VKI_081_ VILLY KUMARI IMEDEMAAL: THE BEAST ( REVELATION) _ WIKIPEDIA / MEEZ 25. 09. 2026
The Beast (Koine Greek: Θηρίον, Thērion) may refer to one of three beasts described in the Book of Revelation.
Revelation 12-13 describes these three beasts as follows:The dragon (later revealed in the text to be Satan)[1]
The beast of the sea (commonly interpreted as the Antichrist)[2][3]
The beast of the earth (later revealed in the text to be the false prophet)[4]
However, many people have different beliefs about the meaning of these beasts.
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The Beast (Revelation)
The Beast (Koine Greek: Θηρίον, Thērion) may refer to one of three beasts described in the Book of Revelation.
Revelation 12-13 describes these three beasts as follows:
- The dragon (later revealed in the text to be Satan)[1]
- The beast of the sea (commonly interpreted as the Antichrist)[2][3]
- The beast of the earth (later revealed in the text to be the false prophet)[4]
However, many people have different beliefs about the meaning of these beasts.
In Revelation 13:1–10, the beast of the sea rises "out of the sea" and is given authority and power by the dragon. It persecutes God's people in the 2nd part of Revelation 13. To buy and sell, everyone is required to have its name or number on their forehead or right hand (Rev 13:16-17). It speaks blasphemous words against God, will rule the world for 42 months (Revelation 13:5-7), and is described as resembling a leopard, a lion, and a bear—which are three of the animals in Daniel 7. It suffers a fatal head wound which is miraculously healed, bewildering the world's population and causing many to worship it.
In Revelation 13:11–18, the beast of the earth, later known as the false prophet, comes "out of the earth," exercises all the authority of the Sea Beast, forces everyone on earth to worship the Sea Beast, and convinces the people, through signs and wonders, to make an image of the Sea Beast.
In their fight against God, the Sea Beast and the False Prophet ally with the Dragon to persecute the "saints" and those who do not "worship the image of the beast [of the sea]" and influence earthly kings through three unclean spirits to gather for the battle of Armageddon.[5] These two beasts are ultimately defeated by Christ and thrown into the lake of fire mentioned in Revelation 19:18–20, while Satan, the dragon, is imprisoned in the bottomless pit for 1,000 years. After being released from the bottomless pit after the millennial reign, Satan deceives the nations one last time, ultimately ending in Satan being defeated and thrown in the lake of fire.
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Alternative views
- The Bahá'í Faith identifies the Beast to be the Umayyad Caliphate, who waged spiritual war against the "two witnesses," understood to be Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and Ali.[67]
- Aleister Crowley claimed that he was the Beast prophesied in Revelation and used the name Τὸ Μέγα Θηρίον (To Méga Thēríon, sometimes shortened to just Therion), Greek for "The Great Beast", which adds up to 666 by isopsephy, the Greek form of gematria.[68][69]
- During the New Deal, some ministers identified the Congress of Industrial Organizations as a "Sign of the Beast".[70] Outside of black churches, 20th-century evangelicalism in America tended to regard labor unions as the mark of the beast, although evangelicals originally worked to eliminate class distinctions.[71]
- Some identify the Beast with a supercomputer in Brussels, Belgium.[72][73] However, author Joe Musser attributes the origin of this urban legend to his 1970 novel Behold, a Pale Horse and to an ad campaign promoting the movie The Rapture which featured the Brussels-based supercomputer. This ad campaign consisted of make-believe newspapers containing "reports" on various aspects of the movie. Musser speculates that stories subsequently run in an unnamed Pennsylvania newspaper and a 1976 issue of Christian Life magazine were mistakenly based on these ads.[72][73]
- Various Christian anarchists, such as J. Ellul, have identified the State and political power as the beast in the Book of Revelation.[56][74]
See also
- Abomination of desolation
- Behemoth, a beast mentioned in the Tanakh (Old Testament)
- Dābbat al-Arḍ in Islamic belief
- Events of Revelation (Chapter 13)
- Lotan, the seven-headed sea serpent or dragon of Ugaritic myths
- Mušḫuššu
- The horse in Nordic mythology



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