“A Beast,” says Daubuz, “is the symbol of a tyrannical, usurping power or monarchy, that destroys its neighbors or subjects, and preys upon all about it, and persecutes the church of God?
“The four beasts in Dan. 7:3, are explained in ver. 7, of four kings or kingdoms, as the word king is interpreted, ver. 23.
“The Beast that ascendeth out of the Bottomless Pit” — Ch.
11:7
In the apocalypse there are the earth, the sea, the sand of the sea, the abyss, and the pit of the abyss. All these terms have their own special
In the Hebrew tongue any collection of waters is termed seas as in Gen. 1:10, “The gathering together of the waters, he called seas.” The word before us in the original is thalassa, on which the lexicon says, “when Homer uses it of a particular sea, he means the Mediterranean, for he calls the outer sea Okeanos, Ocean, and holds it to be a fiver.
But John in his symbolic standing “stood upon the Sand of the Sea”.
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.”