VI: The Prophets' Visions

Scarlet Beast from the Abyss Counterfeit court

the recurring power released when restraint lifts

Root
Dan 7:3-7 · tehom (H8415)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 3:14
  2. Eccl 1:9
  3. Isa 41:4
  4. Dan 7:3-7
  5. Dan 7:11
  6. Dan 11:36
  7. Rev 17:8
New Testament
Rev 9:1-11; Rev 11:7; Rev 17:3; Rev 17:8

Yahuah names Himself "I AM THAT I AM" (Exod 3:14) and "the first, and with the last" (Isa 41:4), the One who is, who was, and who is to come. The scarlet beast is His parody: it "was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit" (Rev 17:8). Daniel's fourth beast is slain and given to the burning flame (Dan 7:11), and "that which hath been is that which shall be" (Eccl 1:9). The power worked through earlier empires, its final form did not yet exist in John's day, and it appears when the restraint lifts. It is the same beast that kills the witnesses, many facets moving in one direction.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 161, 166, 277, 281–282, 296–300, 302