Revelation 17:8

“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition.  And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

·        It was a seat of idolatry, persecution, and tyranny (MH)

·        The false religious system of the end times will be very convincing and popular among the unsaved, but those who have committed themselves to Christ will understand that anything idolatrous is not of God.   (DR)

Psalm 9:15 the nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

Psalm 40:7  Then I said, “Behold, I come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me.