The Book of the Revelation, it's the last scroll in the Bible. It's an apocalyptic

vision about the reordering and recreation of the entire Cosmos.

And in true biblical fashion, it brings to a resolution all the themes of the Bible.

The theme we've been tracing in this series is what we've called the Chaos Dragon, an ancient symbol of death and disorder, a power that the Satan wields to deceive and destroy.

And as we turn to the revelation,

what we're gonna see is the same players,

a figure called the Satan, who's putting on a dragon power,

as it were, and inspiring even more monsters at work in the world.

We've got some mighty dragons here in the revelation,

and there's not just one.

An enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky, flung them to the earth.

There's also a beast that comes up out of the sky, flung them to the earth. There's also a beast that comes up out of the sea.

It also has seven heads and ten horns and crowns,

and this dragon gives power to this monster.

It's like his doppel ganger,

but then it's also clearly a earth creature.

And surprise, still one more beast.

He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.

Why so many dragons?

What John has done is he's actually split out the dragon, the spiritual being, and then

the beast, which is its earthly imperial institutional

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