Chapter 13

The Apostle John, standing upon the Sand of the Sea, beholds a Beast ascending out of the sea, even that beast he alluded to in Ch. 11:7, as the destroyer of the Witnesses. Like the Dragon, it had Seven Heads and Ten Horns; and its power, throne, and great authority, it acquired from the Dragon. Thus it divided the Habitable with the Dragon; so that the inhabitants thereof worship the Dragon and the Beast.

The Seventh Seal, Seven Trumpets, and the Six Vials to the appear­ing of Christ “as a thief;” exhibiting the development of the Ten Horns of Daniel’s Fourth Beast in the wounding of the Sixth Head and the est­ablishment of the Seventh; (Apoc. 8) the subversion of the Greek Catholic Dynasty of Constantinople, (Apoc. 9) the rising of Daniel’s eleventh Episcopal Horn, or Eighth Head, that speaks blasphemies, and “as a Dragon;” (Apoc.

The Laodicean State, typified by the Apocalyptic ecclesia at Laodicea, is parallel with the Seventh Seal Period from its opening to the Fall of the apocalyptic Babylon after the appearing of “The Ancient of Days.”