Revelation 13: Believers' Guide

The beast that John is describing in Revelation 13 is a conglomeration of people forming one nation and is formed by a conquered ten (subjected by forceful authority) nations/people  and seven nations/historical people that came into existence due to agreements.  

This empire has the strength of a leopard and is firmly footed meaning it has a great history and it’s also a nation that has a great voice in the world affairs. It has been given this great power by Satan (who holds a contrary way of governance to God the Father), also Satan’s throne and authority.

It seems to have received a dip as an economic powerhouse earlier but it had made a dramatic recovery.

Those who are not believers of God worshipped Satan by the mere fact that they acknowledged and feared the ‘supremacy’ of this nation and its new found strength and position.

The empire was allowed to make proud claims which are insulting to God and was to be in authority for three and half years.

It began to insult God His sanctuary (Jerusalem) and His chosen (Israel) in their place of residence.

It will be given power to defeat them (Israel) and with it, it will be a superpower.

All people in all the world will worship (give allegiance to) the empire, except those whose names were written before the creation of the world in the book of the living which belongs to the Lamb that was killed (Jesus).

For those who care to listen, listen carefully! Some of you will be captured, some will be killed. This calls for endurance and faith on the part of God's people (Israel)."

Then John saw another political entity that has two titles. Its subjects are in continual growth in population. These entity appears gentle and bland (without much power) but the person who represents them still has authority.

While representing the first empire it uses its own authority to make nations give allegiance to the first empire.

This smaller empire creates ‘miracles’ in which it makes fire come down from above in everybody’s sight inside the first empires land which had formerly been wounded by God’s Word and tells everyone to subject themselves to ‘doing things as the first empire suggests’.

Thus the second empire was able to convince many nations to heed the first empire’s way of doing things and those who were not of the same opinion were brought low by its influence.

The beast forced all people in the world regardless of position or affluence to a new way of thinking and a new way of working.

No one would sell or buy without this new way of thinking and this new way of working which is the empire’s name or the number of its name.

This calls for wisdom. Let those who are intelligent figure it out. For it’s the name of someone the number is 666. 

::Russia (Hebrew = Spirit of Sia)
::Sia means Help
::Thus Russia would mean 'spirit of help' 
::To believers our only help is the Holy Spirit.