The Babylonian Empire Wounded Head

 

In Dan. 7:17 we read the following: 

Daniel 7:17
    These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.  

In the above passage we see that the 4 Beasts are 7 Kings and the Hebrew base word ‘melek’ used here does NOT mean KINGDOMS – although we do know from other related passages that these 4 Beasts do actually represent 4 Kingdoms as well. 

melek, Hebrew 4430, Strong’s
melek, meh'-lek; (Chaldee); corresponding to Hebrew 4428 (melek); a king :- king, royal. 

However, it must be noted that the transliterated Hebrew word (letter for letter) ‘mlkin’ used here, is used 10 other times in the OT, in this particular Hebrew tense /form and in each and every instance its meaning is the same - plural ‘Kings’.  For further reference, it is used in Dan. 2:21 (twice), 47; 7:17, 24 (twice); Ezra 4:15, 19, 22; and Prov. 31:3. 

This being said, it is well known that the 4 Empires in question each had multiple human Kings and NOT just one singular King as revealed in Dan. 7:17 above.  That being the case, we must then conclude that the Kings being referred to CANNOT be ‘human’, but must therefore be ‘fallen angels’, hence the fallen angelic Princes/Kings of the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian and Roman Empires.  

Meanwhile, as I have suggested many times before Biblical Beasts in reference to Empires includes – The Beast Kingdom itself, the Fallen Angelic Beast that rules the Beast Kingdom, and the Human King Beast that also rules the Beast Kingdom subject to the fallen angelic Beast (see Dan. 10:20 model – Prince of Grecia and Prince of Persia). 

What we see from the above is that the 4 Beasts (fallen angelic KINGS) had their dominions (Kingdoms) taken away but their lives were spared for a season.  Apostle John describes the final 8th Kingdom of the Sea Beast as follows: 

Rev. 13:1-2
    ...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. [2] 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... 

As such, the final 8th Antichrist/Abyss Beast Empire that John saw included the revised vestige components of each of the four former Empires in question - the Babylonian Empire (mouth of a lion), the component of the Medo-Persian Empire (feet of a bear), the component of the Grecian Empire (like unto a leopard), and the component of the Roman Empire (ten horns).   

So why is this important?  In Rev. 13:3 we read the following: 

Rev. 13:3
    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.  

If as we have discussed before, the 7 Heads of the Abyss Beast represent the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian, Roman, (coming Islamic?) and the Antichrist Empires then, the ‘head wounded to death’ would most logically be the Assyrian Head.  Why?  John reveals in Rev. 17:10 that the 7 fallen angelic Kings of these 7 Empires existed/will exist(s) as follows: 

Rev. 17:10
    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.  

Therefore, if as we well know 5 of these former fallen angelic Kings and their subject Kingdoms had already fallen before John’s day, (see above) and the fallen angelic Abyss Beast King had to be number 8, but COULD NOT be number 6 (one is) or number 7, then he would have to be one of the first 5 fallen angelic Kings.   

In summary, Scripture makes it clear that the man Antichrist will be an Assyrian (Isaiah 10:12) and most likely the fallen angelic Abyss Beast King who will possess/empower him will be the Prince of Babylon.  Therefore, the 3rd Babylonian Head/Beast King becomes the 8th Abyss Beast/Head King of the final 8th Beast Kingdom, with the human Antichrist becoming the 8th King of the 8th Beast Kingdom.