BABYLON THE GREAT (Part 4)
THE IMAGE OF THE WILD BEAST: THE UN ARMIES
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“And it was permitted to give breath to the image of the wild beast, so that the image of the wild beast should both speak and cause to be killed all those who refuse to worship the image of the wild beast” (Revelation 13:15)
In Revelation 17:18, it is written that Babylon the Great is a kingdom, or the expression of sovereignty. In Revelation 13, but also 17, the wild beasts are kingdoms, which horns represent human kings in their military role to defend their sovereignty by force. These wild beasts, as in Daniel’s prophecy, are the expression of human sovereignty by means of armies (Daniel 7 and 8). Jesus Christ also described the Roman armies as the “disgusting thing” (an unclean animal) that causes desolation: “Therefore, when you catch sight of the disgusting thing that causes desolation, as spoken about by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place” (Matthew 24:15). The prophecy of Daniel alludes to an animal: “And on the wing of disgusting things there will be the one causing desolation; and until an extermination, what was decided on will be poured out also on the one lying desolate” (Daniel 9:27b). Thus, the wild beasts of the prophecies of Daniel, of Jesus Christ and the Revelation, represent a military entity that destroys and defends human sovereignty by force and ravaging everything in its path. The very fact that these beasts are “wild” is contrary to the very notion of “politics” which is the administration of the city. A “wild” beast does nothing than killing, devouring, tearing and crushing… It causes havoc: “And the ten horns that you saw and the wild beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her devastated and naked, and they will eat up her flesh and completely burn her with fire” (Revelation 17:16).
In Revelation 13, there are mainly three wild beasts: The first beast is “ascending out of the sea”, and it has seven heads and ten horns with a diadem on each of them (Revelation 13:1,2). The fact that it rises from the sea means that it represents a domination which comes from the whole of the current humanity represented, in the Revelation, by many waters: “The waters which you saw, where is seated the prostitute, represent peoples, and crowds, and nations, and languages ”(Revelation 17: 1,15). The seven heads represent human kingdoms which are symbolic mountains (Revelation 17: 9). The ten horns of the beast with the diadems represent the set of kings in the exercise of their own power (Revelation 17:12). The “blasphemous names” are obviously the patriotic names of the nations that replace the sovereignty of God on earth.
The second wild beast is “ascending out of the earth”, it has two horns like a lamb, but it speaks like a dragon. The fact that it has two horns, in that case, does not mean that this power is led by two kings. The two horns make it look like a harmless lamb, but in fact, it speaks and acts like a destructive dragon: “And it performs great signs, even making fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the sight of mankind” (Revelation 13:13). This wild beast has the world power of the first beast. It represents the current world power. The fact that it ascends out of the earth means that this military world power is the result of stable elements of the human system, as an organized society by a government, institutions and administrations (Revelation 21:1).
The third wild beast is the fruit of the imagination of the second two-horned wild beast, who decides to make an image or a statue of the first wild beast (Revelation 13:14–18). This third wild beast is described in detail in Revelation 17, with seven heads and ten horns, this time without a diadem, which represents kings who have no concrete power. In this same chapter, this image of the beast represents an eighth king (verse 11). This beast is only the result of a vague human concept which consists in making a representation of a worldwide sovereignty: The United Nations. The expression “that was but is not” means that it is only an “image” or a representation of the sovereignty of all the nations, which is, but is not intrinsically this concrete exercise of this sovereignty (the horns have no diadems). The UN is the image or the representation of the sovereignty of the nations, but it is not concretely this sovereignty exercised, in fact, at the level of each of the states or nations.
The cross between Revelation 13 and 17, allows us to better understand how the fall of Babylon the Great was carried out which will lead to its final destruction, particularly by means of solving the enigma around the number 666: “This is where it calls for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a man’s number, and its number is 666” (Revelation 13:18). This number 666 is a benchmark that allows us to know when, this image of the beast had this power of “an hour” to destroy Babylon the Great: “The ten horns that you saw mean ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they do receive authority as kings for one hour with the wild beast. (…) And the ten horns that you saw and the wild beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her devastated and naked, and they will eat up her flesh and completely burn her with fire” (Revelation 17:12,16). But also, the exact moment, during this “one hour”, when the two-horned beast gave life to this “image” or statue: “And it was permitted to give breath to the image of the wild beast, so that the image of the wild beast should both speak and cause to be killed all those who refuse to worship the image of the wild beast.” (Revelation 13:15) (THE TWO KINGS (last part)).
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