Can you identify the beasts or babylon the great, or ???
Maybe...but
all I hear is in the old commentaries...nothing new...call it Rome, call it Russia, call it the US, all same same speculation, no revelation. Why make such a big deal about these things...they change nothing.
I do not think knowing the names of some countries fills the bill of
Dan 12:9, Rev 10:8-11, John 14:26 or Jn 16: 12.
The new revelation will probably be theological in nature, not a list of names:
Zechariah 5:2-4:
1 I looked again—and there before me was a flying scroll!
2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”
3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
4 The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in his house and destroy it, both its timbers and its stones.’”
Since it is a book (scroll) it would probably contain some ideas of an unearthly (
previously unrevealed) nature. Its measurement "just happens" to match the holy place of GOD's temple, so it would probably be a holy book. And its holy message will have a profound effect on some people, for it obviously has some bad news:
Kiel(#2) comments: “The roll therefore symbolised
the curse which will fall upon sinners throughout the whole land, consuming them with their houses, and thus sweeping them out of the nation of GOD.” (In other words, Armageddon.)
Cursed by the message of a new scroll (book); don't think we've seen that yet...but I do think it is being written down.
