Les Feldick Bible Study

What is the deadly wound that was healed in Revelation?

The deadly wound is the collapse of the Roman Empire, which died and faded from the scene. Its healing pictures the empire's revival, specifically the rise of a final government from Western Europe, identified as a revived Roman Empire under the Antichrist.

Les explains that while many people think the deadly wound refers to the Antichrist being shot and brought back to life, he prefers to understand it as the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire suffered the deadly wound: it died, collapsed, and faded off the scene, and then it comes up again. He connects this to Western Europe as a revived Roman Empire. The beast is a consortium of nations, an empire with seven heads and ten horns, headed by one man, the Antichrist, to whom Satan gives his power, throne, and authority.