on which the woman sitteth.
And there are seven kings:
---five are fallen,
---and one is,
---and the other is not yet come;
-and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
***And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven,....
Revelation 17:9-11
ANY student of Biblical history knows the 7 Kingdoms that dominated the Biblical world.
The 5 that were "fallen" by John's day....
EGYPT (began persecuting God's people in Exodus)
ASSYRIA (persecuted Israel and conquered Egypt)
BABLYLON (conquered Assyria and God's people)
PERSIA (conquered Babylon and persecuted Esther)
GREECE (conquered Persia and persecuted God's people)
The one that "is" in John's day is obvious:
ROME (conquered Greece and persecuted God's people)
The one that was yet to come would be---
PAPAL ROME (Papal persecution that wore the saints)
***NOTICE: There was an "eighth" to be.
The Global Religious-Political Persecuting Triple Alliance of ... the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Revelation 16:13
Revelation 16:13
Hence this Triple 6-6-6 system of the 3, reaching the level of 6---falling short of God's standard symbolized in His number of 7.
It is "of the seven" because the instigator is the "Man of Sin" Papal Rome who was of the 7.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed... 2 Thessalonians 2:3***The "eighth" should be obvious.
It is the very next beast that rose up out of the earth that followed this
sea beast with 7 heads: And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast....
Revelation 13:11,12
