See Yorgason, SSLD, 114; Wiersbe, WEONT, 834-835; Nyman, FNDF, 180; Jay A. Parry, UBR, 175; and generally [§228] Rev 13:14-15: The Wicked Make an Image to the First Beast. ↩︎

See Donald W. Parry, UST, 294; Draper, OSS, 147; Nibley, AZ, 165; Nibley, SC, 432-433. ↩︎

See Moses 5:31; Bruce R. McConkie, MD, 471-472; Daniel H. Ludlow, EM, Vol. 1, 246; Brewster, DCE, 504; Dallin H. Oaks, CR, October 1986, “’Brother’s Keeper”’, 24; and generally [§269] The Spirit of Cain Is the Head of the Beast. ↩︎

See Wm. Grant Bangerter, CR, April 1984, “Coming through the Mists”, 37; Gordon B. Hinckley, CR, April 1983, “Overpowering the Goliaths in Our Lives”, 66; Gordon B. Hinckley, TGBH, 723; Joseph Fielding McConkie, RR, 653. ↩︎

See Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 64, 424; Sorenson, AASBM, 300-301, 396; Nibley, SC, 433. ↩︎

See M. Russell Ballard, CR, October 1997, “Standing for Truth and Right”, 51; Brewster, BICQ, 66; Douglas E. Clark, GDACZ, 174; Sorenson, AASBM, 300. ↩︎

See Donald W. Parry, UST, 294; Watt, JD, Vol. 22, 175; Joseph Fielding McConkie, DCBM, Vol. 1, 111; Millet, SS, Vol. 1, 193, 199; Yorgason, SSLD, 114. ↩︎

See D&C 1:35; Delbert L. Stapley, CR, April 1969, 47; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 41; Ezra Taft Benson, TETB, 404; Victor L. Ludlow, P&P, 617; Bruce R. McConkie, MM, 83. ↩︎

See Wiersbe, BCNT, 737; Ezra Taft Benson, TETB, 706; and generally [§157] Overview of Great Tribulations and Abominations of Desolation; [§167] Daniel’s Vision of the Great Tribulation [Daniel 12]; [§232] Overview of the 144,000 on Mount Zion, Great Tribulation and Harvest; [§243] Rev 14:12: Saints of Zion Survive the Great Tribulation. ↩︎

See Keener, IVPNT, 757; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 333; Henry, MHC, 2478; Wiersbe, BCNT, 1068; and generally [§228] Rev 13:14-15: The Wicked Make an Image to the First Beast. ↩︎

See Walvoord, BKCNT, 962; Wiersbe, WEONT, 834-835; Edwards, FBNT [Rev 13:17]; Jamieson, JFB, Vol. 3, part 3, 701. ↩︎

See generally [§12] Rev 1:19-20: John’s Final Charge to Write the Vision; [§21] Rev 2:14-16: A Call to Repent for Idol Worship; [§32] Rev 3:9-10: The Patient Are Promised Eternal Life; [§56] Rev 6:9-10: Martyrdom During the Fifth Seal; [§217] Rev 13:1: A Beast [Rome] Rises from the Sea in 70 AD; [§220] Rev 13:4: Worship of the Dragon and the First Beast. ↩︎

See Pett, PPCB [Rev 13:16-17]; and generally [§219] Rev 13:3: Imperial Rome Dies and Papal Rome Lives On; [§220] Rev 13:4: Worship of the Dragon and the First Beast; [§221] Rev 13:5: Satan Has a Mouth [Power] Given Him 42 Months. ↩︎

See Adam Clarke, ACC, Vol. 6, 1024; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 334. ↩︎

See Poole, MPEA [Rev 13:17]; Whedon, WCB [Rev 13:17]; Joseph Benson, JBC [Rev 13:16-17]. ↩︎

See generally [§223] Rev 13:7: Satan’s Wars Overcome the Saints; [§225] Rev 13:9-10: The Saints of the Renaissance and Reformation. ↩︎

See Adam Clarke, ACC, Vol. 6, 1024; and generally [§231] Rev 13:18: The Number of the Second Beast Is 666; [§242] Rev 14:9-11: The Third Angel Proclaims the Wrath of God. ↩︎

See Jamieson, JFB, Vol. 3, part 3, 701; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 13:17]; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 333; Beza, GSG [Rev 13:16]; Schaff, SPC [Rev 13:16]; Alford, GTCEC [Rev 13:16]. ↩︎

See Bruce R. McConkie, MD, 698; Largey, BMRC, 218; Daniel H. Ludlow, EM, Vol. 3, 1291; Daniel H. Ludlow, CSDC, Vol. 1, 251; Barnes, BN, Vol. 14, 333. ↩︎

See Rich, SML, Vol. 2, 195; Largey, BMRC, 463. ↩︎

See generally [§139] The Date for the Gathering at Adam-ondi-Ahman; [§145] Zion Built in the Last 3½ Years of Armageddon; [§148] Rev 10:5-7: No More Delay After Adam-ondi-Ahman; [§166] The Third Period of 1 Week of 7 Years [Armageddon]; [§167] Daniel’s Vision of the Great Tribulation [Daniel 12]. ↩︎

See Ether 8:22; Walter Scott, WSCR [Rev 13:17]; and generally [§298] Rev 18:8: Seventh Vial Plague Will Destroy Babylon in One Day; [§301] Rev 18:11-16: Merchants of the Earth Shall Weep and Mourn; [§304] Rev 18:21-24: The Final Destruction of, and Conditions in, Babylon. ↩︎

See Rev 18:2-3; Nibley, AZ, 14-15; and generally [§295] Rev 18:1-3: The Spiritual Fall of the Great Whore [Modern Babylon]. ↩︎