Jerry, why are you continuing to say eighth "head"? There is no eighth "head" on the Revelation Scarlet colored beast. The Scarlet colored beast has only seven heads, Revelation 17:3. Jerry, correct your copy and pasting, to say eighth king instead, going forward.
The 7th Julio Claudian king - the little horn person - comes to power right before entering the final 7 years of the end times, in Revelation 12, as that picture of the Great Red Dragon has the 7 heads with crowns - signifying that the prophecy of the 7 kings is complete then.
1260 days + the time/times/half time in Revelation 12 make up the seven years.
There are no time components of the 7 years in Revelation 17. Thus, no crowns on either the heads, nor horns in Revelation 17, the status of the beast first century, when King 6 was ruling at the time of John.
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Jerry, you are not following the progression of the 7 kings.
In Revelation 17, 6 kings are fulfilled, first century.
In Revelation 12, all 7 kings have been fulfilled, 7 years left
In Revelation 13, king 7 has become king 8, 42 months left
Again, you fail to grasp the details, making Revelation 17:9-11 your Shibboleth. In the preponderance of translations, verses 9 and 10 are translated,
"Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits, and they are seven kings... (Revelation 17:9,10 NASB, ESV, NET, NIV)
The seven heads are renamed seven kings, which means the scarlet beast is also the eighth head in verse 11. And the eighth head “was, and is not” in relation to the sixth. Five heads are fallen, one is, the sixth, while the eighth head “was, and is not” from this viewpoint. Note that one of the seven heads is wounded in 13:3, which means the same king is wounded, and has a "was, and is not" episode.
In chapter 13, the ten kings are given power with the sea beast, which has all the criteria of Daniel’s little horn because they are the same. Chapter 17 represents the wounded head and why the ten are without crowns. This illustrates the rise of the little horn as the sea beast in Revelation 13, renamed the beast in 17, representing the papacy when Protestantism wounds it and enriches the kings and merchants of the earth.
Revelation 17:9-11 renames the heads as mountains, and seven kings, nay eight. It uses the literary device of appositives. You might want to study the device; John uses it in 20:2 also.
Revelation 17:11 says the eighth “is of the seven;” it doesn’t say he “was the seventh,” which is what you are forcing it to say. Again, your Shibboleth is the detail that the eighth king is the revived fifth one, who “was” before the sixth.
Again, you still haven’t explained how a future leader of the EU lived before Claudius. Revelation 17:9-10 says the eighth head “was” before the sixth, which you say is Claudius. Again, how does the future head of the EU come before the emperor Claudius of ancient times?