text: The first beast rises out of the sea, that is peoples of the world.\nIt has 7 heads and ten horns.\nThe 7 heads are dominions or continents.\nThe ten horns are power or rulers (crowns).\nThis beast is a political system or one world system.\nThe deadly wound is to the one world political system.\n\nNote: This rising is not abrupt but gradual. Also if you visit the United Nations web page. There is a global map on there with the regions of the world color coded. Yep 7 regions.\n\nNote: The reign of Satan has been shortened. The 7 years and the 3 1/2 years of prophesy have been shortened.\n\nMat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. \n\nThey have been shortened to a 5 month period or 150 days. The time of the locust which is May through September. The end thereof shall be with a flood (flood of lies).\n\nDan 9:26  And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. \n\nJust like Noah's deluge but only spiritual.\n\nGen 7:24  And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. \n\n5 months or 150 days or May through September.\n\n\nThe second beast is Satan as Christ. Pretending he is God.