Revelation 17

8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss  * 17:8 Ps 140:10; Lk 8:31; Rm 10:7; Rv 9:1,11; 11:7; 20:1–3 and go to destruction.  * 17:8 Mt 7:13; Jn 17:12; Rm 9:22; Php 3:19; 2Th 2:3; 2Pt 3:7; Rv 1:18; 2:8 Those who live on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world  * 17:8 Ps 69:28; Is 4:3; Mt 25:34; Eph 1:4; Php 4:3; 1Pt 1:20; Rv 3:5; 13:8; 20:12,15; 21:27 will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come.  * 17:8 Ps 48:5; Rv 13:3,12,14