See Rev 17:3; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 386; Walvoord, BKCNT, 971; Wiersbe, WEONT, 845; Beza, GSG [Rev 17:8]; and generally [§217] Rev 13:1: A Beast [Rome] Rises from the Sea in 70 AD; [§281] Rev 17:3: A Woman Sits on a Scarlet Beast [Roman Empire]. ↩︎

See Abbott, AINT [Rev 17:8]; Beza, GSG [Rev 17:8]; Draper, OSS, 192, 276; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:8]; and generally [§285] Rev 17:7: The Mystery of the Woman and the Beast to Be Explained. ↩︎

See Alford, GTCEC [Rev 17:7-18]; Draper, OSS, 273, fn 13; but see also Bruce R. McConkie, SWBM, 313; and generally [§285] Rev 17:7: The Mystery of the Woman and the Beast to Be Explained. ↩︎

See Wesley, JWEN [Rev 17:8]; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17:8]; Alford, GTCEC [Rev 17:7-18]; and generally [§215] An Overview of Satan’s Kingdom [Two Beasts] in Revelation 13; [§217] Rev 13:1: A Beast [Rome] Rises from the Sea in 70 AD; [§287] Rev 17:9: The Seven Heads and Mountains of Ancient Rome; [§288] Rev 17:10: Seven Earthly Kings Before the Second Coming; [§289] Rev 17:11: Satan’s Eighth Kingdom After the Millennium. ↩︎

See Rev 13:1; Beza, GSG [Rev 17:8]; and generally [§217] Rev 13:1: A Beast [Rome] Rises from the Sea in 70 AD. ↩︎

See Watt, JD, Vol. 25, 16-17; Heber J. Grant, CR, April 1930, 6; Anthony W. Ivins, CR, April 1920, 111; Roberts, NWG, Vol. 1, 50. ↩︎

See Berrett, TRC, x-xi; Ivins, RMF, 150; Talmage, GA, 67, 69. ↩︎

See Rev 12:15-16; Donald W. Parry, TAW, 440, 464; Talmage, THL, 9; Packer, THT, 94; H. Donl Peterson, PGRG, 171; and generally [§213] Rev 12:15-16: Flood Water Threatens the Woman in 70 AD; [§214] Rev 12:17: The Dragon Makes War on the Woman’s Seed. ↩︎

See Rev 13:7; and generally [§223] Rev 13:7: Satan’s Wars Overcome the Saints. ↩︎

See Knollys, HKCR [Rev 17:8]; Roberts, NWG, Vol. 1, 164; and generally [§287] Rev 17:9: The Seven Heads and Mountains of Ancient Rome. ↩︎

See Schaff, SPC [Rev 17:8]; but see also Wallace, FWCBR [Rev 17:8]. ↩︎

See Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:8]; Donald W. Parry, UST, 289; and generally [§280] Rev 17:1-2: Overview of the Great Whore [False Religion]; [§281] Rev 17:3: A Woman Sits on a Scarlet Beast [Roman Empire]. ↩︎

See generally [§110] The Disembodied Sons of Perdition in the Bottomless Pit; [§269] The Spirit of Cain Is the Head of the Beast. ↩︎

See Rev 13:2; and generally [§218] Rev 13:2: The First Beast Had the Power of Prior Kingdoms. ↩︎

See Roberts, SCT, Vol. 2, 146; Talmage, JC, 585-586; George Reynolds, BOM, Vol. 3, 372; Bruce R. McConkie, DNTC, Vol. 3, 481; Stuy, CD, Vol. 2, 238-239. ↩︎

See e.g., Watt, JD, Vol. 2, 331; Roberts, DFS, Vol. 2, 617; Watt, JD, Vol. 26, 199; Talmage, GA, 75. ↩︎

See Watt, JD, Vol. 12, 265; Talmage, JC, 70; Watt, JD, Vol. 5, 360; Joseph Smith, HC, Vol. 3, li-lii. ↩︎

See Roberts, SCT, Vol. 2, 173; Youngblood, NBD, 1099; Backman, ARRM, 9. ↩︎

See Roberts, GMRD, 224; Roberts, FA, 73; Hugh B. Brown, CTQ, 386; Bruce R. McConkie, NWAF, 663. ↩︎

See Orr, ISBE, Vol. 4, 2610; Matthews, SWRM, 51; Lundquist, BSBF, Vol. 1, 15; M. Russell Ballard, CR, October 1994, “Restored Truth”, 85; Roberts, SCT, Vol. 2, 167; Joseph Fielding Smith, ECH, 9. ↩︎

See Alford, GTCEC [Rev 17:7-18]; and generally [§280] Rev 17:1-2: Overview of the Great Whore [False Religion]; [§282] Rev 17:4: The Woman Matures into the Great Whore. ↩︎

See Rev 13:3; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 129-130; George Reynolds, BOM, Vol. 1, 113; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17:8]; and generally [§219] Rev 13:3: Imperial Rome Dies and Papal Rome Lives On. ↩︎

See Jamieson, JFB, Vol. 3, part 3, 711; Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:8]; Alford, GTCEC [Rev 17:7-18]; Zerr, EMZ [Rev 17:8]; but see also Jay A. Parry, UBR, 226. ↩︎

See Rev 13:3; Walvoord, BKCNT, 971; and generally [§219] Rev 13:3: Imperial Rome Dies and Papal Rome Lives On. ↩︎

See Backman, ARRM, 22; George Reynolds, BOM, Vol. 1, 113. ↩︎

See Roberts, DFS, Vol. 1, 91; Burkitt, ENPO [Rev 17:8]; Joseph Fielding Smith, ECH, 10; Talmage, GA, 133-134; Roberts, NWG, Vol. 1, 164. ↩︎

See Roberts, OEH, 164; George Reynolds, BOM, Vol. 1, 113; Talmage, JC, 694; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:8]. ↩︎

See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 389; Horsley, PP, 82-83; Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:8]. ↩︎

See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 385-386; Trapp, JTCC [Rev 17:8]; Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:8]; Constable, ENTC [Rev 17:8]; Zerr, EMZ [Rev 17:8]. ↩︎

See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 386; Vincent, VWS [Rev 17:8]; Whedon, WCB [Rev 17:8]; Schaff, SPC [Rev 17:8]; Bullinger, BCBN [Rev 17:8]; Hengstenberg, EHJR [Rev 17:8]. ↩︎

See Joseph Fielding McConkie, HWS, 163; Andrew Jenson, CR, October 1921, 120; Watt, JD, Vol. 13, 294. ↩︎

See Roberts, FA, 87-88; Andrus, GMU, 24. ↩︎

See generally [§66] Rev 7:1: The Four Angels of the Restoration. ↩︎

See Rev 13:11; Ice, BSNT [Rev 17:7-8]; and generally [§226] Rev 13:11: The Two-Horned Lamb That Speaks as a Dragon. ↩︎

See Rev 13:12; and generally [§227] Rev 13:12-13: The Power and Miracles of the Second Beast. ↩︎

See Rev 16:13; and generally [§268] Spirits of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. ↩︎

See Matt 7:15-16, 20; Ezra Taft Benson, CR, October 1981, “Joseph Smith: Prophet to Our Generation”, 82; Joseph Smith, HC, Vol. 6, 364; Roberts, NWG, Vol. 1, 211; Bruce R. McConkie, DNTC, Vol. 1, 252-253. ↩︎

See Joseph Fielding McConkie, ASA, 222; Garr, ELDS, 1005; Daniel H. Ludlow, EM, Vol. 3, 1127; Brewster, PPKS, 7-8. ↩︎

See Joseph Smith, TPJS, 67; Bruce R. McConkie, MD, 802; Talmage, JC, 320; George Q. Cannon, GT, 496. ↩︎

See Wiersbe, WEONT, 845; Whitney, LHCK, 218; and generally [§270] The Spirit of Judas Iscariot Is the False Prophet. ↩︎

See Rev 9:1-3; Adam Clarke, ACC, Vol. 6, 1037; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 386; Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:8]; and generally [§109] Rev 9:1: Satan Falls with Unembodied Sons of Perdition; [§110] The Disembodied Sons of Perdition in the Bottomless Pit; [§111] Rev 9:1: The Key of the Bottomless Pit; [§112] Rev 9:2-4: The Bottomless Pit Is Opened and Locusts Emerge; [§204] Rev 12:8-9: Lucifer Prevailed Not and Was Cast Out. ↩︎

See Constable, ENTC [Rev 17:8]; Hampton, GHCSB [Rev 17:8]; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 17:8]; Zerr, EMZ [Rev 17:8]; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:8]; generally [§112] Rev 9:2-4: The Bottomless Pit Is Opened and Locusts Emerge. ↩︎

See generally [§117] An Overview of the Second Woe [Physical Armageddon]. ↩︎

See Rev 11:7; Walvoord, BKCNT, 971; Hengstenberg, EHJR [Rev 17:8]; and generally [§174] Rev 11:7: The Death of the Two Witnesses at Jerusalem. ↩︎

See Rev 11:14; and generally [§178] Rev 11:13-14: The Second Woe Ends with an Earthquake in Jerusalem; [§252] The Third Woe Begins When All Things Are in Commotion; [§253] Rev 15:1: The Grand Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven; [§258] An Overview of the Last Seven Vial Plagues in Revelation 16; [§272] Rev 16:15: Christ Will Come Suddenly as a Thief; [§275] Rev 16:17: The Father’s Voice Declares, “It Is Done”. ↩︎

See D&C 76:32, 36; Watt, JD, Vol. 12, 63; Cowan, AQDC, 88; Bruce R. McConkie, MD, 280-281. ↩︎

See John Taylor, TPC, 33; Watt, JD, Vol. 7, 149; Watt, JD, Vol. 13, 11; Joseph Smith, HC, Vol. 4, 345; Bruce R. McConkie, NWAF, 652. ↩︎

See Rev 19:20; Zerr, EMZ [Rev 17:8]; Hengstenberg, EHJR [Rev 17:8]; and generally [§269] The Spirit of Cain Is the Head of the Beast; [§319] Rev 19:19-20: Victory in the Spiritual Battle of Armageddon; [§321] Rev 19:20: Defeat of the Beast and False Prophet. ↩︎

See Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 386; Exell, BI, Vol. 23, part 4, 530; Vincent, VWS [Rev 17:8]; Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:8]; Schaff, SPC [Rev 17:8]; Knollys, HKCR [Rev 17:8]. ↩︎

See Rev 12:9; and generally [§109] Rev 9:1: Satan Falls with Unembodied Sons of Perdition; [§202] Physical Creation During the War in Heaven. ↩︎

See Rev 20:1-3; and generally [§323] Rev 20:1-3: Satan Is Bound in the Bottomless Pit for 1,000 Years. ↩︎

See Rev 20:3, 7; D&C 29:22; D&C 43:31; D&C 88:111; and generally [§339] Rev 20:7: Satan Will Be Loosed During the Little Season. ↩︎

See Rev 20:10; and generally [§345] Rev 20:10: Satan Is Cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone. ↩︎

See Rev 17:11; and generally [§289] Rev 17:11: Satan’s Eighth Kingdom After the Millennium. ↩︎

See Rev 3:5; and generally [§30] Rev 3:4-6: Undefiled Saints Shall Walk in White; [§364] Rev 21:27: Those Named in the Book of Life Enter the Celestial City. ↩︎

See Zerr, EMZ [Rev 17:8]; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 17:8]; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, Vol. 14, 386. ↩︎

See Poole, MPEA [Rev 17:8]; Edwards, FBNT [Rev 17:8]; Hengstenberg, EHJR [Rev 17:8]; McClintock, MSE, Vol. 12, 971; Edwards, FBNT [Rev 17:8]; Wallace, FWCBR [Rev 17:8]. ↩︎

See Rev 13:3, 8; Watt, JD, Vol. 7, 219; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 226-227; and generally [§219] Rev 13:3: Imperial Rome Dies and Papal Rome Lives On; [§224] Rev 13:8: All That Dwell on Earth Worship Satan. ↩︎

See Easton, IBD, 696; Fausset, FBD, 724; Youngblood, NBD, 1321; Unger, UBD, 1371. ↩︎

See Pett, PPCB [Rev 17:7-8]; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 227; and generally [§30] Rev 3:4-6: Undefiled Saints Shall Walk in White; [§224] Rev 13:8: All That Dwell on Earth Worship Satan; [§348] Rev 20:12: Sons of Perdition from Mortality Are Judged; [§349] Rev 20:13-15: All Sons of Perdition Suffer the Second Death. ↩︎

See Stuy, CD, Vol. 3, 254; Roberts, SCT, Vol. 2, 101; Daniel H. Ludlow, EM, Vol. 1, 138-139; Nibley, EP, 143, 294. ↩︎

See Moses 5:24; and generally [§269] The Spirit of Cain Is the Head of the Beast. ↩︎

See Watt, JD, Vol. 6, 8-9; and generally [§270] The Spirit of Judas Iscariot Is the False Prophet. ↩︎

See Draper, RJA, 660; Draper, RJA, 668-669; and generally [§30] Rev 3:4-6: Undefiled Saints Shall Walk in White; [§74] The Calling and Election of Saints Made Sure; [§354] Rev 21:5-7: Christ Promises Exaltation to the Righteous Saints. ↩︎

See 2 Ne 2:11, 15; Nibley, AZ, 584; Sill, PPP, 146. ↩︎