Who and What is the Beast of Revelation?

Futurewatch - Introduction: "Moses and Aaron provide a positive example of a relationship between a god and a prophet while the beast and his spokesman (cp. Exodus 4:16; Acts 14:12) provide a negative one. The 'beast' is the individual who will set himself up as 'god' and who is referred to as the Antichrist, the man of sin, the lawless one, the little horn, the king of the North - and various other titles - while the false prophet is his subordinate henchman - interpreting the will of the yet future pseudo-deity. A modern example of the latter would be Joseph Goebals. As minister of propaganda for the Third Reich he is 'generally accounted responsible for presenting a favourable image of the Nazi regime to the German people' (Encyclopaedia Britannica, CD-99), Joseph Goebals). On assuming this position he 'began to create the Fuhrer myth around the person of Hitler and to institute the ritual of party celebrations and demonstrations that played a decisive role in converting the masses to Nazism' (EBritannica, ibid.). Whereas Goebals was a secular prophet this coming false prophet will a religious one."