What is the first symbol of Revelation 13?
Question 1
Answer
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Revelation 13:1
NOTE - As already learned from studying the book of Daniel:
- a beast in prophecy represents some great earthly power or kingdom;
- a head represents a governing power;
- horns represent a number of kingdoms;
- crowned heads or crowned horns represent political rulership;
- waters represent "peoples, and multitudes and nations, and tongues. Rev. 17:15.
"The beasts of Daniel and John are empires. The ten-horned beast is the Roman power. ... The head is the governing power of the body. The heads of this beast represent successive governments,"
- "Romanism and the Reformation," by H. Grattan Guinness, pages 144, 145.