You say they are not mountains, but scripture states they are. I'll go with scripture:
revelation 17:9 This calls for a mind that has wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings
The Scriptures say OROS (Greek word) which means ONE WHO ARISES ABOVE THE PLANE, and then says THEY ARE ALSO 7 Kings. I should clarify,
they are not MOUNTAINS in one place, they are not Mountains anyway in reality, it's a Metaphor for KINGDOMS who have KINGS that ARISE like Mountains above the plane. (They are 7 Different Places !! Not 7 Mountains in one place)
Why are we told this ? Think about it. God is trying to show us something via REDUCING here as in 10/20, to 5/10 to 1/2. We are shown that this 7 Headed Beast is 7 Kingdoms, who started out with with Kings who arose of course, these are the 7 Kingdoms the Harlot Rides on the back of, in other words she has been co-mingled with Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome etc. etc. But then God REDUCES EVERYTHING, and says they are ALSO 7 Kings, 5 have Fallen (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece, WE KNOW who they are)..........ONE IS (Rome) and one is YET TO COME (Anti-Christ who Conquers Jerusalem to become the BEAST). So God reduced the Kingdoms to Kings who arose and then tells us SPECIFICALLY about the Kings who fall or lose Dominion.
WHY ? Because the Last Beast, the Anti-Christ, is the only one of all the Beast Kingdoms to never pass his Kingdom on to another King !! He both ARISES and FALLS in a 42 Month period, none of the other Beasts did this !! This is what God wants us to know, this last Beast is a MAN !! Not a Kingdom per se like the others. The number of the Beast is thus the Number of a MAN (666). Thus God reduces the Kingdoms to MEN WHO FALL in order to explain unto us that the last Beast will be a MAN, the Man of Sin, the Little Horn, now we know to look for A MAN......Not a Kingdom per se.
the definition of a mountain:
a large natural elevation of the earth's surface
rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill.
the exact greek word for mountains in
revelation 17:9 is found 6 other times in scripture. All 6 times it refers to mountains.
From strongs:
a mountain, hill
Probably from an obsolete oro (to rise or "rear"; perhaps akin to
airo; compare
ornis); a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain): -hill, mount(-ain).
I explained all of this above, before I saw this, so I think I have covered this.
This is false. There is no scripture that states the 7 heads are "kingdoms". it states they are "kings"
revelation 17:9 This calls for a mind that has wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
There are also seven kings
You better get with it my friend, this is easy stuff as per Eschatology.
Which answers the above WHYS.....................Why they are 7 Kingdoms.
No, I would disagree. the angel states the 7 heads are 7 mountains. I'll side with angel.
It's a Metaphor, but the FALSE FLAG is when people think its 7 Mountains in ONE PLACE, no, it's a Metaphor for 7 Kingdoms the Harlot Religion has been riding throughout history. She flourished at her zenith in Babylon, thus she was of them all, thus they are 7 different places. See Rev. 13, we see Babylon, Persia and Greece mentioned, we also see Rome, who suffered the MORTAL WOUND because the Church could not be overcome by the gates of hell !! We turned Rome from a Beast to a Conveyor belt of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Are there scriptures that states Egypt and Assyria were beasts?
Yes, Daniel tells us what a Beast is, then Rev. 13 tells you there are 7 Heads to the Beasts and that the Lion, Bear and Leopard are a part of them. Rev. 17 tells us that 5 have fallen and ONE IS (Rome) So who could possibly be the 5 that were Beasts before Rome ? Well it can only be Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece who had fallen. No other nations had BEASTED over Israel at the time Rme was in power but those 5. This is pretty basic stuff.
Daniel 2 and 7 describe these empires.
And it describes a LITTLE HORN (5th Beast) also.
Where does scripture identify the wound as rome?
It is for us to understand via the Holy Spirit. The world can't see these things. Jesus told the disciples why he spoke in parables, so the world seeing would not see and hearing would not hear. God gives us these things in code.
Rev. 13 tells us the Beast has a MORTAL WOUND, well who was the Beast over Israel when John wrote that ? Rome, what happened to Rome ? They went from a mortal enemies to Christians to the world wide conveyor belt of Christianity, the Pax-Romanus was the perfect conveyor belt to spread the Gospel to the world. "All roads lead to Rome", travel in Rome for all of its citizenry was basically unlimited, the subjects all basically spoke one language, Koine Greek, which is why the New Testament was written in Greek of course. So Rome was a BEAST !!! Rome suffered a MORTAL WOUND as per being a Beast over Israel for two Reasons. The Church can not be overcome by the gates of hell, and there was NO ISRAEL to Beast over, God dispersed them around the world because of disobedience, Ezekiel foretold this, Israel became as Dead Men's Bones !! Only in 1948 did God breath life back into Israel, and they have not yet been Conquered by the Man of Sin/Little Horn/Anti-Christ yet, when the Rapture happens, then the Beast will ARISE AGAIN, the Anti-Christ will be allowed to go forth Conquering when Jesus opens the First Seal, then the Beast will ARISE in the Mediterranean Sea Region once again. That is when the MORTAL WOUND of this figurative Beast is thus HEALED.
not the 10 kings of revelation 17
Revelation 17:12 ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.
They rule over their Nations, but they give their Kingdoms/Power over unto the Anti-Christ. The 7 Heads are Kingdoms also, just on a larger scale, everyone of those other 6 Beasts also had Kingdoms they overran and ruled. Persia conquered Babylon and ruled them, Greece conquered Persia and ruled them, etc. etc.
Daniel 8 is about Antiochus from about 2200 years ago.
Isaiah 10 is about the Assyrian Empire from over several thousand years ago
Reread Isaiah 10, its about the End Time Anti-Christ, as soon as he is defeated we see chapter 11 starts out with the Lamb will lie down with the Wolf (not the Lion as is popularized). So he is an Assyrian. Dan. 8 is about the Anti-Christ/Little Horn, not Antiochus Epiphanes. God is giving us where he is from, we just have to receive it.
because the vision interprets the symbol. If it didn't, I bet you there would be 100 different interpretation on this forum.
Yes, but with much study and prayer, we can gain this understanding from God.
how does this answer the OP, why does the dragon have 7 crowns and the beast in the next chapter have 10 crowns?
One is on the HEADS.............the other is on the HORNS. The Last Head, Last Beast or the Anti-Christ has 10 Horns who arise with him. It designates who they are.
personal interpretation, as there are no scriptures that define the 10 horns as the E.U.
Yes there is, what you really mean is you think he's a Muslim/Islam (RIGHT?) thus it can't be OUT OF THE FOURTH BEASTS HEAD even though that is what the scriptures say in Dan. ch. 7.
So do locusts in revelation 9
so does satan in revelation 20
Revelation 20:3,7 And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it
When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
The Locusts are DEMONS and Apollyon is their King. Reread it in chapter 9 (1st Woe). Satan being released 1000 years after Jesus takes over of course can have nothing to do with the Anti-Christ or 7 Headed Beast.