the
Beast and Satan.
[Rev 17:8 NKJV] "The beast that you saw was, and is
not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those
who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of
Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is
not, and yet is.
This Beast once was active, but when
John saw this vision, the Beast was not active but would ascend out of the
Abyss in the very last days and go to perdition.
[Rev 17:9 NKJV] "Here [is] the mind which has wisdom:
The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
The Beast’s 7 heads are seven kingdoms
(mountains) that have been a part of Satan’s kingdom (Mystery Babylon) on the
earth.
[Rev 17:10 NKJV] "There are also seven kings. Five have
fallen, one is, [and] the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must
continue for a short time.
These heads are also 7 specific
kings of the 7 kingdoms. Five had fallen in history, one kingdom was in place
at the time John saw this vision, and one was yet to come for a short time.
When John saw all of this it was at a time just before Jesus began to break the
seven seals of the great scroll. This time will be at the beginning of the 7
years of tribulation. The 5 Biblical kingdoms from the book of Daniel that have
occupied and controlled Israel in history, especially Jerusalem were Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, Rome, and the Islamic kingdoms (primarily the Ottoman Empire) that
replaced Rome. The one that is, is Israel itself in our day. One day a leader (the
6th king) in Israel will make a treaty with those attacking Israel.
A treaty negotiated by the Antichrist. The one to come will be the10-nation
coalition of the Antichrist.
[Rev 17:11 NKJV] "The beast that was, and is not, is
himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.
Our Beast is said to “be of the
seven” and is also the 8th king. The “be of” (Greek- ek) can be seen
as “to be out of, or a part of” the other 7 kings.
Here then is our mystery. Who or
what has once been active on the earth, then not active or confined in the
abyss, then comes up out of the abyss to be active in the last days? Who or
what is a part of the other 7 kings, yet is an 8th king? This Beast
is presented as Daniel’s 4th, great and terrible beast, different
from the first 3 beasts and yet a composite of the first three which were
historical kingdoms and kings.
The 7th king is the
Antichrist of the last days. So, this man is a part of the Beast or “of the
Beast” as were the other 6 kings. What if this is literally true? What if this
man was fathered by a fallen angel making him a Nephilim? And what if this
angel fathered the other 6 kings making them a part of the Beast by DNA? It has
happened before.
[Gen 6:4 ESV] The Nephilim were on
the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to
the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men
who were of old, the men of renown.
This implies that the DNA of the
children fathered by the giants or Nephilim was not human DNA, but DNA
contaminated by fallen angelic DNA. These beings with contaminated DNA (the
giants) show up throughout the O.T. (“and also afterward”). We also know that
these fallen angels were thrown into the abyss for their actions.
[2Pe 2:4 NKJV] For if God did not
spare the angels who sinned, but cast [them] down to hell and delivered [them]
into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
[Jde 1:6 NKJV] And the angels who
did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
This speculation is further supported by the
first prophecy in the Bible. Genesis 3:15, is the first prophecy in the Bible
and is the first promise of the Messiah. It is the foundation of the Gospel of
Jesus. Jehovah Elohim speaking to the serpent proclaims that He, Elohim, would
cause eternal enmity, hostility, and hate between the Serpent (Satan) and the
woman (named Eve by the man because she would be the mother of all who live).
But then Elohim adds, “and between your (the serpent’s) seed or offspring
and her seed or offspring (Jesus).” Her seed is called a “He” and this
“seed” or He (the Messiah, Jesus), a man fathered by Jehovah Elohim (the Holy
Spirit), would crush the serpent Satan’s head (destroy him). But the Serpent
through his seed (a man fathered by Satan) would only wound the Messiah Jesus
by “striking his heel.”
Could
it be that one of these fallen angels is the Beast who comes up out of the
abyss in the last days? Could it even be their leader, Samyaza? Could this
possibly be Abaddon or Apollyon, the king of the Abyss from the Book of
Revelation?
Could it be that one of these
fallen angels is the Beast who comes up out of the abyss in the last days?
Could it even be their leader, Samyaza? Could this possibly be Abaddon or
Apollyon, the king of the Abyss from the Book of Revelation?
[Rev 9:3 KJV] And there came out of
the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the
scorpions of the earth have power.
[Rev 9:11 KJV] And they had a king
over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew
tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.
Hints from the Book of Enoch
From Wikipedia:
Book of Enoch
In the Book
of Enoch, one of the apocryphal writings, Samyaza is portrayed as the
leader of a band of angels called "sons of
God" or "Watchers" (grigori in Greek). These
Watchers became consumed with lust for mortal women and entered into machinations against
heaven in order to consummate their desires.
All early sources refer to the "sons of heaven" as
angels. From the third century BCE onwards, references are found in the Enochic
literature, the Dead
Sea Scrolls (the Genesis Apocryphon, the Damascus
Document, 4Q180), Jubilees, the Testament of Reuben, 2 Baruch, Josephus, and
the book of Jude (compare with 2 Peter 2). For
example: 1 Enoch 7:2 "And when the angels, (3) the sons of heaven, beheld
them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select
for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children."
Some Christian apologists, such as Tertullian and
especially Lactantius, shared this opinion.
The earliest statement in a secondary commentary explicitly
interpreting this to mean that angelic beings mated with humans can be traced
to the rabbinical Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and it has since
become especially commonplace in modern Christian commentaries. This line of
interpretation finds additional support in the text of Genesis 6:4, which
juxtaposes the sons of God (male gender, divine nature) with the daughters of
men (female gender, human nature). From this parallelism it could be inferred
that the sons of God are understood as some superhuman beings.[3]
Babylonian Talmud
The Babylonian Talmud contains a singular mention of the name
Samyaza (spelled שמחזאי in the Vilna edition with some lesser variations
in the manuscripts) in Niddah 61a. Accordingly:
Now, Sihon and Og were brothers, as the Master said: Sihon
and Og were sons of Ahijah, son of Shamhazai.[8]
The text does not elucidate the identity of Samyaza who
appears nowhere else in the corpus, but clearly portrays him as the grandfather
of Og, the king
of Bashan
[Jos 12:4 NKJV] [The other king
was] Og king of Bashan and his territory, [who was] of the remnant of the
giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
If this Samyaza was the leader
of the fallen angels then Og king of Bashan of the remnant of the giants or
Nephilim, was a king with contaminated DNA. So, there could be others!
The speculation: The Beast of
Revelation could be a very high-ranking fallen angel and the coming Antichrist of
the remnant of the Nephilim.
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