Episode 19. Revelation 13 - The Beast Arises

In this study I was examine Revelation 13.

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Study Questions:

Chapter 13
1. Who, or what is the beast? (Daniel 7 – 8, cf. Especially 7:17 and 7:23 is relevant here).

2. What does it mean to say the beast rises out of the sea?

3. What do the horns, the diadems and the numbers mean? What do the blasphemous names on its head mean?

4. The beast is like a leopard with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. What does this mean?

5. Whose power does the beast work by?

6. What does verse 3 mean?

7. Vs 4, the world worshipped the beast. But who is it? (vf. 9:11, 11:7, 14:9-11, 17:3, Daniel 7, 2 Thess. 2).

8. Compare this to Daniel 7:23-25, what do you notice is similar?

9. V.6, who are those that dwell in heaven? (cf. Jude, and the glorious ones, Daniel 7, Job 38:7).

10. Why is it allowed to make war on the saints and to win? How much authority will this beast have on the earth?

11. Vv.8-10, what encouragement should we take from these verses?

12. Who is the second beast? What does verse 11 tell us?

13. What does verse 13 remind us of? (chapter 11:5)

14. How will it achieve what it says in verse 14?

15. What does it mean to say it gave breath to the image of the beast?

16. What is the mark of the beast? (cf. Revelation 7:3, and Ephesians 1:11-13, Ez. 9:4). What is the number of the beast? (Note the Greek word for beast is “therion”, in Hebrew its numerical value is 666). (“for it is man’s number” or “for it is a man’s number”. Daniel 3:1, the height of the image that Nebuchadnezzar sets up. 3 Maccabees 2:28-32, Mentions Jews being marked with a sign of the Greek God Dionysus, without which they could not buy or sell equally.