In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 17 verses 8 and 9. Before I get into the study, I discuss some new events about the global elite. I talk about the AG of Texas and his comments made on the effectives of Pfizer Covid Vaccine. I talk about the South African political leader Julius Malema, who wants to kill the white people in Africa. And I discuss how the school systems are teaching the youths of today similar to what Adolf Hitler did back in the 1930’s.
In our last study I showed how the City of Jerusalem sits on 7 sevens hill and that Jerusalem is where Satan sets up his throne. This week John goes into detail about these 7 kings.
10 Five are fallen, the one = Indeed, by John’s day five powerful, influential Gentile kingdoms that were all birthed in ancient Babel by the mother of harlots all were kingdoms who opposed Yahweh of Israel and his covenant people. These five kingdoms, by this time, had all come and gone. Five have fallen: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo Persia and Greece.
is = (the sixth) (at this stage of the Vision), Naturally, this is a reference to Rome where Domitian was currently ruling and reigning, a foreshadow of the antichrist.
the other = (the seventh), is not yet come. referring to the reign of the antichrist and his empire.
Short space = How long is a short space? Well, according to chapter 13 verse five he will be given, “authority to act for forty-two months,” which is the last three and a half years of the tribulation.
and when he shall have come, he must remain a short time. = i.e., a short time compared with the others. We have a similar statement in Chapter 12:12; where, when Satan is cast down, he had "great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition; = and the beast (neuter, yhrion) that was and is not, he himself is also an eighth (masculine), and is of (ek , out of) the seven, etc.
12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are (i.e., represent) ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom; but they receive authority as kings at one and the same hour with the Beast = (i.e., at the same time or season. See chapters 14:7, 15; 18:10, 17, 19. Matt 14:15; 18:1. Mark 6:35. Luke 1:10; 14:17. 1 John 2:18. John 5:35. 2 Cor 7:8. Philem 15). These ten kings, in their mortal stage, were not actually kings; but now, in their superhuman form, they are contemporary, and receive power at one and the same time with the Beast. Popular phraseology always speaks of them as "ten kingdoms." No wonder they cannot be identified or to predict, for the Scripture says nothing about "ten kingdoms," but always "ten kings." The substitution of "kingdoms" only introduces confusion. The verse would then read "They are ten kingdoms, which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive authority as kingdoms." This is absurd as well as confusing.
And the ten horns which thou sawest = On the scarlet-colored beast, in verse 3. The ‘horns’, as we have seen in scripture, are symbolic of power (Rev. 13:1) and ‘ten signifies completeness and sufficiency. By the ten horns, there is expressed widespread, complete power. But this power, as John says, has not come into existence as yet.
Are ten kings = Represent or denote ten kings - that is, kingdoms or powers
But receive power as kings one hour with the beast = authority
Which have received no kingdom as yet = That is, they were not in existence when John wrote.
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