The A/C is NOT the 8th king Satan is. He possesses the A/C and rules through him. The A/C is the Islamic Peace negotiator after God deals with the Russian Federation plus the Iranian, Ethiopian & Libyian`s armies.
Hi Marilyn,
The beast is the 8th king. At Jesus's return, the beast and the false prophet will be cast alive into the lake of fire. Differently, Satan will be cast into the bottomless pit.
So 8th king > beast. The beast, however, cannot be Satan for the reason above.
The next question is who possesses the beast? Satan or someone else?
There is presently a disembodied spirit in the bottomless pit, that will come out and possess the 8th king. But Satan is not in the bottomless pit, so it is not referring to Satan. There are different views on who that disembodied spirit was when he was alive. My view is the original serpent in the garden who beguiled Eve, and led Adam and Eve to eat from the forbidden tree.
If as you say the A/C is of the EU and confirms the covenant with Israel, then what is Russia and the Moslems doing?
I do not think the covenant is a peace treaty, but the Mt. Sinai covenant.
When the person comes from the EU,
following Gog/Magog, that is when the Jews will think that he is the messiah, and is anointed the King of Israel. And he makes the big speech from the temple mount, about God giving the land to the children of Israel as theirs forever. A requirement Moses made of all future leaders of Israel, back in Deuteronomy 31:9-13, on a cycle of 7 years.
As far as Russia and the muslims, their armies combined as Gog's army will suffer a catastrophic destruction and the multitude buried en masse grave site in Israel. It will be the end of Islam, so great will be the failure.
It will take 7 years for the next generation of Russians military age youths to replace their human loss, to once again make a move into the middle east near the end of the 7 years. At that time, to attack the beast, only to become part of the force that will try to make war on Jesus, when the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven.