John,
I was just pondering the Beast in Revelation. He needs to come for the nations to be trained into a concept of a world ruler.
Currently nations don’t even consider that a possibility.
JWS
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Hi, Wendell.
I think of it this way: the body of Christ needs the Beast to come so they might be disciplined to understand what it means to submit to the rule a king who has absolute power. The divisions that exist among God’s children are proof enough that they do not know what it means to be under the control of an absolute power. When the Beast comes, however, he will be used by God to teach them that lesson, and this to prepare them for the coming of the Lord.
Pastor John