Donna Danna (1 Aug 2021)
"DOES THE WOUNDED HEAD OF THE BEAST IN REV. 13 REPRESENT A KING AND/OR A KINGDOM?"


DOES THE WOUNDED HEAD OF THE BEAST IN REV. 13 REPRESENT A KING AND/OR A KINGDOM?

The beast with the 7 heads with 10 horns in Rev. 13: 1-3, 12, 14  whose one head was wounded to death and whose deadly wound is healed which had the wound by the sword and did live in Rev. 13:14 is the same beast  depicted in Daniel 7:7, 8, 11, 19 & 20.  While a  head or a king with a deadly wound caused by a sword can be healed, a kingdom or empire can be revived or revised. Rev. 13:3 says, "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."  If if it looked like some kind of miraculous healing, it would cause all the world to wonder after the beast as they would be amazed that such a miracle happened.

The beast with the 10 horns in Rev. 13 is also called the fourth beast in Daniel 7:23 which says, "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces."  So the beast is a kingdom, but it is also a king because Daniel 7:17 says, "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth."  This shows that the 4th great beast is also a king which is why I think that the one head of the beast that is wounded by the sword and did live may actually be a king.

Daniel 7:11 also says,  "I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame." This sounds like the lake of fire. The beast of Rev. 13 & the False Prophet are both cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone according to  Rev. 19:20 which says, "And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

While the body of the beast (a king) can be cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone, the physical kingdom that he rules over on earth is not cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone although it can be destroyed.  So the beast with the 10 horns in the book of Rev. represents both a king and the kingdom or empire he rules over on earth.