Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies. And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So verse 9, here is the mind which has wisdom.

That is, I don't think they should have had. Notice the is in italics, that means they added it.

The idea here is more like, here is wisdom for the mind, right the here's here's the key here's the trick

here's the yeah here's the thing this is the thing here it is the seven heads are seven

mountains on which the woman sits so if you want just blunt whack you over the head symbolism right Rome is built on seven hills right

this is you know let's be clear right now she's sitting in Rome right

right verse 10 there are also seven kings, five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come,

and when he comes he must continue a short time.

The beast that was and is not is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven seven and is going to perdition.

So again, more riddle sounding things.

But this is, as we've seen a few other things, like with the number of the beast, right?

I mean, seven mountains on which it sits is pretty, right?

But this is a little more coded.

This is this reference to the beast being the eighth, right?

Who isn't and will be and da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

This is another Nero reference

to the whole wounded in coming back thing

that we talked about when we talked about

the number of the beast, right?

This idea that was around at the time,

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