Table 18 – The Schema of Three Tenses and its Interpretation.(LANDSCAPE) |
THE BEAST IN THE WILDERNESS – (REV 17 / SATAN) | |||||
BIBLICAL PASSAGES |
Until the fight in heaven |
Until the Battle of Armageddon |
Until the thousand years are completed |
Until the Last Fight |
In eternity |
Rev 17:8 a Rev 17:8 b Rev 17:11 |
the beast was the beast was the beast was |
he is not he is not he is not |
shall ascend out of the abyss it will come |
he goes to destruction |
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Rev 12:7-8 Rev 12:9; Lk 4:6 10:18 Rev 20:2-3 Rev 20:3-7 Rev 20:10 |
in heaven |
on earth |
into the abyss |
on earth |
in the lake of fire |
THE BEAST OUT OF THE SEA – (REV 13 / ANTICHRIST) | |||||
BIBLICAL PASSAGES |
Until the Return of the Lord and Rapture |
Until raising up by Satan |
Until the Battle of Armageddon |
In eternity |
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Rev 6:2 2Thes 2:3-4; Rev 13:18 2Thes 2:8 Rev 13:1-8; Rev 11:7 Rev 19:20 |
rider on a white horse as a man on earth slain by the Lord at his arrival |
in the abyss / sea raised up by Satan |
as a demon on earth thrown alive into the lake of fire |
in the lake of fire |
(See also Excursus 03: "The Scarlet Beast.")
(See also Discourse 86: "The first and the second Antichrist.")