what was the beast in the bible?

Question

what was the beast in the bible and how was it destory and what the seven heads on it mean

Answer 1

The Beast you are referring to, I believe is the Roman Catholic Church. It had seven heads because at the time Catholicism took over Rome, there had been 10 different "states' or lands and Catholicism destroyed 3 of them leaving 7. They are listed here:
Alemani (Germans),
Anglo-Saxons (English) ,
Bergundians (Swiss),
Lombards (Italians) ,
Suevi (Portuguese),
Francs (French) ,
Visigoths (Spanish) ,
Heruli (Extinct),
Vandals (Extinct),
Ostrogoths (Extinct)

Notice the last three are extinct. Those were taken out by the Roman Catholic Church because they refused to accept it's rule.

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Answer 2

Revelation 17:3 gives this description, “Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.” The beast mentioned in this verse is the same beast as in Revelation chapter 13:1, “…And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.” The beast in Revelation chapter 13 is understood to refer to the antichrist, the man of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4; Daniel 9:27). So, the whore of Babylon, whoever it is, is closely affiliated with the end-times Antichrist.

Answer 3

Beasts throughout the Bible mean world governments. Heads of beasts mean specific kingdoms. This is true from Daniel to Revelations.

Answer 4

The beast is a metaphor for the devil in the form of a man. The seven heads referred to Rome which had seven hills and was the seat of power at the time.

Answer 5

Will you take a closer look at these animals, one by one, as they arose in the prophet’s vision The first was “like a lion and had eagle’s wings.” Daniel 7:4. Here we have represented that grand empire of Babylon, so well symbolized by the king of beasts. It was one of the wealthiest, strongest nations ever to exist on the earth. Notice that this animal has wings. Wings are used in prophetic terminology to symbolize speed. And sure enough, Babylon arose very quickly to take its place as a ruler of the entire world.
From 606 B.C. until 538 B.C. Babylon continued to exercise her extensive authority. But a change was to take place. Daniel saw the second beast, “like unto a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it.” Daniel 7:5. After Babylon came the kingdom of Medo-Persia in 538 B.C., the second world empire.
The bear is raised up on one side to represent the fact that Persia was stronger than the Medes. Those two powers were allied together in their domination of the earth. The three ribs probably symbolize the three provinces of that kingdom—Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.
Then in 331 B.C. Medo-Persia went down, and the third world empire arose. According to the prophecy, “dominion was given to it.” Verse 6. It was “like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads.” Verse 6. Any schoolboy who has studied his lessons carefully in ancient history will know that Greece arose as the next world ruler. Alexander the Great came marching from the west, laying the world at his feet in a very short time. The four wings of the leopard denote the exceeding speed with which Alexander subdued the nations. Within eight years, he had completely subjugated the world and sat down to weep because there were no more worlds to conquer. But he could not conquer himself; he died as a young man of thirty-three at the height of his power. At his death the kingdom was divided among his four leading generals: Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy. The four heads of the beast represent those divisions of his empire. This brings us to the year 168 B.C. and the downfall of the Grecian empire in that very year. So far, every detail of the prophecy has been fulfilled exactly.

Answer 6

The beast of Revelation represents the Roman empire.

Answer 7

The beast represents some believe The Roman Empire, Which is no more and the anti-christ is in that case Nero, who also is no more.

Answer 8

well traditionally it will be a man near the end of our world
that will be directly serving satan...and that at some
point will declare himself god on earth. he will run
everything for awhile....

some also say that the beast might be a "form" of gov't...

Answer 9

Which one? There are many beasts in scripture.

Answer 10

Emperor Nero.