The Beasts of Revelation (Part II)

An alternative interpretation of the seven heads on the Beast that came from the sea is that the seventh head is the Ottoman Empire, which cemented their status as the then world's sole superpower with their capture of Constantinople in 1453.

And then there is yet another alternative.

In one of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, he dreamt of a giant statue with a head of gold, chest of silver, thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of a mixture of clay and iron. Its meaning was revealed to Daniel, namely that these are world powers to come, starting with the head of gold which was Nebuchadnezzar himself.

Now from hindsight of history we know that the silver chest were the Persions, the bronze thighs was Alexander the Great, and the cruel legs of iron, the Romans, which are all heads on the Beast.

And thus the feet of mix of clay and iron is also of the Beast, the seventh head.

In other words the seventh head need not be a single power but a mix of nations, fragmented, disunited, some weak and some strong, but together they rule and run world affairs.

This state of nations was certainly the case from the onset of Byzantine empire, where countless states were formed, destroyed, reformed, conquered, reconquered, sometimes friends, sometimes enemies, etc etc. And the Ottoman empire reigned in such a time, and it was simply a pre-eminent power amongst the myraid of powers, both weak and strong.

In this interpretation, we are then already in the days of the Beast himself, the eighth power.

And I will conjecture to say that this power revealed itself with the start of naval explorations by the European nations of Portugal, Spain, the Dutch and then the English, which eventually led to international maritime trade, colonisation, the rise of the maritime superpowers, namely Great Britain and the USA, and then globalisation and capitalism in this world today.

China then too could have become a maritime power, but it curtailed itself.

And the Beast came from the sea.

And then there are the ten horns on the Beast who will rule for one hour with the Beast. We are then in this one hour of these horns' reign. Who are they?