1.
The Beast in
Revelation 13
Prepared by Armando S. Capangpangan

2.
EGW WARNS US
• "For years I have borne my testimony to the effect that when any
arise claiming to have great light, and yet advocating the
tearing down of that which the Lord through His human agents
has been building up, they are greatly deceived, and are not
working along the lines where Christ is working Those” who
assert that the Seventh-day Adventist Churches constitute
Babylon, or any part of Babylon, might better stay at
home,"—Test. Ministers and Workers,‘36,37

3.
EGW counseled the ministers
• "They are to be met, and opposed, not
because they are bad men, but because they
are teachers of falsehood, and are
endeavoring to put upon falsehood a stamp of
truth.“
—Test. Ministers and Workers, 55,

4.
EGW
• "And the Only safety for any of us is in receiving NO
NEW DOCTRINE, no new interpretation of the
Scriptures, without first submitting it TO THE
BRETHREN OF EXPERIENCE, Lay it before THEM in
a humble, teachable spirit, with earnest prayer; and if‘
THEY SEE NO LIGHT IN IT, YIELD TO THEIR
JUDGMENT; for ’in the multitude of counselors there is
safety.’"
• —Test, Vol, 5, 295.

5.
THE IDENTITY OF THE
BEAST IN REVELATION 13

6.
Composite beast
from Daniel 7

7.
Why it is identified as
Papacy?
• Receives Authority from Pagan Rome
• Speaking great things and blasphemies;
• Persecute the Saints
• He was given Power over 1260 years
• He was wounded but healed
• His Number is 666

8.
Daniel 7:17
• These great beasts, which are four,
are four kings, which shall arise out of
the earth. KJV
• "The four beasts are four earthly
kingdoms.CEV

9.
Identity of the Dragon
Revelation 12:7
• And the great dragon was cast out, that
old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world: he was
cast out into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him.

10.
Why Roman
Empire?
The Dragon

11.
Revelation 12:1-5

12.
Rev 12:4
• And his tail drew the third part of the stars of
heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child
as soon as it was born.

13.
Satan Use Roman
Authority to kill Jesus

14.
EGW confirms
• But the chief agent of Satan in making war upon
Christ and his people during the first centuries of
the Christian era, was the Roman Empire, in
which paganism was the prevailing religion.
Thus while the dragon, primarily, represents
Satan, it is, in a secondary sense, a symbol of
pagan Rome. {GC88 438.2}

15.
Biblical Historical
Interpretation

16.
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.
Revelation 13:1 (KJV)

17.
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.
Revelation 13:2 (KJV)

18.
Beast with Ten
Horns
Beasts of Daniel 7
Leopard
Bear Lion

19.
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.
Revelation 13:2 (KJV)

20.
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.
Revelation 13:3 (KJV)

21.
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?
Revelation 13:4 (KJV)

22.
And there was given
unto him a mouth
speaking great things
and blasphemies; and
power was given unto
him to continue forty
and two months.
Revelation 13:5 (KJV)

23.
And he opened his mouth in
blasphemy against God, to
blaspheme his name, and his
tabernacle, and them that dwell in
heaven. And it was given unto him
to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them: and power was
given him over all kindreds, and
tongues, and nations.
Revelation 13:6-7 (KJV)

24.
To the successions of Caesar’s
came the successions of
pontiffs of Rome when
Constantine left Rome , he
gave his seat to the Pontiffs.
Labianca, Professor of
University of Rome

25.
Constantine transfer his throne to the
eastern Roman empire

26.
The Bishops (Popes) has receiving their authority…

27.
The Popes filled the
place of the vacant
emperors of Rome,
inheriting their power,
prestige, and titles
from paganism…
Stanley’s History p.40

28.
1. Receives Authority from
Pagan Rome
2. Speaking great things and
blasphemies;
Identity of the First beast…

29.
What is Blasphemy?

30.
Jesus was accused as a Blasphemer…

31.
The Jews answered
him, saying, For a good
work we stone thee
not; but for blasphemy;
and because that thou,
being a man, makes
thyself God.
John 10:33 (KJV)

32.
Dignities and Duties of the Priest Vol XII p. II
”God Himself is Obliged by the Judgement of His Priest
and either not to pardon or to pardon... ...according as
the refuse or give absolution... The sentence of the priest
precedes and God subscribes to it.”

33.
“The Pope is of so great
dignity and so exalted
that he is not a mere
man, but as it were God,
and the vicar of God.”
Ferraris’ ECCLESIASTICAL DICTIONARY, (Articles on the Pope).

34.
“We hold upon this earth the
places of God Almighty.”
ENCYCLICAL LETTERS OF LEO XIII, page 304.

35.
1. Receives Authority from
Pagan Rome
2. Speaking great things and
blasphemies;
3. Persecute the Saints
Identity of the First beast…

36.
PUBLIC ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, Volume 2, page 142.
“The Church may by divine right confiscate
the property of heretics, imprison their
persons and condemn them to the flames. In
our age the right to inflict the severest
penalties,...” “...even death belongs to the
church. There is no graver offense than
heresy... therefore it must be rooted out.”

37.
- W.E.H Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence
of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe vol.2 p. 40-45
“That the church of Rome has shed more
innocent blood than any other institution that
has ever existed among mankind, will be
questioned by no Protestant who has a
competent knowledge of history.”

38.
1. Receives Authority from
Pagan Rome
2. Speaking great things and
blasphemies;
3. Persecute the Saints
4. He was given Power over
1260 years
Identity of the First beast…

39.
And there was given
unto him a mouth
speaking great things
and blasphemies; and
power was given unto
him to continue forty
and two months.
Revelation 13:5 (KJV)

40.
Forty Two Months
42 x 30= 1260 days
1260 years
Paralleled to Daniel 7

41.
1260 Years
538 AD 1798
Under the
Justinian code
The Pope is free
in exercising
full authority
General Berthier
arrested the pope
signifies the end of
papal supremacy

42.
1. Receives Authority from
Pagan Rome
2. Speaking great things and
blasphemies;
3. Persecute the Saints
4. He was given Power over
1260 years
5. He was wounded but healed
Identity of the First beast…

43.
1929- Re-establishing Papacy

44.
San Francisco Chronicle Feb 11, 1929
The Roman question tonight was a thing
o a past and the Vatican was at peace
with Italy in affixing the autographs to
the memorable document healing the
wound extreme cordiality was displaced
on both sides.

45.
1. Receives Authority from
Pagan Rome
2. Speaking great things and
blasphemies;
3. Persecute the Saints
4. He was given Power over
1260 years
5. He was wounded but healed
6. His Number is 666
Identity of the First beast…

46.
Here is wisdom. Let him
that hath understanding
count the number of the
beast: for it is the
number of a man; and
his number is Six
hundred threescore and
six.
Revelation 13:18 (KJV)

47.
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR, April 18, 1915.
“What are the letters inscribed in the Pope’s
crown, and what do they signify, if anything?”
“The letters inscribed in the Pope’s mitre are
these: Vicarius Filii Dei, which is the Latin for
Vicar of the Son of God”

48.
Vicarius Filii Dei
V
I
C
A
R
I
U
S
F
I
L
I
I
D
E
I
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
5
1
100
0
0
1
5
0
112
=
=
=
=
=
0
1
50
1
1
53
+
=
=
=
500
0
1
501
+
666
=

49.
Why it is identified as
Papacy?
• Receives Authority from Pagan Rome
• Speaking great things and blasphemies;
• Persecute the Saints
• He was given Power over 1260 years
• He was wounded but healed
• His Number is 666

50.
EGW Confirms
• The prophecy of Revelation 13 declares that the
power represented by the beast with lamblike
horns shall cause "the earth and them which
dwell therein" to worship the papacy --there
symbolized by the beast "like unto a
leopard.“
• Great Controversy 578

51.
EGW
• "In chapter 13 is described another BEAST,
’like unto a leopard,’ to which the dragon
gave, ’his power, and his seat, and great
authority. ’ THIS SYMBOL, as most
Protestants have believed, REPRESENTS
THE PAPACY,
• Great Controversy, 439.

52.
EGW
• "To learn what the image is like, and how it
is to be formed, we must study the
characteristics of THE BEAST ITSELF, -
THE PAPACY,
*~Great Controversy, 443,

53.
VTH asserts that the Beast is
not Papacy
• "The idea concerning the symbolical application of the
false prophet of Revelation 19:20, the woman on the
scarlet colored beast of Revelation 12, the leopard-like
beast of Revelation 13, the scarlet colored beast of
Revelation 17, and the nondescript beast of Daniel, AS
BEING SYMBOLS OP THE PAPACY, IS UNBIBLICAL
AND ALSO ILLOGICAL. "—Shep. Rod, Vol* 2, 148.

54.
VTH
• "The idea that the papacy is called
the beast is altogether wrong,"
• —Shep. Rod, Vol. 2, 151.

55.
EGW
• Through the great powers controlled by paganism and the
papacy, symbolized by the dragon and the leopard-like
beast, Satan for many centuries destroyed God's faithful
witnesses. Under the dominion of Rome, they were tortured
and slain for more than a thousand years; but the papacy was
at last deprived of its strength, and forced to desist from
persecution.
• Spirit of Prophecy Volume 4, 276

56.
EGW
• The beast with lamblike horns commands "all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or
in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Revelation 13:16, 17. This is the mark concerning which the third
angel utters his warning. It is the mark of the first beast, or the
Papacy…
• The Story of Redemption 382

57.
VTH
• The SDA church is symbolized on the
leopard-like beast to the extent that it reveals
she, like the rest of the Christian churches,
rejected the messages brought to her in 1888
and 1930…
• Symbolic Code vol 1, 8.2

58.
VTH
• The Leopard-like is a composite beast of all
the beast before it. His mouth of a lion
(babylon), feet of a bear (medo-persia), body
of a leopard (grecia), the 10 Horns (of the
non-descript beast-Rome), the wounded
head (Catholicism), the unharmed ones
(protestantism), and the crowns (the
kingdoms of today), again prove that the
leopard-like beast is a symbol of the whole
world…
• Symbolic Code vol 1, 8.3

59.
VTH
• …The S.D.A church (head) being
represented on the beast (world) by
a symbol of the same likeness (head)
as the other six churches (heads) …
• Symbolic Code vol 1, 8.3

60.
VTH
• “The Prophecy of Rev 13:3, “and the world wondered
after the beast,” reveals a great apostasy. The Biblical
number “seven” includes everything represented by
the heads (riding on the beast and headed by the
devil). Note the name of blasphemy is upon all
seven heads, --symbols of impious religious leaders,
mocking the personality or authority of God, under
the cloak of Christianity.
• —Shep, Rod, Vol,l 214.

61.
VTH
• In other words, both the protestant
churches and our own Seventh-
day adventist church have
become drunk with “wine”..
Theories of men…
• Symbolic code Vol 12, No 8, 9,6

62.
VTH
• His Church is now as badly overrun by the Devil as the
Jewish church at Christ time. Thus to awaken the honest
ones and to set them free from their Laodecian self-
deception. And thus from overflowing scourge. Do you not
now see the reason for the name blasphemy over all
the seven heads of Leopard like beast? And that if one
head symbolizes a religious system. Then they all must do
the same.
• Timely Greetings, Vol 1, No 3, 9

63.
Rev 17:3
• So he carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit
upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of
names of blasphemy, having seven
heads and ten horns.

64.
VTH
• "While the six Protestant and the one Catholic head make the
Biblical number seven, * meaning all Christendom, God has the same
prophecy confirmed by the prophet Ezekiel, and carried out by the
reformers since Luther’s time; namely, Luther, Knox, Wesley,
Campbell, Miller, and Sister White. "These six great reformers on
the Protestant side established the six great denominations
represented by the six heads, and the Catholic Church (the mother of
Protestantism), the Seventh, Thus including all Christendom in her
polluted state.“
• —Shep, Rod, Vol, 1, 220.

65.
EGW says--- STAY AT HOME
• "For years I have borne my testimony to the effect
that when any arise claiming to have great light,
and yet advocating the tearing down of that which
the Lord through His human agents has been
building up, they are greatly deceived, and are not
working along the lines where Christ is working.
Those who assert that the Seventh-day
Adventist Churches constitute Babylon, or any
part of Babylon, might better stay at home,"—
Test. Ministers and Workers,'56,3VT

66.
EGW
• The prophecy of Revelation 13 declares that the power represented
by the beast with lamblike horns shall cause "the earth and them
which dwell therein" to worship the papacy --there symbolized
by the beast "like unto a leopard." The beast with two horns is also
to say "to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an
image to the beast;" and, furthermore, it is to command all, "both
small and great, rich and poor, free and bond," to receive the mark of
the beast. Revelation 13:11-16. It has been shown that the United
States is the power represented by the beast with lamblike
horns, and that this prophecy will be fulfilled when the United States
shall enforce Sunday observance,…

67.
EGW
• …which Rome claims as the special acknowledgment of her supremacy.
But in this homage to the papacy the United States will not be alone.
The influence of Rome in the countries that once acknowledged her
dominion is still far from being destroyed. And prophecy foretells a
restoration of her power. "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." Verse 3. The infliction of the deadly wound points to
the downfall of the papacy in 1798.
• Great Controversy 578

68.
1798

69.
VTH
• "The EXILE OF POPE PIUS 71, in 1798, and
his death at Valence, France, August 19,
1799, is NOT THE RECEIVING OF THE
WOUND, no more than the death of any other
pope before or after.“
• —Shep. Rod,, Vol. 1, 215.

70.
VTH
• "The Head which received the wound is
being interpreted to be the papal head,
WOUNDED BY ’MARTIN LUTHER’,n‘
• --Shep. Rod, Vol. 1, 216.

71.
EGW
• "AT THAT TIME, the POPE was made
captive by the French army, THE
PAPAL POWER RECEIVED ITS
DEADLY WOUND.”
• —Great Controversy, 439.

72.
1798
Is the Right Answer

73.
EGW
• "God is not the author of confusion, but of
peace. But Satan is a vigilant, unsleeping foe,
ever at work upon human minds, seeking ~a soil
in which he can sow his tares. If he finds any
whom he can press into his service, he will
suggest ideas and false theories, and MAKE
THEM ZEALOUS in advocating error." —Test.
Ministers and Workers, 54.

74.
EGW
• “Let none seek to tear away the foundations of our faith,-
the foundations that were laid at the beginning of our
work, by prayerful study of the word and by revelation.
Upon these foundations we have been building for more
than fifty years. Men may suppose that they have found a
new way, that they can lay a stronger foundation than that
which has been laid; but this is a great deception.”
• – Gospel Workers, p. 30.

75.
EGW
• “The design of the message to the Laodiceans was to rid the church of
just such fanatical influences; but the effort of Satan has been to corrupt
the message, and destroy its influence. He would be better pleased to
have fanatical persons embrace the testimony, and use it in his cause,
than to have them remain in a lukewarm state. I have seen that it was
not the design of the message to lead brother to sit in judgment
over his brother, to tell him what to do, and just how far to go; but
for each individual to search his own heart, and attend to his own
individual work. It is the work of the angels to watch the development
of character, and weigh moral worth.”-Spiritual Gifts, vol. 2, p. 223.

76.
EGW
• “No name which we can take will be appropriate
but that which accords with our profession and
expresses our faith and marks us a peculiar
people. The name Seventh-day Adventists is a
standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is
the line of distinction between the worshipers of
God and those who worship the beast and
receive his mark.”-
• Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 223.