The Beast will likely treat the Book of Revelation the way the dragon treated the Gospel—with selective suppression. Not by banning it outright, but by distorting it, draining its power while leaving harmless or misleading interpretations untouched. Just as Rome co-opted the early Church, institutionalized it, and dulled its radical edge, so too the Beast may tolerate Revelation—as long as it’s misunderstood.
It might even encourage apocalyptic distraction, false timelines, or escapist readings that disempower believers from resisting real systems of deception. The passages that warn about empire, deception, and loyalty to the Lamb above all? Those may be suppressed, censored, or reinterpreted as symbolic irrelevance.
And why? Because the Beast, like Rome before it, knows the danger of truth rightly understood. It doesn’t fear religion—it fears revelation. It fears the Lamb who exposes false peace. It fears saints who see the system clearly and refuse to bow. And that’s why it will try to tame the very book that unmasks it.
Let the wise read with open eyes.
Stephen D Green, with ChatGPT, April 2025
