The great and wonderous sign in heaven

Bible2+ said:

Revelation 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

Note that "the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit" is simply describing who will kill the Two Witnesses. It's not saying he won't ascend until immediately before he kills them. For he will ascend some 3.5 years before he kills them.

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He will ascend out of the Bottomless Pit -as soon- that the Bottomless Pit will be opened....Revelation 9...Revelation 9:11.

That is [him] that the whole Earth shall wonder and worship...all those whose names were not written in the Book of Life.
Revelation 17:8

-He is the one that will be wounded at the head of Revelation 13:3

-He is of the SEVEN ,[is himself also an eighth]; and he shall go into perdition.

Revelation 17:11
11 And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the SEVEN; and he goeth into perdition.

The SEVEN [heads] [Revelation 13:1] will be :
Satan+[Abaddon]+the four angels that are actually bond under the Euphrates River +the false prophet.

He [Abaddon] is the son of perdition ...he will go into perdition into the lake of fire with the false prophet Revelation 19:20

Riberra said in post #101:

-He is the one that will be wounded at the head of Revelation 13:3

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Revelation 13:3 could have a dual meaning. It could refer to the revival of a dead, past empire, that is, one of the 7 heads of Revelation's "beast" in its empire aspect (Revelation 13:1). And at the same time it could apply, along with Revelation 13:14b, to the revival of the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of the beast) after he dies from a head wound (probably in an assassination attempt).

Regarding the revival of a dead, past empire, the 7 heads of Revelation's "beast" in its empire aspect (Revelation 13:1, Revelation 17:3) represent 7 different empires (Revelation 17:9-10): Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and (possibly) Islam. The first 5 had fallen by the time of the apostle John in the 1st century AD: "five are fallen" (Revelation 17:10, Revelation 1:1b-2). The 6th (Rome) existed at the time of John: "one is" (Revelation 17:10). The 7th (possibly Islam) hadn't come by the time of John: "the other is not yet come" (Revelation 17:10). The empire of the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of the beast) will be a different, still-future, 8th head (Revelation 17:11), which will be a revival of one of 5 five empires fallen by the time of John (Revelation 17:8,10-11). It will be a revival of the empire of Babylon. The Antichrist will transform the present-day, rebuilt city of Babylon (in Iraq) into the capital of his world empire, only to see his city of Babylon destroyed at Jesus Christ's Second Coming (Isaiah 13).

Before the Second Coming, when the world is brought into the conscious and open worship of Lucifer (Satan, the dragon) and the Antichrist, during the Antichrist's future, literal 3.5-year worldwide reign (Revelation 13:4-18, Revelation 12:9), the Antichrist will build their main temple in the city of Babylon. For a temple to "wickedness" will be built in Shinar (Babylonia) (Zechariah 5:8,11), and the Antichrist is called "that Wicked" (2 Thessalonians 2:8). Also, the dragon has been the god worshipped in the city of Babylon since ancient times.

The Antichrist may claim to be Nebuchadnezzar returned, and so reinstitute the system which Nebuchadnezzar set up whereby everyone had to worship an image or be killed (Daniel 3, Revelation 13:15). The Antichrist may also claim to be, at the same time, the return of Nimrod (the founder of Babylon: Genesis 10:8-10), and Hammurabi, and Asoka, and other famous rulers of the past. For he may claim he has had many different "past lives" as various "enlightened" rulers.

Besides building a main temple in Babylon, the Antichrist will also sit (at least one time) in a future, 3rd Jewish temple in Jerusalem, and declare himself God there (2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:36,31, Matthew 24:15, Revelation 11:1-2). The Antichrist could also sit (at least one time) in other religions' holiest shrines, and declare himself to be God there as well. For example, he could also sit in Islam's Kaaba in Mecca, in the Sikhs' Golden Temple in Amritsar, in Catholicism's St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, etc.