A Temple
A revelation in Daniel. What makes a beast a beast? Daniel knows beasts and abominations. Jesus wanted us to pay attention to them. An abomination is something that you do to the holy place. The Temple. Only a beast would mess with the Temple. With only two Temples, how do you get four beasts?
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A Connection With Daniel
A different beast in common with John. The “ten horns” ties it all together. They “shall hate the whore” and John provides enough clues to identify Babylon the Great. Islam can identify ten dynasties. Constantinople was attacked by the second one in 666 and fell to the tenth one in 1453.
A Number
A year, a starting point, a date. Nearly all products have a mark or a date marking the beginning of its existence. A beast will also have a starting point and in most cases an end point. There could be an exception. One was diverse from all the beasts that were before it. How do we identify a beast?
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A Problem With The Temple
A beast of Daniel is “diverse from all the beasts”. What makes a beast of Daniel diverse? The Temple. Jesus called it the “abomination of desolation”. So what is in the “holy place” now? The Dome of the Rock. Don’t mess with the Temple. We know about the moneychangers. Don’t mess with His Church.
A Fit With Daniel
A connection with “ten horns”. John knows Daniel who knows beasts. The beasts of John are the last two beasts of Daniel. All four beasts of Daniel had something to do with the Temple. Babylon destroyed the first one. Greece desecrated the second. Rome destroyed the second. Islam is preventing the third.
A Sea Of Glass Mingled With Fire
A Greek fire was used on the Sea of Marmara that was like a sheet of glass to defeat the disciples of Mahomet. This passage, Revelation 15:2, is about the first siege of Constantinople. It’s about the beast, its mark, its image, its number and the sea of glass.
A Dynasty
A whore will hate. Babylon the Great fell to the tenth dynasty of Islam. Who can count dynasties? Islam can. Constantinople started with the fifth dynasty of the Roman Empire. Just look at the numbers. The “ten horns” connect John with Daniel. Daniel knows beasts and John knows Daniel and numbers.
A Dynasty
A number that fits with history. Good luck with counting kings. Way too many. Dynasties not so much. Most historians get exactly seven. Most agree the Roman Empire was a beast of Daniel but aren’t aware that it had seven dynasties nor are they aware of ten dynasties to go with the “ten horns” of Daniel.
A Sixth Dynasty
A time when “five are fallen” and the “Valentinianic dynasty” was the sixth dynasty of Rome, Chrysostom was in Ephesus. Whether or not you can count dynasties or kings of the Roman Empire, you can agree it was a beast, one of the four beasts of Daniel. Seven dynasties have been clearly identified by historians.
A Translation Issue
A beast. Your bible could have as many as 296 beasts or as few as 87. There are 20 translations that consider the beast in Revelation 13:1 a ‘he’ and 37 translations call it an ‘it’. This is a significant difference. Daniel 7:7 can help us here. The fourth beast is an it in all 52 translations. It has ten horns just like the beast in Revelation.
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