43 Babylon is Fallen, 3: Seven Heads & Ten Horns

“Babylon is Fallen”
Part 3: “Seven Heads and Ten Horns”
Text: Revelation 17:1-18

III. The Beast That “Yet Is.”
A. Basic Assumptions.

1. Enmity between two “seeds.”
2. Similarity of Daniel’s & John’s Visions.

B. Interpretational Challenges.

1. Typical approaches to interpreting the beast.
   --Preteristic
   --Historical
   --Futuristic

2. Problems with these interpretations.
   --Multiplicity of interpretations.
   --No consensus of early church opinion.
   --Internal weaknesses of the arguments themselves.

C. The Significance of the Heads.
D. The Significance of the Horns.