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NASB | Revelation 17:10 and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 17:10 and they are seven kings: five of whom have fallen, one exists and is reigning; the other [the seventh] has not yet come, and when he does come, he must remain a little while. |
Bible Question (short): Persons or World Powers? |
Question (full): Hello Tim Moran, On reading your post I decided to read my electronic copy of Seiss Apocalypse Rev 17:1-17, If I may quote a portion of it,"They are Greece, Persia, Babylon, Assyria, and Egypt; no more and no less. And these all were imperial powers like Rome. Here, then are six of these regal mountains; the seventh is not yet come. When it comes it is to endure but a short time. This implies that each of the others continues a log time; and so, again could not mean the dictators, decemvirs, and military tribunes of the early history of Rome, for some of them lasted but a year or two.Thus, then, by the clearest, most direct, and most natural signification of words of the record, we are brought to the identification of these seven mountain kings as the seven great world-powers, which stretch from the beginning of our present world to the end of it. Daniel makes the number less; but he started with his own times, and looked only down the stream. Here the account looks backward as well as forward. What is first in Daniel is the third here, and that which is the sixth here is the fourth in Daniel. Only the commencing point is there any difference. The visions of Daniel and the visions of John are from the same Divine Mind, and they perfectly harmonize, only that the latest are the amplest. By these seven great powers then, filling up the whole interval of this world's history, this great Harlot is said to be carried." Sir the above quote identifies the seven as great world powers. How did you come to the conclusion that they are persons? Is there another source that you have that supports that the seven are persons? In HIS Hand, Brian |