The Beast: What Are We Looking For?

The beast is often pictured as a ten horned monster. Are we to look for something resembling a monster or is the reality a little more down to earth, a bit more ‘homely’?

This is a brief out line of the biblical guidelines to watch for.

The Beast Scripturally Has the Following Characteristics:

An Angel of Light

First and foremost, everything Satan does is by sleight of hand. Nothing is as it seems. The beast will appear as an angel of light. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵ Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness. 2 Cor 11:14

Conclusion. The very last person you expected, the least obvious, will be the one. No one would be deceived otherwise.

Extensive Diplomatic Skills

To have the cooperation necessary in the early stages, this person will have had considerable experience on the political arena.

Conclusion: To survive in the intensely difficult times the beast presides over, this person has a lot of experience and skill to weld it all together. Later on Satan will be empowering him.

A European Leader

From two sets  of scriptures we are looking for a leader from Europe. Both Revelation and Daniel show him to have descended from the long line of continuous resurrections of the Roman Empire. There are only four world empires recorded in the bible, the last one is the Roman Empire. (Not Chinese or Arab etc)

Both European And From Christian Tradition

The beast along with the false prophet are able to deceive true Christians, ‘For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect’. Matt 24:24

Conclusion: There is absolutely no way a true Christian could be deceived by a Buddhist, Muslim or agnostic leader. The deception would have to be (or appear to most as) very close to the truth to be difficult to separate fact from fiction.

The Beast Will Be A Man Of Faith

The whole powerbase of the beast is in conjunction with religion. He with the false prophet uses faith as a tool for political control.

Conclusion: Look for a person with a background involved with ‘faith’ in combination with political skill and experience.

The Beast Comes On Stage As Something New

The fifteen scriptural warnings that the Day of the Lord starts without any introduction or outward indications point to the beast and the whole political apparatus he is involved with not having been in existence long enough to be recognised for what it was when the Day of the Lord starts.

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 1 Thess 5:2 together with 14 other similar verses. We should understand that perfectly as Paul says.

Conclusion: The arrival of the beast and his political system will coincide with the start of something different and the ‘End Time’ will begin almost immediately. The beast certainly will not be recognized as such at first.

The Beast And The False Prophet Linked

The beast is a secular politician when he begins his journey. The false prophet is the recognized leader of the predominant religious organization within Europe. The two are inextricably linked and dependent on each other. At some point the traditional Church is altered beyond recognition with the false prophet declaring the beast as the god that must be worshiped by all:

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. Rev 17:16

Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. ³⁸ But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Dan 11:37

Conclusion: The beast must have a direct and recognizable link with the religious leader of Europe.

How And When Does The Beast Gain All His Power?

The subject of how the Day of the Lord has a very unexpected and sudden start is heavily emphasised. When events do get underway it is in an atmosphere of complete panic. The fall of Babylon catapults the whole world into total financial chaos. Rev 18

All nations will struggle for continued existence. In this environment populations are only too willing to make concessions if it could mean survival.

In the jostle, war inevitably breaks out. The second seal:‘Power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword’. Rev 6:4

A lot more information on the beast is on our main web-site, Read & Run under the navigation heading: Beast

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