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Amazing Facts

Prophecy Encounter

Doug Batchelor

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 1

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 2

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 1

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 2

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 1

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 2

144,000 & The Seal of God, Pt. 1

The Woman of Light

A Prophet in the River

The Mark of the Beast

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 1

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 2

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There are few humans whose intellect could match the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, 1 of the greatest artists and inventors of all time.

Probably, he's most renowned for his Mona Lisa painting.

Leonardo also excelled in the fields of science, optics, engineering, anatomy, botany, architecture, geology, zoology, mechanics, and many more.

In many of these areas, he was far ahead of his time.

For example, he drew designs that were the equivalent of a helicopter, 1 for a parachute, a diving suit, an armored tank, and many other fascinating inventions of our day.

He even built a robot capable of walking, sitting, and moving its jaw.

And some of his robotic concepts are currently being put to use in robots for space exploration today.

Looking back, it almost seems like Leonardo could see into the future.

We might wonder if anyone really can predict the future.

In ancient Babylon, the prophet Daniel informed King Nebuchadnezzar about the God of heaven who revealed the deep and secret things of the future.

So join me now, friends, as we discover what God's word really says about the mysterious beasts from the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation.

♪ A little while ago, a few years ago, a teenage girl in Virginia was kind of shocked when she saw in her backyard a turtle with 2 heads.

And she felt sorry for the poor thing and was a little shocked and didn't know exactly how to react, she tried to feed it some lettuce and both heads were sort of fighting for the lettuce.

Believe it or not, two-headedness is not completely unheard of in the animal kingdom.

Usually those creatures do not live very long because they feel the 2 minds are telling the body to do 2 different things and they can never seem to agree and they just don't seem to survive in the wild.

But you've never seen anything with 4 heads, and you've never seen anything with 7 heads, but the Bible talks about creatures with 4 heads and 7 heads, and in particular there's a creature that keeps reappearing in the book of Revelation with 7 heads and 10 horns, and you'll find the 10 horns on another beast in the book of Daniel.

And as we look at the evidence, you'll see that this is typically talking about the same power.

We need to identify that power because it's 1 of the main players in the last days.

Presentation tonight is dealing with the subject A Woman Rides a Beast.

And this harkens from a prophecy and a picture that you'll find in Revelation 17.

Now in this presentation in particular we're going to be talking about what is this beast that keeps reappearing in the books of Revelation and Daniel.

If you have your Bibles you'll want to take a look at Revelation chapter 17.

And there it says, He carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having 7 heads and 10 horns.

Now, we discussed this earlier and we'll give you some more scriptures for it, but in these Bible symbols, a woman represents a church.

Husbands, love your wives, Paul says, even as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.

I've likened the daughter of Zion to a delicate and comely woman.

All through the Old Testament, God compares Israel to his bride.

So his people is often identified with woman.

You get 2 different kinds of women that are there, both in the Old and the New Testament, the faithful and the unfaithful.

And this woman is evidently not the faithful 1 because it says she's got a paragraph on her forehead that says mother of harlots, that would sort of be a clue, right?

Now you see these 2 women identified there in Revelation, Revelation 12 you've got the good 1.

So what's the connection now between the woman in Revelation 12?

There's another beast that appears to her.

You look in Revelation 12 verse 3, there appeared another wonder in heaven.

Behold a great red dragon, same as the scarlet that you find in Revelation 17, having 7 heads and 10 horns, same beast, and 7 crowns upon his heads.

And it goes on to say that this beast is trying to attack this woman.

So here in Revelation 17, you get this red seven-headed, ten-horned beast.

And then you go to Revelation 12, that same beast is trying to destroy this woman, she's clothed with light, symbol of God's church.

You've heard of 666, mark of the beast, that's Revelation 13.

And you can read there, it says, I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, notice the sea, having 7 heads and 10 horns.

And on his horns 10 crowns and on his heads a blasphemous name.

Blasphemy is when someone is degrading God by putting themselves in the place of God or claiming the prerogatives of God and so you notice that the woman names of blasphemy, Daniel 7 talks about this beast power as blasphemy, and here you see that creature again.

Now I just need to tell everybody straight up as nicely as I can that you want me to tell you the truth, right?

Paul asks a question, he said, am I your enemy because I tell you the truth?

I hope you didn't come because you just want me to preach smooth things.

You want to know what does the Bible really say.

In the Old Testament, God's word is very faithful to not only talk about the way He would bless His people, and there were many times God's people were faithful and there were miracles wrought, He said, 1 of you will chase a thousand.

And then He said you'll turn from me, you'll worship other gods, and He prophesied their unfaithfulness and the word that God used He said, you will go whoring after other gods.

Now, He also does that in New Testament times.

Even Paul said, I know after my departure, grievous wolves will come in, not sparing the flock.

From among your own selves, people will arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.

So even Paul predicted something's going to happen to the church.

The devil is going to come after the church and there's going to be major unfaithfulness.

Well, I'm going to tell you right now, in Revelation chapter 13, it's not just 1 beast, Revelation chapter 13 there are 2 beasts.

We always talk about the mark of the beast, chapter actually has 2 beasts.

You see in chapter 13, first few verses, talks about the first beast, later on you get to verse 11 and says, and then I saw a second beast, I'll tell you right now I'm not talking about people, I'm talking about systems and areas where churches have been disobedient.

I just want to be faithful, I want to be kind, but I don't want to mince words with you.

So with that background, you've got this beast that keeps appearing, 7 heads, 10 horns.

We're going to find out who is this beast.

Now the word Antichrist means against Christ.

How many times does the word Antichrist appear in Revelation?

I told you that earlier, it's only in the letters of John.

And John says there already were many antichrists even in his day.

So the word antichrist can be used broadly, but the main beast is also called the antichrist.

It's like the industrial strength Antichrist on steroids that you find there through the book.

Alright, so let's find out first about beasts.

Question number 1, what does a beast represent in prophecy?

We're going to let the Bible explain itself.

If you look for instance in Daniel 7, verse 17, it says, Those great beasts, which are 4, are 4 kings that will arise out of the earth.

Not just kings, but it also includes kingdoms.

Those great beasts, which are 4, or the fourth beast, rather, shall be the fourth kingdom.

So you get, it's kings, it's kingdoms, it's talking about powers.

Look in Daniel 8 verse 20, and you'll see there where there's this vision of sheep and goats, and it says, the ram that you saw having the 2 horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia, and the male goat is the kingdom of Greece." So here it's got a goat that represents and it says the horn between his eyes is the first king.

Later we learn that's Alexander the Great, it makes it pretty clear.

So, you know, if today, do we sometimes use countries to illustrate, our animals to illustrate countries?

If I say bear, what country do you think of?

So, it's not new or unusual, countries have done that and so God does this also in prophecy.

Is there a beast with 10 horns in Daniel chapter 7?

Now we're jumping to the Old Testament, and I just want to make sure we set the foundation for Revelation.

You remember what I said, out of 404 verses in the book of Revelation, 278 of them are found almost verbatim in the Old Testament.

So to understand Revelation, it's all rooted in the Old Testament.

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