This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John to describe the first stage or phase of Spiritual Armageddon, where all disembodied spirit sons of perdition are defeated in their battle with Jesus Christ and his heavenly host in Revelation 19:19-20, as follows: “And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Rev 19:19-20)

The beast is the symbolic name for Cain, the mortal son of Adam who killed his brother Abel, and then became perdition. In life he w ...