years the idea has been advanced that the seven heads represent seven individual popes, the present pope being identified as the sixth head. The biblical fact already established—that the Bible never uses animal heads or mountains as symbols of individual rulers—clearly rules out as unsound any attempt to identify the seven heads of Revelation with individual popes, living or dead. I. Introduction II. Leopard-Bodied Sea Beast III. The Seven Heads IV. The Wounded/Resuscitated Head
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