Russia fits perfectly as the seventh head.
The Russian empire is the head of the beast that appeared slaughtered to death.
The Rich Harlot that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth is not False Religion but rather the USA. When the Harlot is destroyed China's merchants will be among the mourners who lament because "there is no one to buy their full stock anymore" (Rev. 18:11,12)
Revelation says that one of the heads of the wild beast appeared to have been slaughtered to death but it came back to life. Soviet Union is the only major world power in modern history to cease it's existence. It is common to speak of "The Death of the Soviet Union". It happened in 1991 when Gorbachev was forced to resign.
The USA (Babylon the Great) has been in conflict with the Soviet Union for almost all of my life time. For a while it looked like Russia would behave itself and become as compliant as a lamb. But it has begun speaking as a fierce dragon - especially since Putin came to power.
The Watchtower keeps mis-translating and misinterpreting Revelation 17:11
Most translations say the "wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eight king and is ONE OF THE SEVEN."
Look at the Westcott and Hort translation.
17:11 κα? "and" τ? "the-one" θηρ?ον "a-beastlet" ? "which" ?ν "it-was" κα?"and" ο?κ "not" ?στιν. "it-be." κα? "And" α?τ?ς "it" ?γδο?ς "eighth" ?στιν "it-be" κα? "and" ?κ "out" τ?ν "of-the-ones" ?πτ? "of-seven" ?στιν, "it-be," κα?"and" ε?ς "into" ?π?λειαν "to-a-destructing-off-of" ?π?γει. "it-leadeth-under."
The NWT says the eighth "springs from the seven" to make it sound like it is a composite of all the beasts the same as the League/United Nations . This fits their twisted idea that the United Nations is going to destroy False Religion (Babylon the Great). Compare the way the NWT translates the yellow highlighted section in the above scripture at Revelation 17:11 and the yellow highlighted section in the scripture at Acts 21:8. Why do they translate it as "springs from" in Revelation 17:11 and "one of" at Acts 21:8
21:8 τ? "Unto-the-one" δ? "moreover" ?πα?ριον "upon-to-morrow" ?ξελθ?ντες "having-had-came-out"?λθαμεν "we-came" ε?ς "into" Καισαρ?αν, "to-a-Kaisaria," κα? "and" ε?σελθ?ντες "having-had-came-into" ε?ς"into" τ?ν "to-the-one" ο?κον "to-a-house" Φιλ?ππου "of-a-Filippos" το? "of-the-one" ε?αγγελιστο? "of-a-goodly-messenger" ?ντος "of-being" ?κ "out" τ?ν "of-the-ones" ?πτ? "of-seven" ?με?ναμεν "we-stayed" παρ'"beside" α?τ?. "unto-it."
The eighth king was indeed ONE OF THE SEVEN. It was the ONE OF THE SEVEN that got the death-stroke and revived to become an EIGHTH KING. As the eighth king it had a specail relationship to the "head that was slaughtered". "It exercises all the authority of the first wild beast in its sight. And it makes the earth and those who dwell in it worship the first wild beast, whose death-stroke got healed."
The beast that "was but is not" mentioned in Revelation 17:11 is the same as the head of the beast that appeared slaughtered but whose death-stroke was healed. Rev 13:3 "and all the earth followed the wild beast WITH ADMIRATION."Compare with Revelation 17:8 "And when they see how the wild beast was, but is not, and yet will be present, those who dwell on the earth will WONDER ADMIRINGLY.
The 10 horns that hate the USA/Harlot and join forces with the Wild Beast is the Eurasian Union that Putin is trying to build and which the USA is trying to prevent. Hillary Clinton as Sec of State said that the USA is determined to prevent the formation of the Eurasian Union because it's Putin's effort to re-establish the Soviet Union.
Of course most will discount Revelation and other Bible prophesies because there is no God and prophecy is just impossible. But it is at least interesting that there are some better ways to explain Revelation than what the JW's currently present.
Hey maybe they have time to put this in a talk and present it as "NEW LIGHT" at their big corporate meeting.
