Revelation 17:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

five have fallen, one continues [to rule], and the other one has not yet come. But when he comes, he must remain for [only] a short time.

Cross References

Revelation 10:11

And they said to me [Note: The plural “they” may mean simply “it was told to me”], “You must prophesy again about many races, and nations, and language groups and kings.”

Revelation 13:12

And he exercises all the authority of the first beast [See verse 1] in his presence [or, “on his behalf”]. And he forces the earth and those who lived on it to worship the first beast, whose [apparently] fatal wound had healed.

Revelation 13:3

And one of the beast’s heads looked like it had been fatally wounded, but the wound healed and the entire world was amazed and followed after him.

Revelation 17:11

And the beast that once existed, but now does not, is actually the eighth one [i.e., head/hill/king. See verse 9], and yet he belongs to the seven; and he will go to his destruction.

Revelation 17:16

And the ten horns and the beast you saw will hate the prostitute and will take away everything from her, leaving her naked; they will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.