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It's not as simple as you may think. It often depends on which word for ALL is used and if it's is used with or without the article, and we can't rely on the KJV, or any translation to lead us in the right direction because they often omit or add the article. The words ALL, EARTH, and WORLD, even the words IF and BUT have misled interpreters forever.

Speaking from a futurist point of view, let me give you a few examples.

Revelation 13 is a great chapter to show how the word ALL is used differently in scripture, and how the "experts" have misinterpreted it.
The word ALL is used in 7-8 different ways and can be a challenge to understand at times.

'Pas and holos' are the two most common words for ALL in the NT.
Rev: 13:3b And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And ALL the world marveled and followed the beast.
Verse 3 uses the word, 'holos.' (verse 16 uses the word 'pas'.) It also uses the word ge for world which has a variety of meanings and often implies a region. The word 'HOLOS' (all) means the entirety of the whole. It means ALL more than the many other words for ALL. Because HOLOS is coupled with the word 'ge' in verse 3, that in my view indicates the word WORLD means "the inhabited earth or the whole terrain of the earth."

This is 'ge'.
1093. ge ghay contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):--country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.

arable land, the ground, the earth as a standing place, the main land as opposed to the sea or water, the earth as a whole, the earth as opposed to the heavens, the inhabited earth, the abode of men and animals, a country, land enclosed within fixed boundaries, a tract of land, territory, region.

So what is the meaning of verse 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.

I reject most of interpretations of todays "prophecy experts" and believe that every element mentioned in verses 1-3 are all future and end-time. The heads and horns are NOT ancient world empire or a progression of them. ONE OF THE HEADS is the head of a literal man. Therefore, if a man who was once dead from a literal, fatal head wound and were to 'resurface,' yes, the entire world would marvel.

The two horned beast, considered to be the 'false prophet' in verse 16, is where people come up with the idea of a 'global one world religion' and empire which means "the mark" is also global, and I completely disagree.

The 'Mark of the beast" is associated with the false prophet, not the anti-Christ. They are a demonic duo.

V.16 He causes ALL, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,...

'All in v.16 is ''PAS' and it doesn't imply the entire world but only those under the power and influence of this two horned beast. PAS is the word 'individually.' The KJV again lets us down. This is almost word for word in the Greek interlinear. The KJV has omitted the word THE six times in one verse, so I'm posting the link to the interlinear so you don't think I'm making this up.

"And he's making all the small ones and the great ones and the rich ones and the poor and the free and the slaves."
www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInter.../rev13.pdf
So what difference does it make using PAS and the article?

Vines...

Used with the article, it means the whole of one object. In the plural it signifies "the totality of the persons or things referred to.
The article being used indicates a SPECIFIC people, not all people, not all the rich, not all the poor, on earth etc., but only those people subject to and under the power and influence of the false prophet. You can look here to see that the article is used and that it IS in the plural.

http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/rev13.pdf

What object is that? It's NOT the entire world! The object is the two horned beast and ALL the people under his power and influence are those the mark is imposed upon. The two horned beast and his sidekick anti-Christ kingdom are situated in the region of the Middle-East. They are not worldwide empires!

The kingdom of the man of sin and false prophet are NOT global but limited to the 7/10 axis of evil kings and nations situated in the Mid-East Arab world.

 

But there is ONE end-time anti-Christ coming.

 

Thanks brother and God bless, enjoy your weekend. I'm anxious for spring to really HIT here in NH, it's almost here.

 

I can tell you've never done a word study of Revelation 17.

The beast of Revelation 17 is OCCUPIED by a harlot. How can this 'harlot' or "Babylon the Great" occupy the kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Medo-Persia, and Grecia Empires, and/or the Roman Empire and HOLY Roman Empire,... empires that span at least 2,600 years? In my view, that type of thinking works against good interpretation.

And here [is] the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, [and] the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

The KJV, and most every other translation, lets us down again. It ADDS the word HAVE and changes the text to HAVE FALLEN. Look closely how it's worded...(comas and bold added by me)

FIRST...
The word ARE is a third person plural present indicative. This passage isn't a reflection of PAST world empires. The heads and horns are a picture of a complete end-time entity. There ARE seven kings, "FIVE FALL" is the correct translation. That's how it's worded in the interlinear.

This is how it look in the interlinear... ...AND KINGS SEVEN ARE THE FIVE FALL AND THE ONE IS THE other NOT- as- yet CAME AND when-EVER he-MAY-BE-COMING FEW(briefly) him it-IS BINDING TO-REMAIN...
My translation from the Textus Receptus,

The mind here, the one having wisdom, the seven heads are seven mountains where the woman IS sitting on the them and they are seven kings five fall and the one is and the other has not as yet come...

Something to note,
John is taken into the desert to see the judgment of the great whore in chapter 17. The wilderness is better translated the desert. That alone omits Rome from the interpretation. The heads are said to be mountians but then they are used interchangeably with KINGS. Verses 12-16 validates these heads and horns, who are all kings as END-TIME. The 7 are kings with a kingdom/country, the horns are kings with no kingdom/country.

The evidence that these are ALL END-TIME....

How can the ten horns, which are on the 7 heads, "hate the whore, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire?" How can the 10 horns, which are on the 7 heads, "have no kingdom as yet but receive power ONE hour with the beast? IF they are all ancient empires?

How can they have ONE mind and SHALL give their power and strength to the beast...AND HOW SHALL they make war with the Lamb and the Lamb overcome them...IF they are all ancient empires? What kind of harlot can occupy the empires of Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Medo-Persia, and Grecia and yet "burn the harlot with fire?

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

 

No. What makes you think that's the way I interpret Daniel 7? You assume those ancient kingdoms are depicted in Daniel 7, I don't. Like most you presume they are the same kingdoms as Daniel 2, correct?

 

So you believe the Lord returned in 70 AD? Are you saying that "in flaming fire taking vengeance and punishing with everlasting destruction," the Day of the Lord passed in 70 AD?