... apocalyptic account : Monsters and the numbers 7 and 12. In both Enoch and Revelation, monsters who are heralds of the apocalypse are an important mythological motif. In 1 Enoch 58:8, the author describes how the righteous will feast in heaven : "In that day shall be distributed for food [to the righteous] two monsters...Leviathan and Behemoth....these two monster are by the power of God prepared to ... only God is divine. Thus, the blasphemous names on the beast's head are meant to expose his attempt to claim for himself the glory and majesty that early Christians believed belong to Go...

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