The beast in the bible is many different things at once..
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revelations chapter 13 The beast I saw was like a leopard, but it had feet like a bear's, and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion. 2 To it the dragon gave its own power and throne, along with great authority.
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The book of daniel also describes beasts in dreams.. most peoplle seem to think that these are empires and he describes the symbols of the empires.. for instance a winged lion that is said to symbolize babylon.. because on the walls of babylon man depiction of winged lions exist... sort of the symbol, like the eagle is the symbol of america..
So revelations says that there will be a beast like all these characters.. its probably speakiing of an empire like all these empires... babylon, medo-greece, persia..
or in islam.. the ummah. (the collective islamic nation)..and 'they shall worship the beast...'' 'And say boastfully who is like the beast, who can make war with it.' Indeed islam is the only religion that that has a nation associated to it, and boasts of its power..willingness to die needlessly...
Revelations also speaks of 10 horns of the beast, which are ten kings which have not recieved thier kingdom yet... and seven heads one of which was wounded that came to life to astonish everyone..
I think the ten horns which are ten kings.. are the traditional ten kings of the Calipha..
I believe the head that was fatally wounded.. was the UMMAH, the ..when the westernpowers took over and colonized the mideast and essentially did away with the kaliphate.. carved up the empire... it astonished the world to see islamic empire reborn in its medieval brutal glory..