will be a renegade Jew; both Judas the betrayer and the man of Sin are called

'the son of perdition'.  By confusing these two titles (Antichrist and Beast)

we are apt to mystify ourselves and misunderstand the Scriptures.

The number of man, the number of the name of the beast, apart from the

cryptic reference to the individual himself, tell us that he will be the

climax Man, deified, worshipped, and destroyed with the brightness of the

appearing of the Son of God.  The first reference to the Beast in the

Apocalypse is found in Revelation 11:7, 'the beast that ascendeth out of the

bottomless pit'.  The time periods, 'forty and two months' and 1,260 days of

Revelation 11:2,3, together with the treading of the court of the temple by

the Gentiles, link this opening reference with Revelation 13.  The

blasphemous activities of the beast pervade Revelation 13 to 17.  In chapter

19 he is cast into a lake of fire, and this is followed without interval with

the Coming of Christ, and the Millennium, even as the same sequence is found

in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7.  The only pre -Millennial kingdom spoken of in the

Scriptures is the Antichristian kingdom of the Beast.

The Image of Daniel 2 is considered under the heading Image of Daniel 2

(p. 317), the prophecy of the seventy Weeks under the heading Seventy Weeks9;

and the book as a whole under the heading Daniel (p. 164).