REVELATION 13:12...........
" 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, whose deadly wound was healed.
The ETERNAL Trinity = Father + Son + Holy Spirit.
The INFERNAL Trinity = Satan + Anti-Christ + False Prophet.
"causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast," = A Religious man of some kind.
Now make NO mistake, both of these men are "ANTI-CHRISTS" but one is the head and the other wags the tail of that head.
In this role, the second beast imitates the Holy Spirit, who directs worship to the Father/SON (Luke 11:1–4; John 1:18; 14:6).
This verse's statement is part of the basis for believing that there will be a single, world-wide religion enforced during the end times.
Revelation 13:3 describes the first beast as having a mortal wound that was healed. THis is thought to be...........
1.
The Roman Empire as having a mortal wound.
If so, the wound may refer to the fall of the Roman Empire, and the healing refers to the Empire's revival.
2.
An attempt is made on the Anti-Christ life and he survives.
3.
Our PRETERISTS friends interpret this to refer to Emperor Nero.
The original Greek of this verse suggests that the use of the aorist here in (ἐθεραπεύθη) makes sense in contrast to the rest of imperfect aspects which backgrounds this information which is meant simply to clarify and remind the reader of the first beast who was
healed of its fatal wound.
Something else for YOU to consider is that the language of being “slain”( as it were wounded to death) seen in Rev. 13:3 is identical with the language given of Christ earlier in the book (Rev. 5:6).
In 13:14 it says the beast Greek = ἔζησεν (
ezēsen,
lived), the very term used for Jesus’ resurrection in 2:8.
Under this view, this refers to a real, person:
the Antichrist.
If we believe that the Antichrist is an individual and not an empire, then this makes the best understanding. Moreover, this seems to fit with the second beast (the false prophet) being another distinct person. If the beast is merely symbolic, this doesn’t make sense of another beast existing alongside of him (vv.11-18). What would be the point of having
two beasts, if these were merely symbols for Rome?
The view held by dispensational interpreters like John Walvoord. He writes,
Source:
https://www.evidenceunseen.com/bibl...v-133-what-is-the-fatal-wound-mentioned-here/
The wounding of one of the heads seems instead to be a reference to the fact that the Roman Empire as such seemingly died and is now going to be revived. It is significant that one of the heads is wounded to death but that the beast itself is not said to be dead. It is questionable whether Satan has the power to restore to life one who has died, even though his power is great. Far more probable is the explanation that this is the revived Roman Empire in view.
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The beast is both personal and the empire itself; so also is the head. The revival of the future empire is considered a miracle and a demonstration of the power of Satan.
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In other words, this shouldn’t be taken as a literal person who is wounded, but the Roman Empire as a whole was destroyed and resurrected. Johnson writes, “In the Greek, the word for ‘wound’ is
plēgē, which everywhere in Revelation means ‘plague,’ in fact, a divinely inflicted judgment (9:18, 20; 11:6; 15:1ff.; 16:9, 21; 18:4, 8; 21:9; 22:18).”
[8] Therefore, this plague was given to the Roman Empire, and yet, it still survived.
Source (6)......Walvoord, John.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ. JFW Publishing Trust. Chicago, IL. 1966. 200.
Source (7)......Walvoord, John.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ. JFW Publishing Trust. Chicago, IL. 1966. 200.
Source (8)....... Johnson, A. F. (1981). Revelation. In F. E. Gaebelein (Ed.),
The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 12: Hebrews through Revelation (F. E. Gaebelein, Ed.) (526). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.
