Your questions in this area are similar to your questions about His "coming" in Matthew 10:5-23.
When you are shown the truth found in scripture, you ignore it and ask the same question.
When you are shown the text which reveals the beast is a nation, you just ignore it and then continue to ask the same question.
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What is “the beast” of the Book of Revelation:
In the text below Babylon is that great city, which is the seat of the beast.
The beast is a nation that
was, and was not, and now is again a nation.
The seat of that nation sits on seven mountains.
It is the nation now worshipped by many modern Christians, because they ignore Romans 2:28-29, and
1 John 2:22-23, and
2 John 1:7-11, and Revelation 2:9, and Revelation 3:9.
If you show what the Bible says on this issue, you will be condemned, or you will be ignored.
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Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of
them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Rev 3:9 Behold, I will make
them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Rev_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.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified.
Rev_13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw
a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Rev_13:2
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:
and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Rev_13:3 And
I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Rev_13:4 And
they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Rev_13:11
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Rev_13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth
and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev_13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth,
that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev_14:8 And there followed another angel, saying,
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Rev_16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon
the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
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.
Rev_17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
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There are two Jerusalems found in the Book of Revelation.
They are found below.
Rev 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
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