–13:10, we explore how Satan, the dragon (Revelation 12:9), wages war against the church not only through obvious persecution, but through deceptive political powers, ideologies, and false promises of human flourishing. Drawing from the Old Testament background of the sea and Leviathan (Isaiah 27:1; Psalm 74:13–14; Job 41) and Daniel’s vision of the beasts (Daniel 7:1–8, 17–27), we see how John’s “beast from the sea” (Revelation 13:1–4) is a composite symbo...