Titus 1:2Good News Translationwhich is based on the hope for eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised us this life before the beginning of time, See the chapter |
That beast was once alive, but lives no longer; it is about to come up from the abyss and will go off to be destroyed. The people living on earth whose names have not been written before the creation of the world in the book of the living, will all be amazed as they look at the beast. It was once alive; now it no longer lives, but it will reappear.