Revelation 17:7-8 Then the angel See verse said to me, “Why are you so amazed? I will explain to you the secret meaning of the woman and the beast with seven heads and ten horns that she is riding on.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ Then the angel [See verse 1] said to me, “Why are you so amazed? I will explain to you the secret [meaning] of the woman and the beast with seven heads and ten horns that she is riding on. ⁸ The beast you saw once existed, but now does not, and [yet] is about to come up out of the pit and go to [his] destruction. And those people living on the earth, whose names have not been recorded in the book of life from the creation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because he had once existed, but now does not, and yet will come [again].