3 One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.
one of the heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed – in Rev 17:10, we will see these heads are seven kings: “five have fallen, one is, and one is yet to come.” The one that “is” in John’s time, was Rome. The fall of Rome, helps us to identify the time frame of this passage in verse 14. After Rome fell, the beast continued, through the power of the ten horns, where the diadems are now.
the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast – the power of Satan continued through an unusual relationship between the beast and the ten kings (horns). We will discuss this more in Rev 17:8-18.