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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:
This is a question for those who study all the time and can give evidance of why they Believe what they do Historically and biblically. Internal and or External. Please let me know what your beleif is on this scripture REV 17:10 Please list any historical writings Etc. Love in Christ Jesus RC |
Bible Answer: The Geneva Translation Notes (1599) read: "The beginning of these kings or emperors is almost the same as the beginning of the Church of Christ ... from the 25th year after the passion of Christ, at which time the temple and church of the Jews was overthrown. In this year it came to pass by the providence of God, that that saying 'The beast was, and is not' was fulfilled before the destruction of the Jews immediately following, came to pass. That was 809 years from the building of the city of Rome at which time John counted the emperors who had been, when he wrote these things, and foretells two others next to come: and with this purpose, that when this particular prediction of things to come should take effect, the truth of all other predictions in the Church, might be the more confirmed. God in ancient times mentioned this sign in the Law and Jeremiah confirmed it in (Deuteronomy 18:1-22; Jeremiah 28:8). "Whose names are these: the first, Servius Sulpitius Galba, who was the seventh emperor of the people of Rome, the second Marcus Salvius Otho, the third Avlus Vitellius, the fourth, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the fifth, Titus Vespasianus his son, of his own name. "Flavius Domitian, son of the first Vespasian. For in the latter end of his days John wrote these things, as witnesses Irenaus; Lib. 5 adversus hareses. "Nerua, The empire being now translated from the family of Flavius. This man reigned only one year, four months and nine days, as the history writers tell. " Whereas the more contemporary Jamieson, Fausset and Brown assert: "...the first five of the seven are fallen (a word applicable not to forms of government passing away, but to the fall of once powerful empires: Egypt, Eze. 29:1-30:26; Assyria and Nineveh, Nah. 3:1-19; Babylon, Revelation 18:2; Jeremiah 50:1-51:64; Medo-Persia, Daniel 8:3-7, 8:20-22; 10:13; 11:2; Greece, Daniel 11:4). Rome was 'the one' existing in John's days. 'Kings' is the Scripture phrase for kingdoms, because these kingdoms are generally represented in character by some one prominent head, as Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, Medo-Persia by Cyrus, Greece by Alexander, etc. "[The other not yet come is] the Germanic-Slavonic empire beginning and continuing in its beast-like, that is, HEATHEN Antichristian character for only 'a short space.' The time when it is said of it, 'it is not' (Revelation 17:11), is the time during which it is 'wounded to death,' and has the 'deadly wound' (Revelation 13:3). The external Christianization of the migrating hordes from the North which descended on Rome, is the wound to the beast answering to the earth swallowing up the flood (heathen tribes) sent by the dragon, Satan, to drown the woman, the Church. The emphasis palpably is on 'a short space,' which therefore comes first in the Greek, not on 'he must continue,' as if his continuance for some [considerable] time were implied... The time of external Christianization (while the beast's wound continues) has lasted for centuries, ever since Constantine. Rome and the Greek Church have partially healed the wound by image worship." |