This beast supports the earlier beast described in verses 1-2 which many describe as a ruler or government. It is a classic description of the Devil – only missing his pitchfork. And it had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon. Verse 11 describes a beast coming from the earth with two horns, speaking like a dragon.Īnd I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. Using the Historical: Spiritual method on interpreting the scriptures, I want to look again at some scriptures relating to the beast of Revelation chapter 13. In that context people often conclude that this is the coming mark of the beast. Particularly we hear about their program on vaccinations and that they intend on using them as a method of ‘marking’ people in the arm with a vaccination ID for the so-called COVID19 coronavirus. Lately we have been seeing and reading a lot about Bill and Melinda Gates and their foundation. It is the idea that there are spiritual principles behind the battles and events encountered by Christians through all ages from Christ until the final Judgement, but not that each description in the book of Revelation applies to uniquely only one event. The scriptures belong to all believers through all generations and can speak to them for their time, and even their place. This is the method where we allow the scripture to be living. However, now I am convinced that the correct way to read the book is with the method of Historical: Spiritual. In this blog many of the published studies on Daniel and Revelation use this method. However I found that that is very confining, trying to hang a label and only one label on every event through the Book of Revelation. At first I studied what Martin Lloyd-Jones would have classified as Historical: Continuing.
I now hold to an historical interpretation of scripture. (See my studies on Daniel’s Seventy Weeks and in particular on Daniel 9:27 and who ‘he’ is in that verse.) But sometime back I realised that that interpretation was not correct. I was once a believer in the futurist interpretation of the books of Daniel and Revelation. Over the past 40 odd years I have heard an enormous amount of discussion and read books and literature on the ‘coming mark of the beast’ of the Book of Revelation.
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