The beast spoken of by the prophet Daniel and the apostle John.

1. Chapter 4. The Beasts of Daniel and John
The ‘end time’ prophecies in Daniel are best seen
in the light of related prophecies that are found in the
Book of Revelation and find that most of these events are
already history and those which remain are events that
will unmistakably tell who the characters are, what they
have done, what they are doing now, will do in the future
and when they will happen. Understand that the Book of
Revelation is also called the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Here, he is the Lamb, worthy to open the seven seals
and the events in the vision of John are believed
occurrences that begin shortly before Jesus Christ’s time.
Where Daniel 8:10 left off with the ‘little horn that came
out from one of the four horns that reached the host of
the heavens, and threw some of the starry host down to
the earth and trampled on them’; Revelation 12: 4 begins
with ‘his tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and
flung them to the earth’ beginning the war in heaven. To
follow through on the significance of the temple as the
focus of ‘end time’ prophecies, Revelation Chapter 12
opens shortly before the beginning of the 1260 years in
70 AD presumably at the time of Jesus Christ’s birth.
Here several significant events occurred in heaven and
earth. First, it is the time when the woman (the church)
clothed with the sun with the moon on her feet and 12
stars crowning her head (12 apostles) appeared in
heaven. She is pregnant with a child (Jesus who is also
the Word of G-d). Then the red dragon (Satan) with 7
heads and 10 horns and 7 crowns appeared and swept a
third of the stars and flung them to the earth and stood
before the woman ready to devour the child but the child
was snatched up to G-d and his throne while the woman
fled to a place (a desert) where she is protected and
taken cared of for 1,260 years. Thus, the church is said to
be “in the wilderness”. Church is to the new covenant as
temple is to the old as the place reserved for the worship
of God. However, there is continuity, in that both would
have meant one and the same substance, and church

2. admitted the Gentiles who are not related consanguinely
with the Jews and did away with the sacrificial rites of the
temple with the Lord’s Supper. Notice too, that the dragon
has 10 horns and as horns are the pride of whosever’s
head it is worn, their number is more than there are
heads. Second, a war in heaven ensued between the
angels loyal to G-d against the rebel dragon or Satan. As
the loyalist outnumber the rebels 2 to 1, the rebels (a
third of the ‘stars’ or ‘host’ or inhabitants of heaven) were
flung to the earth. The dragon continued to make war
against the Word of G-d (Jesus) on earth and stood at
the shores of the sea from whence came the first beast.
The dragon is a picture of a beast with 7 heads, 10 horns
and 7 crowns on each head while the first beast has 7
heads, 10 horns and 10 crowns on each horn. Third, the
dragon gave the first beast (the Roman Empire) its
authority.
The
Roman
emperor,
through
his
representative in Judea, the Idumaean, Herod the Great,
Governor of Galilee and later King of Judea sought to kill
the child Jesus. He failed to do so, but his subsequent
heirs to the throne followed his pro-Roman policies.
Fourth, the first beast gave the second beast with 2 horns
like a lamb and spoke like a dragon its authority (Rev
13:11-12). During this period, the Roman empire until its
revival as the Holy Roman empire (image of the first
beast) by the pope (second beast), chief priest of the
Roman Catholic church, the state's religion, gave through
Roman Catholic baptism, the mark of the beast on the
foreheads and/or the right hand (priests give the mark of
baptism or “chrism” on the forehead and on the palm of
the right hand of the child being baptized). No one during
these times could live normal lives (buying or selling) if
one was not a Roman Catholic. Only barbarians living in
the fringes of the empire were free of the mark of the
beast but even this was not a guarantee that they were
safe from the clutches of the beast as their womenfolk
knew that their religiosity would come under scrutiny in
public places like the market, where everyone converges
in keeping with good marketing sense and everything is

3. traded, not the least, gossip and fishwives’ tales. Nor
were they secure that their own villages would not be
conquered and annexed to the empire’s. Those who
desired to enjoy the cosmopolitan amenities obtainable
within the boundaries of the empire, most especially
those whose business involved in trading within the
boundaries of the empire were later baptized in keeping
with the culture of the Romans. As the adage goes,
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” The emperor
derived his authority from G-d and the symbol of this
authority, his crown, is set on his head by the bishop of
Rome, the pope, said to be the representative of G-d on
earth. The Holy Roman Empire aspired to equal the width
and breadth of the Roman Empire, which at the height of
its power encompassed the British Isles from the West to
Mesopotamia in the East and all of the coastlands around
the Mediterranean.
The Mark of the Beast. As the beast goes into
battle, he will be known by his marks or uniform.
Revelation 13:11-18 speaks of the one who gave the
mark and who were given the mark. When the Roman
empire (the first beast) fell, the pope found himself as the
head of the church (the second beast) in the tandem of
the church and state, as the sole surviving authority that
could unite the empire’s subjects who were all Roman
Catholics. His two horns are the Western Roman Catholic
church in Rome and the Eastern Orthodox church in
Byzantium. The Roman pope, to prevent the Roman
empire from breaking up, crowned kings from the former
Germanic tribes as Holy Roman emperor to revive the
Roman empire, thus healing the wound of one of its
heads (Rome) and preventing its total disintegration.
Having done this, he now exercised the authority of the
first beast, whose image is the Holy Roman empire.
Having established itself as authority, it caused ‘fire to
come from heaven’ in the Inquisition that was established
to put a stop to heresy. Heretics who did not renounce
their heresies were burned at the stakes. True, much of

4. the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church during the
‘1260 days’ that the early Christian church and saints
were given over to, were sound because they were the
work of the saints and the early Christian church who
continued even when given over to the Roman Catholic
church. Furthermore, authority was given the beast to get
the truth out of the old and new testaments (Rev 11:3-6)
but anyone who tried to harm both by making or even
inserting or taking a word of truth out of it will be
destroyed. However, once their contribution to doctrine
was made, many of them ran afoul with the Roman
Catholic orthodoxy and martyred.
The mark of the beast is given to Roman
Catholics during the rite of baptism when a priest marks
the forehead of the child and the right hand as is written
in Revelation 13:16. Thus the mark or “chrism”, as the
Roman Catholic church calls this, was given a long time
ago. Then, it was easy to question the loyalty of a nonCatholic to the Holy Roman emperor and be suspected of
heresy. Several Christian movements declared as
heretics, Jews, and Muslims who did not succumb to
Roman Catholic baptism were the subject of the
Crusades. It is for this reason that everyone who did not
receive the mark ‘could not buy or sell’. You could not
come to a public place where imperial forces were
watching for fear of discrimination and persecution once
you were identified as a barbarian, not being a Roman
Catholic. There was absolute fear living under the feudal
system then prevailing when you were not a Roman
Catholic. All the members of the royalty were Roman
Catholics saved for those princes who would later
question the authority of the Roman Catholic church but
who were themselves Roman Catholics by convenience,
and whose number were too few and far between. 666 is
the mark of the beast. 6 is man’s number, opposed to 7
which is the mark of divinity. i 6 is man’s number but Christ
is not mere man but the Son of G-d. Three 6’s is in
opposition to Christ’s three characteristics: high priest,

5. prophet and king. The anti-Christ possesses these three
characteristics in opposition to Christ’s by falsely
assuming these characteristics of Christ with the intention
to deceive. He was Phannias, a common man elevated to
the high priest by the Sicarii, a Roman puppet spoken of
in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 in the time of the reign of
Herod Agrippa II. He did not have the mark of the beast
yet, but in the ‘end time’, the man of lawlessness will
have one, even if discreetly. He is also the pope, and the
Roman emperor, his prince and underlings.
Against the popular view based on the ‘first
resurrection’ spoken of in Revelation 20:4 and the
‘seventy sevens’ prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 believed by
so many Protestants concerning the rapture and the antiChrist who will give the mark of the beast at a future date,
specifically during the ‘last week to confirm a covenant’ such declaration must be viewed by suspicion as part of
a sinister plot to mislead Christians, and many such ideas
proliferate giving rise to false beliefs espoused by endtime Christians who harbor weapons preparing for a
literal fight with the risen dead amongst the raptured
Christians whom they call zombies and help the antiChrist give the mark of the beast to the remaining
Christians. The anti-Christ (pope) has long given the
mark (Roman Catholic baptism). After the fall of the
Roman empire, the Merovingians, who were Salian
Franks and Nicean or Western Christians beginning with
Clovis, allied with the Roman Catholic bishops and
became protector of the papacy. In return the pope
justified and confirmed his kingship. The Ostrogoths and
other Germanic tribes who were Arian Christians were
considered heretics by the Roman Catholic church. Thus,
it became politically convenient to convert to Roman
Catholicism and have the support of the de facto ruler of
the Roman empire by them who aspired to rule its
breadth and width. With the aid of the state, the antiChrist by enforced baptism caused the giving of the mark
of the beast (the Roman empire) to all the peoples who

6. fell under the jurisdiction of the empire. Because the rite
of baptism was exercised by the early Christian church
before it was adopted by the Romans who gave it its own
distinguishing ritual, the mark of the beast was given
soon as the church was given over to the Roman empire.
The word “Roman” to describe this faith, is so obvious as
to make it inconspicuous, that this faith is the faith that
worships the ancient Roman empire. That is spoken of in
Revelation 13:8, to wit:
“8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship
the beast – all whose names have not been
written in the book of life belonging to the
Lamb that was slain from the creation of
the world.” (Rev 13:8 NIV)“8 All
inhabitants of the earth will worship the
beast – all whose names have not been
written in the book of life belonging to the
Lamb that was slain from the creation of
the world.” (Rev 13:8 NIV)
The False Prophet. The following references
found in Revelations 16:12-14; 19:19-21; and 20:7-10
speaks of the false prophet. Revelation 16 speaks of the
dragon or Satan; the beast or Roman Catholic church
and its following; and the false prophet leading the
Muslims, including the descendants of Ishmael. At the
outset, the Qur’an perplexes theologians and scholars
alike, for while it holds so many of the truths of Jews and
Christians, there remains some sticky issues upon which
is grounded the reason for the Middle East conflict. The
Jews’ unbelief in Jesus Christ; some of powerful and
influential Muslims’ denial of the time of Israel’s
restoration; and the majority of Christians’ inability to
comprehend the Qur’an as 'categorically' embodying the
covenant of G-d with Ishmael; although Muhammad may
be the one referred to in the Book of Revelation in the
Christian Bible as the false prophet. Who can fathom the
ways of the Lord. As Christians often say, “we are but

7. mere clay and the Lord is the potter” (Jer 18:6-7). That is
to say that the Qur'an may yet evolve its own canon as
the Old and New Testaments have. Its final form may be
reconciled with the much older two covenants. Also, that
the terms used are used, e.g. false prophet, because
they serve a purpose which is to define, albeit limited.
However, if viewed as a concept, and in this particular
case, to reach beyond the limits of human language in its
definition, we can attain an understanding much like the
wisdom of G_d. Which is to say that one belief while true
to its own set of believers is defined as the enemy of the
other. The more important thing is that we gain an
understanding that goes beyond the limits of doctrine or
dogma of a single faith by affording us a view of one faith
from the position of another.

8. i “ nti-Christ, from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1998 by Biblesoft.
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Six is next to the sacred seven, which it mimics but falls short of; it is the number of the world given over to judgment. There
is a pause between the sixth and seventh seals, the sixth and seventh trumpets: for the judgments of the world are completed
in six; at the seventh the world kingdoms become Christ's. As twelve is the number of the church, so six, its half, symbolizes
the world kingdoms broken. The radicals in Christ are CH, R, and ST (chi, rho, and sigma); Antichrist's monogram
impersonates it, but falls short of it, Ch X St (chi, xi, and sigma) (666).”