Buzz_Lightyear said:
Is it possible that Revelations 12 contains two references to different dragons, The red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and the other great dragon that is in heaven (aka Satan)? If you think the red dragonis Satan then what would the seven heads and ten horns be?
Couldn't it be that the Scarlet beast transcends time and is figurative of Satan's spiritual domain through history? Satan was given dominion over all the kingdoms of the earth, so, indeed, Satan is the Scarlet beast, having those heads and dominions over time and earth's history.
Rev. 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
There is a dual reality to the end time scriptures that I am coming to find. The amills have it half right, and the mills have the other half right. There is a spiritual kingdom that is already established when Jesus rose from the dead, took away the keys of life and death from satan, and ascended to the Father's right hand. Yet, there is still a physical kingdom that has to be realized.
Before all things were put under the Lord's feet, all the kingdoms of the earth belonged to satan or he would not have been able to tempt Jesus with them (Luke 4:6).
So, indeed the ten horns are ten rulers, or kings, but have no kingdom until the antichrist rules for his short period of time. Who are they? Ellis Skolfield, a favorite amill author of mine, sees them as the 10 economic areas of the trilateral commision that rule over the money of the world. It is through these that the money system of the antichrist is set up. America is zone 1, Europe 2, Japan 3, Australia 4, Russia 5, South America 6, Middle East 7, Africa 8, India 9, and China 10.
America's Council of Forein Relations works with these along with Fema here at home. The pieces are in place to hand over power to the antichrist, IMO.