The beast in Rev. 13:1 has upon his heads the name of blasphemy. Blasphemy is defined as vilification, a defamatory utterance, and Matt. 26:25 indicates that it occurs when man claims to be God. The kings of the ancient kingdoms all made this claim and demanded worship, and eventually the antichrist will do the same.

Rev. 13:2 "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: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." Notice this beast is a composite of Daniel's first 3 beasts. It has components made up of the fiercest attributes of each of them. Daniel (7:7) said this beast is "dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly."  The leopard is swift, cunning and cruel with an insatiable appetite for blood. This is the general description of the beast. It has feet like a bear. Daniel (7:7) said "stamped the residue with the feet". The bear rends and tears with his feet and he has claws. He will go wherever he wants to go and he will use his feet to stamp upon the stars of heaven. It has a mouth like a lion. Daniel (7:7) said "great iron teeth". The lion's roar instills fear and he tears and devours with his teeth.

The dragon gives him his power, his seat and great authority. This is the same offer Satan made to Jesus (Luke 4:5-8). In this beast Satan finds someone who is useful to him and who will accept his offer. This is Satan giving the beast his own personal power and his own personal seat: Satan's personal throne; his power to back up his leadership position. This seat and power will be used in the manifestation of the leopard, bear's feet and lion's mouth. Notice Satan does not fully turn over his authority to the beast - the beast only receives great authority. Even though Satan offers control to man, he still retains enough authority to snatch back whatever he gives whenever he wants.

Satan, the dragon, is the first person of the unholy trinity revealed in Rev. 13. Satan answers to God the Father. Just as Jesus said "the Father that dwelleth within me, he doeth the works" so this beast, and eventually the antichrist himself, will be empowered by Satan.

"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." Most people think this head wounded to death then resurrected is the antichrist, but I disagree with that idea. Satan does not have resurrection power and I see no reason why God would resurrect such an evil man to continue his murderous acts.

These heads, which are on the beast, were kingdoms headed by kings. As we have already seen, the seventh kingdom had two kings. It is a KINGDOM that was "as it were" wounded to death and its deadly wound was healed. This kingdom is not wounded to death, it simply has the appearance of being wounded to death. This one kingdom had two kings, therefore king number seven could be removed at the time the kingdom is "as it were wounded to death" and king number eight can be installed over this same kingdom at the time that it is 'resurrected'. Even though he will be the leader of the endtime government, antichrist is not seen in Rev. 13 until verse 5 when he becomes the government. King number eight is the antichrist and he will reign over a resurrected kingdom, therefore king number seven is the previous ruler of the same kingdom. It was Nazism that was struck a death blow when Germany lost WWII. As we have already seen, Nazism is being revived in the form of the New Age Movement. But there's much more to this than meets the eye.

There are two views of history: accidental and conspiratorial. The accidental view holds that events occur by accident, for no apparent reason and that governmental rulers are powerless to prevent the event from occurring. The conspiratorial view holds that events occur by design for reasons that are not made known to the people. Most events benefit someone. It is helpful to look at events and ask this question: who benefits? If the benefits from various events accrue to the same people over and over and over, chances are the event was planned to benefit those people. When we see a historical chain of events that continue to benefit the same group of people then we may want to consider that the conspiratorial view of history may be the correct, true view.

The next few pages will present for your consideration information regarding the conspiratorial view of history, including individuals and organizations who are apparently involved.  It is my opinion that this conspiracy does actually exist, but that many (but not all) of those individuals involved have no conscious knowledge of exactly what they are involved in.  As was stated on the home page of this website, prophecy is an expression of the foreknowledge of God.  It just so happens that what is going to be presented on the next few pages fits right in with the prophecies of the beast.  I would state further that if the conspiratorial view of history is correct, we should be praying for the salvation of those (still living) who are involved.